{"id":10016,"date":"2015-05-24T09:18:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=10016"},"modified":"2015-05-24T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T14:18:31","slug":"block-island-race-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=10016","title":{"rendered":"BLOCK ISLAND RACE 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yachtscoring.com\/event_results_detail.cfm?Race_Number=1&amp;eID=1263\">Block Island Race<\/a> is done and dusted. &#8220;Comanche&#8221; completed the course in 11 hours. &#8220;Comanche&#8221; was back in Newport before I made it back. For &#8220;Snow Lion&#8221; it was under 22 hours. The forecast was almost right, the timing of the transitions was not quite as predicted but the general forecast was right.<\/p>\n<p>I have never exited Long Island Sound by 10 pm before; and back in the Sound by 5 am. Nature provided a most lovely starry evening with a stark orange crescent of a moon over New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10017\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67343.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10017\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67343-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"BREEZE AT THE START\" width=\"558\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67343-1024x502.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67343-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BREEZE AT THE START<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10018\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67358.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10018\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67358-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"SIREN TO LEEWARD\" width=\"558\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67358-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67358-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SIREN TO LEEWARD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67366.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10019\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67366-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"block island race 5 22 15  67366\" width=\"558\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67366-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67366-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67372.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10020\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67372-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"block island race 5 22 15  67372\" width=\"558\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67372-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67372-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10021\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67374-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"block island race 5 22 15  67374\" width=\"558\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67374-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/block-island-race-5-22-15-67374-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Block Island Race is done and dusted. &#8220;Comanche&#8221; completed the course in 11 hours. &#8220;Comanche&#8221; was back in Newport before I made it back. For &#8220;Snow Lion&#8221; it was under 22 hours. The forecast was almost right, the timing of the transitions was not quite as predicted but the general forecast was right. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=10016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BLOCK ISLAND RACE 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,2352,2149,34,248,486,491,9],"tags":[2353,2384],"class_list":["post-10016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-block-island-race","category-block-island-race-2015","category-comanche","category-larry-huntington","category-new-england-boatworks","category-offshore-sailing","category-sailing","category-snow-lion","tag-block-island-race-2015","tag-snow-lion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10022,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions\/10022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}