{"id":11501,"date":"2020-09-04T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T15:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=11501"},"modified":"2020-09-13T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T17:02:34","slug":"working-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=11501","title":{"rendered":"WORKING BACKWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2011 Transatlantic race was very much the opposite of the 2015 race. 14 1\/2 days instead of 11 1\/2 days. A lot of frustrating light air. We still managed to hit 28 knots one day; however not nearly enough to overcome the light air. closing on the finish we were jibing every twenty minutes as the wind was shifting quite a bit.  The finish was at the Lizard; which is pretty much a lovely field of cows grazing by the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SNOW LION TRANSATLANTIC 2011\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_LIxx-dXAy8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/snow-lion-transatlantic-2011-56092-330-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/snow-lion-transatlantic-2011-56092-330-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/snow-lion-transatlantic-2011-56092-330-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/snow-lion-transatlantic-2011-56092-330-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/snow-lion-transatlantic-2011-56092-330.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 Transatlantic race was very much the opposite of the 2015 race. 14 1\/2 days instead of 11 1\/2 days. A lot of frustrating light air. We still managed to hit 28 knots one day; however not nearly enough to overcome the light air. closing on the finish we were jibing every twenty minutes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=11501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WORKING BACKWARDS<\/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":[43,312,1227,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-racing","category-transatlantic","category-transatlantic-2015","category-transatlantic-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501","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=11501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11518,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions\/11518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}