{"id":130,"date":"2009-04-19T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-04-19T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T22:37:00","slug":"water-spout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"WATER SPOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SeuoCyLUUzI\/AAAAAAAABLs\/KDfYOe0d50Y\/s1600-h\/corsica:water+spout.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SeuoCyLUUzI\/AAAAAAAABLs\/KDfYOe0d50Y\/s320\/corsica:water+spout.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326535750078190386\" \/><\/a>I took the photo of the waterspout off the coast of Corsica in September 2001. I had gone to Porto Cervo to race on Columbia the twelve meter. we rarely got off the dock as one Mistral after another kept us ashore.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>This was during 9\/11. which delayed racing further, not that anyone was focused on sailing with such an event. <\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>We were to be in Monaco for another regatta. The weather continued to delay our departure. Finally, it was leave or miss the regatta. The weather had abated a little. Valiant left before us, reporting big seas in the Straits of Bonifacio; losing her mast shortly thereafter.<\/div>\n<div> We left, cautiously, once in the lee of Corsica, we felt somewhat relived. I took this photo of the water spout from the deck of Columbia; and very pleased to have taken it. Many years ago, while racing on Charisma off Palma di Majorca we started a race amidst more than twenty spouts all around us. It was a spectacular sight. I was never able to take a photograph then, I was otherwise occupied, and had been waiting for another opportunity.<\/div>\n<div><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SeuoCxflY2I\/AAAAAAAABLk\/dZvBdY0SwVo\/s1600-h\/masts:porto+cervo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SeuoCxflY2I\/AAAAAAAABLk\/dZvBdY0SwVo\/s320\/masts:porto+cervo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326535749894759266\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the photo of the waterspout off the coast of Corsica in September 2001. I had gone to Porto Cervo to race on Columbia the twelve meter. we rarely got off the dock as one Mistral after another kept us ashore. This was during 9\/11. which delayed racing further, not that anyone was focused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WATER SPOUT<\/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":[206,67,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corsica","category-mediterranean","category-water-spout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}