{"id":1329,"date":"2011-02-28T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2011-02-28T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:00:42","slug":"all-american-offshore-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"ALL AMERICAN OFFSHORE TEAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/allamericanoffshoreteam.org\/?page_id=2\">All American Offshore Team<\/a> is focused on offshore sailing. I can spend more time speaking about sailing offshore having done a fair amount and loving it. I am probably showing my age but I do not see clearly how this works as a system. Perhaps I am showing that I am indeed not part of the Facebook generation as stated by Russell Coutts. \u00a0What I see is a system that throws money at a perceived problem to solve that problem. It is so far from the way I grew up and what I came to love about offshore sailing; that this remains an unresolved issue in my mind. I see this a merely a vehicle to feed professional sailing.<\/p>\n<p>Most top boats are now crewed by entirely paid crews and I am not going to try to turn back the hands of time. Besides the boats are now so technical, in many cases it is frankly safer to have a professional crew who are familiar with the systems.<\/p>\n<p>My memories and stories are so far from the world today, it makes me question my relevance. During my early years I worked building boats, masts, sails, rigging. Studied weather; sailed as many classes as possible(dinghys,catamarans, big boats), broadening my understanding of sailing as much as I could at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All American Offshore Team is focused on offshore sailing. I can spend more time speaking about sailing offshore having done a fair amount and loving it. I am probably showing my age but I do not see clearly how this works as a system. Perhaps I am showing that I am indeed not part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALL AMERICAN OFFSHORE TEAM<\/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":[486],"tags":[634,2501],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offshore-sailing","tag-all-american-offshore-team","tag-offshore-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","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=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}