{"id":14,"date":"2008-08-08T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:34:12","slug":"americas-cup-jubilee-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"america&#8217;s cup jubilee 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxMOp60WII\/AAAAAAAAAC8\/IPZsn_KP0TM\/s1600-h\/twelves:cowes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxMOp60WII\/AAAAAAAAAC8\/IPZsn_KP0TM\/s320\/twelves:cowes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232140681752107138\" \/><\/a>the America&#8217;s Cup Jubilee held in 2001 in Cowes, England. The Woodstock of sailing as it has been described. Was truly a remarkable event. The Royal Yacht Squadron set the standard of how to make people happy. 38 twelve meters assembled in one place for the first time ever; along with so many other fabulous boats. For those of us who love sailing it truly was the best of the best, with no end of the &#8220;eye candy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>White Crusader and Ecosse(USA) sailing upwind. Vanity V with 5 Vargas girls spinnakers; <\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>the crew photo is Olin Stephens with a smile from ear to ear posed with the crew of Nyala sailed by Troben Grail<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Columbia, the 1958 defender in the America&#8217;s cup aboard which I sailed, in a foul tide with the cliffs of the needles in the background.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\">  <\/span>Finally a photo of a water spout with Corsica in the background. taken while sailing Columbia from Sardinia to Monaco. <\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>The hardest thing about this post was to limit the photos, I smile to myself every time I think of this event and how fortunate I was to have been able to take part in it.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxMOlRTgdI\/AAAAAAAAADE\/NiCwVyE47ME\/s1600-h\/vanity+V.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxMOlRTgdI\/AAAAAAAAADE\/NiCwVyE47ME\/s320\/vanity+V.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232140680504246738\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxMOxPAqEI\/AAAAAAAAADM\/8D57EQ6UIyA\/s1600-h\/olin:nyala+crew.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxMOxPAqEI\/AAAAAAAAADM\/8D57EQ6UIyA\/s320\/olin:nyala+crew.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232140683715848258\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxMO5Ao_9I\/AAAAAAAAADU\/FaZtIciHZlM\/s1600-h\/columbia+2001:needles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxMO5Ao_9I\/AAAAAAAAADU\/FaZtIciHZlM\/s320\/columbia+2001:needles.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232140685803061202\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxMO-hFndI\/AAAAAAAAADc\/svb5sSlnSE4\/s1600-h\/corsica:water+spout.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxMO-hFndI\/AAAAAAAAADc\/svb5sSlnSE4\/s320\/corsica:water+spout.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232140687281331666\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the America&#8217;s Cup Jubilee held in 2001 in Cowes, England. The Woodstock of sailing as it has been described. Was truly a remarkable event. The Royal Yacht Squadron set the standard of how to make people happy. 38 twelve meters assembled in one place for the first time ever; along with so many other fabulous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=14\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">america&#8217;s cup jubilee 2001<\/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":[38,15,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup-jubilee","category-nyyc","category-royal-yacht-squadron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","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=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}