{"id":149,"date":"2009-05-24T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-05-24T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T14:05:00","slug":"block-island-race-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"BLOCK ISLAND RACE 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ShlUu6ooLTI\/AAAAAAAABUM\/CNcpYl1caow\/s1600-h\/IMGP1871.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ShlUu6ooLTI\/AAAAAAAABUM\/CNcpYl1caow\/s320\/IMGP1871.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339391998214810930\" \/><\/a>With &#8220;Snow Lion&#8221; not racing this season, Rich DuMoulin invited me to sail aboard &#8220;Laura-Ann&#8221; his Express 37. One of the smallest boats I have ever sailed. . A very pleasant boat to sail, with tiller steering. The 2009 Block Island Race re-united me with Rich and Chris Reyling with whom I last sailed  aboard &#8220;Charisma&#8221; during the 1972 trans-atlantic race to Spain.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>The race started earlier than usual in a SW breeze. We got to the Race at About 10:30pm, the wind died, and we were sucked through backwards, a first. 1BI at 5:30 am; back through the Sluce in an easterly breeze, which held to the finish, for us about 5:30 pm saturday.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>We were 1st in class and 2nd overall, losing to the new Titan 2.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ShlUuIuNH_I\/AAAAAAAABUE\/YlcQWm53f68\/s1600-h\/IMGP1893.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ShlUuIuNH_I\/AAAAAAAABUE\/YlcQWm53f68\/s320\/IMGP1893.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339391984816431090\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ShlUtt6vXRI\/AAAAAAAABT8\/3f7tnVLL0q4\/s1600-h\/IMGP1845.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ShlUtt6vXRI\/AAAAAAAABT8\/3f7tnVLL0q4\/s320\/IMGP1845.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339391977621249298\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ShlUtVCvZqI\/AAAAAAAABT0\/l2iNC8vY_jU\/s1600-h\/IMGP1885.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/ShlUtVCvZqI\/AAAAAAAABT0\/l2iNC8vY_jU\/s320\/IMGP1885.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339391970943919778\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With &#8220;Snow Lion&#8221; not racing this season, Rich DuMoulin invited me to sail aboard &#8220;Laura-Ann&#8221; his Express 37. One of the smallest boats I have ever sailed. . A very pleasant boat to sail, with tiller steering. The 2009 Block Island Race re-united me with Rich and Chris Reyling with whom I last sailed aboard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BLOCK ISLAND RACE 2009<\/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":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-block-island-race-stamford-yacht-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}