{"id":15,"date":"2008-08-08T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:47:47","slug":"americas-cup-1977-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"america&#8217;s cup 1977 Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKLxp2bMADI\/AAAAAAAAAL4\/LQfUnvn1oPo\/s1600-h\/america%27s+demitasse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKLxp2bMADI\/AAAAAAAAAL4\/LQfUnvn1oPo\/s320\/america%27s+demitasse.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234011418244415538\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxiBxytX6I\/AAAAAAAAADk\/7zvWHyrNZes\/s1600-h\/me+independence.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxiBxytX6I\/AAAAAAAAADk\/7zvWHyrNZes\/s320\/me+independence.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232164649783091106\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxiB1SggMI\/AAAAAAAAADs\/ncQ4jrmYKQc\/s1600-h\/independence+sailing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJxiB1SggMI\/AAAAAAAAADs\/ncQ4jrmYKQc\/s320\/independence+sailing.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232164650721771714\" \/><\/a>Independence US 28, skippered by Ted Hood. I was the bowman, and responsible for the rig. Conceptually the boat was good but simply not as fast as Courageous. We arrived in Newport with a boat that was just not fast enough. A summer filled with anecdotes of the personalities involved. The last summer of real amateur america&#8217;s cup sailing. Turner was unstoppable that year, he won every contest he entered.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>It may have been the last year the &#8220;America&#8217;s cup demitasse&#8221; was run. Conceived as a fun event during a layday in the America&#8217;s cup summer. Two crew from each boat raced in Dyer Dhows. Turner won, Jobson was second, I came third.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independence US 28, skippered by Ted Hood. I was the bowman, and responsible for the rig. Conceptually the boat was good but simply not as fast as Courageous. We arrived in Newport with a boat that was just not fast enough. A summer filled with anecdotes of the personalities involved. The last summer of real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=15\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">america&#8217;s cup 1977 Independence<\/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":[40,41,15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup","category-gary-jobson","category-nyyc","category-ted-hood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}