{"id":176,"date":"2009-08-05T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2009-08-05T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T22:10:00","slug":"1971-trans-atlantic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"1971 Trans-Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnoFRp0XlpI\/AAAAAAAABhc\/ZIDOo8OBqcU\/s1600-h\/1971+harwichport.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnoFRp0XlpI\/AAAAAAAABhc\/ZIDOo8OBqcU\/s320\/1971+harwichport.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366607706806785682\" \/><\/a>In 1971 we sailed &#8220;Carina&#8221; first to Harwichport, on Cape Cod.  David Steere, the owner of &#8220;Yankee Girl&#8221; (sistership to Charisma&#8221;) gave a large party for all involved inviting astronauts as guests of honor. The next morning very early, to catch the tide. We left, after a late night. &#8220;American Eagle&#8221;, Yankee Girl&#8221; and Carina&#8221; We took a more northerly route. and made a very quick crossing, 14 days. beating the other boats by a day. They had taken a more southerly, warmer route. In fact, I have never beaten this time, in a race.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I had purchased a BB gun and hid it on the boat. I would take the cans and glass out of the garbage, throw it over the side and shoot at it as it trailed off astern. I am not sure the English Customs would have taken to the idea of the gun, even a BB gun arriving in England.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnoFRfSNjrI\/AAAAAAAABhU\/tHfxwBEW52Q\/s1600-h\/wsl+nye.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnoFRfSNjrI\/AAAAAAAABhU\/tHfxwBEW52Q\/s320\/wsl+nye.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366607703979167410\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnoFRLRjhpI\/AAAAAAAABhM\/LFKeOkDkNx8\/s1600-h\/me+on+pole.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 225px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnoFRLRjhpI\/AAAAAAAABhM\/LFKeOkDkNx8\/s320\/me+on+pole.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366607698607703698\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnoFQpjCxDI\/AAAAAAAABhE\/VJzoVRKHefU\/s1600-h\/hunting+in+the+channel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SnoFQpjCxDI\/AAAAAAAABhE\/VJzoVRKHefU\/s320\/hunting+in+the+channel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366607689554248754\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971 we sailed &#8220;Carina&#8221; first to Harwichport, on Cape Cod. David Steere, the owner of &#8220;Yankee Girl&#8221; (sistership to Charisma&#8221;) gave a large party for all involved inviting astronauts as guests of honor. The next morning very early, to catch the tide. We left, after a late night. &#8220;American Eagle&#8221;, Yankee Girl&#8221; and Carina&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1971 Trans-Atlantic<\/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":[92,44,260,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admirals-cup","category-carina","category-david-steere","category-richard-nye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}