{"id":205,"date":"2009-11-06T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2009-11-06T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T11:28:00","slug":"carina-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"CARINA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SvQLV9muoII\/AAAAAAAABu4\/lwulkPyhMuQ\/s1600-h\/max+atkin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SvQLV9muoII\/AAAAAAAABu4\/lwulkPyhMuQ\/s320\/max+atkin.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400954325066227842\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SvQLVsuYsfI\/AAAAAAAABuw\/k8p5OeJ4aEc\/s1600-h\/atkin+cup+nye.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 257px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SvQLVsuYsfI\/AAAAAAAABuw\/k8p5OeJ4aEc\/s320\/atkin+cup+nye.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400954320534942194\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SvQLVRzns-I\/AAAAAAAABuo\/z6QyuFGoPtw\/s1600-h\/carina+1970.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SvQLVRzns-I\/AAAAAAAABuo\/z6QyuFGoPtw\/s320\/carina+1970.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400954313309139938\" \/><\/a><br \/>This weekend at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club will be a reunion of as many &#8220;Carina&#8221; crew as can be rounded up to recount their memories of sailing on perhaps the most famous boat in ocean racing.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I joined the crew of &#8220;Carina&#8221; in 1969 quite by chance. I was meant to sail on a different boat for the Trans-Atlantic race that year to Ireland. Plans changed and I was recommended to speak to Dick Nye about the possibility of finding a berth on another boat. He suggested I come for lunch to meet and discuss possibilities. <\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I had been in an automobile accident during the winter and had broken my leg. The cast was still on as I hitchhiked to New York City from the University Of Rhode Island in the snow for lunch.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I never imagined that Richard would call asking me to join &#8220;Carina&#8221; and the life-long friends that event would create.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club will be a reunion of as many &#8220;Carina&#8221; crew as can be rounded up to recount their memories of sailing on perhaps the most famous boat in ocean racing. I joined the crew of &#8220;Carina&#8221; in 1969 quite by chance. I was meant to sail on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CARINA<\/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":[92,66,64,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admirals-cup","category-cowes-week","category-fastnet-race","category-sir-max-atkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}