{"id":23,"date":"2008-08-11T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-08-11T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T16:56:00","slug":"fall-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Fall 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKBvR0EAT-I\/AAAAAAAAAIg\/kXGpiyROtnI\/s1600-h\/ginko.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKBvR0EAT-I\/AAAAAAAAAIg\/kXGpiyROtnI\/s320\/ginko.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233305118828416994\" \/><\/a>Following Cowes Week aboard &#8220;Gitana VI&#8221; I raced the Fastnet with &#8220;Guia&#8221; belonging to Georgio Falk. &#8220;Guia&#8221; had been built for the previous Admiral&#8217;s Cup as &#8220;Ginko&#8221; a 44 foot Bob Miller\/Ben Lexan design. A light fast boat, having scored well in 1973 and had won an inshore race in 1975. Again, a mixed crew of talented Italians and French, and again English was the language on Deck, except when faced with a crisis. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>It was the ride back from Fastnet Rock, where this occurred, the Wind freshened, to 30 plus knots. We were scudding along at 15-17 knots; A spinnaker change was necessary, I opted to steer staying out of the language barrier problem.  From here our fate took a turn for the worse; as I watched the competition shrink on the horizon ahead. Both spinnakers were wrapped around the headstay and required cutting away.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I returned to the United States, to sail the One Ton Worlds, in Newport, with Ted Turner on &#8220;Vamp&#8221; a Peterson design. A hard series, we faired well, however, being beaten by Lowell North in &#8220;Pied Piper&#8221; also a Peterson design, so Ted bought Lowell&#8217;s boat. which we sailed in the 1976 One Ton World&#8217;s. a story for another installment.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKBvSIC2I0I\/AAAAAAAAAIo\/lDjg5q6TR7s\/s1600-h\/vamp+2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKBvSIC2I0I\/AAAAAAAAAIo\/lDjg5q6TR7s\/s320\/vamp+2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233305124192265026\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Cowes Week aboard &#8220;Gitana VI&#8221; I raced the Fastnet with &#8220;Guia&#8221; belonging to Georgio Falk. &#8220;Guia&#8221; had been built for the previous Admiral&#8217;s Cup as &#8220;Ginko&#8221; a 44 foot Bob Miller\/Ben Lexan design. A light fast boat, having scored well in 1973 and had won an inshore race in 1975. Again, a mixed crew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=23\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fall 1975<\/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":[66,64,65,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowes-week","category-fastnet-race","category-georgio-falk","category-rorc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}