{"id":255,"date":"2010-04-24T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2010-04-24T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:54:00","slug":"another-shipmate-meets-his-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER SHIPMATE MEETS HIS MAKER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9Lm2AFAtHI\/AAAAAAAACC4\/VmlgQNtGcBI\/s1600\/Cidade+Maravilhosa+(2).jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9Lm2AFAtHI\/AAAAAAAACC4\/VmlgQNtGcBI\/s320\/Cidade+Maravilhosa+(2).jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9Lmz-gKNHI\/AAAAAAAACCw\/IbODWMViSJU\/s1600\/admiral%27s+cup+1973.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9Lmz-gKNHI\/AAAAAAAACCw\/IbODWMViSJU\/s320\/admiral%27s+cup+1973.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9LmxtbUE6I\/AAAAAAAACCo\/uO2moP9iUk0\/s1600\/_3_A4697.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9LmxtbUE6I\/AAAAAAAACCo\/uO2moP9iUk0\/s320\/_3_A4697.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9LoO7qQv4I\/AAAAAAAACDA\/BAJGniNXu4g\/s1600\/DSC_0065-02.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9LoO7qQv4I\/AAAAAAAACDA\/BAJGniNXu4g\/s320\/DSC_0065-02.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mickey Spillane, longtime friend and shipmate was killed hang gliding in Brazil. We had sailed many miles together. I always enjoyed having Mickey aboard as he exuded calm. We last sailed together last summer in Newport for the six meter north american championships; we finished second. The group photo was aboard &#8220;Charisma&#8221; in 1973, we were part of the American Admiral&#8217;s Cup team. Bill Ficker was helmsman. &nbsp;Culminating in a second overall in the Fastnet race, second to a sistership from Brazil.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9LyLX3KdHI\/AAAAAAAACDI\/CfhZvSZojvY\/s1600\/mickey-girls220.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9LyLX3KdHI\/AAAAAAAACDI\/CfhZvSZojvY\/s320\/mickey-girls220.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9L3Chx6AjI\/AAAAAAAACDQ\/jXNcdyArvYs\/s1600\/mickey+30th+5241.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S9L3Chx6AjI\/AAAAAAAACDQ\/jXNcdyArvYs\/s320\/mickey+30th+5241.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We celebrated Mickey&#8217;s 30th wedding anniversary a few summers ago. He met his wife, Alice, when we were racing in Brazil.<br \/>&nbsp;If you click on the link and scroll down to the video shot in Brazil at one of the spots for hang gliding.<br \/>We had been looking forward to seeing Mickey and Alice, who were due to return to Newport any day. I was already making plans for sailing with Mickey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Spillane, longtime friend and shipmate was killed hang gliding in Brazil. We had sailed many miles together. I always enjoyed having Mickey aboard as he exuded calm. We last sailed together last summer in Newport for the six meter north american championships; we finished second. The group photo was aboard &#8220;Charisma&#8221; in 1973, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ANOTHER SHIPMATE MEETS HIS MAKER<\/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":[325,324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hang-gliding","category-mickey-spillane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}