{"id":2718,"date":"2012-01-24T03:12:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T08:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2012-01-24T03:12:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T08:12:18","slug":"leg-3-volvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2718","title":{"rendered":"LEG 3 OF VOLVO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCS8tZLAPY4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am have been troubled by this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. It has become less of an Ocean race frankly; The Legs are short both in distance and time, as the boats are so quick. It has lost it&#8217;s luster.<br \/>\nSpeaking of losing it&#8217;s luster, the America&#8217;s Cup, over these last few years has been a soap opera. Still, we are all waiting with anticipation the 72 foot solid wing catamarans.<\/p>\n<p>SMOKE, MIRRORS, AND REALITY<br \/>\nBy Rod Davis, Emirates Team NZ<br \/>\n(January 23, 2012) &#8211; The trick is to keep the eye on the ball \u2026<\/p>\n<p>It has been a bizarre time for the America&#8217;s Cup; the war of words and press releases has been nonstop for five years when Oracle questioned Alinghi&#8217;s Challenger of Record. Since then we have been fed a fatty diet of spin doctoring.<\/p>\n<p>Some would say &#8220;situation normal for the America&#8217;s Cup&#8221;. Not in my experience and I have been in the game a long time. Take the headline &#8220;Ainslie launches America&#8217;s Cup campaign&#8221;. What?<\/p>\n<p>Uncle Larry is underwriting Ben&#8217;s AC45 sailing and then he joins Oracle in the defence for the USA. Where is the Ben Ainslie America&#8217;s Cup campaign in that? Or the nine challengers listed in the America&#8217;s Cup web site, when, in reality only three have paid the money. The trick is to not allow the spin doctors to distract you from the real game.<\/p>\n<p>When you blow away the smoke and see through the mirrors you find the America&#8217;s Cup as it is:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know:<\/p>\n<p>1) The America&#8217;s Cup will be sailed in San Francisco in 2013 in 72ft winged cats.<\/p>\n<p>2) Each team will have the most advanced and competitive boat that it can produce and then sail it the very best it can.<\/p>\n<p>3) The challengers (Artemis, Luna Rosa, and Emirates Team New Zealand) will compete in a Louis Vuitton Cup challenger series to decide who goes to the America&#8217;s Cup.<\/p>\n<p>4) Oracle goes directly to the finals (the America&#8217;s Cup match).<\/p>\n<p>5) Each team is allowed to build two AC72 boats; the first cannot be launched before July this year.<\/p>\n<p>Point No 2 is the most important and the one that must be done better than all the competition. Everything else is detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am have been troubled by this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. It has become less of an Ocean race frankly; The Legs are short both in distance and time, as the boats are so quick. It has lost it&#8217;s luster. Speaking of losing it&#8217;s luster, the America&#8217;s Cup, over these last few years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2718\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LEG 3 OF VOLVO<\/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":[693],"tags":[2397,569,1030,692],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volvo-70","tag-americas-cup","tag-ken-read","tag-puma","tag-volvo-ocean-race-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","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=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}