{"id":2946,"date":"2012-03-03T07:43:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T12:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2012-03-03T07:43:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T12:43:52","slug":"firefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2946","title":{"rendered":"FIREFLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?attachment_id=2947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2947\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2947\" title=\"me firefly\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/me-firefly-1024x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/me-firefly-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/me-firefly-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/me-firefly.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a>I could not miss this opportunity to write about these hot moulded boats. Above is a photo of my Firefly built in 1948 by Fairey Marine in Hamble, UK. I had visited<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fairey_Aviation_Company\"> Fairey Marine\u00a0<\/a>many years later in the early 70&#8217;s. They still had the autoclaves originally used to build these boats. Some of you may be aware the <a href=\"http:\/\/sailracewin.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/preview-2011-wilson-trophy-british-open.html\">Wilson Trophy <\/a>is sailed in fireflies.<\/p>\n<p>The following link shows how these boats were built. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishpathe.com\/video\/stills\/firefly-racing-dinghy\">Click Here<\/a>. Another proof of how wonderful the digital age is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I could not miss this opportunity to write about these hot moulded boats. Above is a photo of my Firefly built in 1948 by Fairey Marine in Hamble, UK. I had visited Fairey Marine\u00a0many years later in the early 70&#8217;s. They still had the autoclaves originally used to build these boats. Some of you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2946\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FIREFLY<\/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":[90],"tags":[1197,1196,1198],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-georges-school","tag-fairey-marine","tag-firefly","tag-hot-moulded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","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=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}