{"id":295,"date":"2010-06-15T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2010-06-15T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T20:30:00","slug":"bermuda-race-start-3-days-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Bermuda Race start 3 days away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TBfecAxmQ1I\/AAAAAAAACSA\/3b-cKLxuWKI\/s1600\/6+15+10++6497.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TBfecAxmQ1I\/AAAAAAAACSA\/3b-cKLxuWKI\/s320\/6+15+10++6497.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TBfelzzEJYI\/AAAAAAAACSI\/x87Lq-DtYwg\/s1600\/6+15+10++6498.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TBfelzzEJYI\/AAAAAAAACSI\/x87Lq-DtYwg\/s320\/6+15+10++6498.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TBfevaOf4pI\/AAAAAAAACSQ\/OhPl7NbTMnM\/s1600\/narragansett+bay6+15+10++6492.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TBfevaOf4pI\/AAAAAAAACSQ\/OhPl7NbTMnM\/s320\/narragansett+bay6+15+10++6492.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TBfe1pKyhLI\/AAAAAAAACSY\/iQZ-FNaYBzM\/s1600\/S%26S+6+15+10++6493.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TBfe1pKyhLI\/AAAAAAAACSY\/iQZ-FNaYBzM\/s320\/S%26S+6+15+10++6493.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Bermuda Race is only 600 miles, 4 days should be an ample window for me on a 50 foot boat. Somehow there are always so many loose ends to tie up before the start. The weather at the moment looks like a nice close reach start, running out of wind at the Gulf &nbsp;Stream.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; I chose to pre clear customs, which may mean I am, if someone chose to look at paperwork, in Bermuda right now. It took awhile as I was not the only one with that idea. All of Belle Mente&#8217;s crew were in front of me, including Tom Mclaughlin.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;Once accomplished, I wanted to stop at Team One for last minute errands, I stopped by the Sparkman &amp; Stephens office, which is now home to two of the designers. On the way I noticed an aircraft carrier under the Newport Bridge. I did a double take at that. It seems the Forrestal is being moved south and will become a museum in another port.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; I am still hoping to hear from former 12 meter sailors who would be willing to share photos and stories of &nbsp;their experiences.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bermuda Race is only 600 miles, 4 days should be an ample window for me on a 50 foot boat. Somehow there are always so many loose ends to tie up before the start. The weather at the moment looks like a nice close reach start, running out of wind at the Gulf &nbsp;Stream.&nbsp;&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bermuda Race start 3 days away<\/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":[18,359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bermuda-race","category-forrestal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}