{"id":3060,"date":"2012-03-21T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2012-03-21T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:16:44","slug":"paulhelena-sailrocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3060","title":{"rendered":"PAUL,HELENA AND SAILROCKET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul and Helena with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailrocket.com\/\">Sailrocket <\/a>have devoted what is becoming quite alot of time and effort for the quest of speed under sail. First it was 50 knots now 60 knots is the target. They have always been so generous with their knowledge and time. I wish them the best of luck.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3060 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/550046_10151403255335652_772600651_23272269_117617809_n.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/550046_10151403255335652_772600651_23272269_117617809_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/550046_10151403255335652_772600651_23272269_117617809_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/550046_10151403255335652_772600651_23272269_117617809_n-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3061'>\n\t\t\t\tPRESENT SAILROCKET ON DISPLAY IN SHEFFIELD UK\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sailrocket3051.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sailrocket3051-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sailrocket3051-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sailrocket3051-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3062'>\n\t\t\t\tHELENA AND PAUL WITH THE FIRST SAILROCKET\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/weymouth-spped-week467.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/weymouth-spped-week467-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/weymouth-spped-week467-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/weymouth-spped-week467-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3064'>\n\t\t\t\tCROSSBOW AT WEYMOUTH SPEED WEEK 1975\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jacobs-ladder511.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jacobs-ladder511-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jacobs-ladder511-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jacobs-ladder511-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3066'>\n\t\t\t\tJACOB&#8217;S LADDER\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I had gone to Weymouth speed week \u00a0with Ben Lexan, Jack Knights and Bob Fisher. Jacob&#8217;s Ladder,Icarus, Crossbow and lots of truly homemade boats were there to try to set records. The lofty target at the time was 30 knots. Hard to imagine now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul and Helena with Sailrocket have devoted what is becoming quite alot of time and effort for the quest of speed under sail. First it was 50 knots now 60 knots is the target. They have always been so generous with their knowledge and time. I wish them the best of luck. I had gone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PAUL,HELENA AND SAILROCKET<\/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":[456],"tags":[1238,455,2499,1239],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailrocket","tag-helena-darliva","tag-paul-larsen","tag-sailrocket","tag-speed-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","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=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}