{"id":324,"date":"2010-07-27T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T05:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:47:47","slug":"june-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"June 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; In May, it was still quite cold. Peter Lawson one day motored from Newport to Marblehead, with &#8220;Nanny&#8221; a Holmatro powerboat, an attractive stylized boat that was capable of only 8 knots at full speed.<br \/>This meant that the trip was much longer than we anticipated. It also meant that this boat could not keep up with the twelves. Sailing upwind exchanging sails was often a problem with &#8220;Nanny&#8221;.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TE5n9j942nI\/AAAAAAAACfw\/R6RgfHuCfnY\/s1600\/bannisters+1977.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"257\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TE5n9j942nI\/AAAAAAAACfw\/R6RgfHuCfnY\/s320\/bannisters+1977.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">coageous and independence at bannister&#8217;s wharf<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TE5oDzovSpI\/AAAAAAAACf0\/FibwnXJ7TDg\/s1600\/independence+15538.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TE5oDzovSpI\/AAAAAAAACf0\/FibwnXJ7TDg\/s320\/independence+15538.jpg\" width=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">dredging bannister&#8217;s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TE5ohtsN-XI\/AAAAAAAACf8\/5LXLfW1oYfw\/s1600\/independence303.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TE5ohtsN-XI\/AAAAAAAACf8\/5LXLfW1oYfw\/s320\/independence303.jpg\" width=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">independence in lift<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TE5o5N3sRJI\/AAAAAAAACgE\/hC5tEUuS-TM\/s1600\/independence+13536.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TE5o5N3sRJI\/AAAAAAAACgE\/hC5tEUuS-TM\/s320\/independence+13536.jpg\" width=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">ted hood, scott perry,teddy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;Preparation of Bannister&#8217;s Wharf(where the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bannistersnewport.com\/\">Candy Store<\/a> is located) which would be our base for the summer. included a lift which &#8220;Independence&#8221;would share with &#8220;Courageous&#8221;. There was not enough water, so dredging was done in a very original way. If you click on the photo of the tugboat, you will see the crew, something I had never &nbsp;paid attention to until this posting.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Each of the crew had assigned responsibilities for boat maintenance, in addition to our jobs as crew. Official measuring the boats, and the June Trials, in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; In May, it was still quite cold. Peter Lawson one day motored from Newport to Marblehead, with &#8220;Nanny&#8221; a Holmatro powerboat, an attractive stylized boat that was capable of only 8 knots at full speed.This meant that the trip was much longer than we anticipated. It also meant that this boat could not keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">June 1977<\/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":[396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candy-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","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=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}