{"id":349,"date":"2010-09-11T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2010-09-11T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T20:38:00","slug":"carina-and-the-nyyc-cup-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Carina and the NYYC Cup 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a story that was brought back to memory by the thought that Ted Turner has chartered &#8220;American Eagle&#8221; for the 12 meter re-union in a few days.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1969 racing on &#8220;Carina&#8221; in Cowes (Carina was part of the American Admiral&#8217;s Cup Team) We were racing a non-Admiral&#8217;s Cup race the Nab tower race. We did very well; not first, but well placed. We were ahead of &#8220;American Eagle&#8221; most of the course.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;The following morning motoring out to the start of a race that did count for the team, a launch from the Royal yacht Squadron came along side with a message for Dick Nye. &nbsp;It was an invitation to the Castle to receive the New York Yacht Club Cup, awarded to the first NYYC boat to finish. &nbsp;Now, we had done well, however another NYYC boat had finished ahead of us. Dick hastily penned a note indicating such and handed it ti the launch.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;We had to prepare for our race and anyone who has ever sailed a Cowes week knows it is chaotic with so many boats milling about on or near the starting line. The launch comes along side again with the message &#8220;you will attend&#8221; &nbsp;Here I must explain that Dick Nye and &#8220;Carina&#8221; were not only legend in English waters but adored. &nbsp; They simply preferred to award the trophy to Dick and not to the other skipper. Dick went and was awarded the trophy.<\/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:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TIvhWpr3JhI\/AAAAAAAAClk\/TwE00koMTeY\/s1600\/carina2492.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"217\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TIvhWpr3JhI\/AAAAAAAAClk\/TwE00koMTeY\/s320\/carina2492.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">American Eagle behind Carina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/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\/TIvhh8jCRMI\/AAAAAAAAClo\/nPC2d-BcQ3U\/s1600\/nab+tower497.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"215\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TIvhh8jCRMI\/AAAAAAAAClo\/nPC2d-BcQ3U\/s320\/nab+tower497.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Crusade at the Nab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/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\/TIvk5WeJN0I\/AAAAAAAACls\/CAv-r7Omuzs\/s1600\/cowes+rys488.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TIvk5WeJN0I\/AAAAAAAACls\/CAv-r7Omuzs\/s320\/cowes+rys488.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Royal Yacht Squadron<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a story that was brought back to memory by the thought that Ted Turner has chartered &#8220;American Eagle&#8221; for the 12 meter re-union in a few days.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1969 racing on &#8220;Carina&#8221; in Cowes (Carina was part of the American Admiral&#8217;s Cup Team) We were racing a non-Admiral&#8217;s Cup race the Nab tower race. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carina and the NYYC Cup 1969<\/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":[375,92,422,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1975-cowes-week","category-admirals-cup","category-nab-tower","category-new-york-yacht-club-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}