{"id":37,"date":"2008-08-17T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-08-17T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T21:33:00","slug":"2006-stamford-vineyard-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"2006 Stamford-Vineyard Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKia3BXLNzI\/AAAAAAAAAS0\/r3LKy4jRqko\/s1600-h\/Snow+Lion.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKia3BXLNzI\/AAAAAAAAAS0\/r3LKy4jRqko\/s320\/Snow+Lion.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235604836867323698\" \/><\/a>This race, in stark contrast to the Bermuda race earlier in the year, has become a legend of sorts. 35 knots at the start; 53 boats entered, three boats finished in a race that saw the wind build to 60 plus knots. The wind direction was very steady out of the East, Making the course a windward-leeward race. We hit 26 knots with a storm jib and two reefs.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>We finished second to Blue Yankee, our confidence in the boat having received an enormous boost after this thrashing.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>the photo shows the crew stacked aft behind Jack Cummiskey, as we surf downwind.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKia3WTuIyI\/AAAAAAAAAS8\/dpJhVpT9uFY\/s1600-h\/IMGP0641.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKia3WTuIyI\/AAAAAAAAAS8\/dpJhVpT9uFY\/s320\/IMGP0641.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235604842489979682\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKia3v6Gn_I\/AAAAAAAAATE\/3Fj80V9HhSc\/s1600-h\/5+22+06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKia3v6Gn_I\/AAAAAAAAATE\/3Fj80V9HhSc\/s320\/5+22+06.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235604849361854450\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This race, in stark contrast to the Bermuda race earlier in the year, has become a legend of sorts. 35 knots at the start; 53 boats entered, three boats finished in a race that saw the wind build to 60 plus knots. The wind direction was very steady out of the East, Making the course &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=37\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2006 Stamford-Vineyard Race<\/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":[101,102,9,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-block-island-race-stamford-yacht-club","category-blue-yankee","category-snow-lion","category-stamford-vineyard-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}