{"id":40,"date":"2008-08-18T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-08-18T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T13:47:00","slug":"tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKmD-34RQVI\/AAAAAAAAAV0\/EV0TIQi_ddQ\/s1600-h\/tornado+1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKmD-34RQVI\/AAAAAAAAAV0\/EV0TIQi_ddQ\/s320\/tornado+1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235861157970002258\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKl_QQxYWXI\/AAAAAAAAAVs\/vwj4JCUOMv0\/s1600-h\/File0004s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKl_QQxYWXI\/AAAAAAAAAVs\/vwj4JCUOMv0\/s320\/File0004s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235855959151630706\" \/><\/a>In 1977-1978 I teamed up with my college sailing  friend Henry Bossett, to campaign a Tornado for the Olympics. I had sailed not only in college with Henry , but E Scows as well, still my favorite monohull.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>By the spring of 1978 we were ranked number one in the United States; probably the lightest team sailing a Tornado, which meant we had no room for error.Henry built the sails which were clearly fast and tailored to our needs.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>The sailing was thrilling, the competition great, but if you have read this blog , I was juggling a many balls at once.; something had to give, I reluctantly gave notice to Henry. I keep fond memories and can only wonder what the future might have held for us.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKl-sTMwcVI\/AAAAAAAAAVU\/VNGoWj03aWo\/s1600-h\/78RotonPtAwosting07_edited+(Large).jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKl-sTMwcVI\/AAAAAAAAAVU\/VNGoWj03aWo\/s320\/78RotonPtAwosting07_edited+(Large).jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235855341328036178\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKl-s3aWvzI\/AAAAAAAAAVc\/DVE4b7wX32A\/s1600-h\/tornado+2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKl-s3aWvzI\/AAAAAAAAAVc\/DVE4b7wX32A\/s320\/tornado+2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235855351048748850\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKl-s9_vkHI\/AAAAAAAAAVk\/hMH7mBWIn-M\/s1600-h\/tornado+2.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1977-1978 I teamed up with my college sailing friend Henry Bossett, to campaign a Tornado for the Olympics. I had sailed not only in college with Henry , but E Scows as well, still my favorite monohull. By the spring of 1978 we were ranked number one in the United States; probably the lightest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=40\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tornado<\/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":[23,105,103,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry-bossett","category-olympic-sailing","category-tornado","category-us-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}