{"id":41,"date":"2008-08-19T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-08-19T02:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T02:37:00","slug":"1971-trans-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"1971 trans-atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKozKnJWaGI\/AAAAAAAAAWE\/zYWchY1OfxA\/s1600-h\/1971+cape+cod.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKozKnJWaGI\/AAAAAAAAAWE\/zYWchY1OfxA\/s320\/1971+cape+cod.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236053774171531362\" \/><\/a>In 1971 we cruised &#8220;Carina&#8221; to England for the Admiral&#8217;s Cup and Fastnet Race. we sailed from Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, Ct. to Harwichport, on Cape Cod; where David Steere the owner of &#8220;Yankee Girl&#8221; had a summer house, compound might be a better description. A big party the night of our arrival and we left across the ocean along with &#8220;Yankee Girl&#8221;, &#8220;American Eagle&#8221; owned by Ted Turner, and &#8220;Carina&#8221; belonging to Dick Nye.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>We sailed the more northerly route, closer to the great circle, crossing in fourteen days , which would have likely won a race had we been competing .<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\">  <\/span>A few days into the crossing, still on the Grand Banks, but not having had a sun sight in a few days, we only had a dead reckoning position. we calculated that we were perhaps 20 miles south of Sable Island, more or less. That night, I was off watch, we hit a whale that had been sleeping on the surface. I ran on deck, in a panic, thinking we had hit the island, just in time to see the whale pop to the surface behind us.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKozLgMuBMI\/AAAAAAAAAWM\/b9N4q6FJfJY\/s1600-h\/1971+harwichport.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKozLgMuBMI\/AAAAAAAAAWM\/b9N4q6FJfJY\/s320\/1971+harwichport.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236053789486482626\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKozMISNBrI\/AAAAAAAAAWU\/c4VO-fyynrk\/s1600-h\/american+eagle+iow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKozMISNBrI\/AAAAAAAAAWU\/c4VO-fyynrk\/s320\/american+eagle+iow.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236053800246904498\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971 we cruised &#8220;Carina&#8221; to England for the Admiral&#8217;s Cup and Fastnet Race. we sailed from Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, Ct. to Harwichport, on Cape Cod; where David Steere the owner of &#8220;Yankee Girl&#8221; had a summer house, compound might be a better description. A big party the night of our arrival &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1971 trans-atlantic<\/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":[106,92,44,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1971-trans-atlantic","category-admirals-cup","category-carina","category-indian-harbour-yacht-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","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=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}