{"id":42,"date":"2008-08-19T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-08-19T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:23:00","slug":"boomerang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Boomerang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKrJgPbr38I\/AAAAAAAAAdM\/hYNLeQ6ZIFs\/s1600-h\/boomerang+1978:sorc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKrJgPbr38I\/AAAAAAAAAdM\/hYNLeQ6ZIFs\/s320\/boomerang+1978:sorc.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236219072507273154\" \/><\/a>I raced the 1978 and 1980 Bermuda Races on George Courmantarous&#8217; &#8220;Boomerang&#8221; originally designed and built by Bob Derecktor, substantially modified by Scott Kaufmann. I also sailed several SORC on the boat. We were a mini-maxi at 66 feet. caught between the two size breaks. Sailing the boat to it&#8217;s optimum, we had brillant moments. George went on to have a long line of boats by the same name. Jeff Neuberth playing a big role in the organizing of those campaigns.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>My only other Annapolis-Newport Race was in 1981 on &#8220;Boomerang&#8221;. We finished close on the heels of &#8220;Flyer&#8221; and ended up second in our class.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>As I have inferred I shortly withdrew from all competitive sailing to concentrate on Lirakis Safety Harness.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKrJgJ4Bl0I\/AAAAAAAAAdU\/lGzHDBNm4Ks\/s1600-h\/boomerang:spin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKrJgJ4Bl0I\/AAAAAAAAAdU\/lGzHDBNm4Ks\/s320\/boomerang:spin.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236219071015524162\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKrJgSY-ZXI\/AAAAAAAAAdc\/_Pq4Ya4prw8\/s1600-h\/Boomerang1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKrJgSY-ZXI\/AAAAAAAAAdc\/_Pq4Ya4prw8\/s320\/Boomerang1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236219073301210482\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I raced the 1978 and 1980 Bermuda Races on George Courmantarous&#8217; &#8220;Boomerang&#8221; originally designed and built by Bob Derecktor, substantially modified by Scott Kaufmann. I also sailed several SORC on the boat. We were a mini-maxi at 66 feet. caught between the two size breaks. Sailing the boat to it&#8217;s optimum, we had brillant moments. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=42\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boomerang<\/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":[109,107,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boomerang","category-george-courmantarous","category-sorc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}