{"id":43,"date":"2008-08-19T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-08-19T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:41:00","slug":"chicago-mackinac-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Chicago-Mackinac 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July of 1980 I was invited to sail the Chicago-Mackinac race aboard &#8220;Immigrant&#8221; a 47 foot Ed Dubois design, weighing 17,000 pounds; belonging to Bill McAteer. A very progressive and interesting boat to sail. My first experience sailing a boat with a short keel, requiring keen concentration to sail upwind. The wind did not free up until the end of the race building to 40 knots for the finish. We had a lively run in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July of 1980 I was invited to sail the Chicago-Mackinac race aboard &#8220;Immigrant&#8221; a 47 foot Ed Dubois design, weighing 17,000 pounds; belonging to Bill McAteer. A very progressive and interesting boat to sail. My first experience sailing a boat with a short keel, requiring keen concentration to sail upwind. The wind did not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=43\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chicago-Mackinac 1980<\/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":[7,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-mackinac-race","category-chicago-yacht-club","category-mackinac-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}