BUSY WEEKEND
\nGot plans for Columbus Day weekend? The annual anniversary of Christopher
\nColumbus’s arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492, is
\nalways the second Monday in October. As it’s also a federal holiday in the
\nU.S., you may be looking at options for a three day vacation. If you are
\nthinking of San Francisco, rest assured, you are not alone:<\/p>\n
October 4-8: A tradition since 1981, Fleet Week is the most anticipated
\nFall event in San Francisco. With an estimated audience of 1 million,
\nspectators are drawn every year to the city’s northern waterfront to be
\nawed by a parade of Navy ships, along with a spectacular aerial show that
\nincludes the Navy Blue Angels. Also on hand are a variety of other
\nnighttime entertainment venues that kick off just as the sun sets over San
\nFrancisco Bay.<\/p>\n
October 5-7: The 12th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is one of the
\nlargest (and free-est) music festivals in the U.S. Held in Golden Gate
\nPark, three quarters of a million people are expected for the likes of
\nPatty Griffin, Les Claypool, Cowboy Junkies, Emmylou Harris, Chuck Prophet,
\nChris Robinson Brotherhood, Elvis Costello, Dwight Yoakam, Lloyd Cole,
\nPatti Smith, Steve Earle, Vince Gill, Nick Lowe and more.<\/p>\n
October 2-7: The second event of the 2012-13 America’s Cup World Series Outteridge, who, with crew Iain Jensen, blitzed the 49er fleet in the London The imminent official announcement by Korea team boss Dong-Young Kim, which But the cost of mounting a viable challenge in the new class of 72-foot Announcing a new skipper implies that Team Korea will race at the America\u2019s The ACWS race schedule has had to work around the Fleet Week activities. BUSY WEEKEND Got plans for Columbus Day weekend? The annual anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492, is always the second Monday in October. As it’s also a federal holiday in the U.S., you may be looking at options for a three day vacation. If you are thinking … Continue reading SAN FRANCISCO HAS HAD A BUSY SUMMER\/TEAM KOREA CHANGES<\/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":[632],"tags":[2397,2391],"class_list":["post-4365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup-34-2","tag-americas-cup","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365","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=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwill be sharing the City with the iconic events above. The first America’s
\nCup event in San Francisco in August attracted over 150,000 fans to the
\nMarina Green and nearly 500 spectator boats to witness 11 of the best
\nsailing crews in the world battle just yards from the shoreline. In
\nOctober, the 11 AC45 will return to the Bay in hopes of attracting the
\nattention of the holiday crowds. Full details:
\nhttp:\/\/media.americascup.com\/pressreleases\/?id=928<\/a>
\nCHANGES AT TEAM KOREA
\n(September 20, 2012) – The revolving door marked skipper at America\u2019s Cup
\nchallenger Team Korea is spinning again as Australian Olympic gold medalist
\nNathan Outteridge departs after just seven months, about the same tenure as
\nhis predecessor Chris Draper, an Olympic bronze medalist.<\/p>\n
\n2012 regatta last month, is expected to join one of the three confirmed
\nchallengers for next year\u2019s 34 America\u2019s Cup with the Swedish-based Artemis
\nas the front runner. Draper is with Italy\u2019s Prada-backed Luna Rosa
\nchallenge. The third is Emirates Team New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\nwill name Outteridge\u2019s successor, may also be coupled with final
\nconfirmation that Team Korea is putting its current Cup challenge on hold,
\nthough it has paid the $200,000 entry fee, and aiming at AC35.<\/p>\n
\nwing-powered catamarans is upwards of $100m. So far Team Korea, which also
\nhas links with English premier league soccer club Sunderland, has failed to
\nannounce that it has raised any significant budget. Among the Team Korea
\ncrew in Naples, Venice, Newport, Rhode Island, and San Francisco this year
\nhave been three top British talents, Giles Scott, Mark Bulkily, and Matt
\nCornwell.<\/p>\n
\nCup World Series regatta in San Francisco early next month. If so, the crew
\nwill then need to be confirmed. — Full story at:\u00a0http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/d92zz36<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe Cup Experience website provides some clarity on how the events will
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