{"id":4875,"date":"2012-12-02T17:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2012-12-02T18:24:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T23:24:24","slug":"24-hour-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4875","title":{"rendered":"24 HOUR RUN"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4889\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?attachment_id=4889\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4889\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4889\" title=\"ATLANTIC\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/untitled-1024x665.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/untitled-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/untitled-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/untitled.jpg 1143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">YACHT ATLANTIC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vendeeglobe.org\/en\/\">Vendee Globe <\/a>\u00a0non-stop single-handed around the world race is in it&#8217;s third week. Speeds are high; a new 24 hour record of 483 miles for a single-handed boat was set and re-broken the next day. Francois Gabart is the new record holder.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up with the legend of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_(yacht)#Trans-Atlantic_sailing_record\">Yacht Atlantic<\/a> crossing the atlantic in 1905 in 12 days, with a 24 hour run of 341 miles. A record that stood for years, but it is a new world.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph above I took around 1973 in Norfolk, VA. The Atlantic was as you see her and the USS United States was still there as well. Speaking of records, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_United_States\">USS United States<\/a><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4875 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/untitled.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/untitled-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/untitled-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/untitled-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4889'>\n\t\t\t\tYACHT ATLANTIC\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/salisbury-house-11-17-12-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/salisbury-house-11-17-12-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/salisbury-house-11-17-12-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/salisbury-house-11-17-12-1-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4895'>\n\t\t\t\tUSS UNITED STATES\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>held the Blue Ribbon (record across the atlantic for a passenger ship)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Vendee Globe \u00a0non-stop single-handed around the world race is in it&#8217;s third week. Speeds are high; a new 24 hour record of 483 miles for a single-handed boat was set and re-broken the next day. Francois Gabart is the new record holder. I grew up with the legend of the Yacht Atlantic crossing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4875\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24 HOUR RUN<\/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":[1521],"tags":[1522,2610],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vendee-globe-sailing","tag-24-hour-record","tag-vendee-globe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","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=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4897,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}