{"id":4942,"date":"2012-12-07T17:14:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2012-12-07T17:48:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:48:27","slug":"shape-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4942","title":{"rendered":"THE SHAPE OF SPEED"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4942 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\/bonaventure-V-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bonaventure-V-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bonaventure-V-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bonaventure-V-3-48x48.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-1-4943'>\n\t\t\t\tCARINA, MC CURDY &#038; RHODES\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\/bonaventure-V-7.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bonaventure-V-7-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bonaventure-V-7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bonaventure-V-7-48x48.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-1-4944'>\n\t\t\t\tCHARISMA, S&#038;S\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\/bonaventure-V-16.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bonaventure-V-16-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bonaventure-V-16-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bonaventure-V-16-48x48.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-1-4945'>\n\t\t\t\tVAMP, ONE 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height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/kialoa-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/kialoa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/kialoa-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-1-4948'>\n\t\t\t\tKIALOA\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/outlaw.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/outlaw-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/outlaw-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/outlaw-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-1-4949'>\n\t\t\t\tOUTLAW, RORC RULE\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Many years ago I wondered why the evolution of yacht design moved so slowly. In the last ten years I am amazed how quickly shapes have changed. \u00a0Perhaps the most notable thing about the images is the obvious displacement of the boats shown. It is hard to conceive today, but these were the fastest boats of their day. I will also note that we ate rather well racing, not the freeze dried of today either. All of these boats shown were also built of aluminum, with the exception of &#8220;Outlaw&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>  The video below is in sharp contrast to the boats shown above.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3TMawwLtCPM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago I wondered why the evolution of yacht design moved so slowly. In the last ten years I am amazed how quickly shapes have changed. \u00a0Perhaps the most notable thing about the images is the obvious displacement of the boats shown. It is hard to conceive today, but these were the fastest boats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE SHAPE OF SPEED<\/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":[501],"tags":[2504,1527],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naval-architecture","tag-naval-architecture","tag-yacht-shapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","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=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4954,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}