{"id":562,"date":"2010-10-20T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T12:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2010-10-20T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T12:37:45","slug":"middle-sea-race-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"MIDDLE SEA RACE 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/race\/\">Middle Sea Race<\/a> starts this saturday. It is one year ago that I was in Malta preparing for the Race on a chartered boat &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.regattacharter.nl\/\">Nix<\/a>&#8221; with Bugs Baer and a crew I now call friends.<\/p>\n<p>Weather in the Mediterranean is fickle and for those of us used to \u00a0rather predictable systems in the northern hemisphere even more difficult to grasp. \u00a0The recent conditions in Malta were &#8220;blowing dogs off chains&#8221; but who knows what will happen during the race.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-562 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\/2010\/10\/malta-10-09-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/malta-10-09-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-563\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-563'>\n\t\t\t\tYACHT HARBOUR\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\/2010\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-79.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-79-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-564\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-564'>\n\t\t\t\tSUN AND 40 KNOTS\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\/2010\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-173.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-173-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-565\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-565'>\n\t\t\t\tTRYING TO FINISH\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle Sea Race starts this saturday. It is one year ago that I was in Malta preparing for the Race on a chartered boat &#8220;Nix&#8221; with Bugs Baer and a crew I now call friends. Weather in the Mediterranean is fickle and for those of us used to \u00a0rather predictable systems in the northern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MIDDLE SEA RACE 2010<\/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":[32],"tags":[2460,466],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs-baer","tag-malta","tag-middle-sea-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","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=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}