{"id":5750,"date":"2013-04-12T07:38:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2013-04-12T07:38:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:38:25","slug":"shape-speed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5750","title":{"rendered":"SHAPE OF SPEED"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"MABEL\"<\/a>
MABEL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"SHADOW\"<\/a>
SHADOW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"SHONIA\"<\/a>
SHONIA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"SHAMROCK\"<\/a>
SHAMROCK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We forget quickly how our reference of the shape of speed under sail was shaped. Last night Rich Wilson (see yesterday’s post) referred to the fact that his boat was 30% slower than the boat that ultimately won the Vendee Globe Race.<\/p>\n

“Shadow” was Nat Herreshoff’s first design, while he was still a student at MIT; I believe. She was unbeaten over a period of years.<\/p>\n

“Mabel” reflects a period in time when racing catboats was at \u00a0fever pitch.<\/p>\n

“Shonia” belonged to Charlie Barr, she looks pretty racy.<\/p>\n

“Shamrock” tha America’s Cup challenger in 1903, The crew lived aboard, she was the best guess at what would be fast enough to win the Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We forget quickly how our reference of the shape of speed under sail was shaped. Last night Rich Wilson (see yesterday’s post) referred to the fact that his boat was 30% slower than the boat that ultimately won the Vendee Globe Race. “Shadow” was Nat Herreshoff’s first design, while he was still a student at … Continue reading 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":[1612],"tags":[2633],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shape-of-speed","tag-shape-of-speed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","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=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5755,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}