{"id":5947,"date":"2013-05-26T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2013-05-26T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:22:24","slug":"fast-wet-block-isand-race-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5947","title":{"rendered":"FAST AND WET BLOCK ISAND RACE 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5948\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171796.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5948\" alt=\"RACE PREP\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171796-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171796-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171796-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171796.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RACE PREP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5949\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171829.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5949\" alt=\"2 REEFS AND #4\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171829-1024x767.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171829-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171829-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171829.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2 REEFS AND #4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5950\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171824.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5950\" alt=\"FAST REACHING\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171824-1024x767.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171824-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171824-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171824.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FAST REACHING<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5951\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171817.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5951\" alt=\"STRATFORD SHOALS\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171817-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171817-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171817-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/block-island-race-5-24-13-171817.jpg 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">STRATFORD SHOALS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I indicated earlier, every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yachtscoring.com\/event_results_detail.cfm?Race_Number=1&amp;eID=747\">Block Island Race<\/a> race is unique this one was no different. We sailed the course in just under 21 hours; the fastest I have ever completed the course. However, every other boat also sailed their fastest race. We started at 3:15 pm on Friday afternoon, we were out of the sound by 9 pm, 1BI at 1am Saturday morning, finishing at 12 noon Saturday. The wind was 15-35 knots from 315-015 compass bearing, with rain on and off. Back in Newport by 6:30 pm that night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; As I indicated earlier, every Block Island Race race is unique this one was no different. We sailed the course in just under 21 hours; the fastest I have ever completed the course. However, every other boat also sailed their fastest race. We started at 3:15 pm on Friday afternoon, we were out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FAST AND WET BLOCK ISAND RACE 2013<\/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":[1650],"tags":[2635],"class_list":["post-5947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-block-island-race-offshore-sailing","tag-block-island-race-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","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=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5952,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/5952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}