{"id":66,"date":"2008-09-09T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2008-09-09T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T21:28:00","slug":"pre-feeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Pre-feeder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMbqqOmaoiI\/AAAAAAAAAzM\/SnCIkD0rYS4\/s1600-h\/pre+feeder.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMbqqOmaoiI\/AAAAAAAAAzM\/SnCIkD0rYS4\/s320\/pre+feeder.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244136827314151970\" \/><\/a>In 1977 we discussed what would happen if when hoisting the jib it jammed in the pre-feeder. I worked evenings after racing hand making one pre-feeder capable of being opened in the event there was  jam. As with so many things once the season was over, I put it away. Preparing for the America&#8217;s Cup Jubilee in 2001 the question came up again. I still had my hand made proto-type. Jim Gubelmann, a good friend took an interest in it as a marketable product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1977 we discussed what would happen if when hoisting the jib it jammed in the pre-feeder. I worked evenings after racing hand making one pre-feeder capable of being opened in the event there was jam. As with so many things once the season was over, I put it away. Preparing for the America&#8217;s Cup &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pre-feeder<\/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":[40,134,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup","category-north-sails","category-sail-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}