{"id":67,"date":"2008-09-10T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2008-09-10T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T02:31:00","slug":"sail-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Sail Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMcxp0hRY6I\/AAAAAAAAAzU\/jCvR6lVpJ4M\/s1600-h\/jalbert.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMcxp0hRY6I\/AAAAAAAAAzU\/jCvR6lVpJ4M\/s320\/jalbert.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244214885638824866\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t remember exactly when but somewhere during my sophomore and junior years at URI I responded to a posting on the bulletin board at the student union. This led me to Mr. Lynch, who became a lifelong friend. It was a request for someone to do sail testing. Mr Lynch had a friend named Domina Jalbert. He had invented the re-entry parachutes for the space capsules for NASA. A man from Pawtucket, RI, who loved flying kites. He had an idea for sails and needed some practical testing and feedback. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I provided a sail from one of our Beverly dinghys as a pattern, and was shortly given one of Domina&#8217;s creations to test. I recruited anyone from the sailing team to sail against, more often than not it was Henry Bossett. I was not a good influence on Henry and his grades suffered.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I would give regular reports to Mr Lynch; effectively saying that the design had merit  and deserved further exploration.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMcxqL6SMqI\/AAAAAAAAAzc\/DCOsHgA9BZE\/s1600-h\/vinnie+lucid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMcxqL6SMqI\/AAAAAAAAAzc\/DCOsHgA9BZE\/s320\/vinnie+lucid.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244214891917750946\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMcxqfPMycI\/AAAAAAAAAzk\/LKSezNDadrY\/s1600-h\/rig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMcxqfPMycI\/AAAAAAAAAzk\/LKSezNDadrY\/s320\/rig.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244214897105750466\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember exactly when but somewhere during my sophomore and junior years at URI I responded to a posting on the bulletin board at the student union. This led me to Mr. Lynch, who became a lifelong friend. It was a request for someone to do sail testing. Mr Lynch had a friend named &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=67\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sail Testing<\/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":[136,137,138,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-sailing","category-dominic-jalbert","category-nasa","category-sail-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}