{"id":68,"date":"2008-09-13T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:47:47","slug":"olin-stephens-1908-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Olin Stephens 1908-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMwVYxQIWHI\/AAAAAAAAA18\/qQVUCTYfy7M\/s1600-h\/IMGP1680.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMwVYxQIWHI\/AAAAAAAAA18\/qQVUCTYfy7M\/s320\/IMGP1680.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245591181261822066\" \/><\/a>Olin Stephens turned 100 years old in April of this year. He touched so many lives during his lifetime; mentored  many many yacht designers, and brought joy to many many yacht owners. The list of his accomplishments is so very long, as well. He designed 7 America&#8217;s Cup defenders, and was involved in several more. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>He is pictured with Alan Hanover, the present owner of &#8220;Columbia&#8221; the 1958 defender. Alan proudly announced in 2000 that he intended to restore &#8220;Columbia&#8221; to her original shape, adding approximately 4 feet to the stern . Olin responded quietly:&#8221;Why would anyone do such a thing?&#8221; After the restoration was complete, Olin conceded that the boat really did look better.I sailed with Olin on a number of boats and our lives crossed for other reasons as well as I lofted and built a number of his designs.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Jim McCurdy is pictured with Olin aboard &#8220;Carina&#8221; one of Jim&#8217;s designs, in 1971 in Cowes, England.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMwVZCYm53I\/AAAAAAAAA2E\/q7ADeRpq6TQ\/s1600-h\/olin+columbia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMwVZCYm53I\/AAAAAAAAA2E\/q7ADeRpq6TQ\/s320\/olin+columbia.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245591185860781938\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMwVZPzjSdI\/AAAAAAAAA2M\/xq5BaxBCy8Y\/s1600-h\/columbia+transom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMwVZPzjSdI\/AAAAAAAAA2M\/xq5BaxBCy8Y\/s320\/columbia+transom.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245591189463452114\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMwVZaM-P-I\/AAAAAAAAA2U\/T-uCuvQml8g\/s1600-h\/jim+mccurdy:olin+stephens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMwVZaM-P-I\/AAAAAAAAA2U\/T-uCuvQml8g\/s320\/jim+mccurdy:olin+stephens.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245591192254431202\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olin Stephens turned 100 years old in April of this year. He touched so many lives during his lifetime; mentored many many yacht designers, and brought joy to many many yacht owners. The list of his accomplishments is so very long, as well. He designed 7 America&#8217;s Cup defenders, and was involved in several more. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=68\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Olin Stephens 1908-2008<\/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":[40,13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup","category-olin-stephens","category-sparkman-stephens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}