{"id":7,"date":"2008-08-06T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-08-06T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T19:54:00","slug":"new-york-yacht-club-classics-regatta-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"New York Yacht club Classics Regatta july 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SL1H9XUjgqI\/AAAAAAAAAmE\/PN_rbjiOWNY\/s1600-h\/IMGP1681.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SL1H9XUjgqI\/AAAAAAAAAmE\/PN_rbjiOWNY\/s320\/IMGP1681.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241424660886946466\" \/><\/a>This regatta was a celebration not just of classic yachts but Olin Stephens 100th birthday. Just the number and variety of boats Olin designed that I had the privilege of sailing and the joy it gave me over the years, is more than a few. Olin&#8217;s name was synonymous with twelve meters and the defense of the America&#8217;s cup.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJoEBkvI7LI\/AAAAAAAAAAs\/8eqo0u7vy44\/s1600-h\/siren.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJoEBkvI7LI\/AAAAAAAAAAs\/8eqo0u7vy44\/s320\/siren.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231498342232026290\" \/><\/a>I am steering Peter Cassidy&#8217;s NY 32 &#8220;Siren&#8221; in the round the island race, we finished 2nd for the day and third overall. The New York 32 designed in 1935 was one of Olin&#8217;s designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This regatta was a celebration not just of classic yachts but Olin Stephens 100th birthday. Just the number and variety of boats Olin designed that I had the privilege of sailing and the joy it gave me over the years, is more than a few. Olin&#8217;s name was synonymous with twelve meters and the defense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New York Yacht club Classics Regatta july 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":[14,12,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-yacht-regatta","category-classic-yachts","category-museum-of-yachting","category-olin-stephens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}