{"id":7071,"date":"2013-09-10T21:20:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7071"},"modified":"2013-09-10T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T02:42:09","slug":"higher-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7071","title":{"rendered":"HIGHER AND FASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kNnzMWMl9Pw\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand team upwind was simply higher and faster upwind. pointing higher and sailing faster. I believe Team Oracle does not know what to change to go faster. The score is 4 to 1 in favor of Team New Zealand. Their performance today reminded me of Intrepid in 1967. Bus Mosbacher was without question the best match racer of his time. At the wheel of Intrepid he had to hold back, the boat was so much faster they never wanted to jeopardize getting into foul trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Spithill uttered:\u00a0&#8220;You can be a rooster one day, and a feather duster the next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7079\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC-76.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7079\" alt=\"CRUISING TO VICTORY\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC-76-681x1024.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC-76-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC-76-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC-76.jpg 1640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CRUISING TO VICTORY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7078\" style=\"width: 914px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC34.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7078\" alt=\"FLYING IN FORMATION 2\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC34.jpg\" width=\"914\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC34.jpg 914w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC34-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FLYING IN FORMATION 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7077\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC65.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7077\" alt=\"FLYING IN FORMATION\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC65-1024x681.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC65-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC65-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FLYING IN FORMATION<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7076\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7076\" alt=\"ALL THE KING'S HORSES\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC56-1024x681.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC56-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC56-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ALL THE KING&#8217;S HORSES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7075\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC-55.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7075\" alt=\"ORACLE IN THE LEAD\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AC-55-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" 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https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ac-54-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PRE-START ONLY TIME THEY WERE IN THE SAME FRAME<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand team upwind was simply higher and faster upwind. pointing higher and sailing faster. I believe Team Oracle does not know what to change to go faster. The score is 4 to 1 in favor of Team New Zealand. Their performance today reminded me of Intrepid in 1967. Bus Mosbacher was without question &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7071\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HIGHER AND FASTER<\/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":[632],"tags":[1812],"class_list":["post-7071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup-34-2","tag-day-3-higher-and-faster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071","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=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7082,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions\/7082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}