{"id":74,"date":"2008-09-20T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:47:47","slug":"jack-sutphens-book-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Jack Sutphen&#8217;s book signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNWDRNRRRNI\/AAAAAAAAA5g\/xXEQNgJoh4s\/s1600-h\/IMGP0633.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNWDRNRRRNI\/AAAAAAAAA5g\/xXEQNgJoh4s\/s320\/IMGP0633.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248245272413291730\" \/><\/a>Jack&#8217;s book:&#8221;Messing About in Boats&#8221; was published earlier this year. He was in Newport this weekend for a book signing in conjunction with the 12 Meter North American Championships, at the Seaman&#8217;s Church Institute. Lots of people turned out. I first met Jack in the 1960&#8217;s, he was working at Ratsey&amp;Lapthorn sailmakers, as was Arthur Knapp. I raced against him on Long Island Sound. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Jack then showed up in Newport sailing 12 meters. He was very good at making a 12 go fast. He now lives in San Diego, and at 90 is having a great time.<\/p>\n<div><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNWDRauCk7I\/AAAAAAAAA5o\/10-ScdIECJY\/s1600-h\/IMGP0641.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNWDRauCk7I\/AAAAAAAAA5o\/10-ScdIECJY\/s320\/IMGP0641.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248245276023624626\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNWDRnifyoI\/AAAAAAAAA5w\/J83DI9PoaRI\/s1600-h\/IMGP0642.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNWDRnifyoI\/AAAAAAAAA5w\/J83DI9PoaRI\/s320\/IMGP0642.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248245279464868482\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNWDR5i9flI\/AAAAAAAAA54\/Mwpgytlk7Lw\/s1600-h\/IMGP0643.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNWDR5i9flI\/AAAAAAAAA54\/Mwpgytlk7Lw\/s320\/IMGP0643.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248245284298653266\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack&#8217;s book:&#8221;Messing About in Boats&#8221; was published earlier this year. He was in Newport this weekend for a book signing in conjunction with the 12 Meter North American Championships, at the Seaman&#8217;s Church Institute. Lots of people turned out. I first met Jack in the 1960&#8217;s, he was working at Ratsey&amp;Lapthorn sailmakers, as was Arthur &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=74\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jack Sutphen&#8217;s book signing<\/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":[40,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup","category-jack-sutphen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}