{"id":8562,"date":"2014-07-18T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:25:06","slug":"carina-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=8562","title":{"rendered":"CARINA 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"THEY<\/a>
THEY WAY WE WERE
STEPHEN LIRAKIS, JACK CUMMISKEY, MARTHA SMITH, RICHARD B. NYE, CHRIS WICK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A recent post by Ian Walker about a visit from the New “Queen Elizabeth” while crossing the Atlantic to Newport in preparation for the next Volvo race reminded me of our past encounters with the “France”, and the “Queen Elizabeth II”; in each case they passenger ships altered course to come by and chat with us.<\/p>\n

As indicated by the log entries we were far enough north that it was almost always damp and cold. Martha Smith, was our cook for the crossing and somehow imagined it would be much warmer and packed a bikini.<\/p>\n

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\"AIR<\/a>
AIR TEMP: 50
WATER TEMP: 48
CABIN TEMP: 55<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"LOG<\/a>
LOG ENTRY QE II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"MARTHA<\/a>
MARTHA SMITH DRESSED FOR A TRANS-ATLANTIC CROSSING<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"QUEEN<\/a>
QUEEN ELIZABETH COMES ALONGSIDE FOR A CHAT MID-OCEAN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"STEVE<\/a>
STEVE COLGATE AND LARRY HUNTINGTON<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"AGROUND\"<\/a>
AGROUND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"ME<\/a>
ME AT THE HELM CROSSING PROSPECT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A recent post by Ian Walker about a visit from the New “Queen Elizabeth” while crossing the Atlantic to Newport in preparation for the next Volvo race reminded me of our past encounters with the “France”, and the “Queen Elizabeth II”; in each case they passenger ships altered course to come by and chat … Continue reading CARINA 1971<\/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":[106,92,363,44,1507,34,43,224,312,187],"tags":[2401,2402,2060],"class_list":["post-8562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1971-trans-atlantic","category-admirals-cup","category-bill-shay","category-carina","category-classic-yachting","category-larry-huntington","category-ocean-racing","category-ocean-sailing","category-transatlantic","category-weald-ii","tag-carina","tag-richard-nye","tag-transatlantic-1971"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562","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=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8573,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}