{"id":9,"date":"2008-08-07T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-08-07T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T13:49:00","slug":"1972-charisma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"1972 Charisma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJr9m8SoajI\/AAAAAAAAABE\/sxiiNJD9Vjo\/s1600-h\/bermuda+1972.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJr9m8SoajI\/AAAAAAAAABE\/sxiiNJD9Vjo\/s320\/bermuda+1972.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231772762605382194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">                                                        A few days ago there was a reunion of sorts. a number of the crew of the &#8220;glory days&#8221; of Charisma the S&amp;S 56 belonging to Jesse Phillips turned up in Newport. I keep fond memories of our days sailing. It all seemed so easy, we all had confidence in one another . In the photo on the left taken during the Bermuda race, a hurricane crossed the course, we had<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> 70 knots over the deck at one point. It was also the moment I decided that I could make a better safety harness.(it&#8217;s me in the photo)<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>the photo taken from the masthead of Charisma during the trans-atlantic race to Spain. A long slow race.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>From there we took off to get to Sardinia in time for the first Mediterranean championships, Bill Ficker came and skippered the boat, we won everything. <\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>the bottom photo is of Peter Van dyke and John Browning sailing throught the straits of Gibraltar<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJr9mwYp3UI\/AAAAAAAAABM\/0J3NmZXgooU\/s1600-h\/charisma:masthead.jpg\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJr9mwYp3UI\/AAAAAAAAABM\/0J3NmZXgooU\/s320\/charisma:masthead.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231772759409417538\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJsAXk0gcjI\/AAAAAAAAABU\/BBa8LAFpN24\/s320\/charisma+peter72.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231775797141860914\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago there was a reunion of sorts. a number of the crew of the &#8220;glory days&#8221; of Charisma the S&amp;S 56 belonging to Jesse Phillips turned up in Newport. I keep fond memories of our days sailing. It all seemed so easy, we all had confidence in one another . In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=9\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1972 Charisma<\/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":[19,18,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bayonne","category-bermuda-race","category-charisma","category-sparkman-stephens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}