{"id":5863,"date":"2012-12-02T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T03:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2012-12-09T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T04:59:06","slug":"sailing-a-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/sailing-a-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing a classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5866 colorbox-5863\" title=\"IMAG0300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0300-284x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0300-284x475.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0300-358x600.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0300.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a>I was asked by a friend (Paige)\u00a0to sail on<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorade_(yacht)\"> Dorade <\/a>a yacht designed in 1929 by Olin Stephens of Sparkman and Stephens and built 1929\u20131930 by the Minneford Yacht Yard in City Island, New York. We raced in the Golden Gate midwinters off the city front.<\/p>\n<p>It was a miserable morning the fog was thick and it was raining\u00a0as I crossed the bridge. However, it cleared up into a beautiful afternoon with 15 knots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5867 colorbox-5863\" title=\"IMAG0301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0301-284x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0301-284x475.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0301-358x600.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0301.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting boat to sail bit different to what I am use to &#8211;\u00a0lots of varnish and quite narrow for her length.\u00a0The boat is heavy so it carries it&#8217;s way and\u00a0takes a while to start changing direction after the helm has been put down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5868 colorbox-5863\" title=\"IMAG0302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0302-475x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0302-475x284.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0302-600x358.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked by a friend (Paige)\u00a0to sail on Dorade a yacht designed in 1929 by Olin Stephens of Sparkman and Stephens and built 1929\u20131930 by the Minneford Yacht Yard in City Island, New York. We raced in the Golden Gate midwinters off the city front. It was a miserable morning the fog was thick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5865,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions\/5865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}