{"id":3298,"date":"2014-08-23T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2014-08-23T21:31:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T21:31:43","slug":"pinch-me-i-must-be-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"Pinch me, I must be dreaming, aboard Marie…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Saturday morning and I can’t stop thinking about our sail yesterday aboard Marie. \u00a0We were competing against other superyachts in the Newport Bucket Regatta. \u00a0And, what a day it was. The wind was just enough to be interesting and yet not too much to have things get hairy. \u00a0Well, to be true, I expect that the 20+ crew members on hand would have made about anything look easy. \u00a0 I took loads of photos and a few great videos which I will share in the coming days. For now, I’ll just put up a few choice pieces. \u00a0This is a shot of Marie making her way as we left the dock. \u00a0With both stern and bow thrusters, she can be maneuvered sideways into impossibly small areas. \u00a0Well small by Marie standards at least. \u00a0\"\"<\/a>Marie is berthed, for the series, in Newport Shipyard, home of most of the superyachts visiting Newport. \u00a0 \u00a0Marie was the biggest of the lot at 181′. \u00a0 \u00a0The owner, Ed, likes to make a statement with his antique cannons as we leave port. \u00a0Actually, he likes to make a statement of some kind with them at most any opportunity. \u00a0However, he’s very considerate of guests who are issued earplugs and warned of the impending “salute”. \u00a0 \u00a0We did just that as Marie left her berth for the races. \u00a0 The “charges” for the cannon are made up specially for these cannons as they are antiques and not your normal type that shoot blank shotgun shells. \u00a0What a BOOM!\"\"<\/a>There are plenty of crew hired to run the boat with 8 on board full time and perhaps 20 more brought in for the races. \u00a0It’s quite a production and amazingly well choreographed. \u00a0 And, it has to be as they are racing against other massive yachts. \u00a0A collision wouldn’t go over well. \u00a0Here’s Meteor crossing Marie’s bow. \u00a0Meteor is about 160′ long and a real icon. \u00a0Happily, she’s not nearly as fast as Marie.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>The racing crew kept the stewards pretty busy in the galley making lunches and snacks. \u00a0Between sail changes, and there were plenty to keep the crew busy, food was passed up on deck and served to the crew. \u00a0Stewards, Georgia, Christen and Jen were everywhere making sure that everyone was well fed. \u00a0 It was an amazing production. \u00a0Here are Georgia and Christen delivering snacks on the foredeck ,between sail changes,as we blasted along at 11kts. \u00a0They make it all look so easy. \u00a0Filet of beef sandwiches on fresh baguettes anyone? \u00a0 And save room for the gooey brownies that will come after lunch for desert.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>Speaking of sail changes, Marie has a spinnaker that’s 16,000 sq ft. \u00a0It’s massive. \u00a0To see them jibe the chute is amazing. \u00a0\"\"<\/a>On Friday evening we were treated to a “yacht hop” meaning that we could go, or hop from boat to boat and be served drinks and food. \u00a0EVERYTHING about super yachts is competitive, especially the chefs. \u00a0And compete they did. \u00a0 What great fun. \u00a0 The food was fab. \u00a0We were treated to lobster rolls, lobster in the shell and shrimp that could easily pass as little lobster tails. \u00a0One yacht had this amazing raw bar. \u00a0Mmm…\"\"<\/a>As twilight progressed the setting was magical. \u00a0\"\"<\/a>And everyone enjoyed walking the docks saying “Did you try the amazing pulled pork? \u00a0Or the fab sushi on Marie?” \u00a0 Yes, yes and yes. Plenty of that an more.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>What a fabulous day it was. \u00a0I can’t wait for day two, and three… I hope it never ends. \u00a0And yes, it does seem like a dream in a good way, a very good way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Saturday morning and I can’t stop thinking about our sail yesterday aboard Marie. \u00a0We were competing against other superyachts in the Newport Bucket Regatta. \u00a0And, what a day it was. The wind was just enough to be interesting and yet not too much to have things get hairy. \u00a0Well, to be true, I expect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}