{"id":15089,"date":"2011-02-28T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T05:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=15089"},"modified":"2011-02-25T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:25:10","slug":"rod-stephens-lessons-from-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/rod-stephens-lessons-from-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Stephens &#8211; Lessons From The Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/RAS-Book-Cover.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"RAS Book Cover\" width=\"372\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While perusing the Cruising Club of America (CCA) website a few days ago we noticed an item on a partially completed book by Rod Stephens, he of Sparkman and Stephens fame (along with designer brother Olin). We knew, worked with on occasion, and immensely respected this wonderful seaman. Although our meetings and chats over the years were brief, we felt a connection (Rod&#8217;s book is available for download on the next page).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While Olin got the acclaim as designer, Rod was equally important to their success as designers and owners representatives. It was Rod&#8217;s job to periodically visit the yards building their designs and make sure things were done right. He conducted sea trials, and dealt with the rig, rigging, and systems details in the office. All of this as important (or more) to a successful build as the lines plan.<\/p>\n<p>You can download Rod&#8217;s manuscript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dashewoffshore.com\/pdfs\/RAS_On_Sailing_Master.pdf\">here<\/a> (and thanks to the current management of S and S for making it available).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While perusing the Cruising Club of America (CCA) website a few days ago we noticed an item on a partially <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/rod-stephens-lessons-from-the-sea\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}