{"id":4925,"date":"2021-03-11T07:04:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T07:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/1122-finn_olympics_dooropener\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:23:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:23:35","slug":"1122-finn_olympics_dooropener","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/saltystories\/1122-finn_olympics_dooropener\/","title":{"rendered":"1122"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1122<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0px;\">Finn_Olympics_DoorOpener<\/h5>\n<p>Type of Sail: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Finn-Class Olympic Dinghy Mainsail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Years in use: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">2015-2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Material: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Carbon-Fibre Plastic mesh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lived in: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Trained heavily in Athens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Distance Travelled: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">About 50-60 nm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Places most visited: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">New Zealand and training in Athens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sail Number: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Yiannis sails under GRE-77 (though training sails such as this do not carry national identification numbers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Designed by North-Sails New Zealand in 2015 exclusively for Yiannis Mitakis this was a development sail that helped pin down the most efficient sail-shape that worked for him. The next batch of race sails based directly on lessons learned from this sail contributed to his qualifying during the Finn Gold Cup (that&#8217;s what the Finn class calls their World-Championship) for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. This sail unlocked the keys to Olympic Participation.<\/p>\n<p><!--AddtoAny scripts --><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/svg\/icons.29.svg.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/addtoany.min.js?ver=1.1\" id=\"addtoany-js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--AddtoAny scripts --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: -80px;\"><div class=\"addtoany_shortcode\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/saltystories\/1122-finn_olympics_dooropener\/\" data-a2a-title=\"1122\"><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsaltybag.com%2Fel%2Fsaltystories%2F1122-finn_olympics_dooropener%2F&amp;linkname=1122\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsaltybag.com%2Fel%2Fsaltystories%2F1122-finn_olympics_dooropener%2F&amp;linkname=1122\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsaltybag.com%2Fel%2Fsaltystories%2F1122-finn_olympics_dooropener%2F&amp;linkname=1122\" title=\"Email\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save addtoany_share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finn_Olympics_DoorOpener<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/4925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8212,"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/4925\/revisions\/8212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}