{"id":1699,"date":"2025-07-24T20:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2025-07-24T20:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:06:03","slug":"leg-2-3-tried-hard-but-did-not-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/leg-2-3-tried-hard-but-did-not-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Leg 2 &amp; 3:\u00a0\u00a0Tried hard but did not deliver!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>19:00, Thursday 24<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;July&nbsp;2025, Lipsi, Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The H.O.R.C. Race Committee given the \u201cno wind at all\u201d conditions all day around Syros on Tuesday, decided to shorten Leg 2 to Lipsi by laying the Start line at Rinia island (next to Dilos and Mykonos) and by doing so the initial 92 miles became 74.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The competing fleet travelled under engine for about 5 hours to reach Rinia and the Start gun fired at 16:00.&nbsp;&nbsp;OPTIMUM 4 pushed hard all the way for 20+ hours managing a 5th place as it felt victim to a wind trap south of Patmos that allowed the faster boats to reach Lipsi and close the wind door.&nbsp;&nbsp;Team OPTIMUM members had a good rest and were in full fighting mode for the Lipsi Mercedes Cup 15-mile coastal race on Thursday, this time posting another 5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;place with only one minute from second place on corrected time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe could have easily score second today but we fell short by one minute after three and a half hours of racing!&nbsp;&nbsp;The guys were on fire, and we had a good race until the running backstay soft shackle slipped under load with the Code 0 up on the final mile reach to the finish line.&nbsp;&nbsp;We had to bear away, roll Code 0, hoist the Jib and limp to the finish line and were denied 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;place.&nbsp;&nbsp;It would have helped to score another podium finish in order to forget the very slow Leg 2 race that really tested our patience\u201d, says newcomer Leonidas Sechou.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OPTIMUM 4 Team members look forward to push as best as they can in final Leg 4 tomorrow,&nbsp;in order to post another podium finish and hope for a miracle to reach the podium.&nbsp;&nbsp;Local prizegiving ceremony in Lipsi tonight at&nbsp;&nbsp;21:00 for Leg 2 &amp; 3 and a good rest to fight for 92 miles to Syrow on a full on \u201cmeltemi\u201d expected to gust 30+ all day Friday.&nbsp;Stay Tuned!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19:00, Thursday 24th&nbsp;July&nbsp;2025, Lipsi, Greece. The H.O.R.C. Race Committee given the \u201cno wind at all\u201d conditions all day around Syros on Tuesday, decided to shorten Leg 2 to Lipsi by laying the Start line at Rinia island (next to Dilos and Mykonos) and by doing so the initial 92 miles became 74.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The competing fleet travelled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}