{"id":775,"date":"2016-05-03T19:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/?p=775"},"modified":"2016-05-04T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T09:24:10","slug":"unexpected-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/unexpected-sponsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Sponsor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Kalamaki, Monday, May 2, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">No more than a week after OPTIMUM Yacht Racing Team signed in THENAMARIS Ship Management Company as its first sponsor for 2016, OPTIMISE S.A. steps on board as second sponsor for the 2016 season.\u00a0 \u00a0OPTIMISE S.A. is a leading Shipping &amp; Industrial Automation Company with the main aim to provide clients with Unexpected Solutions.\u00a0 \u00a0OPTIMISE decision makers felt that Team OPTIMUM is an effective communication platform to the shipping industry and joined in to explore the opportunities.\u00a0 This second sponsor aboard strengthens Team OPTIMUM further and enhances the determination of the team members to perform their best as a give back posture for their sponsor\u2019s support.\u00a0 As such, expect to see OPTIMUM 3 \u2013 THENAMARIS \u2013 OPTIMISE rise on the podium at events like Athens Trophy, Spring Series, Possidonia Cup, Y.C.G Sailing week, Andros Race, ORC European Championship, and the 53<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Aegean Rally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cI am racing with Nick Lazos in offshore sailing regattas since 1981!\u00a0 He is the co-owner and co-skipper of OPTIMUM Yacht Racing Team that we have together established back in 1994. \u00a0He calls me up the other day, saying he wants us to meet to discuss a possible sponsor he has on the cards.\u00a0 He shows up saying that his company OPTIMISE S.A. is seriously interested to become Team OPTIMUM sponsor and the BOD has already approved the investment.\u00a0 \u00a0Well, that was unexpected, that\u2019s Nick and such is our relation for 35 years, we respect and support each other!\u201d confesses Periklis Livas, Team OPTIMUM co-owner and co-skipper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">With the presence of THENAMARIS and the addition of OPTIMISE, there is one more remaining sponsor slot for the 2016 season so we invite all interested parties to make their move fast.\u00a0 \u00a0OPTIMUM 3 hits the water on Thursday and the back of the boat waits to be logoed. \u00a0Please join and explore the OPTIMUM opportunity! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamaki, Monday, May 2, 2016. \u00a0 No more than a week after OPTIMUM Yacht Racing Team signed in THENAMARIS Ship Management Company as its first sponsor for 2016, OPTIMISE S.A. steps on board as second sponsor for the 2016 season.\u00a0 \u00a0OPTIMISE S.A. is a leading Shipping &amp; Industrial Automation Company with the main aim to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumsailing.gr\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}