{"id":262,"date":"2009-01-25T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-01-26T20:18:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T01:18:12","slug":"quantum-sails-and-sailing-anarchy-wringing-in-the-new-year-with-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/2009\/01\/25\/quantum-sails-and-sailing-anarchy-wringing-in-the-new-year-with-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Sails and Sailing Anarchy: Ringing in the New Year with FAIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum Sails terminated the employment in Chicago of a very well-respected, admired and liked sailmaker as of January 1. We were very sorry to learn Tac Boston was let go. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Quantum Sails funded sponsorship for Sailing Anarchy&#8217;s presence at Key West Race Week. Apart from generating controversial attention as per usual, the powerboat used by Alan Block &#8220;Mr. Clean&#8221; interfered with racing, requiring redress for the competitor affected. This occurred AFTER receiving warning of numerous complaints from competitors. <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.sailinganarchy.com\/index.php?showtopic=85165\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From our perspective, it&#8217;s difficult to imagine how these choices by Quantum Sails benefit anyone. Do they benefit Quantum Sails&#8217; profitability? We have no idea. Does it really matter? How much embarrassment does Quantum need to fund in order to achieve their promotional goals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum Sails terminated the employment in Chicago of a very well-respected, admired and liked sailmaker as of January 1. We were very sorry to learn Tac Boston was let go. On the other hand, Quantum Sails funded sponsorship for Sailing Anarchy&#8217;s presence at Key West Race Week. Apart from generating controversial attention as per usual, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailmakers-and-sail-lofts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}