{"id":78,"date":"2007-09-12T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T18:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2007-09-12T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T20:37:59","slug":"big-kahuna-party-cyc-belmont-station-sat-sept-15-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/2007\/09\/12\/big-kahuna-party-cyc-belmont-station-sat-sept-15-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Kahuna Party: CYC Belmont Station, Sat. Sept. 15, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/?attachment_id=77' rel='attachment wp-att-77' title='Big Kahuna Party 2007'><img src='http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sailfastchicago_cyc_bigkahunaparty2007.jpg' alt='Big Kahuna Party 2007' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a few years ago, the Big Kahuna party was a fun event marking the middle of September, to be followed with a few more weeks of racing, including Area III followed by two weekends of MORF Open. A good number of boats would stay in the water until October or November, soaking up what was left of the full season before cold weather.<\/p>\n<p>These days, Area III racing ends quickly- Saturday is the last Area III race- and MORF Open has been reduced to only one-and-a-half race days. The weather has been milder and warmer, but boats seem more eager to get put away before crew assistance vanishes. <\/p>\n<p>Crowley&#8217;s move to the south makes the end-of-the-season boat delivery more exposed to the weather, and less interesting than the former traditional river trip to the old location.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, boats still have the option to stay in until October or later, the MORF Open is still a great way to extend your racing season, and the Big Kahuna is still a fun way to celebrate and socialize after the final Area III race this season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few years ago, the Big Kahuna party was a fun event marking the middle of September, to be followed with a few more weeks of racing, including Area III followed by two weekends of MORF Open. A good number of boats would stay in the water until October or November, soaking up what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,4,30,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-yacht-club","category-hospitality","category-area-iii","category-morf","category-racing-events-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}