{"id":875,"date":"2010-05-24T21:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T01:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2010-05-24T21:20:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T01:20:26","slug":"a-30-year-retrospective-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/a-30-year-retrospective-view\/","title":{"rendered":"A 30 Year Retrospective View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll be publishing some stories from past presidents and long time J\/30 Class Association members to share with everyone.\u00a0 Below is a message from Tom Babbitt who owned <em>Bravo<\/em> &#8211; Hull #267.\u00a0 Tom hails from Maine and was the J\/30 Class Association President 1982-1983.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The J\/30 was our  second cruiser racer and what a relief it was to get out of an IOR inspired death roller, to the J\/30 which could  actually beat a J\/24.\u00a0\u00a0 Jane and I have always treasured our memories of cruising that boat in Maine with the double quarter berths and otherwise  huge interior.\u00a0\u00a0 Our youngest daughter had her first week long cruise at age three weeks with the basinet gimballed below between the interior  hand rails.<\/p>\n<p>When not cruising, we  raced seriously at the Regional, District, North American and Mid Winters &#8211; which is how Jane and I some how got  involved with the class.\u00a0\u00a0 We experienced terrific growth during our tenure and it was great fun getting to know the enthusiastic J\/30 owners around  the country.\u00a0\u00a0 I know Jane put her heart and soul into the J\/30 Journal  applying \u00a0her skills as a graphic artist.\u00a0\u00a0 I think the single best memory was drafting and implementing the owner &#8211; driver rule for the class.\u00a0\u00a0 I think that really set the class apart and I&#8217;m delighted that 30 years later the class still has great vitality.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Babbitt,<br \/>\nJ\/30 Class Association Past President (1983-1984)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll be publishing some stories from past presidents and long time J\/30 Class Association members to share with everyone. Below is a message from Tom Babbitt who owned Bravo &#8211; Hull #267. Tom hails from Maine and was the J\/30 Class Association President 1982-1983.<\/p>\n<p>The J\/30 was our second cruiser racer and what a relief [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news","category-list","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}