{"id":8550,"date":"2026-10-03T10:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/?p=8550"},"modified":"2026-10-04T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:22:02","slug":"fair-winds-remembering-richard-plant-lapwares-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/fair-winds-remembering-richard-plant-lapwares-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Winds: Remembering Richard Plant, LAPWARE&#8217;s Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<meta charset=\"UTF-8\">\n\n\n\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\">\n\n\n\n<style>\n        .memorial {\n            font-family: Georgia, serif;\n            line-height: 1.8;\n            color: #333;\n            max-width: 700px;\n            margin: 0 auto;\n            box-sizing: border-box;\n            background-color: white;\n            padding: 40px;\n            border-left: 4px solid #1e3a5f;\n            box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);\n        }\n        \n        .memorial h1 {\n            font-size: 2em;\n            color: #1e3a5f;\n            margin-bottom: 30px;\n            text-align: center;\n            font-weight: normal;\n        }\n        \n        .memorial .subtitle {\n            text-align: center;\n            font-style: italic;\n            color: #666;\n            margin-bottom: 30px;\n            font-size: 0.95em;\n        }\n        \n        .memorial p {\n            margin-bottom: 18px;\n            text-align: justify;\n        }\n        \n        .memorial .personal-statement {\n            border-left: 3px solid #d4a574;\n            padding-left: 20px;\n            margin: 30px 0;\n            font-style: italic;\n            color: #555;\n        }\n        \n        .memorial .personal-statement .signature {\n            text-align: right;\n            font-size: 0.85em;\n            margin-bottom: 0;\n        }\n        \n        .memorial .eulogy-section {\n            margin-top: 35px;\n            padding-top: 25px;\n            border-top: 1px solid #ddd;\n        }\n        \n        .memorial .obituary-card {\n            display: block;\n            margin-bottom: 30px;\n            background-color: #7db3e0;\n            border-radius: 12px;\n            overflow: hidden;\n            box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);\n            text-decoration: none;\n            transition: transform 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;\n        }\n        \n        .memorial .obituary-card img {\n            display: block;\n            width: 100%;\n            height: auto;\n        }\n        \n        .memorial .obituary-card:hover {\n            transform: translateY(-2px);\n            box-shadow: 0 6px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);\n        }\n        \n        .memorial .obituary-content {\n            padding: 14px 18px;\n            color: white;\n            font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\n            text-align: left;\n        }\n        \n        .memorial .obituary-title {\n            font-size: 0.95em;\n            font-weight: bold;\n            line-height: 1.35;\n        }\n        \n        .memorial .obituary-url {\n            font-size: 0.8em;\n            opacity: 0.9;\n            margin-top: 4px;\n        }\n    <\/style>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"memorial\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrancofuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/richard-plant-sr\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"obituary-card\" rel=\"noopener\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.tukioswebsites.com\/social\/facebook\/fb_3\/b2bbf5d2-9384-4bfa-ae0c-06f9be3c057c\/9239a3569f52aab9850e21161a389d50_video_34e1d9bd682f75190545c35d76e427c0\" alt=\"Richard M. Plant Sr.\">\n            <div class=\"obituary-content\">\n                <div class=\"obituary-title\">Richard M. Plant Sr. Obituary Sep 15, 2026 &#8211; Barranco Severna Park Funeral Home &amp; Cremation Care, P.A.<\/div>\n                <div class=\"obituary-url\">barrancofuneralhome.com<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/a>\n        \n        <h1>Fair Winds: Remembering Richard<\/h1>\n        <p class=\"subtitle\">LAPWARE&#8217;s Founder and Mentor<\/p>\n        \n        <p>Many of you communicated with Richard within and out of LAPWARE. He had a huge heart for mariners\u2014he wanted to help them prepare for their exams and to ensure they got a fair shake from the Coast Guard and the National Maritime Center.<\/p>\n        \n        <div class=\"eulogy-section\">\n            <p>Richard&#8217;s fingerprints are on every corner of LAPWARE. As our founder and chief developer, he built the platform from the ground up with a sailor&#8217;s pragmatism and an educator&#8217;s patience\u2014determined that every deck officer candidate would have the tools they needed to earn their license. What set Richard apart wasn&#8217;t just his technical brilliance; it was his generous spirit in explaining how everything worked, answering the same questions a hundred times over without a trace of frustration. He believed in the mission so completely that he poured himself into helping others understand it too.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"personal-statement\">\n            <p>When I acquired LAPWARE, Richard was fighting pancreatic cancer. Yet he spent hours\u2014despite treatment and exhaustion\u2014explaining how every piece of the business worked, determined I would truly understand it. His wife welcomed me into their home. That dedication to LAPWARE&#8217;s future and his generosity to those around him never faltered, even as he was suffering. He was a great mentor and friend. I will miss him for his knowledge, his perspective, and his remarkable strength of character.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"signature\">&mdash;Brandon<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairwell to Richard Plant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8554,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions\/8554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}