{"id":315,"date":"2011-10-23T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2019-05-26T23:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T22:49:58","slug":"vaquita-clears-the-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Vaquita clears the Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vaquita4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-314\" title=\"vaquita\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vaquita4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Andreas Hanakamp \u2013 Vaquita<br \/>\n1600 CEST<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust passed out of the Strait, which makes us very happy. We went too far offshore last night and lost out. We worked our way back going inshore and are now sailing near the other Class 40s, which is great. This is the first real race for us against the class and it is going well, particularly since the weather forecast has been wrong. We have had lots of sunshine today and the wind is following us at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>We expect a spectacular view of Stromboli tonight, with nice sailing weather. The leg from Stromboli looks tricky. Our routing suggests we head north, but I am not sure about that.<\/p>\n<p>The skipper is delighted, the crew is feeling jolly and no bad words have be exchanged! We\u2019re eating freeze-dried food and dried fruit. The Rolex Middle Sea Race is the first big test in a long-term distance-racing project. We are accelerating slowly towards the goal and so far everything has been cool.\u201d       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andreas Hanakamp \u2013 Vaquita 1600 CEST \u201cJust passed out of the Strait, which makes us very happy. We went too far offshore last night and lost out. We worked our way back going inshore and are now sailing near the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/?p=315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}