{"id":391,"date":"2011-10-25T11:39:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2019-05-26T23:47:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T22:47:42","slug":"two-thirds-done-and-now-it-gets-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Two thirds done and now it gets interesting&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we are on the way to Lampedusa, having had a very interesting night getting through a big hole off Cape Vito.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gereade.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-392\" title=\"gereade\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gereade.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We chose the &#8216;go out to sea&#8217; option, and it initially looked great but then the breeze filled in from the land so we lost a little bit. But hey ho thems the breaks.<\/p>\n<p>We are now sailing upwind in 10 to 12 knots with our main opposition 6 miles ahead. We realise a 40min lead on corrected is nice but it can be taken away in a heartbeat in the massively variable and sometimes illogical conditions found out here.<\/p>\n<p>Life on board is good and morale is high but things are getting a little fruity down below. Just another 180 miles or so and we will have that shower and food that the lads are dreaming of.<\/p>\n<p>The battle continues.<\/p>\n<p>JB       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we are on the way to Lampedusa, having had a very interesting night getting through a big hole off Cape Vito. We chose the &#8216;go out to sea&#8217; option, and it initially looked great but then the breeze filled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/?p=391\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-four"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}