{"id":115,"date":"2024-07-17T18:16:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/?p=115"},"modified":"2024-07-17T18:16:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:16:26","slug":"race-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/uncategorized\/race-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Long term weather forecast are not always accurate and this is good for us. Early indication was that we would have a miserable start but the forecast kept improving as we got closer to the start date. We had good wind from the start and we have now 20-25 knots of wind. We are sailing at or above 8 knots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this race there are many strategies as far as routing goes. Some years it is better to stick to the rhumb (direct) line. This year is a bit different because the forecast predicts unusual wind pattern on the rhumb line so the whole fleet is going south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is nice but tough ride. A lot of water coming on the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only one encounter so far: a sail drone that came close (but not too close) to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All is good with the boat except for a water leak in the skipper cabin\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long term weather forecast are not always accurate and this is good for us. Early indication was that we would[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}