{"id":154,"date":"2024-07-22T18:28:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T01:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/?p=154"},"modified":"2024-07-22T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T01:28:49","slug":"race-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/uncategorized\/race-day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night we had very light winds and a few small squalls with rain. Time to get the rain gear back on deck. Around 6 AM the wind came back and seems to be established for the duration of the race. As the wind build up, we removed the spinnaker that had been on for about 2 days. Karine and I went on deck to bring the spinnaker down. That was not easy because by then the wind had built up nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, the wind is stable at about 20 knots with very confused seas. If you follow our track on YB, you can see that we are taking a mostly west route before going south in about 2 days. All of this is obviously subject to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the previous post we mentioned how rare it is to meet boats at sea. Today we met one of our fellow racers on Jeanneau 43 named Shadowfax. They have a crew of 7 and were sailing much faster than us with their symmetrical spinnaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSCF0109-2048x1536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSCF0109-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSCF0109-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSCF0109-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSCF0109-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shadowfax<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the subject of weather, we download GRIB files (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GRIB\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GRIB\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GRIB<\/a>) twice a day. These files give us a condensed form a preview of the weather for the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we had very light winds and a few small squalls with rain. Time to get the rain gear[&#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-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medviking.com\/mv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}