{"id":110,"date":"2011-12-19T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T11:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2011-12-19T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T11:52:40","slug":"giant-waves-crashing-over-the-boat-after-mad-surfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/giant-waves-crashing-over-the-boat-after-mad-surfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant waves crashing over the boat after mad surfs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Flying-along.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111 aligncenter\" title=\"Flying along\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Flying-along-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a>The low that two days ago gave us a kicking upwind has moved to the SE and<br \/>\nnow we are running in the strong following winds behind the cold front.<br \/>\nAll looks ideal on paper and i&#8217;m sure it must look exciting to see us on<br \/>\nthe tracker dashing at twice the speed compared to just 48 hours ago&#8230;<br \/>\ndown here however we are getting a little more entertainement than we had<br \/>\nanticipated, the wind has piped up to 40-45 knots, which i hear you say,<br \/>\nis to be expected, there seems to be always a lot more wind than<br \/>\npredicted&#8230; as early as this morning we were flying the small spinnaker,<br \/>\nbut then we changed down to the solent and now we are flying our staysail<br \/>\nwith reefed main and still occasionally hitting 20knots surfs&#8230; the waves<br \/>\nare getting bigger and bigger and occasionally we surf all the way down to<br \/>\nthe bottom of the wave and dive into the next with masses of spray and<br \/>\ntons of water submerging the boat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One wave bigger than the others gave us a fright, we nose dived, i.e.<br \/>\nburied the bow in the next wave so deeply that the boat came almost to a<br \/>\nhalt decelerating very violently then spinning sideways while the wave<br \/>\nthat had sent us flying crashed over us. Hugo was thrown forward out of<br \/>\nthe bunk and luckily got away with just a sore head, the wave crashed and<br \/>\ngallons of water washed through the companion way and onto the chart<br \/>\ntable&#8230; We spent the following hour drying everything, the satphone<br \/>\npacked up as water shorted a plug on the table exposed to the splash,<br \/>\nluckily i had a spare one and we are back up and running.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It really seemed like it was getting out of hand, we closed the companion<br \/>\nway and minutes after a second wave did the same&#8230; now however things<br \/>\nhave been fine for quite some time and adding to the irony there is a very<br \/>\npleasant sushine coming in through the windows, but it takes just a look<br \/>\nat the seas to be in total amazement&#8230; the wind has dropped a bit and we<br \/>\nare back to the high 30s which is far more civilized, let&#8217;s hope we were<br \/>\njust given a slap on the hand so we would not let down our guard,<br \/>\naccording to the grib we could be in this weather for the next 48 hours<br \/>\nbefore any improvement and hopefully it will mean fast progress and<br \/>\nnothing more but i am worried about waves getting bigger still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The low that two days ago gave us a kicking upwind has moved to the SE and now we are running in the strong following winds behind the cold front. All looks ideal on paper and i&#8217;m sure it must look exciting to see us on the tracker dashing at twice the speed compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-ocean-race"],"views":2548,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}