{"id":13,"date":"2011-11-08T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2012-10-26T13:11:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:11:03","slug":"financial-crisis-loss-of-wind-instruments-means-back-to-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/financial-crisis-loss-of-wind-instruments-means-back-to-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Crisis &#8211; Loss of wind instruments means back to basics."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to basics on Financial Crisis after loss of wind instruments<br \/>\nShort blog today, just after sunset yesterday all hell broke loose like<br \/>\nsomeone had pressed a giant button that said mayhem. The wind very<br \/>\nsuddenly piped up from 20 to 30 knots, we were pinned down with too much<br \/>\nsail and took a while to restore order. Once reefed and taking a pasting<br \/>\nin the winds and waves we lost the wind readings on the NKE instruments. At<br \/>\nfirst I thought I could fix it, we had already lost our primary,<br \/>\nvertical wind instrument in the doldrums and were running on the<br \/>\nspare, sturdy horizontal so i hoped it was just a wiring problem, i spent<br \/>\nhours below rewiring the little boxes but to no avail, I did at least<br \/>\nmanage to restore the use of the autopilot in compass mode. Daylight<br \/>\nrevealed the likely cause of the problem, the wind instruments are simply<br \/>\nmissing, gone, ripped off the top of the mast, this in 30-35 knots of wind,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure how this stuff is supposed to cope with the southern ocean<br \/>\nlegs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to basics on Financial Crisis after loss of wind instruments Short blog today, just after sunset yesterday all hell broke loose like someone had pressed a giant button that said mayhem. The wind very suddenly piped up from 20 to 30 knots, we were pinned down with too much sail and took a while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-ocean-race"],"views":1998,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}