{"id":142,"date":"2011-12-30T10:49:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T10:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2011-12-30T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T10:49:36","slug":"entering-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/entering-the-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesteday we passed Cape Leeuwin, about 500 miles to our north and have
\nnow, geographically speaking, entered the Pacific Ocean… we have just
\nunder 2500 miles left to sail in this second leg of the Global Ocean Race
\nand after all the nasty weather we had to endure for over a week today we
\nare blessed with sunshine in what feels as a hot summer day, relatively
\nspeaking, but 20C is the most we’ve seen since leaveing Cape Town.<\/p>\n

We are gently sufing with our A5 spinnaker and really appreciating the
\nbreak from heavy weather.<\/p>\n

Christmas has come early on board Financial Crisis, donations to
\nthe race funds have come in hard and fast through the web page
\nwww.marconannini.com\/help<\/a> after mentioning the extent of the damage caused
\nby the bad weather and my eternal struggle to keep this project going,
\nthere is a definite and real risk that i will have to pull the plug in
\nWellington, but i’m still hoping to find a solution in time for the
\nrestart of leg 3 on the 29th of January. I have received also many
\nmessages of encouragement and moral support as we sailed thorough force 10
\nwinds yesterday and wished to thank each of you for the kind words and
\nwanted to apologise for not finding the time to answer to all messages.<\/p>\n

One person in particular donated a staggering one thousand pounds, I was
\nleft confused for a long time trying to understand how and why of this
\nincredibly generous gesture. A brief message added that his wife has MS,
\nmultiple sclerosis, and wished we could remind the world of this terrible
\ndisease. So if anyone in Wellington knows people working in this field,
\nperhaps working for a charity either researching MS or assisting people
\naffected by this disease, we’d like to meet them and see how we can
\ngenerate some informative interest on the subject during the stopover
\nusing this race as a loud speaker to the rest of the world. Please contact
\nmyself or my partner Ella at either of these email addresses to discuss:
\nmarco.nannini@yahoo.co.uk<\/a> or connolly_ella@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

As we dry our clothes and bones in the sunshine and dream of hot showers
\nsteaks and beers we hope you are all gearing up for Christmas, i never was
\na fan but all it takes is a few southern ocean storms to realise that
\neating good food surrounded by your family and loved ones is actually a
\ndamn nice thing to do… so, i think i’ll really miss this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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