{"id":17,"date":"2011-11-08T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2012-10-26T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:13:51","slug":"marco-and-paul-find-things-getting-more-challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/marco-and-paul-find-things-getting-more-challenging\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco and Paul find things getting more challenging"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are now into our fifth week at sea, tomorrow it’ll be a month we’left
\nPalma, it’s a bloody long time! Longer than I have ever been, with 22 days
\nat the Route du Rhum my previous longest… Yet, here, with the current
\ncomplex forecast, we estimate another two whole weeks before we get into
\nCape Town, two more weeks of blocking away images of steaks and chips,
\nbeer, hot showers, a bed, clean clothes, a decent coffee with a nice
\ncroissant, freshly squeezed orange juice, I even dare say salad (but
\ndefinitely not high on the list!)…. once in Cape Town we’ll have a good
\nfew days to party and rest then more partying when Ella flies over and
\nwe’ll spend ten days together before I sail into the harshness of the
\nSouthern Ocean, which after the taster of last week seems suddenly a lot
\nless appealing then anticipated…<\/p>\n

We are out of the tough weather we had last week and now will have to deal
\nwith the even more frustrating light winds of the high that lies dead
\nahead of us… we have been trying to avoid it day after day, first we
\nsailed fast and deep to go behind it, then computer said no, you have to
\ngo in front, so we went higher but slower, then computer said “just
\nkidding”, so we frustratingly tried to interrogate the routeing software
\nagain and again to find a way out of this maze, the answer came out to be
\n“Azerbaijan”, so you can imagine we are a little puzzled.<\/p>\n

There seems to be no escape from another 3-4 days of unstable rubbish
\nbefore any discernible and useful flows of air towards Cape Town will
\nreveal itself. I guess looking at the tracker it must look like we are all
\ndrunk, going all in different directions but believe me we are all still
\nreluctantly freaking stone sober and trying our best…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are now into our fifth week at sea, tomorrow it’ll be a month we’left Palma, it’s a bloody long time! Longer than I have ever been, with 22 days at the Route du Rhum my previous longest… Yet, here, with the current complex forecast, we estimate another two whole weeks before we get into […]<\/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-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-ocean-race"],"views":1978,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}