{"id":3200,"date":"2017-11-26T07:55:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T07:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:18:15","slug":"land-ahoy-fcs-crew-raise-the-cape-verde-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/land-ahoy-fcs-crew-raise-the-cape-verde-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Ahoy! FCS Crew raise the Cape Verde Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/blog-Portsmouth-Canaries-sunrise.jpg\" alt=\"blog-Portsmouth-Canaries-sunrise\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/blog-Portsmouth-Canaries-sunrise.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/blog-Portsmouth-Canaries-sunrise-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/blog-Portsmouth-Canaries-sunrise-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After 6 full days on board the FCS Crew on board Challenger 2 site land and take stock of their food.\u00a0 Fingers crossed the riggers work and the customs in\/out procedure will all go smoothly so\u00a0 Challenger 2 can quickly get on her way west, towards the setting sun and the Caribbean!\u00a0 Chris and Alan report.\u00a0 More photos to follow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saturday 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2017.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Land Ahoy!<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After an eternity of diesel power we are at last approaching Cape Verde islands.\u00a0 Current position is East of Santo Antao approximately 2 hours from Sao Vincente where the rigging will be inspected and the damaged stay replaced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are looking forward to a quick turnaround, hopefully fitting in some shore time to buy essentials and fresh provisions. Diesel must also be taken on board. Additionally an inventory (food) will be made before departure.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ARCRally-2018-Day-6-beach-sunset-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Hopefully not enough time to get the land legs back! Beach Sunset\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Hopefully not enough time to get the land legs back!<\/p>\n<p>Departure time will be dependent on customs formalities, the target is Sunday evening or latest Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The diversion to Cape Verde has been good for getting to know one another, we are now eager to set sail and make the crossing without motor power, fair winds permitting. The sound of winches, trimmed sails and the sea will be welcomed after such a long motor passage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris &amp; Alan<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hej\u00a0 Sverige.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After 6 full days on board the FCS Crew on board Challenger 2 site land and take stock of their food.\u00a0 Fingers crossed the riggers work and the customs in\/out procedure will all go smoothly so\u00a0 Challenger 2 can quickly get on her way west, towards the setting sun and the Caribbean!\u00a0 Chris and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[162,350,215,41],"tags":[362,367,366],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arc","category-atlantic-adventures","category-sailing-holidays","category-sailing-trips","tag-cape-verde","tag-riggers","tag-santo-antao"],"views":2207,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","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=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}