{"id":5025,"date":"2019-12-10T09:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T09:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T09:12:19","slug":"arc-rally-2019-st-lucia-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/arc-rally-2019-st-lucia-here-we-come\/","title":{"rendered":"ARC Rally 2019 &#8211; St Lucia here we come!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tuesday 10 December<\/h2>\n<p>Becs and I are back on MF watch today, having taken over from the chuckle brothers Jim and Jason.\u00a0 Personally I don\u2019t get why they have a problem with getting up at 5.30 having been sailing half the night to cook a bunch of smelly crewmates breakfast<\/p>\n<h4>Land ahoy!<\/h4>\n<p>Sat here about to do a double night watch with 325Nm remaining.\u00a0 Yellow Brick connect (GPS tracker &#8211; other brands are available) has run out so this is my only way of communicating with the outside world.\u00a0 Looking forward to FaceTiming loved ones in a couple of days.\u00a0 Wind seems to be picking up nicely so hopefully we will finish the voyage on the 11<sup>th<\/sup> sometime in the evening UK time.<\/p>\n<p>Very relaxed vibe on deck this afternoon with lighter wind conditions.\u00a0 Still fascinated by the sea state and views.\u00a0 It is hot, very hot in the daytime and the nights give some relief when outside.\u00a0 Boats are now starting to appear within 20 miles around us as we all converge on St Lucia.\u00a0 Birds and sea grass appear more frequently and the cloud formations are starting to indicate that land is coming.\u00a0 We are all looking forward to that first drink when we cross the finish line.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5026\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5026\" class=\"wp-image-5026 size-full\" title=\"st-lucia-coastline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/st-lucia.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of St Lucia Coast\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/st-lucia.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/st-lucia-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Final destination St Lucia<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Anchors &amp; Swifts<\/h4>\n<p>Discussion today has been about Anchor and Swift tattoos that apparently you get when you cross an Ocean and cover over 3000 miles.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that will please Jen no end (not).\u00a0 Anyway off to have dinner then onto night watch.\u00a0 Love and kisses to my loved ones.\u00a0 I have missed you and can\u2019t wait to speak soon. xx<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5027\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5027\" class=\"wp-image-5027 size-full\" title=\"ARC-rally-positions\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/arc-day-17.png\" alt=\"Map of the latest ARC Rally 2019 positions\" width=\"700\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/arc-day-17.png 700w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/arc-day-17-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latest ARC positions<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>A New Look<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of day 15, with 389 miles to go, we have two long running guy bets. The first was for the longest new beard grown during the journey, which I won by default, when Chris showed up at lunch the other day, cleanly shaven and looking 10 years younger, not to worry Molly, mine will come off after the photo at the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Love and wishes to all,<\/p>\n<p>Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 10 December Becs and I are back on MF watch today, having taken over from the chuckle brothers Jim and Jason.\u00a0 Personally I don\u2019t get why they have a problem with getting up at 5.30 having been sailing half the night to cook a bunch of smelly crewmates breakfast Land ahoy! Sat here about [&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],"tags":[124,506,172,406,135,382,165,152,463,173,145],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arc","category-atlantic-adventures","tag-arc","tag-arc-2019","tag-arc-rally","tag-atlantc-sailing","tag-atlantic","tag-atlantic-adventure","tag-atlantic-crossing","tag-challenger-2","tag-fcs","tag-first-class-sailing","tag-ricky-chalmers"],"views":2038,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","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=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}