{"id":52,"date":"2011-12-02T10:24:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T10:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-10-26T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:09:22","slug":"marco-and-hugo-an-emotional-roller-coaster-in-the-grips-of-the-south-easterlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/marco-and-hugo-an-emotional-roller-coaster-in-the-grips-of-the-south-easterlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco and Hugo-An emotional roller coaster in the grips of the south easterlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didnt have the easiest of starts, mentally, I think the stress in<br \/>\ngetting things ready in Cape Town wore me out and I have to admit to a<br \/>\nvery tough first 48 hours. We have all been there in nasty weather<br \/>\nthinking why the hell we&#8217;re doing it and when you are tired and hungry the<br \/>\nanswer does not always come easy.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo has been absolutely brilliant in spotting my mood and literally<br \/>\nsending me to bed like a moody child, and a few exchanges of emails with<br \/>\nmy girlfriend Ella back in London put all things in perspective letting me<br \/>\nbreath new fresh air, I feel almost a bit embarrassed now but we are here<br \/>\nalso to find out more about ourselves, our limits and fears.<\/p>\n<p>The wind is dropping and we&#8217;ll have a chance to regroup, attend to the<br \/>\ndamage we had to one sail during the night, we will need to climb the mast<br \/>\nand retrieve one of the haliards that detatched itself from the hoisted<br \/>\nstaysail leaving us with a tricky situation to handle as usual in the<br \/>\nmidst of 30+ knot dark night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The road to Wellington is still very long and we&#8217;ll be back in racing mode<br \/>\nas soon as all the above is sorted, including more food and more sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didnt have the easiest of starts, mentally, I think the stress in getting things ready in Cape Town wore me out and I have to admit to a very tough first 48 hours. We have all been there in nasty weather thinking why the hell we&#8217;re doing it and when you are tired and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-ocean-race"],"views":1975,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}