{"id":59,"date":"2011-12-05T18:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T18:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2012-10-26T13:10:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:10:32","slug":"59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/59\/","title":{"rendered":"The Southern Ocean Weight Loss Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hugo-Mast.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60\" title=\"Hugo Up the Mast\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hugo-Mast-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugo Climbs the Mast<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0If you are looking at a non-surgical equivalent to a gastric band look no<br \/>\nfurther, come to the great south where we&#8217;ll make you feel a constant knot<br \/>\naround your stomach to lose weight. In the past few days it&#8217;s been either<br \/>\nwindy or freaking windy, and as far as I understand this still absolutely<br \/>\nnothing compared to what we might get.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we got caught small spinnaker up in a front with gusts up to 45<br \/>\nknots and had to wrestle the thing down, we just discussed the strategy<br \/>\nfor the night and we really have to balance speed with safety and gear<br \/>\npreservation, it still is a long long way to Wellington and with no land<br \/>\nin sight any major breakages would mean a very very long limp to the<br \/>\nfinish. We have a rather confused sea right now which makes it all a bit<br \/>\nmore unpleasant.<\/p>\n<p>All is well on board otherwise, the temperature is slowly dropping and<br \/>\nit&#8217;s going to get a lot colder soon, but for now it is still relatively<br \/>\npleasant.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is of Hugo up the rig the other day, glad we sorted that problem<br \/>\nright away as you wouldnt want to go up the mast in these seas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0If you are looking at a non-surgical equivalent to a gastric band look no further, come to the great south where we&#8217;ll make you feel a constant knot around your stomach to lose weight. In the past few days it&#8217;s been either windy or freaking windy, [&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-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-ocean-race"],"views":2165,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}