{"id":94,"date":"2011-12-12T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2012-10-26T13:08:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:08:39","slug":"happy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/happy-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-team.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-95\" title=\"The team\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-team-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-team-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-team-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-team.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cold front is about to reach us, behind us i can see broken clouds and<br \/>\nsome blue sky here and there, it rained earlier and the wind has kept on<br \/>\nbacking. However as we are sailing relatively fast in the same direction<br \/>\nas the front it is taking forever for it to overtake us, the front runners<br \/>\nwho kept in a belt with more wind may be able to stay ahead of the front<br \/>\nfor some time still and clock a tremendous amount of miles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For us the game is different, we are too far back to play the same route<br \/>\nand we&#8217;ll be pushed to stay further north to avoid a high pressure that<br \/>\nwould swallow us in a few days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All good on board, this long reaching tack has been somewhat boring but<br \/>\nstill, i cant say we are looking forward to the wet and windy fetching<br \/>\nconditions that await us over the next 2-3 days.<\/p>\n<p>We have broken the 5000 miles barrier, we&#8217;re hoping to be in wellinton<br \/>\nthe early days of january, we&#8217;ll miss both xmas and new year, not that i<br \/>\nhave ever been a big fan of the celebrations but i&#8217;m sure i could do with<br \/>\na few glasses of bubbly!!!<\/p>\n<p>We are at nearly 60 degrees East, in continental terms we are just about<br \/>\nin the middle of Kasakstan, if that makes any sense at all.<\/p>\n<p>I can see sunshine breaking through the clouds! The front will be over us<br \/>\nany moment i guess!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The cold front is about to reach us, behind us i can see broken clouds and some blue sky here and there, it rained earlier and the wind has kept on backing. However as we are sailing relatively fast in the same direction as the front it is taking forever for it to overtake [&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-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-ocean-race"],"views":2396,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}