{"id":14,"date":"2008-05-31T13:18:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T03:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-06-04T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T03:07:46","slug":"31-may-2008-returning-to-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Returning to Sydney&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nWell, you have to face it and bite the bullet when you\u2019re beaten! Checked the 7-day forecast this morning in three places (<a href=\"http:\/\/weather.brisbanetimes.com.au\/local.jsp?lt=aploc&amp;lc=10951\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seabreeze.com.au\/graphs\/qld1.asp\" target=\"_blank\">seabreeze.com.au<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/grib.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">7-day GRIB model from GRIB-US<\/a>), and there is no way I can sail out of Mooloolaba until at least next weekend\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"seabreeze.com.au forecast for the next week\" src=\"\/images\/seabreeze20080531.png\" \/><br \/>graph courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seabreeze.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">seabreeze.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe low off the Queensland coast is set to remain, with winds further boosted by a high pressure system pushing in south of it. Winds will remain above 20 knots with rain, heavy at times. This does not sound like fun in the sun!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/drying_out.jpg\" alt=\"Drying out before leaving her...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve booked a flight back to Sydney for 1300 today &#8211; no point hanging around &#8211; and now I\u2019m off to sort out what I do with Sunny Spells\u2026 Must try and dry her out a bit first!<\/p>\n<p>\nAt least Mooloolaba is an inexpensive place to leave a boat. Anchoring out front, free of charge, is an option, but I might try and strike a deal with John at the marina.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, you have to face it and bite the bullet when you\u2019re beaten! Checked the 7-day forecast this morning in three places (Brisbane Times, seabreeze.com.au as well as the 7-day GRIB model from GRIB-US), and there is no way I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=14\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,9,13,8,12],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-sailing-passages","tag-cruising","tag-ocean","tag-passage","tag-sailing","tag-yacht"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgewA-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}