{"id":1619,"date":"2020-02-02T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2020-02-02T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T05:52:00","slug":"i-thought-cruisers-only-go-downwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"I thought cruisers only go downwind?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pretty consistent 12-15 knots of NNE breeze now. Everything sheeted drum tight to sail the 30 degree\/18 knot apparent wind on this heading to clear Kadmat Island, the last obstacle before we leave the Lakshadweep. Seeing consistent 7.5 knots boat speed, but we have just over a knot of current against us – ?so sad?. 50% waxing moon casting a lpale glow on the ocean. All credit to North Sails, our 10 year old Dacron main and the 8 year old Dyneema\/Mylar no 2 genoa still set beautifully and flat. Seas are pretty flat so it’s a bit like inshore racing :-). At the moment it looks like it will be late Monday before the wind moves more North and then NNE.<\/p>\n\n\n

Position 11° 08.390′ N 73° 27.291′ E
\nCOG 295T
SOG 6.3kt
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Lat 11.139833: Lon 73.454850<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pretty consistent 12-15 knots of NNE breeze now. Everything sheeted drum tight to sail the 30 degree\/18 knot apparent wind on this heading to clear Kadmat Island, the last obstacle before we leave the Lakshadweep. Seeing consistent 7.5 knots boat … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-sailing-passages","tag-cochindjiboutiindiaarabian-seaindian-ocean"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgewA-q7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}