{"id":1706,"date":"2023-12-08T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2023-12-08T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T08:42:00","slug":"las-palmas-to-cabo-verde-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Las Palmas to Cabo Verde, Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a pitch dark moonless night, with the trades pumping up to 22 knots. We were flying along, gooswing poled-out staysail and No. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were running all night with staysail and 50% of the  #3 genoa, both poled out. Made 5-6 knots with the wind averaging about 16 knots. Rolled the whole #3 out again at first light and now doing 7 to 8 knots boat speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We swapped the #3 Genoa and the staysail around 11am, poling out the Genoa on the port\/weather side. This has significantly stabilised the boat and also allows us to sail a much wider wind angle either side of dead square. Running downwind to Cabo Verde in 20 to 25 knots and making good miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_2871.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was pretty much overcast the last two days, so our new solar panels are not giving everything they\u2019ve got. Today we ran the engine a couple of hours to lift the batteries while running the water maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morale on board is good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a pitch dark moonless night, with the trades pumping up to 22 knots. We were flying along, gooswing poled-out staysail and No. 3. We were running all night with staysail and 50% of the #3 genoa, both poled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=1706\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-sailing-passages"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgewA-rw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","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=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}