{"id":53,"date":"2008-07-15T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T01:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-07-23T21:09:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T11:09:55","slug":"leaving-her-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Leaving her, again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My original plan was to bring Sunny Spells back down south to at least Rosslyn Bay (Keppel Bay Marina) before returning to Sydney. Graham Friend had been flagging the Sydney-Southport race on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.svseaquest.com\">Seaquest (an Adams\/Radford 50)<\/a> for a while, however, and the call to arms came as soon as I was comfortable established in our apartment on Hamilton Island for a five day rest.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/seaquest.gif\" alt=\"SeaQuest, the Adams\/Radford 50 that I will be helping to crew in the 2008 Sydney - Southport Race\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Work and other commitments meant I would have to return to Sydney sooner, so on 13 July I single-handed Sunny Spells to Airlie Beach where I had decided to leave her until I could return to sail her back to Sydney. <\/p>\n<p>Graham said he&#8217;d never done the passage in less that 3 hours, so I was well pleased with doing it in 2 hours 55 minutes. Running wing-and-wing with a 1.5 knot northerly set on the ebb tide did help! The downwind sail also meant I could comfortably make bacon and eggs on the pushpit barbeque and it turned into a lovely sail. A great way to end this adventure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My original plan was to bring Sunny Spells back down south to at least Rosslyn Bay (Keppel Bay Marina) before returning to Sydney. Graham Friend had been flagging the Sydney-Southport race on Seaquest (an Adams\/Radford 50) for a while, however, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=53\">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":[],"class_list":["post-53","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-R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}