{"id":880,"date":"2014-11-04T09:35:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T23:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2014-11-04T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T23:35:26","slug":"on-a-dark-and-stormy-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"On a dark and stormy night…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daylight again, thank God. \u00a0The southerly really kicked in overnight and I’ve been up since around 2AM, watching us stagger\u00a0around our anchor like a pissed cockroach. \u00a0A 20 to 25 knot breeze would not normally worry me, but we’re anchored in a hole the size of a tea cup, with a sandbank down wind and moored vessels, including the 100ft+ Lady Musgrave cruise boat, everywhere. \u00a0To make matters worse, it was low tide just after midnight. \u00a0On the flood, the current and wind pushed us in opposite directions, with the strength of the wind dictating which way we would swing. \u00a0Of course, all the neighbouring vessels are affected differently, so there is no way to predict which direction any of them will swing.<\/p>\n

The tide turned again at 6AM, so now everything’s fairly steady. \u00a0Everything looks better in bright sunlight anyway!<\/p>\n

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Daylight again, thank God. \u00a0The southerly really kicked in overnight and I’ve been up since around 2AM, watching us stagger\u00a0around our anchor like a pissed cockroach. \u00a0A 20 to 25 knot breeze would not normally worry me, but we’re anchored … 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_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-880","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-ec","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}