{"id":1770,"date":"2010-07-10T20:50:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T04:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2010-07-21T21:26:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T05:26:15","slug":"a-slow-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/a-slow-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A slow start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PacCup10-1768-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"PacCup10-1768\" title=\"PacCup10-1768\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1808 colorbox-1770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PacCup10-1768-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PacCup10-1768.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a slow start to the race with the now familiar slatting of sails starting off Point Reyes after a promising start in the bay with the number 3 up and 19 knots of wind.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PacCup10-32.jpg\" alt=\"PacCup10-32\" title=\"PacCup10-32\" width=\"341\" height=\"512\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1807 colorbox-1770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PacCup10-32.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PacCup10-32-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went off watch shortly after exiting the bay and awoke to be told there had been dolphins visiting that quickly got bored. <\/p>\n<p>More amazing was something I had never seen before 1000&#8217;s upon 1000&#8217;s of 2 foot round jelly fish with 10 foot long tentacles stacked as far as you could see down and on either side of the boat. Interspersing the massive fish were  small 4 inch long clear jelly fish with small tentacles and the internal body organs looking like planets in a solar system joined together by clear jelly! Another time I came on watch I had just missed a pod of whales moving along at 180 degrees towards the coast. Last night we floated in breeze from 2.5-8 knots working our way very unusually north until we were off Bodega Bay. RB crew is getting into the rythmn of the race and we are steaming along in 9 knots of wind still dragging the stern so there is a lot of very good food cooked by Wayne&#8217;s daughter and son in law to consume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a slow start to the race with the now familiar slatting of sails starting off Point Reyes after a promising start in the bay with the number 3 up and 19 knots of wind. I went off watch shortly after exiting the bay and awoke to be told there had been dolphins visiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}