{"id":230,"date":"2009-03-02T05:11:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T13:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2009-03-03T05:22:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T13:22:16","slug":"moving-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/moving-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"colorbox-230\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/albums\/pictures\/movingon2.JPG\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\"><\/p>\n<p>After a hectic few days in Antigua of working on the boat and dealing with over excited crew member (a story for a book I might write in the future) and his antics with a golf cart, I took off last night with three crew from Antigua Falmouth to Simpson Bay, St Maarten. Time for Hieneken regatta. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"colorbox-230\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/albums\/pictures\/movingon.JPG\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\"><\/p>\n<p>My friends on Nimrod came over to say good bye and Phil (who I have done transatlantic, transpac and newport bermuda with) hailed on the vhf as I left the harbor. Libby up at Pineapple House where we stayed &#8211; open air cabins above Antigua YC &#8211; blew a conch horn. It was good to catch up with old friends and I am looking forward to being back in April. <\/p>\n<p>The trip to St Maarten was perfect with 15-25 knots at 110TWA easy ghosting along at 10 knots with a reefed main and the delivery jib. We pulled in to Simpson Bay as the sun came up in a rain squall and anchored for a few hours until the 0930 bridge. <\/p>\n<p>So here comes another regatta with a new crew &#8211; charters from San Francisco. Spent the day switching from offshore to inshore mode and unloading all the spares. A deep breath and off we go! But first off a nice long sleep as I have been up basically for 40 hours with only 3 hours sleep. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a hectic few days in Antigua of working on the boat and dealing with over excited crew member (a story for a book I might write in the future) and his antics with a golf cart, I took off last night with three crew from Antigua Falmouth to Simpson Bay, St Maarten. Time for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delivery-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}