{"id":231,"date":"2009-03-06T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T01:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2009-03-09T16:45:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T00:45:23","slug":"a-windy-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/a-windy-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A windy one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"colorbox-231\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/albums\/pictures\/hr091.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Tim Wright of photoaction.com<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we had a mixed batch of races but with 1 mile legs on the three windward leewards it was hard to stretch our legs and save our time on the Swan 42s. Today we had a windy race around the island and unfortunately with damage to our spinnaker we didn&#8217;t really get going however, we still came 3rd in class which wasn&#8217;t too bad. With the forcast looking windy tomorrow they race commitee have decided to not have us race to Marigot and anchor. This was a popular move from the boat captains perspectives as no anchoring for us is a positive. <\/p>\n<p>We were finished by 12:30 today but had to wait for the 3pm bridge which was mayhem as usual causing me to have a few quiet heart attacks. The cruiser\/racers don&#8217;t understand how hard it is for pure race boats to hold a position in 25 knots of wind without at least a knot and half of boat speed. With such thin appendages and light weight boats we just get blown around and also have no way of steering without a flow over our rudder and keel. <\/p>\n<p>Safe and sound at the dock with the sails at the sailmaker it was time to go home where I made salmon, over couscous with watercress and a sour cream, caper, shallot, cucumber, radish sauce. I can hardly keep my eyes open but the boys have rallied to go to a party. I am up at 5:30am again tomorrow to go to the bakery for fresh bagettes and the sailmakers to pick up the repaired main. Time for some sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Tim Wright of photoaction.com Yesterday we had a mixed batch of races but with 1 mile legs on the three windward leewards it was hard to stretch our legs and save our time on the Swan 42s. Today we had a windy race around the island and unfortunately with damage to our spinnaker [&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-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}