{"id":39,"date":"2005-05-23T01:07:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T09:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2007-12-10T01:28:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T09:28:58","slug":"rolex-transatlantic-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/rolex-transatlantic-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolex Transatlantic &#8211; Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New'\">The light shifty winds over the last 24 hours mean we have only sailed 100 miles sometimes sitting at a dead stop. We are in the company of larger boats in the same position. Light conditions mean many sail changes. <tt><span>And sail changes on this boat,<\/span><\/tt> <tt><span>with its 100-foot mast, mean lugging sails, some weighing 200 pounds,<\/span><\/tt> <tt><span>hoisting them -- with the aid of electric winches, fortunately -- and then<\/span><\/tt> <tt><span>carefully folding and lashing down the sail replaced. Difficult and time-consuming challenge when the wind is up and the boat heeling.<\/span><\/tt><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New'\"><o:p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><tt><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><font color=\"#202020\">Right now the wind is blowing 15-20 knots and we are heeled 17 degrees, making excellent speed --over ten<\/font><\/span><\/tt><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New'\"> <tt><span>knots -- toward the Stream. The bigger boats that were drifting near us<\/span><\/tt> <tt><span>earlier in the day now have the wind to take off and are ahead. We are heading for a strong<\/span><\/tt> <tt><span>southerly wind that will fill in around Wednesday. This will allow us to set<\/span><\/tt> <tt><span>the spinnaker, turn north east to <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">England<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and fly away at speeds that will at<\/span><\/tt> <tt><span>times exceed fifteen knots. <\/span><\/tt><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New'\"><tt><span>The crew of Tempest is amazingly diverse six Americans, two Dutch, one Dane, one Swedish, one Australian, one British, two Canadians and two hybrids,<\/span><\/tt> <tt><span>one US\/UK and one US\/Austria. There are two women and fourteen men. When the project began, nobody knew<\/span><\/tt> <tt><span>more than three of the others. We found each other by endless phone calls,<\/span><\/tt> <tt><span>emails, and word-of-mouth recommendations. Three watches of 5 each on deck for four hours, off for four and on standby for four meaning there are 10 crew available at a time for sail changes. The navigator 'floats*, or is on duty as much as required. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/tt><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The light shifty winds over the last 24 hours mean we have only sailed 100 miles sometimes sitting at a dead stop. We are in the company of larger boats in the same position. Light conditions mean many sail changes. And sail changes on this boat, with its 100-foot mast, mean lugging sails, some weighing [&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-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}