{"id":120,"date":"2007-04-21T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/21\/pacific-crossing-day-11\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:03:13","slug":"pacific-crossing-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Crossing &#8211;  Day 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 21, 2007  Time: 23:00 UTC<br \/>\nPosition: 08.29 South 115.26 West<br \/>\nBearing 264 degrees at 7 knots<\/p>\n<p>The big squalls that we had continued from Thursday evening<br \/>\nthrough Friday evening . Luckily most of them went away just at<br \/>\nsunset on Friday evening , with mostly clear skies, but<br \/>\ncontinuing strong winds and seas.  It is infinitely better to<br \/>\nsail at night when it is starry rather than pouring rain.  We<br \/>\neven have some moonlight last night to guide our way . Today,<br \/>\nSaturday, was mostly clear, with strong following seas and good<br \/>\nwinds &#8211; 15 to 20 knots. We are not doing much cooking- not that<br \/>\nwe are out of food, but simply because we have not had much<br \/>\nappetite.  Today I plan to cook chicken as I think we are<br \/>\ngetting too thin ( well, maybe I am just dreaming).  We have not<br \/>\neven put a fishing pole in the water for three days because the<br \/>\nseas are too rough to start handling 30 pound fish &#8211; which we<br \/>\nare determined to catch at some point.<br \/>\nL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 21, 2007 Time: 23:00 UTC Position: 08.29 South 115.26 West Bearing 264 degrees at 7 knots The big squalls that we had continued from Thursday evening through Friday evening . Luckily most of them went away just at sunset on Friday evening , with mostly clear skies, but continuing strong winds and seas. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pacific Crossing &#8211;  Day 11&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-pacific-the-marquesastuomotussocieties-and-cooks-2007","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}