{"id":530,"date":"2008-11-09T22:20:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:55:52","slug":"departing-in-a-few-hours-for-brisbane-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Departing in a few hours for Brisbane, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 10, 2008 (0900 local time)<\/p>\n<p>We will leave Noumea for Brisbane, Australia in about two hours.  There is now fuel at the fuel dock and a bit of a weather window.  This window will not last long, so we need to depart today.  The passage is about 830 nautical miles (950 miles) and will take about 5 1\/2 &#8211; 6 days.  The winds are forecast to be light\/moderate to start, becoming light and variable, then becoming moderate to strong at the end.  There will be some wind shifts as we pass through a area of weak low pressure.  We will send updates along the way.<\/p>\n<p>M.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Passage to Brisbane\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/staticmap?center=-24.106647,159.840088&amp;zoom=5&amp;size=640x640&amp;maptype=map&amp;key=ABQIAAAAU_rNpDZ0QqB8YuBXLlA9ehTC5sRNI74nT9aHkcOtpo-VGGIsehQEzQEtJCj-org8EvP0hAZ2rUe9aA&amp;sensor=false\" alt=\"Passage to Brisbane\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passage to Brisbane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 10, 2008 (0900 local time) We will leave Noumea for Brisbane, Australia in about two hours. There is now fuel at the fuel dock and a bit of a weather window. This window will not last long, so we need to depart today. The passage is about 830 nautical miles (950 miles) and will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Departing in a few hours for Brisbane, Australia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcaledonia-2008","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}