{"id":14499,"date":"2010-12-01T00:21:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T05:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/rainbow-passage\/"},"modified":"2010-12-08T00:09:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T05:09:07","slug":"rainbow-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/rainbow-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ARC-2010-day-8-1040.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ARC-2010-day-8-1040.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ARC-2010-day-8-1040.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been surrounded by squalls since late in the afternoon. They have added a touch of pressure and with the wind now squared up behind us we are surfing continuously. Revs have been cut to 1750\/1800 with the GPS 20 minute speed average showing 11.5\/11.8 knots. This is what we expected for the entire crossing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ARC-2010-day-8-811.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ARC-2010-day-8-811.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ARC-2010-day-8-811.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The best GPS speed we have seen (three second average) is 16.2 knots (the photo above shows 15.2). A long way from the record of 22.8, but there are still a few hours to go.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ARC-2010-day-8-1100.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ARC-2010-day-8-1100.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ARC-2010-day-8-1100.jpg\" width=\"453\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This voyage will always be remembered for its rainbows. Everyday we have been treated to something new. Today, just before dusk, Wind Horse was centered in a rainbow, surrounded with color, an apt metaphor at the close of this passage.<\/p>\n<p>As of 0130Z we show 218 nautical miles to Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia. The Saint Lucian and ARC flags are ready to set, as are we.<\/p>\n<p>Position: 14 55&#8217;20.51 N,  057 16&#8217;02.71 W<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been surrounded by squalls since late in the afternoon. They have added a touch of pressure and with the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/rainbow-passage\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}