{"id":454,"date":"2000-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-02-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2012-03-06T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T15:36:52","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew16\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama to Caribbean Passage: Experience the &#8220;Coastal Effect&#8221; off Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">Evening &#8211; Experiencing the infamous &quot;coastal affect&quot; off of Colombia.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>2200 &#8211; Wind is now 30 to 35 knots, occasionally gusting higher. This must be the &#8220;coastal effect&#8221; about which we&#8217;ve heard so much. Seas are getting much bigger &#8211; and steeper. If it were daylight they might be intimidating. But since we can only get a glimpse now and then and BEOWULF feels like she is coping well, we press on. Wind direction still favors this tack.<\/p>\n<p>2300 &#8211; There&#8217;s a strangely lit ship off our port bow, heading towards us.We track them for a while, then give a call on the VHF, channel 16. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the eastbound sailing vessel BEOWULF to the southbound ship off our port bow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A New Jersey accent replies, &#8220;This is the naval survey vessel ENDYMION.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Turns out they are &#8220;surveying&#8221; the area. We are informed they&#8217;ll be making a 90 degree turn to the west in 90 seconds. The captain wants to know if we are a ketch rig, and we are invited over to have a look when they are docked in Curacao in a week. We offer a visit in return and we are both on our way. <\/p>\n<p>20 minutes later and another shipped crosses our bow, and slides down our starboard side, less than a mile away &#8211; much to close for comfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evening &#8211; Experiencing the infamous &quot;coastal affect&quot; off of Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beowulf-logs","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}