{"id":543,"date":"2005-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2009-04-15T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T14:00:19","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew229e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew229e\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to Fiji: 182 Miles to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">NZ to Fiji-1900<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1900 local time. Winds have steadied down into the southeast at 15 to 18 knots, and we have &#8220;jibed&#8221; onto starboard tack &#8211; jibing being a relative term &#8211; as we turned the corner of the high, we altered course to a more northwesterly heading with the shifting winds and seas. Not sure that we miss handling the two big reachers, main and mizzen that would have been up aboard <em>Beowulf<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Several milestones have passed in the last 24 hours. <em>Wind Horse<\/em> has covered her 2000th mile since launching, passed the halfway mark of this passage, and put 290 miles under the keel &#8211; the best day&#8217;s run so far and a target for future downwind passages. Our progress has now slowed somewhat as the wind is now more on the quarter and we&#8217;re not getting the long surfs of yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Still, 11.5 isn&#8217;t bad for not carrying any light sails&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve eaten the last chocolate chip cookie from the passage horde, and the brownie inventory is not expected to make it through the night, so it is a good thing we&#8217;ll be turning the southern corner of Kandavu island in the morning and be in Suva by mid-afternoon. (Suva gives us a more favorable sun angle than Levuka.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ to Fiji-1900<\/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-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}