{"id":6119,"date":"2009-07-03T12:33:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T07:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/hard-beating-in-the-arctic\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T12:33:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T07:33:47","slug":"hard-beating-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/hard-beating-in-the-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Beating In the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re 83 nautical miles from our way point outside of Hornesund. The light northeasterly breeze and calm seas have given way to a robust NW breeze of 20 knots. Waves are short and steep, albeit warm. Water temperature is an amazing 46.4F (8C).<br \/>\nIn honor of being almost there a hearty breakfast has been consumed(spicy sausage, eggs with salsa, pineapple and kiwi fruit).<br \/>\nLast &#8220;night&#8221; &#8211; it is bright at 0130 &#8211; we saw a sail on the horizon and diverted course to check. Got some nice photos of a J-Boat beating with its high modulus main and jib. This is the first sailboat we&#8217;ve seen at sea since leaving California 15,000 miles ago. They looked beautiful, but cold.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve been enjoying the abundance of bird life and the dolphin shows. The dolphins delight in doing aileron rolls. They must know there are two acro pilots in the audience.<br \/>\n7\/3\/2009 7:14 AM (UTC)  position 75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re 83 nautical miles from our way point outside of Hornesund. The light northeasterly breeze and calm seas have given <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/hard-beating-in-the-arctic\/\">&#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-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119"}],"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=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}