{"id":612,"date":"2001-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2012-03-07T21:07:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T02:07:01","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew101\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean to Bermuda: Approaching Boundary of Gulf Stream Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">1300 EDT &#8211; Approaching the frontal boundary.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1300 EDT &#8211; 21&#8217;48&#8243;N &#8211; 63&#8217;28&#8221; W. Nice sailing conditions &#8211; wind is SSW at 12-14 and we are now aiming within 20 degrees of Bermuda &#8211; doing an average of 11.5 knots. ETA taking into account jibing downwind is 0630 Sunday AM. <\/p>\n<p>As we approach the frontal boundary the wind should gradually clock around to the SW-WSW giving us a faster and more direct angle. In the last two hours the wind has clocked about 15 degrees, so we are making progress on that front. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of fronts, we just cranked up the Furuno radar, and with the gain turned up a bit, we are seeing a band of squalls about 40 miles due north. Once we get into this area we will probably stow the two big reachers, and pull the forward deck awnings &#8211; so we are set up for the close reach\/beat to come &#8211; and ready for a big increase in wind should it arise. <\/p>\n<p>The sky is no longer a deep blue between the cumulous clouds. Rather, it has taken on a milky cast from the cirrus clouds up high, spreading out from the frontal boundary. <\/p>\n<p>Shortening down like this in advance will slow our progress under sail, so we will have to motorsail for a while to keep up our &#8220;schedule&#8221; to arrive in Bermuda ahead of the potential blow. However, with a big boat like Beowulf is is prudent, and very cost effective, to stay ahead of the weather. <\/p>\n<p>Closer now &#8211; just six miles on radar and the horizon is BLACK&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1300 EDT &#8211; Approaching the frontal boundary.<\/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-612","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\/612"}],"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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}