{"id":646,"date":"2001-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2012-03-07T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T03:27:10","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew152\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean 1500: Crossing the Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">Yesterday BEOWULF crossed the finish line, shaving five hours off her time from last year. Find out what Steve and Linda attribute this to.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cruising\/racing with Beowulf\" title=\"cruising\/racing with Beowulf\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/first_swim.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"mosimage_caption\">There&#8217;s nothing like that first swim in tropical water! <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>BEOWULF crossed the finish line yesterday afternoon at 1622 local time-five days, three hours, and 42 minutes after departing Hampton (five hours faster than last year). <\/p>\n<p>Most of the passage was enjoyable, but the last four hours really capped it off. The breeze backed ten degrees which allowed us to sail a bit freer, and BEOWULF took off like a rocket. Carrying just working canvas plus her mizzen blade we were sitting on 14 to 15 knots on a consistent basis, with 18 to 29 knots of true wind. BEOWULF&#8217;s &#8220;diet&#8221;, deck seals on the main and mizzen, and her smooth bottom definitely have paid off.<\/p>\n<p>And the crew? After the last 48 hours of constant sail trim and working squalls, we&#8217;re both exhausted. But a couple of nights of uninterrupted sleep will cure that.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve cleared customs and sailed the ten miles from Spanish Town to North Sound. You might think we&#8217;re nuts having just finished the Caribbean 1500, but it is a lovely day, the air is balmy, and there&#8217;s a gentle tropical breeze. Waste this day and it can never be replaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday BEOWULF crossed the finish line, shaving five hours off her time from last year. Find out what Steve and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew152\/\">&#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":[145,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","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\/646"}],"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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}