{"id":342,"date":"2011-09-11T08:58:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.171.78.101\/wordpress\/?p=342"},"modified":"2011-09-11T08:58:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T15:58:50","slug":"ambassador-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/adventure-updates\/ambassador-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am comfortably anchored in Paranagua, after crossing the bar at first light, around 6am. It\u2019s a large bay, so of course I had to explore a little bit before dropping the hook. The big surprise here- patchy fog, and I could see my own breath in the air! \u00a0The tropics sure forget you fast. If it keeps getting colder, I won&#8217;t be able to run around in swim trunks and barefoot day and night anymore. What if I have to (horror!) put on shoes? \u00a0 It\u2019s a good thing there is only 10 days left of winter, and then I am sure everything will suddenly get warm to herald the arrival of spring.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday remained lightly overcast with peeks of sun, but the winds were light and the seas calm, so it made for an easy day. \u00a0At the moment, it looks like I will wait out a southerly front today, and hopefully make some more progress tomorrow, but obviously I will be watching the weather closely to figure the best timing.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got a short list of basic maintenance to do today with the boat stopped, and I also plan to rest and relax a bit, as I am expecting a few days of wild and woolly downwind again soon\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of nice being disconnected- I imagine lots of 9\/11 anniversary news today, but I am not missing it.<\/p>\n<p>Anchored at 25.33S \u00a048.23W \u00a0 4566nm gone, \u00a0857nm to go. \u00a08am \u00a09\/11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am comfortably anchored in Paranagua, after crossing the bar at first light, around 6am. It\u2019s a large bay, so of course I had to explore a little bit before dropping the hook. The big surprise here- patchy fog, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/adventure-updates\/ambassador-43\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-updates","tag-ambassador"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}