{"id":280,"date":"2014-07-28T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T17:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/28\/single-handed-sail\/"},"modified":"2014-07-28T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T17:32:56","slug":"single-handed-sail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/28\/single-handed-sail\/","title":{"rendered":"Single handed sail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I took a vacation day and went for a single handed sail.  <\/p>\n<p>Winds were in the 15 \u2013 20 knot range when I left the marina and quickly started gusting in the 25+ knot range.  I had to put a reef in the main and let the jib out a bit.  After about an hour the winds calmed down a lot and I un-reefed the main.<\/p>\n<p>Because the weather radar was showing rain heading my way, I headed back towards the harbor, but it turned out to be just a few sprinkles and quickly cleared up.  So\u2026I kept sailing and had another couple hours out on the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the YouTube video for the day\u2019s sail.  I was playing around with the \u201cslow motion\u201d feature on my iPhone and set the slo motion clips to \u201cdramatic\u201d background audio.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fdfQIA_0XKw?\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, my brother and I went for a sail.  Winds were almost nonexistent when we left, but picked up nicely after about a half hour.  We had a nice sail 6 miles straight out from the harbor when someone turned off the fan.  We tacked back towards Waukegan and didn\u2019t go anywhere due to the lack of wind.  We did catch a slight breeze for a while, but it didn\u2019t last long so we motored back in and were all tied up by 4:00.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AW0OJqAsf0E?\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the forecast included a small craft advisory and the winds in the Waukegan area were in the 25-30 range so we did  not go sailing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I took a vacation day and went for a single handed sail. Winds were in the 15 \u2013 20 knot range when I left the marina and quickly started gusting in the 25+ knot range. I had to put a reef in the main and let the jib out a bit. After about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/28\/single-handed-sail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Single handed sail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}