{"id":2517,"date":"2018-08-15T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3gwiz.com.au\/passion_wp\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2018-08-15T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T08:10:09","slug":"training-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/?p=2517","title":{"rendered":"Training session?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2520\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3gwiz.com.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windrace_20180815_172229.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2520\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2520\" src=\"http:\/\/3gwiz.com.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windrace_20180815_172229-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"Windrace screen shot of our afternoon sail\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windrace_20180815_172229-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windrace_20180815_172229-1024x542.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windrace_20180815_172229.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windrace screen shot of our afternoon sail<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2521\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3gwiz.com.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windrace_20180815_172723.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2521\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2521\" src=\"http:\/\/3gwiz.com.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windrace_20180815_172723-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"The boat speed is a pretty good proxy for the wind strength which was strong early and late but quite manageable the rest of the day\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windrace_20180815_172723-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windrace_20180815_172723-1024x542.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/windrace_20180815_172723.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boat speed is a pretty good proxy for the wind strength which was strong early and late but quite manageable the rest of the day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The officials at RANSA abandoned today&#8217;s race due to persistent gusts over 30 knots but as we were there and ready to go we had a training session.<br \/>\nThe No3 jib and one reef in the main was a good choice for the solo sail to the heads during which time we hit a modest 10.6 knots. For the broad reach I feel we could have easily carried the full main but on the beat back to Steele point the reefed main was hanging out flogging in the wind.<br \/>\nWe sailed the short course and went around the Point Piper mark before beating back to what is usually the finish line. For practice I put in the second reef and was pleased with that because a 34.6 knot gust hit and put us on our ear even with the double reef. The round trip took very close to 60 minutes but as we had started just after 1:30 pm it was an early finish to what was a very tidy solo sail.<br \/>\nI did play around with a phone app for the afternoon and it recorded our speed and direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officials at RANSA abandoned today&#8217;s race due to persistent gusts over 30 knots but as we were there and ready to go we had a training session. The No3 jib and one reef in the main was a good choice for the solo sail to the heads during which time we hit a modest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}