{"id":1408,"date":"2025-03-30T22:49:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2025-03-30T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T23:03:09","slug":"check-in-march-30-2025-1544-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/check-in-march-30-2025-1544-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Check-in March 30, 2025; 15:44 (Local)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\ufeffCurrent Position: 17 08.323\u2019N 116 45.342\u2019W; Course: 223; SOG: 5.2kt; TWS: 14.8 kt; TWD: 041; TWA: 172; Distance to waypoint (Hiva Oa): 2088 nm;<br \/>\nComments: At 8:00, the wind started shifting to the NE, making it difficult to maintain a heading of 260. I set up the TillerPilot for \u201cWind\u201d mode and ran wind-on-wing, which points me directly at the Marquesas doing about 4 kt in 15 kt wind. This was about a kt slower than going west, but is actually resulting in more progress. There is also the advantage of following seas. Between my last two 9:00 progress checks, I sailed mostly 260 degrees. The wind was generally steady and I made good progress, 93 nm good to my waypoint. Later in the morning, I rigged my whisker pole for the first time to the jib. Properly shaping the foresail gained me an extra kt of speed. Since I can get 4.5-5.5 kts wing on wing I\u2019m 11-15 kt wind, it may not be necessary to head west anymore, but rather I can head SW until I reach the ITCZ directly N of the Marquesas. I sailed all afternoon just east of Marquesas. Averaging about 5 kt. It was a much more comfortable sail. When heading W, the spray, heeling, and rocking made it uncomfortable to sit in the cockpit for very long, but after I began heading downwind, I spent most of the day in the cockpit reading. I marveled at how many species of seabirds I saw so far from land.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffCurrent Position: 17 08.323\u2019N 116 45.342\u2019W; Course: 223; SOG: 5.2kt; TWS: 14.8 kt; TWD: 041; TWA: 172; Distance to waypoint (Hiva Oa): 2088 nm; Comments: At 8:00, the wind started shifting to the NE, making it difficult to maintain a heading of 260. I set up the TillerPilot for \u201cWind\u201d mode and ran wind-on-wing, which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/check-in-march-30-2025-1544-local\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Check-in March 30, 2025; 15:44 (Local)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-captainslog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}