{"id":2225,"date":"2026-01-12T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:11:09","slug":"check-in-january-12-2026-1600-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/check-in-january-12-2026-1600-utc\/","title":{"rendered":"Check-in January 12, 2026; 16:00 UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">Current Position: 14 28.534\u2019S 16 18.000\u2019W; Timezone: UTC+0; SOG: 4.5 kt; COG: 329; TWS: 13; TWD: 116; Current Speed (includes effect of surfing): 1.8 kt; Current Direction: 305; Distance to Waypoint (IFN, 303): 1139 nm; Distance to Endpoint (Bridgetown): 3066 nm; Total Miles Sailed: 19810 nm; Engine Hours: 413; Estimate Fuel: 60+9+50;<br \/>\nComments: Sunset is at 19:00 at 5.75W. At 15W it should be at 19:37. Sunset was actually at 19:36. Because of the clouds, I had to run the engine for 30m this evening to charge the batteries. It is the price I am paying to keep the fish frozen.  I went to sleep at 21:00. I am suppose to tack in 4h (1:00), but will play it by ear. Wind is light and the SOG IS 4.3 at 330. No traffic expected, so setting the timer for 2h. I woke at 22:00 to 19 kt wind and had to adjust the windvane. A little after midnight, I downloaded a GRIB and tacked to port. It looks like I might get light wind by Wednesday. The OTH AIS showed no threats before dawn, so I set a 2h alarm. At 4:30 the boat accidentally jibbed. Not sure why. I reset the windvane. I woke at 6:30. Sunrise is at 6:01 at 5.75W. At 15.5W it should be at 6:40. The sun rose behind a cloud bank and broke through the clouds at 6:51 to a mostly clear sky. The GRIB was 13h old so downloaded a new one. Not many surprises \u2026 tack to starboard at 10:00, good wind for 18h, then light wind for 4d. I am reaching a point far enough W that I will almost always be on a starboard tack until Barbados. I tacked starboard at 11:00 with a SOG of 5.7 and course of 320. The wind continued to back and by noon my course was close to the waypoint. The batteries were charged by 13:00 and I made water at 15:00. The distance sailed towards IFN in the last 24h was 1242-1139=103 nm. The total distance sailed was 19810-19654=156  nm (146\/24=6.1 kt avg).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Position: 14 28.534\u2019S 16 18.000\u2019W; Timezone: UTC+0; SOG: 4.5 kt; COG: 329; TWS: 13; TWD: 116; Current Speed (includes effect of surfing): 1.8 kt; Current Direction: 305; Distance to Waypoint (IFN, 303): 1139 nm; Distance to Endpoint (Bridgetown): 3066 nm; Total Miles Sailed: 19810 nm; Engine Hours: 413; Estimate Fuel: 60+9+50; Comments: Sunset is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/check-in-january-12-2026-1600-utc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Check-in January 12, 2026; 16:00 UTC&#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-2225","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\/2225","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=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}