{"id":307,"date":"2007-05-07T20:08:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T20:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/san-diego-to-nuka-hiva-day-8-9\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T07:19:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T07:19:06","slug":"san-diego-to-nuka-hiva-day-8-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/san-diego-to-nuka-hiva-day-8-9\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego to Nuka Hiva Day 8-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Position and Time: N 16-47 by W 126-45 at 2355 UTC May 6, 1084 miles from San Diego<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Speed and Course: 6.1 knots, 210 degrees true, 1600rpm<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Wind: 7 knots at 210 degrees relative<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Waves: 6-8 foot swells at 10-12 seconds, 3-4 foot wind waves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The trip meter went over 1000. We are officially arrived to the vicinity of the middle of nowhere! Pretty soon we will be half way, which is still the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Yesterday, we deployed the paravane fish. We wanted to see how much it helped with the roll. It helped some, slowed us down, as expected. We decided that the fish didn&#8217;t stop enough of the roll to justify the loss of speed, so we put the fish back in their holders after a day. It was a bit tricky to bring them in out of the open ocean, but we did it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We are still experiencing good size waves from the front at regular intervals, while simultaneously getting <!--more-->hit every couple minutes by big waves from the side. The side waves are the ones that make us roll a lot. The last several days the seas have been &#8220;confused&#8221;\u009d, which mean waves seem to be coming from several directions. We have white caps on some, which also slows us down. We decided to up the RPM to 1600, which still gives us over 20% reserve to reach Nuka Hiva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It is 3:30 pm as I write this, and the sun has just finally peeked out from behind the clouds for the first time in days. It has been completely overcast almost the whole time  no sun, no sunrises or sunsets, no moon, no stars have been seen for most of the trip. The two days we had some sun earlier in the week were followed by evenings of scattered clouds, and those two nights the full moon reflected brilliantly off the seas (when not hidden behind a cloud).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We saw our first sailboat out here. Well, first the radar alarm went crazy telling us something was out there, and later we were able to visually spot it with the binoculars. It eventually crossed our bow at about 1.5 miles. We tried to hail the vessel (call it on the radio for those who do not speak &#8220;boat&#8221;\u009d), but there was no response. The sailboat looked to be about 40 feet and was pounding head first into the brutal seas. And we thought we had it rough!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Still no luck catching a fish, but we have not tried too much since we realized the fillet table is stowed pretty deep and still needs to be assembled. We just didn&#8217;t get to it before we left. Oh well  if we had waited to get to everything before we left, we&#8217;d still be at the dock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Position and Time: N 16-47 by W 126-45 at 2355 UTC May 6, 1084 miles from San Diego Speed and Course: 6.1 knots, 210 degrees true, 1600rpm Wind: 7 knots at 210 degrees relative Waves: 6-8 foot swells at 10-12 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/san-diego-to-nuka-hiva-day-8-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat-technical","category-passage","category-south-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}