{"id":29691,"date":"2018-01-10T18:55:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29691"},"modified":"2018-01-10T18:55:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T18:55:07","slug":"volvo-ocean-race-update-flappy-sails-and-glassy-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/01\/volvo-ocean-race-update-flappy-sails-and-glassy-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo Ocean Race Update: Flappy Sails and Glassy Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><em>As the Volvo Ocean Race fleet heads north from the the Southern Ocean, they encounter something worse than too much wind&#8230;no wind at all.<\/em>\u00a0<\/header>\n<header><\/header>\n<header>\n<p class=\"article-view-title\">by Will Carson<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-view-body \">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When the Volvo Ocean Race fleet first encountered the notorious Doldrums as they raced through the Atlantic between Lisbon and Cape Town on Leg 2, they breezed through with minimal disruption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 On the eighth day of Leg 4, it seemed the Doldrums were making up for missed opportunities earlier in the race by refusing to relinquish their grip on the seven teams currently ensnared in painfully light winds and blistering heat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 For three days now the crews have been solely focused on getting north as quickly as possible so they can lock into the consistent trade winds that will fire them towards Hong Kong \u2013 but the race has been slow going. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volvooceanrace.com\/en\/news\/10766_Flappy-sails-and-glassy-seas.html\">Read more.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Volvo Ocean Race fleet heads north from the the Southern Ocean, they encounter something worse than too much wind&#8230;no wind at all.\u00a0 by Will Carson When the Volvo Ocean Race fleet first encountered the notorious Doldrums as they raced through the Atlantic between Lisbon and Cape Town on Leg 2, they breezed through with minimal disruption. \u00a0 \u00a0 On the eighth day of Leg 4, it seemed the Doldrums were making up for missed opportunities earlier in the race by refusing to relinquish their grip on the seven teams currently ensnared in painfully light winds and blistering heat. \u00a0 \u00a0 For three days now the crews have been solely focused on getting north as quickly as possible so they can lock into the consistent trade winds that will fire them towards Hong Kong \u2013 but the race has been slow going. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29692,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29691\/revisions\/29692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}