{"id":1083,"date":"2023-12-28T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/blog\/2023\/12\/28\/231227-04-weather-forecast-and-reality\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T09:32:00","slug":"231227-04-weather-forecast-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/blog\/2023\/12\/28\/231227-04-weather-forecast-and-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"231227_04 Weather forecast and reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normal the weather forcecast from the European Center for Medium term Weather Forecast (ECMWF) is pretty accurate,  especially with less than 48 h forecast time.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we were supposed to have very weak to no wind. Reality was that we could sail twice for a few hours. At around 1800 I dropped the sails because the wind shifted and got too much of a S component, which lead us at 40 deg AWA still too much off course. Tacking during the night with a sailing novice I don&#8217;t want to do.<\/p>\n<p>Now we are running with engines at only 1500 RPM against a wind of approx. 9.5 KN AWS and AWA of around 20 deg PRT. The checked ETA at Hannaiapa it&#8217;s tomorrow morning at around 0930.<\/p>\n<p>With the current AWS,  AWA, and MaRe in her night gown,  main sail with reef 2, she would not really run. The night gown is a must for safety reasons.<\/p>\n<p>We have, it not real full moon, a moon very close to full moon. Currently it illuminates a cloud from behind. The dark appearing clouds get white edge from the moonlight behind and look very special. I love to sail in full moon nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal the weather forcecast from the European Center for Medium term Weather Forecast (ECMWF) is pretty accurate, especially with less than 48 h forecast time. Today, we were supposed to have very weak to no wind. Reality was that we could sail twice for a few hours. At around 1800 I dropped the sails because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}