{"id":1504,"date":"2025-10-18T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/blog\/2025\/10\/18\/251018-on-our-way-to-epi-island\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:24:00","slug":"251018-on-our-way-to-epi-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/blog\/2025\/10\/18\/251018-on-our-way-to-epi-island\/","title":{"rendered":"251018 On our way to Epi Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are already out of the bay of Port Vila.  However, still running with the engines because the wind is still too weak for sailing.  I hope we get more when we are more outside. I&#8217;m looking for nice southerly wind which blows us north to Epi Island.<\/p>\n<p>Decision was made to depart today because the wind forecast for the next week looks more than disappointing. We would stuck on Port Vila for possibly a week.<\/p>\n<p>Now I hope that the wind really gets us until noon tomorrow to the NW corner of Epi Island.<\/p>\n<p>We started in the morning with provisioning because Port Vila is in respect to shopping canned &amp; packed food the last chance until Chichi-Jima, the Port of Entry, I want to use for inbound clearance for Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Guam and Saipan, I don&#8217;t consider as reasonable stop- over islands anymore.  The USA want to be great again,  thus sailors like Tobi and me don&#8217;t fit into the MAGA dream. But let&#8217;s see if I get replies to my mails.<\/p>\n<p>Wind is changing directions, blowing more from N. Exactly the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>A week swell from SSE is rolling onto MaRe. Nothing special.<\/p>\n<p>Until later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are already out of the bay of Port Vila. However, still running with the engines because the wind is still too weak for sailing. I hope we get more when we are more outside. I&#8217;m looking for nice southerly wind which blows us north to Epi Island. Decision was made to depart today 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","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=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}