{"id":1506,"date":"2025-10-18T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/blog\/2025\/10\/18\/251019-from-2-kn-to-26-kn-of-wind\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:45:00","slug":"251019-from-2-kn-to-26-kn-of-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/blog\/2025\/10\/18\/251019-from-2-kn-to-26-kn-of-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"251019 From 2 KN to 26 KN of wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had the fun range of winds last night including frequent changes between S, E, N and the sound spinning of the wind indicator needle in full circles around the wind dial.<\/p>\n<p>I had my first squalls since quite a while.  The first one was quite strong with 26 KN and Tobi woke me up.  As MaRe is always wearing her pyjama especially for squalls,  we just reduced the genoa a bit and left MaRe run through the nightly sea.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately squalls don&#8217;t take long,  we made only a few miles with that speed of 7+ KN.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter we had the &#8216;Kartoffelacker&#8217; (potato field after harvest or in English choppy wasters) again. I &#8216;love&#8217; it when the wind indicator needle spins around the dial and MaRe rocks in the completely irregular waves, the choppy wastes.<\/p>\n<p>A while later another squalls came by to say &#8216;hello&#8217; butit was a weaker one.  Only 17 KN wind speed.<\/p>\n<p>At about 0630 I saw that we need to use the engines to reach our anchorage by noon.<br \/>\nSo I took the sails down and  adjusted the boat speed that we make it in time but earlier then needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the fun range of winds last night including frequent changes between S, E, N and the sound spinning of the wind indicator needle in full circles around the wind dial. I had my first squalls since quite a while. The first one was quite strong with 26 KN and Tobi woke me up. [&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-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","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=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}