{"id":1560,"date":"2025-12-06T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/blog\/2025\/12\/06\/251206-03-rainy-day-in-the-abaiang-atoll\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T18:57:00","slug":"251206-03-rainy-day-in-the-abaiang-atoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/blog\/2025\/12\/06\/251206-03-rainy-day-in-the-abaiang-atoll\/","title":{"rendered":"251206_03 Rainy day in the Abaiang Atoll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N  01\u00b0 48.140<br \/>\nE 173\u00b0 01.620<\/p>\n<p>It started raining in the morning. Not to heavy but a long rain. Visibility was limited. The atoll appeared in a different light. The atmosphere was different. No blue sky with bright white cumulus clouds on the sky. The sea still showed its light green.<\/p>\n<p>I used the rain to continue a bit of laundry. I could rinse the laundry almost 3 times.<\/p>\n<p>Then we got a VHF call from the other sailboat in the atoll. They saw us coming in an also on their AIS system. They are here since a while and invited us to come over and drop the hook closer to them. In the afternoon after the rain stopped, we moved south and dropped the hook in a bit deeper water.<\/p>\n<p>I also wrote two catching up narrations.<\/p>\n<p>We also did some small boat tasks.<\/p>\n<p>After the rain the wind died, but the sky was still mostly covered with clouds. A part of the ITCZ, the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone with its doldrums, is finally moving also over the western part of the Kiribati Islands and us.<\/p>\n<p>When the sun went down, it was this time Tobi, who took the initiative to do a workout, which fell good. I always do my workouts on the morning or when sailing during my night watches. Doing it immediately after sunset is a good idea. I hope I can keep it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N 01\u00b0 48.140 E 173\u00b0 01.620 It started raining in the morning. Not to heavy but a long rain. Visibility was limited. The atoll appeared in a different light. The atmosphere was different. No blue sky with bright white cumulus clouds on the sky. The sea still showed its light green. I used the rain [&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-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","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=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosx.de\/cat-mare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}