{"id":4142,"date":"2013-02-05T15:07:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2013-02-15T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T15:28:08","slug":"a-whale-of-a-time-in-bequia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=4142","title":{"rendered":"A whale of a time in Bequia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4143\" style=\"width: 1286px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4143\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4143\" alt=\"Back in Bequia\" src=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale.jpg\" width=\"1276\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale.jpg 1276w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale-1024x642.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale-478x300.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1276px) 100vw, 1276px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back in Bequia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a quick stop in Bequia to wait out some more nasty weather&#8230;\u00a0 It&#8217;s this season&#8217;s recurrent theme&#8230;. Bad weather! No storms, just too much wind.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s too much wind? For me it&#8217;s forecasts of 30kts. Not that my yarmouth23 isn&#8217;t capable of handling the conditions, it&#8217;s just that I don&#8217;t enjoy it&#8230; Playing sailor in 30kts plus is fun when you do it for a few hours&#8230; Not when you have to do it for several days! Trust me on this, I&#8217;ve been there&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4145\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale-boner-bar.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4145\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4145\" alt=\"Playing loner at the whale boner....\" src=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale-boner-bar.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale-boner-bar.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale-boner-bar-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whale-boner-bar-500x297.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playing loner at the whale boner&#8230;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately there always seems to be too much wind in the southern Caribbean. If only I were further north&#8230; I&#8217;ll just have console myself with yet another alcoholic refreshment&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4146\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/locals.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4146\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4146\" alt=\"Nice and calm in the bay at Bequia\" src=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/locals.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/locals.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/locals-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/locals-500x278.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nice and calm in the bay at Bequia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I must admit that there are worse places in the world to be stranded a few days&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a quick stop in Bequia to wait out some more nasty weather&#8230;\u00a0 It&#8217;s this season&#8217;s recurrent theme&#8230;. Bad weather! No storms, just too much wind. What&#8217;s too much wind? For me it&#8217;s forecasts of 30kts. Not that my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=4142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1095],"tags":[1178,31,1277,854],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}