{"id":10840,"date":"2014-06-16T12:57:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T12:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/2014\/06\/we-are-getting-closer-2\/"},"modified":"2015-09-22T23:18:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T23:18:14","slug":"we-are-getting-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/2014\/06\/we-are-getting-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"We are getting closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/A-grey-and-foggy-day-in-the-North-Atlantic.jpg\" width=\"600px\" height=\"400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div>\n<p>  The winds continue to be favourable, and we are making very good progress.  Tomorrow morning we should be close to Cape Farewell, Greenland&#8217;s  southernmost point, and we shall launch the first of the two weather buoys  that we have been given by Meteo France on behalf of the World  Meteorological Organisation. We have been asked to deploy it in the area of  the East Greenland Current, a cold current that sweeps through the Denmark  Strait separating Greenland from Iceland. Along the way it picks up icebergs  calved by the glaciers along Greenland&#8217;s coast and carries them southwards.  It is believed that one of these collided with the Titanic, and as from  tonight we shall start keeping an eye out for icebergs, mostly by radar as  visibility is still very poor.  <\/p>\n<p>   After two days of an entirely deserted ocean, with not a ship anywhere near,  last night we had company: we had picked up on our AIS the tanker Maersk  Edgar when it was still 36 miles away. As it was getting closer we could see  that we were on a possible collision course. Soon afterwards we were called  on VHF radio by the officer on duty, who informed us that he was aware of  our presence, and that he was altering course to pass behind us. He also  warned us that he was going to start sounding his foghorn every two minutes  as he was entering fog, and that we should not panic.   <\/p>\n<p>  Today is my granddaughter Nera&#8217;s birthday. I called her on my Iridium  satphone and told her that I remember vividly the day exactly 15 years ago  when we were sailing from Tahiti to Hawaii, with Ivan and my niece Marianne,  and we received the news of her birth. This time I am also sailing with  Ivan, but the surroundings could not be more different: for the last four  days we have had cold, damp and misty days, the air temperature is down to 8  degrees, as is that of the water, and last night we had to put on the  heating for the first time. Nick and Ivan, both now awake, join me in  wishing Nera a happy birthday!    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<p> The winds continue to be favourable, and we are making very good progress. Tomorrow morning we should be close to Cape Farewell, Greenland&#8217;s southernmost point, and we shall launch the first &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/2014\/06\/we-are-getting-closer\/\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-aventura","odd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30934,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840\/revisions\/30934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}