{"id":10246,"date":"2019-10-30T06:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=10246"},"modified":"2019-10-30T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:31:07","slug":"yup-going-to-antigua-soon-and-how-fast-can-crabs-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=10246","title":{"rendered":"Yup, going to Antigua soon. And how fast can crabs run?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post I reported that my crew had problems with their passports, both of them, with expiration within the minimum required six month window.\u00a0 \u00a0 However, with some fast footwork and phone calls to Antigua, they were given the “green light” to come anyway.\u00a0 I fully expect that we will encounter some resistance in Antigua when we check in but we “have names” and will say that we were told that it’s AOK.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s all set for now.\u00a0 I guess all I can say is “details to come”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “Yes, officer, most excellent immigration person, we have flights booked to go home in a few days.\u00a0 Not to worry we will be gone before our passports expire.”<\/p>\n

Today I address the Salty Dawg fleet regarding our arrival plans for Antigua, checking in and other mundane issues. I’ll also talk about the week of events we have planned to celebrate our arrival.\u00a0 \u00a0I’m here to tell you that I am really excited about sharing all that.<\/p>\n

It seems that we also have a pretty good number of kids on this trip and I’ll be reaching out to my contacts at the Antigua Yacht Club to see what we can come up with to keep the “younguns” happy.\u00a0 That should be fun.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I received a note from my contact Andrew at the North Sails sail loft in Antigua.\u00a0 He’s putting on a reception for our group which I am sure will be great fun and now it’s going to be even better.\u00a0 He’s proposing that we have “crab races”.\u00a0 \u00a0Yes, crab races.\u00a0 “So, Bob, what are crab races?\u00a0 What sort of crabs do the racing and how long is the race?”.<\/p>\n

I have absolutely no idea but he sent me this photo of a “race”. \"\"As near as I can tell, the pink one is winning,\u00a0 This sounds like fun and probably even more so after a few rum punches.<\/p>\n

We have a full week of events planned and I’ll surely be gushing about each of them here as the week unfolds.\u00a0 Wish me luck.\u00a0 I’m all about Antigua.\u00a0 Can ya tell?<\/p>\n

From your end, you will be able to follow the fleet along as we make our way south as each boat will be checking in multiple times a day with a GPS tracker.\u00a0 The page with all the boats listed will look something like this with tracks of the 70 odd boats that are making the run to various ports south.\u00a0 \"\"The largest group is the one going to Antigua and perhaps after my scintillating talk today, perhaps even more.\u00a0 That’s me, ever hopeful…<\/p>\n

So, the page you should bookmark and refer to day and night by clicking here<\/a>.\u00a0 When you open the page put in SDR for the “group” and see everyone or just Pandora under “name”.\u00a0 \u00a0 You can also select specific date ranges or just opt to see each boat’s most recent position.<\/p>\n

Another option is to follow this link<\/a> to see Pandora’s track alone on my Garmin page as I will be putting up a new position note every four hours for the duration of the trip.\u00a0 You may have to zoom in to see where I am as the page often opens up with a “world view”.\u00a0 \u00a0Once you zoom in you can click on each position “spot” and see what our speed was at that moment.<\/p>\n

But wait, there’s more!!!<\/p>\n

I also plan to put up posts, perhaps as often as daily, about what’s going on aboard Pandora as we make our way south.\u00a0 Alas, no photos as my SSB modem is PAINFULLY SLOW so words only.\u00a0 \u00a0If you want to send me a note along the way, feel free to send a note to my “at sea” email, WDG5288@sailmail.com.\u00a0 Remember that this is SLOW connection so please choose your words carefully.\u00a0 Als0, if it’s rough I may not be in the mood to write.\u00a0 \u00a0If you want to get a “ping” when I post, sign up with your email.<\/p>\n

We don’t know yet when we will be leaving as the weather picture isn’t clear quite yet.\u00a0 It is important that we wait for a good weather window to make our run across the Gulf Stream, which can be really nasty when conditions are not right.\u00a0 \u00a0Not to alarm anyone, but they don’t call the area around Cape Hatteras the “grave yard of the Atlantic” for nothing.\u00a0 Don’t worry, we will be careful.<\/p>\n

So there you have it and today we begin our daily weather briefings so I expect that I will be able to put up more details soon.<\/p>\n

And about that crab racing and exactly how fast can they run?\u00a0 I guess we will both have to wait to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last post I reported that my crew had problems with their passports, both of them, with expiration within the minimum required six month window.\u00a0 \u00a0 However, with some fast footwork and phone calls to Antigua, they were given the “green light” to come anyway.\u00a0 I fully expect that we will encounter some resistance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10250,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions\/10250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}