{"id":7357,"date":"2017-06-29T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=7357"},"modified":"2017-06-29T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:58:07","slug":"underway-destination-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=7357","title":{"rendered":"Underway!\u00a0 Destination Essex."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Thursday morning and we were underway by 05:30.\u00a0 After waiting two days in Hampton, the winds are now from the SW so we won\u2019t be motoring into the wind.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately, the winds, albeit from a favorable direction, are too light to sail but they are supposed to increase to around 20kts later today and should hold for much of our trip.<\/p>\n

If things go well, I expect that we will be in Essex as of Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 I am hopeful that we will be in by late afternoon as the tide will turn against us in the race and river at about 16:30 which will slow us down a lot.<\/p>\n

However, for the moment seas are very calm and we are motor sailing, mostly motoring, along at a reasonable clip, although slower than normal as the bottom is a bit slimy after sitting in the marina for 5 weeks in Hampton.<\/p>\n

As we headed out this morning, we had a wonderful sunrise.\u00a0\"\"We also passed a warship heading into the harbor.\u00a0\"\"\"\"She was flanked with four patrol boats complete with blue flashing lights warning us to keep our distance, which we did.\"\"I forgot to mention that when we arrived in Hampton I was greeted by a dead fridge and freezer.\u00a0 The pump that supplies cooling water to the compressor had failed and the unit had shut down.\u00a0 With the cabin all sealed up and in the 90s, the freezer and fridge soon were that hot too.\u00a0 With them all buttoned up things got nasty pretty fast and when I opened them up I was greeted by,… Well, let\u2019s just say it was a seething mass of flying insects and maggots.\u00a0 \u00a0Brenda would have just loved it. \u00a0Sorry, no pictures. \u00a0I do have my limits. \u00a0“Thank goodness Bob.”<\/p>\n

Happily, If I can use “happily” so close to \u201cmaggot\u201d, I had a spare water pump which I installed.\u00a0 Let me just say that it took a while to clean everything up but now the fridge is again working fine even if it remains a bit, shall we say, aromatic.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll sort through that when I get home.\u00a0 Yum\u2026<\/p>\n

I guess that\u2019s all for now but I expect to post again in the morning and again when we round Montauk on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Until then, don\u2019t forget to check out \u201cwhere in the world is Pandora<\/a>\u201d as I\u2019ll be posting our position every two hours for the duration of the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Thursday morning and we were underway by 05:30.\u00a0 After waiting two days in Hampton, the winds are now from the SW so we won\u2019t be motoring into the wind.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately, the winds, albeit from a favorable direction, are too light to sail but they are supposed to increase to around 20kts later today and […]<\/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-7357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357","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=7357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7362,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions\/7362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}