It looks like the boats that have not finished have light air ( it looks like 10 knots from the north, i.e. off the shore) and are subject to the tide that makes the Fastnet Race so challenging. “Ran” may well be winning on corrected time for a second time in a row, again helped by the light air on the course. “Snow Lion” is still fifty miles from the finish but steering a course straight to the finish. Once again the bigger boats benefitted from the weather pattern; but that’s ocean racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It looks like the boats that have not finished have light air ( it looks like 10 knots from the north, i.e. off the shore) and are subject to the tide that makes the Fastnet Race so challenging. “Ran” may well be winning on corrected time for a second time in a row, again helped … Continue reading RAN AGAIN?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2410,846,2384],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fastnet-race","tag-fastnet-race","tag-ran","tag-snow-lion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}