{"id":14107,"date":"2011-04-27T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/vanuatu-sailing-tall-tales-and-true-2\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:30:00","slug":"vanuatu-sailing-tall-tales-and-true-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/04\/vanuatu-sailing-tall-tales-and-true-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu sailing: Tall tales and true"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/images.smh.com.au\/2010\/10\/22\/2002692\/Vanuatu-Sailing-420x0.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"http:\/\/images.smh.com.au\/2010\/10\/22\/2002692\/Vanuatu-Sailing-420x0.jpg\" width=\"420\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Under sail &#8230; on board the brigantine Soren Larsen. <em>Photo: Melanie Ball<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Melanie Ball signs up as a crew member on a sailing adventure to Vanuatu&#8217;s remote northern islands. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The sky is a swathe of black velvet, the sea a lumpy, inky blue and my knuckles are white, so firm is my grip on the wooden wheel as I steer Soren Larsen into the night. I am concentrating hard, too, rarely taking my gaze from the compass, a brass-encased beauty, on the 44 metres of oak and iron under my control. It is exhilarating being at the helm on only the second night of an 18-day tall-ship journey through Vanuatu&#8217;s northern islands. Slightly unnerving, too, despite the captain&#8217;s close supervision. <\/p>\n<p>An hour later I am on lookout, jacket zipped to my chin and knees flexing with the roller-coaster ride. I shelter behind the forward hatch but it gives little protection when a wave falls over the bow, diluting my hot chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/travel\/tall-tales-and-true-20101021-16v79.html#ixzz1Kg9Jkc5d\">http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/travel\/tall-tales-and-true-20101021-16v79.html#ixzz1Kg9Jkc5d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under sail &#8230; on board the brigantine Soren Larsen. Photo: Melanie Ball Melanie Ball signs up as a crew member on a sailing adventure to Vanuatu&#8217;s remote northern islands. The sky is a swathe of black velvet, the sea a lumpy, inky blue and my knuckles are white, so firm is my grip on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-14107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soren-larsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}