{"id":743,"date":"2017-03-10T05:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/?p=743"},"modified":"2017-03-10T05:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:16:06","slug":"a-great-day-off-foiling-around-on-holbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"A great day off &#8211; Foiling around on Holbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day off is always great but even better when\u00a0it&#8217; windy too.<\/p>\n<p>Winds were perfect for the foil. Initially 12 or 13 knots side off meaning fairly flat water. (we had boat support if things got tricky) Saulius and I foiled upwind 4 or 5 km \u00a0to Punta Mosquito but as\u00a0we got closer the point the wind shifted more side shore and stronger\u00a0so I decided to head\u00a0back to the main spot and enjoyed being very powered on my 10 edge. It was great to get some solid practice and consistency to my foiling tacks and jibes.\u00a0Our trusty\u00a0gopro and homemade linemount caught some of the action.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kite Foil - Foilboarding Tacks and gybes on Isla Holbox\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_UtFmaYL3XU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day off is always great but even better when\u00a0it&#8217; windy too. Winds were perfect for the foil. Initially 12 or 13 knots side off meaning fairly flat water. (we had boat support if things got tricky) Saulius and I foiled upwind 4 or 5 km \u00a0to Punta Mosquito but as\u00a0we got closer the point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/?p=743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A great day off &#8211; Foiling around on Holbox<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hydrofoil","category-kite","category-kite-spots","category-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0204.jpg?fit=2724%2C1932&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenitswindy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}