{"id":66431,"date":"2024-08-27T11:58:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T02:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/27\/fiji-sail-master-uto-ni-yalo-tonga"},"modified":"2024-08-27T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T02:58:37","slug":"even-in-the-teeth-of-a-gale-she-has-time-for-a-hula-the-sailor-breaking-barriers-on-the-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66431","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Even in the teeth of a gale, she has time for a hula\u2019: the sailor breaking barriers on the Pacific ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First female Fijian sail master on traditional vessel Uto ni Yalo led a difficult  week-long voyage to the Pacific leaders\u2019 summit in Tonga<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles from Tonga, the winds began to intensify. Sail master Ivanancy Vunikura was helping lead the Uto ni Yalo, a vessel that had set off from Fiji days before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weather completely changed; the waves went up to four-metre swells and the wind went up to 25 to 30 knots. It was not easy sailing against the direction of the wind,\u201d Vunikura says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/27\/fiji-sail-master-uto-ni-yalo-tonga\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First female Fijian sail master on traditional vessel Uto ni Yalo led a difficult  week-long voyage to the Pacific leaders\u2019 summit in TongaIn the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles from Tonga, the winds began to intensify. Sail master Ivananc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,436,874,581,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-tonga"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66432,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431\/revisions\/66432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}