{"id":11319,"date":"2010-05-13T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=11319"},"modified":"2010-05-14T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T18:41:34","slug":"the-route-west-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/the-route-west-decided\/","title":{"rendered":"The Route West Decided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been wrestling with the route west for <em>Wind Horse<\/em> and crew. There are good reasons for each of the options we <a href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/which-route-westbound-across-the-atlantic\/\">discussed back in Februar<\/a>y. The decision has been simmering in the background, and only started thinking about a route decision a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2010-cruise.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-cruise.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After four high latitude summers we have decided it is time for a change in scenery. We are going to head south, to Spain and Portugal, possibly some time in the Med, to the island of Madeira and then the Canaries.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the decision matrix was the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, or ARC as it is \u00a0known. This is the 25th anniversary of its founding. <em>Moonshadow<\/em>, a Deerfoot 2-62 won the first outing, and many of our yachts have made the ARC crossing in subsequent years, with more than a few trophies collected along the way. So we thought it might be fun to close this chapter in our own cruising plans with a trip across the pond doing the ARC to St Lucia.<\/p>\n<p>We have mixed feelings about hanging out with the crowds (notice we did not say hordes) in this part of the world. We&#8217;ve always avoided high density humanity in the past. But our stay in London last April opened our eyes to the benefits of some forms of concentrated civilization, and we are going to give it another shot.<\/p>\n<p>By the time <em>Wind Horse<\/em> is at rest in the Bahamas she will have covered 6978 nautical miles. That sounds like a lot, but this takes place over 6.5 months, and by our new standards, represents a leisurely pace.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wind Horse<\/em> will launch the end of next week at Berthons in the UK and we shall report in due course on what we find in Southwestern Europe.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been wrestling with the route west for Wind Horse and crew. There are good reasons for each of the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/the-route-west-decided\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}