{"id":1280,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:13:57","slug":"newporter-41-vs-freeport-41-for-caribbean-cruising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/newporter-41-vs-freeport-41-for-caribbean-cruising\/","title":{"rendered":"Newporter 41 vs. Freeport 41 for Caribbean Cruising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p> Hi, I am deciding between a Newporter 41 &amp; an Islander Freeport 41. My boyfriend &amp; I plan to cruise around the Caribbean for a fairly extended period &amp; both of us have heard mixed reviews about the sailing capabilities of each (spanning&#8230;sails pretty good, handles like a dog, porpoises through the water, handles well for a cruising boat). We&#8217;re not interested in a high performance racing boat, but we will want to be able to head up into the wind in rough weather. I&#8217;ve found basically no info on the Newporter 41, &amp; not too much on the other. Can you help? &#8211; Barb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Barb: If we are talking about the same boats, the Newport 41 is a very nice sailboat, and will go uphill reasonably well for a boat of its size and configuration. The Freeport 41 is no designed or built as an open ocean boat. But has lots of space. Better for the Bahamas and ICW, but I would not want to make uphill passages aboard against the Caribbean trades. Steve<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I am deciding between a Newporter 41 &amp; an Islander Freeport 41. My boyfriend &amp; I plan to cruise <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/newporter-41-vs-freeport-41-for-caribbean-cruising\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-the-right-boat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280"}],"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=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36446,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/36446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}