{"id":14911,"date":"2011-01-22T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=14911"},"modified":"2011-01-20T02:26:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T07:26:31","slug":"an-interesting-motorsailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/an-interesting-motorsailor\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Motorsailor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Costa-del-Morte-3-106.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Costa-del-Morte-3-106.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are going to cruise in cold climates a large pilot house is worth consideration<\/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\/2011\/01\/Costa-del-Morte-3-1081.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Costa-del-Morte-3-108.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are tradeoffs. Aesthetics, windage, weight, and deck configuration are all difficult to handle design wise, and put a definite crimp in the cruising lifestyle if you are doing a tradewind circumnavigation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Costa-del-Morte-3-109.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Costa-del-Morte-3-109.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course you are not going to be very fast under sail unless heading off the wind in a fresh breeze.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Costa-del-Morte-3-112.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Costa-del-Morte-3-112.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which is where the motor part of motorsailor comes into play. Progress slow? Fire off the iron genoa and do your part to hold off the coming ice age. Meanwhile, you will be very cozy standing watch in this big pilot house, if the weather is wet or chilly.<\/p>\n<p>We used to turn our nose up at this sort of configuration. But now, with maturity, and a propensity for cold weather cruising, it don&#8217;t look so bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are going to cruise in cold climates a large pilot house is worth consideration<\/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-14911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911"}],"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=14911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}