{"id":436,"date":"2002-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-03-07T22:35:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T03:35:48","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew163\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat Watching at Simpson Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">Indulge in some boat-watching in Simpson Lagoon on St. Martin, where Linda and Steve admire the magnificent SWAN.<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Boat watching is one of the joys of cruising the Caribbean. There&#8217;s a wide variety of sizes, types, ages, colors, rigs, and gear. As we were leaving Simpson Lagoon on St. Martin off our starboard bow was the mighty MARI-CHA lll -146&#8242; of carbon fiber speed, with a huge ketch rig. And to port was SWAN, one of the few vessels around which could pull your eyes from MARI-CHA. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/swanprofile.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>She is huge, with a towering rig with real (and they are used!) square yards on the foremast. Check out the upper two yards-they are on conventional roller furlers. That sounds good to me (would you want to go aloft in a squall and furl those suckers?). The lower three yards are brailed up, in the traditional fashion. If it is blowing, the crew then has to go aloft to secure the sails to their yards. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/anchorwash.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>To get a feel for the scale of things check out the crew using this high-powered anchor chain wash. That bow must be fifteen feet or more out of the water. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/swanhelm.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>You would hope SWAN has a powerful autopilot. But by the look of these double wheels, they might want to keep the crew from getting bored. There is room for two crew per wheel-that&#8217;s four sets of muscles wrestling with the rudder. I&#8217;ll bet the communication between those four helmsmen gets interesting when they are carving waves downwind! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indulge in some boat-watching in Simpson Lagoon on St. Martin, where Linda and Steve admire the magnificent SWAN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beowulf-logs","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}