{"id":5617,"date":"2009-05-31T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2009-05-31T02:19:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T07:19:04","slug":"going-slow-a-new-way-to-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/going-slow-a-new-way-to-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Slow &#8211; A New Way To Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lofoten-islands-norway-21.jpg\" alt=\"Lofoten-Islands-Norway-21\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are used to covering lots of territory when we move. In high latitude summer, with constant visibility, we will often put in 200 miles during a day hop. But there is so much to see in this part of the world we have recently slowed down, the better to appreciate our surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Take the &#8220;passages&#8221; of the last two days.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lofoten-islands-norway-12.jpg\" alt=\"Lofoten-Islands-Norway-12\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve traversed 20 nautical miles, ducking in and out of six small harbors in the process.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lofoten-islands-norway-2.jpg\" alt=\"Lofoten-Islands-Norway-2\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Going slow, seven knots instead of our usual 11, allows more time to appreciate the beauty which surrounds us, while relaxing a bit on the intricate navigation required.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lofoten-islands-norway-3.jpg\" alt=\"Lofoten-Islands-Norway-3\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a three hours we will experience clear skies, rain squalls, and wonderful shadow making clouds.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lofoten-islands-norway-18.jpg\" alt=\"Lofoten-Islands-Norway-18\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every few miles there is a charming village to explore.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lofoten-islands-norway-13.jpg\" alt=\"Lofoten-Islands-Norway-13\" width=\"&lt;\/p\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are used to covering lots of territory when we move. In high latitude summer, with constant visibility, we will <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/going-slow-a-new-way-to-cruise\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617"}],"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=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}