{"id":716,"date":"2014-10-24T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T01:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2014-10-24T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T02:29:10","slug":"sailing-to-the-swain-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Sailing to the Swain Reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_722\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.svsunnyspells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image-500x375.png\" alt=\"Swain Reefs (Google Earth)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swain Reefs (Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We slipped our lines at 5:30AM, leaving Keppel Bay for Island Head Creek where we&#8217;ll overnight tonight.  The plan is to stop off at Pearl Bay for lunch and a swim.  If the anchorage is not too rolly we may sleep there tonight, otherwise we&#8217;ll go into Island Head Creek on the flood tide at sunset.  We managed to sail about 4 hours this morning in a gentle easterly, but now we&#8217;re motoring with about 10 miles to go the Pearl Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we&#8217;ll head directly out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/thejohnharding3.wordpress.com\/tag\/the-swain-reefs\/page\/2\/\">Swain Reefs<\/a> via Bell Cay.  It&#8217;s about 60 miles and i want to get there with the sun still high in the sky so we can see the reefs.  The forecast is perfect &#8211; winds light and variable and clear skies for the next 7 days.  Locals tell me this weather pattern can linger for a fortnight or more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We slipped our lines at 5:30AM, leaving Keppel Bay for Island Head Creek where we&#8217;ll overnight tonight. The plan is to stop off at Pearl Bay for lunch and a swim. If the anchorage is not too rolly we may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/?p=716\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-sailing-passages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svsunnyspells.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}