{"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":"
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Swain Reefs (Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n

We slipped our lines at 5:30AM, leaving Keppel Bay for Island Head Creek where we’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’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’re motoring with about 10 miles to go the Pearl Bay.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we’ll head directly out to the Swain Reefs<\/a> via Bell Cay. It’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 – 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":"

We slipped our lines at 5:30AM, leaving Keppel Bay for Island Head Creek where we’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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocean-sailing-passages"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgewA-by","_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}]}}