I fear that you may think we are on a perpetual vacation, sipping sundownders in the cockpit and watching the sun set over the Pacific while we nibble on tropical fruit in our bathing suits \u2013 tanned, unwrinkled, and stress-free.\u00a0 If this is what you picture, then it is our fault. \u00a0This perpetual vacation is not our life; this is not our adventure. \u00a0If you are living vicariously through us, I\u2019m sorry to disappoint your fantasy.\u00a0 Perhaps we have shown too much of the highlights reel on our website and not enough of the high anxiety.\u00a0 The truth is that cruising is much more complex and involves much more character building than a vacation usually requires.\u00a0 It is more like a full time job; one that doesn\u2019t send you to meetings but instead can sometimes put you in fear of meeting your maker.\u00a0 There have been times that I would have given anything to be sitting safely in a meeting.\u00a0 Any <\/i>meeting.\u00a0 A cruising friend once told us that when he\u2019s asked (as he often is) what he does with all his spare time he replies, \u201cWhen I find some, I\u2019ll let you know.\u201d\u00a0 To illustrate cruising life while at sea, let me recount our longest passage to date \u2013 from Puerto Chiapas, Mexico to Balboa, Panama. \u00a09 days on the high seas.<\/p>\n
Keep in mind that this is my experience on this passage.\u00a0 If Darold were to write this blog “it would say we motored part of the way – no fun. \u00a0We sailed part of the way – good fun”. \u00a0Just as if Bernard Montessier (a famous, hard-core sailor) were to write about this passage he might say, \u201c9 days to Panama.\u00a0 Light winds\u201d.<\/p>\n
This is a long blog post.\u00a0 For those of you who embark on the voyage of reading it, take solace in the fact that, despite its length, it will take a mere fraction of the time to read it than it would to actually make this passage.\u00a0 I’ve broken it out into multiple blog posts so that you are not lulled to sleep.\u00a0 Enjoy..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I fear that you may think we are on a perpetual vacation, sipping sundownders in the cockpit and watching the sun set over the Pacific while we nibble on tropical fruit in our bathing suits \u2013 tanned, unwrinkled, and stress-free.\u00a0 If this is what you picture, then it is our fault. \u00a0This perpetual vacation is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}