{"id":29456,"date":"2017-11-29T15:19:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29456"},"modified":"2017-11-29T15:19:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:19:47","slug":"the-u-s-great-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/11\/the-u-s-great-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Great Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sweet Sensation<\/em>\u00a0crossed her wake on on 19 February at Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands after a trip of 9,037nm. Our extended Great Loop \u2013 one of the iconic sailing experiences on offer in the US, had taken us through the Intracoastal Waterway, rivers and the Great Lakes in our Prout 38 catamaran. Being British and in a sailing boat, we were something of a rarity on the Loop.<\/p>\n<p>Our circuit began at Fort Lauderdale on Florida\u2019s east coast, having made our way north through the eastern Caribbean. The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), a system of man made channels, natural rivers and sounds, runs from Florida to New York harbor, separated from the ocean by a narrow strip of land. At first we made\u00a0slow progress, waiting for numerous\u00a0bridges to open on schedule \u2013 17 of them on day one, and that was before we had even left Fort Lauderdale! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailingtoday.co.uk\/cruising\/cruising-stories\/the-us-great-loop\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Sensation\u00a0crossed her wake on on 19 February at Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands after a trip of 9,037nm. Our extended Great Loop \u2013 one of the iconic sailing experiences on offer in the US, had taken us through the Intracoastal Waterway, rivers and the Great Lakes in our Prout 38 catamaran. Being British and in a sailing boat, we were something of a rarity on the Loop. Our circuit began at Fort Lauderdale on Florida\u2019s east coast, having made our way north through the eastern Caribbean. The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), a system of man made channels, natural rivers and sounds, runs from Florida to New York harbor, separated from the ocean by a narrow strip of land. At first we made\u00a0slow progress, waiting for numerous\u00a0bridges to open on schedule \u2013 17 of them on day one, and that was before we had even left Fort Lauderdale! Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29457,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29456\/revisions\/29457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}