{"id":29883,"date":"2018-02-08T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29883"},"modified":"2018-02-08T12:04:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:04:44","slug":"arctic-sailors-reflect-on-their-adventure-to-the-north-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/02\/arctic-sailors-reflect-on-their-adventure-to-the-north-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Sailors Reflect on Their Adventure to the North Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2017, two polar yachts attempted to sail to the North Pole to send a message to the world about melting sea ice and the opening of the Arctic to watercraft. One of those yachts, the <em>Snow Dragon II<\/em>, is currently home ported in Sitka.<\/p>\n<p>Three skippers from\u00a0<em>Arctic Mission<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Frances Brann, Krystina Scheller, and Erik de Jong \u2013 talk about what they saw in the Arctic from the deck of a sailboat, why they decided to turn around before reaching the North Pole, and how the journey changed them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never expected to do something that really hadn\u2019t been done before,\u201d said Scheller. \u201cTo realize that sailboats haven\u2019t sailed in the water that we\u2019ve sailed in and that there is this newly accessible ocean that we as a planet can decide on its future is an opportunity we don\u2019t get everyday.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcaw.org\/2018\/02\/06\/navigating-ice-polar-bears-sailing-crew-reflects-\">Read more and listen to the interview.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2017, two polar yachts attempted to sail to the North Pole to send a message to the world about melting sea ice and the opening of the Arctic to watercraft. One of those yachts, the Snow Dragon II, is currently home ported in Sitka. Three skippers from\u00a0Arctic Mission\u00a0\u2013 Frances Brann, Krystina Scheller, and Erik de Jong \u2013 talk about what they saw in the Arctic from the deck of a sailboat, why they decided to turn around before reaching the North Pole, and how the journey changed them. \u201cI never expected to do something that really hadn\u2019t been done before,\u201d said Scheller. \u201cTo realize that sailboats haven\u2019t sailed in the water that we\u2019ve sailed in and that there is this newly accessible ocean that we as a planet can decide on its future is an opportunity we don\u2019t get everyday.\u201d Read more and listen to the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29884,"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\/29883"}],"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=29883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29890,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29883\/revisions\/29890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}