{"id":30298,"date":"2018-03-28T16:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=30298"},"modified":"2018-03-28T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:23:32","slug":"how-one-family-went-from-new-boat-owners-to-blue-water-sailors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/03\/how-one-family-went-from-new-boat-owners-to-blue-water-sailors\/","title":{"rendered":"How One Family Went from New Boat Owners to Blue Water Sailors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Many dream of sailing away as a family on their own boat. Some actually do it. \u00a0In the British magazine<\/em> Yachting Monthly, <em>an English family tells the story of how they bought their first boat, fixed up, learned how to sail and then set off to sail around the world.\u00a0 We join Casper and Nichola Craven and their children (in Nichola&#8217;s photo above) as they are sailing from Panama to the Galapagos Islands..<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurreal. Not a breath of wind tonight. The sea\u2019s surface is flat and unbroken. The sky is utterly cloudless and filled with stars. A half moon lights up the entire picture. It\u2019s so still it\u2019s unbelievable. We are six miles north of the Equator and on the cusp of leaving the northern hemisphere. \u00a0Nichola and the children are excited.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/cruising\/how-one-family-went-from-first-time-boat-owners-to-round-the-world-sailors-113069\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many dream of sailing away as a family on their own boat. Some actually do it. \u00a0In the British magazine Yachting Monthly, an English family tells the story of how they bought their first boat, fixed up, learned how to sail and then set off to sail around the world.\u00a0 We join Casper and Nichola Craven and their children (in Nichola&#8217;s photo above) as they are sailing from Panama to the Galapagos Islands.. \u00a0 \u201cSurreal. Not a breath of wind tonight. The sea\u2019s surface is flat and unbroken. The sky is utterly cloudless and filled with stars. A half moon lights up the entire picture. It\u2019s so still it\u2019s unbelievable. We are six miles north of the Equator and on the cusp of leaving the northern hemisphere. \u00a0Nichola and the children are excited.\u201d Read more. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30280,"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\/30298"}],"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=30298"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30305,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298\/revisions\/30305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}