{"id":41002,"date":"2023-06-09T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=41002"},"modified":"2023-06-09T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T15:05:09","slug":"41002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2023\/06\/41002\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to <em>Pas de Deux<\/em> after a dinghy trip to a patch reef for snorkeling.\u00a0 The water clarity was the best we&#8217;d ever seen and the sun reflections produced these amazing views.\u00a0 Look closely for the Cushion Stars laying on the bottom, about 15 feet deep.<\/p>\n<p>Our stop at Hogsty Reef, Bahamas, was a example of making cruiser lemonade.\u00a0 We had departed from St John, USVI several days earlier for an intended non-stop passage to the Chesapeake Bay, but had to divert due to forecast bad weather further north.\u00a0 We diverted toward the Turks and Caicos, but kept going to Hogsty to take advantage of calm conditions needed to visit the isolated atoll.\u00a0 We&#8217;d always wanted to visit Hogsty in prior visits to the Bahamas, but never had the necessary settled weather when we were close enough to get there.\u00a0 We stayed two nights before needing to move on before higher winds made this anchorage untenable.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Nelson and Donna DiFelice (and crew Jim and Amy Agles)<br \/>\nS\/V <em>Pas de Deux<\/em><br \/>\nCatana 471-44\u00a0 (screenshot from GoPro video)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to Pas de Deux after a dinghy trip to a patch reef for snorkeling.\u00a0 The water clarity was the best we&#8217;d ever seen and the sun reflections produced these amazing views.\u00a0 Look closely for the Cushion Stars laying on the bottom, about 15 feet deep. Our stop at Hogsty Reef, Bahamas, was a example of making cruiser lemonade.\u00a0 We had departed from St John, USVI several days earlier for an intended non-stop passage to the Chesapeake Bay, but had to divert due to forecast bad weather further north.\u00a0 We diverted toward the Turks and Caicos, but kept going to Hogsty to take advantage of calm conditions needed to visit the isolated atoll.\u00a0 We&#8217;d always wanted to visit Hogsty in prior visits to the Bahamas, but never had the necessary settled weather when we were close enough to get there.\u00a0 We stayed two nights before needing to move on before higher winds made this anchorage untenable. Dave Nelson and Donna DiFelice (and crew Jim and Amy Agles) S\/V Pas de Deux Catana 471-44\u00a0 (screenshot from GoPro video)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41002"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41004,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41002\/revisions\/41004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}