In the year ahead, do you plan to buy a new cruising boat?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Many thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to last week’s survey on couple’s sailing offshore and watch systems.\u00a0 A whopping\u00a0 68% of those who replied sail offshore as a couple without extra crew.\u00a0 Asked about watch systems, more than half set night watches on a three hours-on and three-hours off schedule. But, many said this was flexible and adjusted by weather or heavy ship traffic. Several readers said they used a six on, six off schedule but this would be shortened in bad weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks. In the year ahead, do you plan to buy a new cruising boat? Many thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to last week’s survey on couple’s sailing offshore and watch systems.\u00a0 A whopping\u00a0 68% of those who replied sail offshore as a couple without extra crew.\u00a0 Asked about watch systems, more than half set night watches on a three hours-on and three-hours off schedule. But, many said this was flexible and adjusted by weather or heavy ship traffic. Several readers said they used a six on, six off schedule but this would be shortened in bad weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"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\/45162"}],"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=45162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45164,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45162\/revisions\/45164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}