{"id":45668,"date":"2026-05-13T18:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=45668"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:44:53","slug":"survey-of-the-week-199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2026\/05\/survey-of-the-week-199\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week&#8217;s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/PRTR29V\">Have you calculated your engine&#8217;s fuel consumption at different RPMs?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to last week&#8217;s survey on the amount of time we spend aboard out boats. The answers fall into three distinct groups. 29% of readers are on their boat 40 or more weeks a year and are essentially living aboard. 36% are n their boats more than 12 weeks a year but are not living aboard full time. And, 35% are aboard their boats between 4 and 12 weeks for what many said was their &#8220;annual summer cruise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked to estimate how many miles you will sail this year, the answers split into similiar groups. 25% said more than 1,000 miles with many indicating much more than that. 47% said they would cruise between 500 and 1,000 miles and 28% said less than 500 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week&#8217;s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks. &nbsp; Have you calculated your engine&#8217;s fuel consumption at different RPMs? &nbsp; Many thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to last week&#8217;s survey on the amount of time we spend aboard out boats. The answers fall into three distinct groups. 29% of readers are on their boat 40 or more weeks a year and are essentially living aboard. 36% are n their boats more than 12 weeks a year but are not living aboard full time. And, 35% are aboard their boats between 4 and 12 weeks for what many said was their &#8220;annual summer cruise.&#8221; Asked to estimate how many miles you will sail this year, the answers split into similiar groups. 25% said more than 1,000 miles with many indicating much more than that. 47% said they would cruise between 500 and 1,000 miles and 28% said less than 500 miles.<\/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\/45668"}],"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=45668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45670,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45668\/revisions\/45670"}],"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=45668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}