{"id":46034,"date":"2026-08-19T18:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=46034"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:54:27","slug":"survey-of-the-week-210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2026\/08\/survey-of-the-week-210\/","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\/S8JF65R\">Have you ever subscribed to a weather routing service for an offshore passage?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to everyone who took the time to answer last week&#8217;s survey on cleaning your engine&#8217;s head exchanger. Of those who replied, 43% do flush their heat exchangers and most do so with fresh water alone. But, several said they fliush with Barnacle Buster and or a 50% solution of calcium-lime remover. Asked about annually cleaning the exchanger manually, 38% said they do and use a wood dowel or a narrow, stiff bristle brush.<\/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 ever subscribed to a weather routing service for an offshore passage? &nbsp; Many thanks to everyone who took the time to answer last week&#8217;s survey on cleaning your engine&#8217;s head exchanger. Of those who replied, 43% do flush their heat exchangers and most do so with fresh water alone. But, several said they fliush with Barnacle Buster and or a 50% solution of calcium-lime remover. Asked about annually cleaning the exchanger manually, 38% said they do and use a wood dowel or a narrow, stiff bristle brush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46034"}],"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=46034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46037,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46034\/revisions\/46037"}],"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=46034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}