{"id":69,"date":"2010-10-27T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T23:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boatlady.wordpress.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2010-10-27T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T23:17:23","slug":"transatlantic-crossings-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/2010\/10\/27\/transatlantic-crossings-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Crossings &#8211; Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/boatlady.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/ms_pilsudski_nowy_jork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70\" title=\"MS Pi\u0142sudski\" src=\"http:\/\/boatlady.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/ms_pilsudski_nowy_jork.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\"><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">MS Pi\u0142sudski, Polish Ship. The first of its kind to have an indoor swimming pool. Completed 1935, Sank 1939.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Today, I would like to discuss Transatlantic Crossings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">Why, you ask, oh, no reason.&nbsp; I&#8217;m just curious as to whether a motor yacht say, 60-70 feet could make such a trip &#8211; and what would be involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">&nbsp;I&#8217;ve been doing some research (ie. I&#8217;ve been looking up Transatlantic Crossings in google).&nbsp; And surprisingly, there is little of interest on the topic pertaining to motor yachts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">Some things I do know about Transatlantic Crossings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">when relatively small vessels cross the Atlantic, they can do so in convoys which are referred to as rallies.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">you can pay to have your smallish vessel transported on a large one.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yacht-transport.com\/page\/dytlatest.html\">http:\/\/www.yacht-transport.com\/page\/dytlatest.html<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">you can cross the Atlantic in a rowboat (or a raft). <a href=\"http:\/\/rowforwater.com\/challenge\/boat\/\">http:\/\/rowforwater.com\/challenge\/boat\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">it&#8217;s much more common to find info on the net re: sailing across the Atlantic versus going in a Motor Yacht.&nbsp; I suspect that&#8217;s because the sailboats haven&#8217;t got the massive fuel requirements of the motor yachts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcruising.com\/arc\/event_info.aspx\">http:\/\/www.worldcruising.com\/arc\/event_info.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">there exists an apparatus called a &#8220;Drogue&#8221; which is described as &#8220;The Sailors Airbag&#8221; which is meant to protect a boat from a breaking wave strike.&nbsp; It effectively slows the boat down so that it doesn&#8217;t speed down the slope of a wave crashing into the next wave.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">I think we&#8217;ll get one of those.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">I&#8217;ll post Part II when I actually know something useful about Transatlantic Crossings (well, that drogue sounds useful).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS Pi\u0142sudski, Polish Ship. The first of its kind to have an indoor swimming pool. Completed 1935, Sank 1939. Today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/2010\/10\/27\/transatlantic-crossings-part-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transatlantic Crossings &#8211; Part I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2,20,21,22,23,5,24,6],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats","tag-boat","tag-drogue","tag-motor-yacht-rallies","tag-ms-pilsudski","tag-ocean-rowing","tag-the-panama-canal","tag-transatlantic-crossings","tag-yacht"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leannoconnor.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}