{"id":8412,"date":"2015-02-20T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8412"},"modified":"2015-02-18T13:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:47:37","slug":"windy-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8412","title":{"rendered":"Windy World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s said if you want to sail fromMexico back to to BC it&#8217;s easier to go to Hawaii and then swing back east. On the face of it this seems ridiculous, but the winds and currents are one of those absolutes we landlubbers often fail to appreciate. The advent of satellite imagery, open data and of course Google have made the resources available online a great way to visual the issues involved.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windyty.com\/?surface,wind,now,38.135,-111.445,3\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windyty.com\/?surface,wind,now,38.135,-111.445,3\">Visit the site<\/a> to play with the  maps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to see from this, that if one wishes to go north up the Baja Peninsula and the coast of California you will be head into the the wind the whole time. That means motoring the whole way and bashing into the waves. Better, and probably more comfortable, to sail west on a beam reach and then swing back; all you need is to be comfortable with being 1000 miles off shore. No biggee.<\/p>\n<p>And then take a look at the Atlantic: easy to see why Columbus ended up in the Caribbean rather than New York \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s said if you want to sail fromMexico back to to BC it&#8217;s easier to go to Hawaii and then swing back east. On the face of it this seems ridiculous, but the winds and currents are one of those absolutes we landlubbers often fail to appreciate. The advent of satellite imagery, open data and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,90],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}