{"id":10584,"date":"2014-08-12T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T11:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/2014\/08\/westbound-boats-for-the-northwest-passage-2\/"},"modified":"2014-08-12T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T11:37:19","slug":"westbound-boats-for-the-northwest-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/2014\/08\/westbound-boats-for-the-northwest-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Westbound boats for the Northwest Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/m_Dundas-sunset.jpg\" width=\"600px\" height=\"400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The ice forecast for this season issued at the beginning of July gave <br \/>\nthe impression that this would be a normal year in the Canadian Arctic. <br \/>\nOn that basis, those planning a transit of the Northwest Passage from <br \/>\neast to west, such as Aventura, started heading west from Greenland in <br \/>\nlate July. Such timing would allow them to be well placed and ready to <br \/>\ngo as soon as the ice situation in the eastern approaches to the <br \/>\nNorthwest Passage became favourable.  Dundas Harbour, on the south shore <br \/>\nof Devon Island, in Lancaster Sound, is strategically the most <br \/>\nconvenient landfall for any westbound boat.<\/p>\n<p>Aventura was the first to arrive, and over the next two weeks a <br \/>\nprocession of boats passed through this well protected bay: Suilven <br \/>\n(GB), Manuvai (F), Arctic Tern (GB), Lillian B (USA), Drina (AUS), <br \/>\nRevenge (USA), Moloda (CND), Catryn (GB), Gjoa (CND), Maia-B (GB) and <br \/>\nSnow Dragon (USA).  The latter two were not planning to continue west <br \/>\nbut return to Greenland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<p>The ice forecast for this season issued at the beginning of July gave the impression that this would be a normal year in the Canadian Arctic. On that basis, those planning a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/2014\/08\/westbound-boats-for-the-northwest-passage\/\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-aventura","odd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}