{"id":12479,"date":"2018-12-11T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=12479"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:32:12","slug":"departing-for-martinique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=12479","title":{"rendered":"Departing for Martinique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tomorrow morning (December 12) at about 10 am local time, we will leave Marina Rubicon heading for Martinique in the Caribbean.\u00a0 To get the best winds, the planned route will take us southwest towards Cape Verde before we turn more to the west.\u00a0 The passage is about 2900 nautical miles (5370 kilometers) and will take us 18 to 21 days.\u00a0 The forecast for the first week is excellent.\u00a0 The boat is ready to go and so are we.\u00a0 Having\u00a0Tom Erik and Vivi-Ann along as crew will make the Atlantic crossing much easier.\u00a0\u00a0We will post updates\u00a0to the blog en route and you can always check on our position at our shared map page here:  <a href=\"https:\/\/share.garmin.com\/MarkPitt\">https:\/\/share.garmin.com\/MarkPitt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TomVivi-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TomVivi-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TomVivi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TomVivi-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TomVivi.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow morning (December 12) at about 10 am local time, we will leave Marina Rubicon heading for Martinique in the Caribbean.\u00a0 To get the best winds, the planned route will take us southwest towards Cape Verde before we turn more to the west.\u00a0 The passage is about 2900 nautical miles (5370 kilometers) and will take &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=12479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Departing for Martinique&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain-2018"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}