{"id":308,"date":"2015-12-01T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2015-12-01T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T14:06:49","slug":"the-moon-is-our-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"The moon is our friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, 24 November<\/p>\n<p>Today we knew we would have two shoaling areas to transit, and again planned for transit during high tide. \u00a0The water was deeper than expected and the currents were strong. \u00a0But no dramas or complications were experienced and we enjoyed a lovely day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-310 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0144-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0144\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0144-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0144-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We commented on the crazy currents to the dock master at Dataw Island Marina, and that is when we learned we had hit the spring tide effected by the full moon. \u00a0We could expect the water to rise by 10 feet when the next high tide came in.<\/p>\n<p>With the greater tide swings the currents would also be running stronger.<\/p>\n<p>This also meant that low tides would be lower &#8211; so we definitely knew we wanted to time shoaling areas with rising or high tides for the next day.<\/p>\n<p>So with everything else we have to keep in mind for life on the boat we are learning we must also consider lunar cycles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-311 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0145-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0145\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0145-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0145-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, 24 November Today we knew we would have two shoaling areas to transit, and again planned for transit during high tide. \u00a0The water was deeper than expected and the currents were strong. \u00a0But no dramas or complications were experienced and we enjoyed a lovely day. We commented on the crazy currents to the dock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=308\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The moon is our friend<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}