{"id":1147,"date":"2015-11-20T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2015-11-20T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T09:00:17","slug":"starlights-voyage-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/2015\/11\/20\/starlights-voyage-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlight’s Voyage: The Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Boats<\/a>
Boats returning from evening races in Westhaven marina, Auckland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although I felt like the voyage was pretty much over when we arrived in Opua last week, the real goal and final destination for\u00a0Starlight<\/em> was Auckland. This is where the owners will make their new life, having left their home country in search of greener pastures.<\/p>\n

Now I can finally say that this voyage is complete, almost exactly 9 months after I first set foot on the Beneteau 445 that was named Livin On De Edge<\/em> at the time. Along the way we have sailed from the freezing temperatures of the east coast of the US in winter down through the tropics all the way to cool weather again south of the equator. The boat’s owners have gone from having zero offshore experience to having thousands of bluewater miles on their sailing resum\u00e9s. I don’t think they really knew what they were in for when they started this voyage, but they stuck with it and shared a rare experience together as a family that they will remember for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n

It is good to be in Auckland, but I won’t be staying long.\u00a0Idle Queen<\/em> has been waiting a long time now for me to finish her repairs and refit.<\/p>\n

\"West<\/a>
Starlight will stay here until her owners find long-term berthing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Race<\/a>
Sunset and the end of the day’s racing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Skyline<\/a>
The city of Auckland as seen from the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I felt like the voyage was pretty much over when we arrived in Opua last week, the real goal and final destination for\u00a0Starlight was Auckland. This is where the owners will make their new life, having left their home country in search of greener pastures. Now I can finally say that this voyage is… Continue reading Starlight’s Voyage: The Finish Line<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_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}},"categories":[59,85],"tags":[112,36,110,40,113],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruising-updates","category-starlight","tag-auckland","tag-cruising","tag-new-zealand","tag-setforsea","tag-westhaven-marina"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ztFW-iv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setforsea.com\/barrystravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}