{"id":18,"date":"2016-05-10T01:23:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T01:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2018-01-06T02:55:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T02:55:54","slug":"about-this-site","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"About This Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2013.08_Lansmansgrund-A%CC%8Aland-Arcturus-bow-to-the-rocks-350x225%402x.jpg?resize=700%2C450\" alt=\"Photo: \u00a9Andy Schell &amp; Mia Karlsson\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2013.08_Lansmansgrund-A%CC%8Aland-Arcturus-bow-to-the-rocks-350x225%402x.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2013.08_Lansmansgrund-A%CC%8Aland-Arcturus-bow-to-the-rocks-350x225%402x.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u00a9Andy Schell &amp; Mia Karlsson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This site documents the travels of Arcturus, a 1966 Allied Seabreeze. A boat I bought\u00a0sight unseen in the Fall of 2015 as she lay on the hard in Vasteras, Sweden. Since I live and work in California I can sail her only over the summer months. In the years to come I hope to take her from Sweden down through the French canals and on to the Mediterranean. From there, who knows?<\/p>\n<p>The blog posts to the left are listed with the most recent at the top. So if you really want to start at the beginning, I suggest you read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HOW I GOT HERE<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;.and move up from there.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us on our journey by subscribing to this blog. And follow us on instagram<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sailingarcturus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> @sailingarcturus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site documents the travels of Arcturus, a 1966 Allied Seabreeze. A boat I bought\u00a0sight unseen in the Fall of 2015 as she lay on the hard in Vasteras, Sweden. Since I live and work in California I can sail her only over the summer months. In the years to come I hope to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7wHME-i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1322,"url":"https:\/\/www.sailingarcturus.com\/?page_id=1322","url_meta":{"origin":18,"position":0},"title":"First Time Here? Read this&#8230;","author":"Becoming Salty","date":"October 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"IF YOU ARE BUYING A BOAT, it\u2019s almost inevitable that one smartass friend will tell you that this should be the second happiest day of your life. 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