{"id":11737,"date":"2016-10-12T19:09:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11737"},"modified":"2016-10-12T19:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:15:02","slug":"sailing-not-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11737","title":{"rendered":"Sailing (dream, not plane)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In which stir craziness tightens its grip around the fevered brain of our stay-at-home hero<\/h2>\n

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I had a bonkers dream last night.<\/p>\n

I dreamt that I bought a yacht.<\/p>\n

It was in Australia.<\/p>\n

So I flew out to the Land of Oz, where we had a couple of shakedown cruises.<\/p>\n

The yacht was crewed, and I only took the helm for the final ‘back to port’ leg.<\/p>\n

We agreed a price and I stocked the yacht for the journey back to the UK.<\/p>\n

So far, so straightforward.<\/p>\n

But then my dream became locked in a weird logical loop.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t decide on the route back home.<\/p>\n

Should I head northwest through the Indian Ocean?<\/p>\n

If I did (my dream reasoned), I could pick up a stopover in the Maldives\/BIOT, before heading in to the Gulf of Aden, then the Red Sea, Gulf of Suez, and finally in to the Med via the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n

From Port Said it would be a relatively straightforward journey through the Med, through the Straits of Gibraltar, and then northwards, hugging the coast of Portugal, across the Bay of Biscay and back to Blighty.<\/p>\n

Or should I head east-northeast, across the South Pacific, stopping en route at the Cook Islands, and French Polynesia, before crossing to Panama, and motoring through the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n

Then crossing The Atlantic to Cape Verde, before heading northwards via the Canary Islands, Funchal, crossing Biscay before landing back at Blighty.<\/p>\n

Here’s a map showing (approximately at least) the two routes:<\/p>\n

\"Dream
Dream of routes to the UK from Oz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The yacht, by the way, was an HR 36, which makes the dream all the more bonkers, because Hallberg-Rassy yachts are made in, er, Sweden.<\/p>\n

\"Hallberg
Hallberg Rassy 36<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not Australia at all.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I don’t know which route I did choose, because the bulk of the dream was taken up with agonising over the route decision.<\/p>\n

And I woke, before I’d got around to making the final choice.<\/p>\n

I am beginning to suspect that my dreams have become more odd – they have certainly become rememberable (yes, it is a word, I checked) – since my heart attack.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s the meds.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I have spent much of today on various sailing forums, trying to ascertain which would be the best route from Oz to the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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