{"id":2212,"date":"2026-01-01T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2026-01-01T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:24:23","slug":"the-western-hemisphere-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/the-western-hemisphere-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Western Hemisphere Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">I left Cabo San Lucas on March 25th.  Cabo is located about 110 degrees west longitude. Today, New Year\u2019s Day, at 10:38 UTC I crossed back into the Western Hemisphere. I have sailed 360-110=250 degrees, or 100x(250\/360)=70% the way around the world in terms of longitude. Because Cabo is located about 23 degrees north longitude and I am currently 21 degrees south, the percentage in terms of distance sailed is also close to 70%. I have sailed about 18,000 nm and it is 4,500 nm to Barbados, 1,400 nm to Panama, and 2,100 nm to Cabo (18,000\/(18,000+4,500+1,400+2,100)=69%).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left Cabo San Lucas on March 25th. Cabo is located about 110 degrees west longitude. Today, New Year\u2019s Day, at 10:38 UTC I crossed back into the Western Hemisphere. I have sailed 360-110=250 degrees, or 100x(250\/360)=70% the way around the world in terms of longitude. Because Cabo is located about 23 degrees north longitude &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/the-western-hemisphere-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Western Hemisphere Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}