{"id":450,"date":"2026-09-27T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:45:59","slug":"beyond-gibraltar-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=450","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Gibraltar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Passing Gibraltar closed the Mediterranean chapter that had begun when Malua was shipped from Australia to Spain in 2007. But 2012 was far from over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Into the Atlantic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The voyage continued along the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Portugal. When persistent northerly winds made the planned route towards Lisbon unattractive, we chose to sail downwind to Madeira instead. That passage became a useful shakedown for the much larger Atlantic crossing still ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Madeira I sailed to Morocco, visiting Rabat and travelling inland before continuing south towards the Canary Islands. Those passages belong to the next part of the story: preparation for, and then the crossing of, the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=2038\">Read more \u2014 Spain, Portugal and Madeira<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=2039\">Read more \u2014 Morocco<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=2040\">Read more \u2014 Canary Islands<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<nav aria-label=\"Voyage navigation\" class=\"wp-block-group malua-voyage-nav is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"margin-top:40px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=11\">\u2190 Back to Voyages<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/?page_id=437\">Return to Mediterranean 2012 \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing Gibraltar closed the Mediterranean chapter that had begun when Malua was shipped from Australia to Spain in 2007. But 2012 was far from over. Into the Atlantic The voyage continued along the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Portugal. When persistent northerly winds made the planned route towards Lisbon unattractive, we chose to sail downwind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":437,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_about_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_gallery_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_contact_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_events_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_video_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_portfolio_piece":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PhqRzp-7g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450\/revisions\/2052"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maluayacht.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}