User blog comment:Multimate pnd/Why does everyone take the long way?/@comment-4754162-20120229043059/@comment-4754162-20120229045003

In which case then Multi's argument of "Walking to NW by land" is plausible. Assuming the pirate crew has someone as brute strong as Whitebeard or Jozu, they can land ship, pick it up, walk (the whole crew), drop the ship on the NW waters and sail backwards from there. Otherwise a pirate crew cannot bring over their ship(s) to sail the waters of NW and who's to give them a ship there... Hope ya getting my point, just a plausible theory, nothing more than that