User blog comment:LordFrz/Why not go the other way/@comment-74.167.32.225-20100924221458

Yeah they tried to cross the calm belt once before going over reverse mountain, but no luck. Thats actually the first episode they talked about the calm belt if im not mistaken. The calm belt has no wind hence the name calm belt. So the only ships that can make it through would be paddle boats(which one of the dials on the Sunny is... but the Merry wasn't equipped as such.). But the next problem would be the Sea Kings in the calm belt. They're all about the size of Lapoon.So even if they had a paddle boat back then they wouldn't have made it with the crew they had back then and their strengths. But now I think they could make it no problem, especially with the Coup De Burst of the sunny. They would more than likely shoot right through the Calm belt. But then again that would cut down on the adventures and Luffy would probably consider it cheating