{"id":13994,"date":"2021-10-11T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13994"},"modified":"2021-10-11T20:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:46:01","slug":"captains-log-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13994","title":{"rendered":"Captain&#8217;s log #3*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kite!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a change to the planned programme, on Saturday Arthur and I were joined by a pal of his. Keith (for that is his name) and Arthur are plugged in to the same sailing social circles and between them probably know everyone who sails, from mid-Wales up to Liverpool. Probably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did you take Keith along with you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s a good question and I&#8217;m glad you asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The object of Saturday&#8217;s sail was to fly the kite (get the spinnaker flying). We&#8217;ve never tried this before and Arthur said it might be a good idea if we had three pairs of hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We left Deganwy and motored down the Conwy and out into the open sea. There was yet another stunning lack of wind. This lack of wind is really quite freakish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arthur set up the spinnaker pole and the spinnaker sail in its sailbag, attached the sheets and when we caught a strengthening gust of wind over 8kts, raised the sail. You can see it in the header photo, it&#8217;s the big red, white, and blue thing out the front of the boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately the wind was intermittent, but we got about 45 minutes use of the kite before we lowered and stowed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the marina I refuelled and then moored on my berth (and how easy is it to berth a boat when there are two other pairs of hands at the ready!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Total distance, according to the log, a measly 14nm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m thinking of getting her lifted out of the water now, and looking at whether she needs antifouling, and check the state of the anodes. And, while she&#8217;s in a cradle, I can crack on with the list of jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*It&#8217;s only #3 on this blog. The actual ship&#8217;s log has considerably more entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kite! In a change to the planned programme, on Saturday Arthur and I were joined by a pal of his. Keith (for that is his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13996,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boating","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}