{"id":758,"date":"2016-08-04T09:07:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T09:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=758"},"modified":"2016-08-04T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T09:07:30","slug":"back-on-the-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"Back on the boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well we are back at the boat now, Kathy seems to like it, the journey was fine. I was very relieved to have got everything through the customs without issue, it was all supposed to be free of duty, but they can be difficult with boat parts sometimes. I also had bags of wholemeal flour which looked well dodgy in their clear plastic freezer bags. The boat was just as I left it, AirCon running, no smells, and no sign of life. By the time we had unpacked and picked up some basic stuff from the local supermarket it was nearly midnight, so off to bed.<\/p>\n<p>This morning we collected the new anchor from the marina office and I fitted it, now I have made two new problems, where to put the old 60lb CQR, and how to make the new Spade anchor not rub on the whisker stays.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-761\" src=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/spade-1.jpg\" alt=\"spade-1\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/spade-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/spade-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/spade-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-759\" src=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/spade3.jpg\" alt=\"spade3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/spade3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/spade3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-760\" src=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/spade2.jpg\" alt=\"spade2\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/spade2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/spade2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Getting the old anchor off and the new one on was hard work on my poor broken shoulder, either I&#8217;m becoming an old man quickly or 60lb is a lot of weight to dangle on a chain.<\/p>\n<p>I will leave the details of the trip so far to Kathy who is writing her blog entry as I speak.<br \/>\nPaul C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well we are back at the boat now, Kathy seems to like it, the journey was fine. I was very relieved to have got everything through the customs without issue, it was all supposed to be free of duty, but they can be difficult with boat parts sometimes. I also had bags of wholemeal flour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back on the boat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}