{"id":281,"date":"2006-04-27T22:42:19","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T20:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/?p=281"},"modified":"2006-04-27T22:42:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T20:42:19","slug":"kittiwake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Kittiwake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/136029707\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/46\/136029707_8a08b5556e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greygriffin\/136029707\/\">Kittiwake!<\/a> <br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/greygriffin\/\">Greygriffin<\/a>.<\/span><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So we decided on a name for the H-boat: Kittiwake. (For those who don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s a type of small, white gull &#8211; suitable for a small, white boat). Arthur Ransome&#8217;s second boat was called Kittiwake (but his first boat was called Slug!).<\/p>\n<p>As the ice has mostly left and it&#8217;s started to get sunny and warm, it&#8217;s time to fix up the boats ready for launching. Right now I&#8217;m spending every evening on the boat: cleaning, fixing the gelcoat, and soon waxing above the water line and painting with anti-fouling paint below. Next Saturday &#038; Sunday will be spent mostly at the boat, though I&#8217;ll have to finish early on Sunday as it&#8217;s Vappu!<\/p>\n<p>My best guess right now is that the boat will be ready by the end of the weekend after Vappu, i.e. 6-7th May. Then I&#8217;ve just got to book a crane-lorry for launching it.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kittiwake! Originally uploaded by Greygriffin. So we decided on a name for the H-boat: Kittiwake. (For those who don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s a type of small, white gull &#8211; suitable for a small, white boat). Arthur Ransome&#8217;s second boat was called Kittiwake (but his first boat was called Slug!). As the ice has mostly left and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greygriffin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}