{"id":1983,"date":"2014-06-25T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2014-06-25T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T22:02:37","slug":"sailing-little-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/06\/25\/sailing-little-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Little Yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Cfish.jpg\"><img style=\"float: left; padding-top: 5px;\" size-medium wp-image-1984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Cfish-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"Cfish\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Cfish-300x165.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Cfish.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I went down to our nearby lake where we keep out \u201clittle yellow sailboat\u201d. My wind gauge was saying 3.1 MPH so I knew it was not going to be a high speed day. I took the gas can and filled her engine with the 50:1 she sips and then bent on the sails. I started the lil\u2019 beast and flipped the motor around to back out of the slip and was just clear of the dock when she died ( and me with an on shore breeze). I pulled and pulled but no would she start. At the end of the sail I experimented and found by riching mixture it would start and run great &#8211; lesson learned, richen when you shut off engine :).<\/p>\n<p>The sail was enjoyable but slow, with only a few puffs of wind to drive us into about a 10\u00b0 port side down ( a starboard tack) angle. I sailed around for about an hour but the clouds were darkening and the occasional thunder rumble could be heard si I headed under sail for the dock. The wind was just right for the approach to the dock but I knew it was going to be dicey with no motor. At about 5\u2019 out from the dock and making slowly for the slip, I raised the keel &#8211; big mistake &#8211; and the boat more or less turned 45\u00b0 to the slip and dock under sail influence alone. Bang into the dock with the bow. I grabbed onto one of the posts and forced the boat around into the slip. Whew &#8211; sweating time was over. Time to go home for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}