{"id":542,"date":"2009-08-23T22:48:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T06:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2009-08-23T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T06:58:00","slug":"505s-camping-and-finally-my-divemaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/505s-camping-and-finally-my-divemaster\/","title":{"rendered":"505&#8217;s, camping and finally my divemaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a busy week last week with the 505 North Americans happening at StFYC. I did a few overnight repairs &#8211; relaminate a rudder, fix cracked bulkheads, build a new mast! etc. The fun continues next week as it is the Worlds at the same venue.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/picture-001-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"picture-001\" title=\"picture-001\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-548 colorbox-542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/picture-001-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/picture-001.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/picture-003-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"picture-003\" title=\"picture-003\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-549 colorbox-542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/picture-003-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/picture-003.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nOn thursday night I took my nephew Henry camping to Angel Island which was a lot of fun. We went over on the ferry next time we will take the boat.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dscn3711-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"dscn3711\" title=\"dscn3711\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-544 colorbox-542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dscn3711-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dscn3711.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nWe walked around the immigration station after putting up the tent on East Bay site 3 which happened to have a great view of all the 505&#8217;s racing in the Olympic Circle.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dscn3732-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"dscn3732\" title=\"dscn3732\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-543 colorbox-542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dscn3732-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dscn3732.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dscn3763-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"dscn3763\" title=\"dscn3763\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-545 colorbox-542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dscn3763-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dscn3763.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nHe needed me to carry him on my shoulders 1.5 miles up the hill in the afternoon as I picked the time to go to the island that he would normally be napping &#8211; bad idea! It was quite a load with two sleeping bags, two sleeping mats, a tent, campstove, food, Henry&#8217;s cloths etc and Henry on my back. It was all worth it though when his eyes were the size of saucers when I offered him a Smore! I don&#8217;t think it quite believed his luck &#8211; marshmallows, chocolate and graham cracker all at once it was at least a weeks worth of desserts all in one! He was fully sugared up and bounced off the tent walls for two hours before finally falling asleep. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/p8200627-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"p8200627\" title=\"p8200627\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-551 colorbox-542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/p8200627-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/p8200627.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nToday was my last sent of exams for divemasters and I am now officially done with the course and am a PADI Divemaster. It took quite a lot of work. My instructor Bruce from Aquarius Dive Shop in Monterey is really a very good teacher and I am now all ready for my next lot of training next month in Scotland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a busy week last week with the 505 North Americans happening at StFYC. I did a few overnight repairs &#8211; relaminate a rudder, fix cracked bulkheads, build a new mast! etc. The fun continues next week as it is the Worlds at the same venue. On thursday night I took my nephew Henry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}