{"id":560,"date":"2009-09-07T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2009-09-07T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T15:02:00","slug":"captain-perrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/captain-perrin\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Perrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dscn7585-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dscn7585\" title=\"dscn7585\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-561 colorbox-560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dscn7585-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dscn7585-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I am rushing around trying to finish packing for my 7 months away which I leave for in 48 hours and I got a wake up phone call from my little brother this morning. He is 22 with no drivers license but he just passed his Boatman&#8217;s License in the UK which qualifies him to Captain a ferry boat anywhere in the UK  inland waters and limited coastal areas with up to 250 passengers. <\/p>\n<p>He passed with flair the examiner gave him the highest tier level that you can get and passed him after only 15 minutes on his boat handling after a flashy docking maneouvre. Myles didn&#8217;t know he was picking the examiner up from that pier and moved 10 foot sideways while turning and reversing to dock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am rushing around trying to finish packing for my 7 months away which I leave for in 48 hours and I got a wake up phone call from my little brother this morning. He is 22 with no drivers license but he just passed his Boatman&#8217;s License in the UK which qualifies him to [&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-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}