{"id":239,"date":"2009-07-09T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T07:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paul-ferguson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2013-10-27T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T16:09:07","slug":"day-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/day-skipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Saturday I leave this wheezing lap-scorcher of a computer for a week of <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">seafaring<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">. After a few days of classroom study and exams it&#8217;s out to sea for manoeuvres at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamble.co.uk\/rya-training-courses\/rya-day-skipper-course\/\"> Hamble School of Yachting<\/a>. Seem like ages since I sat a formal exam; complete with wonky desk and chewed pencil, but should fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Day Skipper<\/em> is essentially your driving test on water, with sails and chart based navigation. It&#8217;s one in a series of qualifications all the way up to the grand sounding\u00a0<em>Ocean Master<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For those looking for somewhere near Brighton to do such a course try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mustangsailing.com\/\">Mustang Sailing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul-ferguson.co.uk\/blog\/dump\/wing_keel_win.jpg\">image in full&#8230;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday I leave this wheezing lap-scorcher of a computer for a week of seafaring. After a few days of classroom study and exams it&#8217;s out to sea for manoeuvres at Hamble School of Yachting. Seem&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/day-skipper\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paullferguson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/day-skipper1.jpg?fit=583%2C188&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}