{"id":2857,"date":"2012-09-28T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:32:15","slug":"still-out-of-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Still out of the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We did not get launched as planned today.\u00a0 Yesterday, I went to put anti-fouling paint on the inside of the bow thruster and found a small amount of gear oil pooled at the bottom.\u00a0 For a minute, I tried to tell myself that this was just thick water but then had to admit that there is no such thing as thick water.\u00a0 It was definitely oil and that meant I had to find the leak and fix it.\u00a0 Not that big a job actually but it meant delaying our launch until Monday since I would need to drop the whole bow thruster assembly out of the bottom of the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Only one boat can be launched on Saturday (because of tides and the need to paint the bottom of the scheduled boat&#8217;s keel while in the lift), so we had to book a late Monday launch appointment.\u00a0 I replaced the bow thruster prop seal today, which I hope will cure the problem,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2866\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0007.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2866\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0007.jpg\" alt=\"They must mean &quot;tid bits&quot;\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0007.jpg 480w, https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0007-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They must mean &#8220;tid bits&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our hotel now has a bar and just put up this poster to advertise it.\u00a0 I think that they mean &#8220;tid bits&#8221; with beer as this is a pretty conservative small town.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did not get launched as planned today.\u00a0 Yesterday, I went to put anti-fouling paint on the inside of the bow thruster and found a small amount of gear oil pooled at the bottom.\u00a0 For a minute, I tried to tell myself that this was just thick water but then had to admit that there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=2857\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still out of the water&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaysia","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}