{"id":2915,"date":"2010-10-18T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:13:34","slug":"undercover-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/undercover-fly.html","title":{"rendered":"Undercover Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly rapid progress with so much else going on but, three weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/getting-back-to-fly.html\">building the tarpaulin frame for <em>Fly<\/em><\/a>, the decks are 95% clean (approx. six hours of hard scrubbing to test my &#8216;recovered&#8217; ribs yesterday) and the cover fitted (another cold, wet job today).<!--more--> Have to say I&#8217;ve got mixed feelings about this particular tarpaulin (chosen for its combination of 5m x 4m size, decent weight and transparency) since it turned out to have reinforced strips rather than eyelets for the tie-down points and a couple of the holes I put through these have torn\/distorted noticeably on first use. So naturally hoping it&#8217;ll last the winter without constant attention, but half expecting trouble with the next strong winds! :-\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010-10-18fly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2920\" title=\"2010-10-18fly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010-10-18fly-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010-10-18fly-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010-10-18fly.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly rapid progress with so much else going on but, three weeks after building the tarpaulin frame for Fly, the decks are 95% clean (approx. six hours of hard scrubbing to test my &#8216;recovered&#8217; ribs yesterday) and the cover fitted (another cold, wet job today).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11884,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/11884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}