{"id":3334,"date":"2011-02-27T20:09:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T20:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:07:09","slug":"clearing-the-decks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/clearing-the-decks.html","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the decks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So perhaps this post&#8217;s something of a misnomer when it&#8217;s not so much about clearing the decks (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/undercover-fly.html\">done last October<\/a>?) as turning the boat inside out, but it&#8217;s a catchy title and surely removing just about everything that moves to facilitate the planned repairs and renovation still counts as clearing the decks for action&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whatever, Twig came up this morning to get the engine out and then (motivated by that little nudge in the right direction) I set to on the removable head-lining panels and bunk tops, hinged pilot berth sections, heads door, chart table, cooker, engine box, cabin sole and that kind of thing. Meaning that I finished with a great pile of stuff under the boat needing storage elsewhere, but it&#8217;s going to be so much easier to get at what&#8217;s left. And we&#8217;re working for 2012 now, because that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/surprised-to-be-sailing.html\">little white lie<\/a> (which I believed at the time) from last May about having Twig &#8216;lined up to help get her sorted for 2011 (<em>when I&#8217;m not going to be training  obsessively for running ultras!<\/em>)&#8217; has been retrospectively awarded joke status with another sub-20 West Highland Way Race attempt driving some further, ahem, obsessive training this year. Speaking of which, I still had time to get out for a hard hour&#8217;s trail running when done this afternoon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-02-27fly1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3339\" title=\"2011-02-27fly1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-02-27fly1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-02-27fly1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-02-27fly1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-02-27fly2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3340\" title=\"2011-02-27fly2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-02-27fly2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-02-27fly2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-02-27fly2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So perhaps this post&#8217;s something of a misnomer when it&#8217;s not so much about clearing the decks (done last October?) as turning the boat inside out, but it&#8217;s a catchy title and surely removing just about everything that moves to facilitate the planned repairs and renovation still counts as clearing the decks for action&#8230;<\/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-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","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=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11860,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}