{"id":8100,"date":"2017-10-29T21:06:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T21:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:46:40","slug":"bow-well-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/bow-well-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"Bow well cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I built\/rigged a cover for Fly&#8217;s bow well so we&#8217;ve got shelter to get it dry and sort <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/not-well-in-the-bow-well.html\">the problems<\/a>. Can&#8217;t say I like it, but it&#8217;ll probably work till the next gale, then who knows&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-1-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-1.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-2-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-2.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-3-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-3.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-4-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-4.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-5-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-10-29bow-5.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Might need to brace the &#8216;legs&#8217; if they get wobbly, but trying it as you see it first. Have also considered whether I&#8217;ve brought the tarp back far enough, but wanted to avoid unnecessary crawling to access the well as well as fold this oversize tarp to keep eyelets at its new &#8216;corners&#8217;, so we&#8217;ll see. There should be ample protection from anything bar almost horizontal rain from the north, the tarp can still be adjusted or extended backwards on the same frame and we&#8217;ve also got the possible alternative of additional flat cover on the deck when not actually needing the well doors open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I built\/rigged a cover for Fly&#8217;s bow well so we&#8217;ve got shelter to get it dry and sort the problems. Can&#8217;t say I like it, but it&#8217;ll probably work till the next gale, then who knows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100","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=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11664,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions\/11664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}