{"id":11892,"date":"2021-08-19T16:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:01:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:01:34","slug":"the-joy-of-conquering-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=11892","title":{"rendered":"The joy of conquering Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a beautiful day here in Castine where we moved yesterday after a few days in Belfast.\u00a0 The sunrise was spectacular.\u00a0 However, you know what the say about “red sky in the morning”.\u00a0 \u00a0Rain this afternoon.\u00a0 \"\"Castine is a wonderful place but that will have to wait on that point as I have scintillating news in the life of the giant rubber ducky Joy.<\/p>\n

On our last night in Belfast I was still wondering if I was about to be arrested for illegal transport of the giant rubber duckie\u00a0 when I moved her from another area of the harbor.\u00a0 All day long we watched a parade of boats, large and small, passing by Joy to pay her tribute.<\/p>\n

Late in the afternoon, three boys showed up in their dink, looking very determined to do something as they strung a rope over her back.\u00a0 \u00a0I could not imagine what they had in mind and we took our dink over to inqure about what they were planning. “we want to climb up on her back”, they said.<\/p>\n

Ok, AWESOME, go for it!\u00a0 I just HAD to record this and stood by, but I will admit, I was wondering if such a feat was even possible.\u00a0 Actually, I was thinking NO WAY!<\/p>\n

After perhaps a half hour of prep, here they are, getting ready to scale to the summit.\u00a0 Note the drone, upper right, capturing the moment.\u00a0 \u00a0I have no idea who was the “driver” of the drone.\u00a0 It wasn’t the trio. \"\"The would-be climbers had things pretty well thought out, I guess, and they proceeded to string a rope over her back so they had something to hold onto.\u00a0 As everyone knows, rubber duckies are notoriously slippery.\u00a0 To keep her from rolling over, one guy got into the water (very cold water) to balance things out.<\/p>\n

Getting a boost.\u00a0 \u00a0Still not looking very promising. \"\"OMG!\u00a0 Up he went…\"\"What would you do when you finally summit a giant rubber ducky?\u00a0 What anyone would do.\u00a0 Strike a pose!\"\"And how do you top that?\u00a0 \u00a0Jump off, of course, and be quick about it as, as their friend in the water was probably about to succumb to hypothermia. \"\"The three of them were pretty proud of their feat and willingly posed for a photo.\u00a0 \"\"I wonder how they chose who would would be the climber?\u00a0 The one to conquer the biggest rubber duckie in Maine?<\/p>\n

Perhaps their planning discussions were about who would be THE ONE to summit.\u00a0 Perhaps the same talk that Neil Armstrong must have had with fellow crew Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins as to who was going to be the first to walk on the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who would take that “first to find the joy of being the first to summit Joy for all mankind”?<\/p>\n

Ok, ok, I’ll admit that I am beating this to death but hey, the story was picked up in USA Today, so it must have been big news.\u00a0 \u00a0Don’t believe me?\u00a0 Check out this link.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Surely the Joy of conquering Joy is worth something.\u00a0 At least when you are a kid you should take your wins when you can.<\/p>\n

I thought it was awesome! Oh, to be young.<\/p>\n

Me?\u00a0 All I would be thinking about is how cold the water is.<\/p>\n

But perhaps more importantly, where else will we find Joy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a beautiful day here in Castine where we moved yesterday after a few days in Belfast.\u00a0 The sunrise was spectacular.\u00a0 However, you know what the say about “red sky in the morning”.\u00a0 \u00a0Rain this afternoon.\u00a0 Castine is a wonderful place but that will have to wait on that point as I have scintillating news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11902,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions\/11902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}