{"id":4748,"date":"2015-07-24T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2015-07-24T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:04:02","slug":"getting-excited-about-virgin-gorda-and-a-little-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4748","title":{"rendered":"A little jazz and getting excited about Virgin Gorda."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday morning and near the end of July (where do the days go?) and yet another beautiful day here in CT. \u00a0Last night Brenda and I went down to the CT River Museum to enjoy one of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctrivermuseum.org\/calendar\/\">&#8220;Thursdays on the Dock&#8221;<\/a> concert featuring the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscg.mil\/band\/dixieland.asp\">USCG Dixieland Jazz Band<\/a>. \u00a0These concerts are held on Thursdays in July and August and are a terrific bargain, free to members and $5 for non-members. \u00a0 It was a beautiful evening with a great turnout and wonderful music. \u00a0 The last time I spent any time with the USCG they wanted to see my fire extinguisher and documentation. \u00a0It was more enjoyable last night.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7-24-15a-003.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4749\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7-24-15a-003.jpg\" alt=\"7-24-15a 003\" width=\"5000\" height=\"1127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7-24-15a-003.jpg 5000w, https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7-24-15a-003-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7-24-15a-003-1024x231.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5000px) 100vw, 5000px\" \/><\/a>A very nice group of guys. \u00a0One of the guys even had his mother visiting. \u00a0HI Mom!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7-24-15a-006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7-24-15a-006.jpg\" alt=\"7-24-15a 006\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7-24-15a-006.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7-24-15a-006-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>I tried to find a video of them performing that doesn&#8217;t take an hour to watch but no luck. \u00a0This one was filmed in nearby New London and features the same guys that performed last night. \u00a0You should at least watch a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing them brought back memories of many visits to New Orleans, back in my days as a &#8220;worker bee&#8221;. \u00a0 They were terrific and attracted a great crowd to the museum. \u00a0<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yZETWDSdZCg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>I have enjoyed spending time volunteering at the museum over the last year. \u00a0The director, Chris, is a great guy.<\/p>\n<p>Brenda and I will be spending the winter in the Caribbean \u00a0and I have begun planning my run to the Caribbean and the BVI and am getting pretty excited about it. \u00a0Making a 1,500 mile ocean run is a bit daunting as it will be the longest that I have made to date. \u00a0 \u00a0Just over 1,000 miles is the longest so far and I was never more than a few hundred miles from shore. \u00a0 A few hundred miles is still WAY to long a swim to shore but on this run I&#8217;ll be much further out on this run and too far to be picked up by helicopter, speaking of the USCG, if things decide to go badly.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we plan to make landfall in the British Virgin Islands, Virgin Gorda, home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyc.com\/\">Bitter End Yacht Club,<\/a> and the destination for the Salty Dawg Rally. \u00a0 Not a bad spot. \u00a0Getting excited!<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YWNfemKS5kM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>Still lots of details to work out to get Pandora ready for the run south.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, I think I mentioned that the bow thruster wasn&#8217;t working properly and had feared that a major repair was in the offing. \u00a0Well, I went up to Wickford and Pandora this week, tools in hand, ready to perform surgery. \u00a0Good news, nothing more than a loose wire. \u00a0And, to make it even better, I found, and fixed, the problem without bringing in the professionals. \u00a0Well, not yet at least. \u00a0Let&#8217;s hope that the &#8220;thruster gremlin&#8221; doesn&#8217;t show up again any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Still need to do some canvas work to put a connector between the top of the dodger and the bimini so I&#8217;d better get going on ordering some supplies and quit it with this post. \u00a0That&#8217;s all for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday morning and near the end of July (where do the days go?) and yet another beautiful day here in CT. \u00a0Last night Brenda and I went down to the CT River Museum to enjoy one of their &#8220;Thursdays on the Dock&#8221; concert featuring the USCG Dixieland Jazz Band. \u00a0These concerts are held on [&hellip;]<\/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-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","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=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}