{"id":644,"date":"2013-03-21T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/03\/21\/safety-boat-training-course\/"},"modified":"2013-03-21T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T08:27:00","slug":"safety-boat-training-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/03\/21\/safety-boat-training-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Boat Training Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-A4vEc5RIcn4\/UUrEe69EeAI\/AAAAAAAAAv4\/Q4kRw5NAGQk\/s1600\/JST%2BCAPE%2BTOWN%2B3-2-13%2B009-759099.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-A4vEc5RIcn4\/UUrEe69EeAI\/AAAAAAAAAv4\/Q4kRw5NAGQk\/s320\/JST%2BCAPE%2BTOWN%2B3-2-13%2B009-759099.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5857710300849272834\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir='ltr'>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>Last Saturday saw 9 people, all with   Power Boat Level 2, doing a safety boat training course, with Ken, Brian and   Richard.&nbsp; Despite the bitter cold and driving rain, Elaine, Tracey, Michael, Dave P x 2,   and Dene, took to the water promptly at 0930, under the   guidance of Brian, watched by Richard from the RYA. The aim of the day was to   enable everyone to rescue capsized boats and their   occupants.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>Much to everyone&#8217;s delight there was a   &#8216;catering service&#8217; in the form of Monica just returned from her winter sojourn   in South Africa,&nbsp;with some excellent photos! Hot, fresh coffees at the morning break, followed by soup and   rolls during the lunch break.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>Picos were used &#8211; retrieval, towing, and   man overboard were all&nbsp;practiced &#8211; with Ken, Dave, Elaine and Tracey volunteering   to get wet&#8230;&#8230;..poor Tracey&#8217;s zip was not quite closed, so she felt the real   cold water, while Elaine with her many layers stayed dry! She looked like   Houdini in the lunch break trying to extricate herself from all her   layers!!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>The day included some short indoor class   room sessions and the RYA guy was pleased with our instructors and complemented   Brian, who led the day. Everyone said they had learned a lot, and were amazed at how&nbsp;quickly they had become rusty.&nbsp; All intended to get   as much practice as possible to improve their skills.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>The trainees departed very promptly as there was no hot water for&nbsp;the showers&#8230;.!!!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><b><\/b>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Last Saturday saw 9 people, all with Power Boat Level 2, doing a safety boat training course, with Ken, Brian and Richard.&nbsp; Despite the bitter cold and driving rain, Elaine, Tracey, Michael, Dave P x 2, and Dene, took to the water promptly at 0930, under the guidance of Brian, watched by Richard from the RYA. The aim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-ao","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}