In a blizzard of last day activity we’re finally ready to go. Final projects :<\/p>\n

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• Raised dinghy<\/li>\n
• Attached sails – they look nice<\/li>\n
• Attached rudders<\/li>\n
• Assembled steering gear<\/li>\n
• Mailed letter to US \/ and camera case (TradeMe auction finally went through)<\/li>\n
• Paid everyone – arggh.<\/li>\n
• Installed extra handrails on scoops.\u00a0 This was not on the project list but Helen decided I had some spare time before we splashed.<\/li>\n
• Dropped car off in town – thanks to John on Sea Mist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  As I speak the tractor is attaching itself to us and in a short few moments we’ll be off.<\/p>\n

  There are a few more pics in this morning’s album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  In a blizzard of last day activity we’re finally ready to go. Final projects :<\/p>\n

  Raised dinghy Attached sails – they look nice Attached rudders Assembled steering gear Mailed letter to US \/ and camera case (TradeMe auction finally went through) Paid everyone – arggh. Installed extra handrails on scoops. This was not on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-sea-mist","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}