{"id":282,"date":"2010-01-05T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T02:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2010-01-14T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:40:11","slug":"careel-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Careel Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Careel-Bay11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-283\" title=\"Careel Bay1\" src=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Careel-Bay11-1024x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Careel-Bay11-1024x262.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Careel-Bay11-300x76.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Careel Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of the peninsular its about as remote from Sydney metro you can get, and still be within easy reach of it. The people are friendly and helpful &#8211; I&#8217;ve already been offered a job, and the use of a pushy. Both of which I turned down.<\/p>\n<p>The free tender service offered by the marina here is really cool &#8211; a quick call and one of the lads scoots out in a dinghy to pick me up.  The dinghy lads are schoolies &#8211; what a great job for the holidays.  And these boys sure can manouvre the dinghy with precision.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Careel-Bay2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-284\" title=\"Careel Bay2\" src=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Careel-Bay2-1024x797.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Careel-Bay2-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Careel-Bay2-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Careel-Bay2.jpg 1926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Careel Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Its taken the last few days to repay my the sleep debt from sailing down here.\u00a0 Even though I spent enough time laying down with my eyes closed, I find it difficult to sleep, especially when she&#8217;s sailing over about 9 knots. In the bow where my bunk is, it gets quite noisy. But now I feel rejuvenated.<\/p>\n<p>I have quite a long list of small projects to do &#8211; three pages long.\u00a0 Including fixing some things that broke on the way down such as a couple cleats that pulled out of the deck when going out through the Gold Coast seaway.<\/p>\n<p>After two days of overcast, today&#8217;s sunshine will go to making water and charging the engine batteries. But I still want to do another full drawdown test to check if the batteries are balanced yet &#8211; I think there&#8217;s more to go.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m running the batteries down to empty again today.\u00a0 With any luck there&#8217;ll still be sunshine after I do that and they can stat charging again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the peninsular its about as remote from Sydney metro you can get, and still be within easy reach of it. The people are friendly and helpful &#8211; I&#8217;ve already been offered a job, and the use of a pushy. Both of which I turned down. The free tender service offered by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Careel Bay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-propulsion","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}