{"id":1589,"date":"2014-01-13T07:25:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T06:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2014-01-13T07:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T06:25:55","slug":"celebrating-a-birthday-and-watching-boats-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating a birthday and watching boats race"},"content":{"rendered":"

What did you do on the weekend?<\/p>\n

We had an action\u00a0packed weekend. \u00a0The two highlights were celebrating Debbie’s birthday and watching the Godson racing Farr 40’s.<\/p>\n

To misquote Ms. Ephron, birthdays aren’t for the faint of heart but friends help us through them. \u00a0Several of Debbie’s BFFs met for breakfast at a very secret Sydney location, Echo on the Marina in Roseville. Entertainment was provided by Possum Magic and numerous coffees fueled the laughter and giggles around the table.<\/p>\n

\"Lesley,<\/a>
Lesley, Deb, Gaila and Reenie at Echo on the Marina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Michele<\/a>
Michele and Lesley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rene<\/a>
Rene and Rachel who came all the way from Queensland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Glad you had a great birthday weekend, Deb. \u00a0Wishing you many more.<\/p>\n

David was racing later in the morning on Voodoo Chile, so several of us went out on the Nand V, to cheer him on. \u00a0Rene in fact, had son David on Voodoo Chile, brother Bobby on Transfusion and nephew Nathan on Sputnik. We had three teams to cheer on.<\/p>\n

Sydney Harbour was full of boats on the Saturday, Ynglings, Etchells, 18’s, lasers and Farr 40’s. \u00a0The Farr 40 racing was close and there were times the wind was fairly fresh. Here are some of the photos.<\/p>\n

\"Rounding<\/a>
Rounding the mark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Close<\/a>
Close sailing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"concentration\"<\/a>
Concentration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Spinnaker<\/a>
Spinnaker Run<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pippa,<\/a>
Pippa, Sue and Rachel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Voodoo<\/a>
Voodoo Chile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Transfusion was the winner of the 10 race regatta, with Voodoo Chile finishing 5th after 2 disappointing races where they finished first, but were later disqualified or withdrew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What did you do on the weekend? We had an action\u00a0packed weekend. \u00a0The two highlights were celebrating Debbie’s birthday and watching the Godson racing Farr 40’s. To misquote Ms. Ephron, birthdays aren’t for the faint of heart but friends help us through them. \u00a0Several of Debbie’s BFFs met for breakfast at a very secret Sydney … Continue reading Celebrating a birthday and watching boats race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,26,35,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-boats","category-farr-40","category-friendship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-pD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}