{"id":13079,"date":"2023-09-06T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13079"},"modified":"2023-09-06T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T11:53:25","slug":"boat-for-sale-suitable-project-for-diy-enthusiast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13079","title":{"rendered":"Boat for sale &#8211; suitable project for DIY enthusiast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When your correspondent was enjoying a pint at a quayside pub down Bristol&#8217;s city docks (<em>which some call the &#8216;Harbourside&#8217;. Ed.<\/em>) some years ago, the subject of boats came up somehow, along with a fine adage, i.e. &#8220;<em>a boat is a hole in the water into which you shovel money<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Yesterday in on the banks of the Avon in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bath,_Somerset\">Bath<\/a>, quite near the railway station, your &#8216;umble scribe came across evidence of what happens when one stops shovelling money into that hole in the water&#8230;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_13091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13091\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/09\/bath_sinker.jpg\" alt=\"Half-sunk boat with vegetation growing on the stern\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/09\/bath_sinker.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/09\/bath_sinker-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For sale &#8211; needs some attention<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your correspondent was enjoying a pint at a quayside pub down Bristol&#8217;s city docks (which some call the &#8216;Harbourside&#8217;. Ed.) some years ago, the subject of boats came up somehow, along with a fine adage, i.e. &#8220;a boat is a hole in the water into which you shovel money&#8220;. Yesterday in on the banks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,17],"tags":[18,40,16,22],"class_list":["post-13079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","tag-beer","tag-bristol","tag-english-usage","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13079"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13096,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions\/13096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}