{"id":1249,"date":"2012-08-20T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T07:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2012-08-20T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T07:44:40","slug":"sailing-adventure-in-chichester-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/sailing-adventure-in-chichester-harbour\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing adventure in Chichester Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/sailing-adventure-in-chichester-harbour\/img_5247\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1253\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1253\" title=\"IMG_5247\" src=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5247.jpg 500w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5247-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_5247-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Sometimes I have to pinch myself when I turn up for a job in Chichester Harbour to be greeted by views of colourful bobbing boats, glistening waters and spectacular scenery.<\/p>\n<p>This shot was taken at Itchenor where I met sailing instructor Ashley Hatton who runs the successful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chtsailing.co.uk\">Chichester Harbour Turtles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by the lovely Merryn Young \u2013 a budding writer keen for some work experience \u2013 we headed to Itchenor Sailing Club for, what I thought would be a fairly straightforward interview. Not a bit of it!<\/p>\n<p>Before we could say \u2018dinghy ahoy\u2019, we found ourselves precariously stepping into a little rowing boat with coffee cups, handbags and briefcase in hand where Ashley rowed us (in rather impressive style!) towards a beautiful wooden X-Boat for a wonderful morning sail towards Bosham. Ashley took the whole thing in his stride and, before I knew it, I actually found myself at the helm for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It was an exhilarating morning and, back on my comfort zone of dry land, I managed to interview Ashley for the forthcoming Chichester Harbour News &amp; Guide.<\/p>\n<p>If like me, you\u2019re a bit of a nervous sailor, I\u2019d definitely recommend a trip out with Ashley. He\u2019s on 07863 567584.<\/p>\n<p>As for Merryn, seemingly, our fun-filled morning has reinforced her ambition to become a writer and\u2026I can only hope she enjoys her chosen career path as much as I have and still do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have to pinch myself when I turn up for a job in Chichester Harbour to be greeted by views of colourful bobbing boats, glistening waters and spectacular scenery.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}