{"id":16889,"date":"2014-12-18T00:08:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/?p=16889"},"modified":"2014-12-21T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T12:45:13","slug":"tmday1215-day-skipper-course-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/?p=16889","title":{"rendered":"TMDay1215: Day Skipper Course Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started the course today. Was really surprised to find that I was the only one on Day Skipper while the rest is on competent crew. But the group was so warm and friendly, I think I will have no problems staying with them for the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Today I sailed Endeavour using Stirling instead of tiller. Weather was stormy and she was tilting much.<\/p>\n<p>Also had a great experience preparing lunch for the entire crew!<\/p>\n<p>At night, I was tasked with the waypoints for tomorrow&#8217;s expedition. Sigh. Not easy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16934\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1182.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16934\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1182-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Arriving!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1182-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1182.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arriving!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16935\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1186.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16935\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1186-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Boat Intro!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1186-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1186.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boat Intro!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16936\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1187.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16936\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1187-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Air Conditioned Cabin!!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1187-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1187.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air Conditioned Cabin!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16937\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1189.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16937\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1189-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Galley or Kitchen!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1189-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1189.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galley or Kitchen!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16938\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1190.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16938\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1190-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Comms Control!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1190-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1190.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comms Control!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16939\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16939\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1192-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Boat Intro!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1192-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1192.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boat Intro!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16940\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1195.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16940\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1195-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Boiling Water!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1195-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1195.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boiling Water!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16941\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16941\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1197-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lunch prepared by me and Bill!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1197-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1197.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lunch prepared by me and Bill!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16942\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16942\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1205-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Selfie!!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1205-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1205.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selfie!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16943\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1208.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16943\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1208-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Storm!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1208-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1208.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Storm!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16944\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16944\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1216-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Going Back!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1216-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1216.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going Back!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16945\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1217.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16945\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1217-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hanging clothes!!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1217-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1217.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanging clothes!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16946\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16946\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1221-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Endeavour!!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1221-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1221.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Endeavour!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16947\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1223.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16947\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1223-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dinner!!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1223-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1223.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinner!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16948\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16948\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1226-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Super Hungry!!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1226-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1226.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Hungry!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16949\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1228.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16949\" src=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1228-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Still working...\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1228-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_1228.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still working&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started the course today. Was really surprised to find that I was the only one on Day Skipper while the rest is on competent crew. But the group was so warm and friendly, I think I will have no problems staying with them for the next few days. Today I sailed Endeavour using Stirling instead &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/?p=16889\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-renzhi-huang","4":"post-16889","6":"format-standard","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-sailing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16950,"href":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889\/revisions\/16950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huangrenzhi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}