{"id":1246,"date":"2009-09-17T12:26:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T12:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2009-09-27T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T12:31:54","slug":"westward-toward-the-corinthian-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"Westward toward the Corinthian canal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 0.79in } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1247\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1247\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1247\" title=\"corinthian-canal\" src=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/corinthian-canal-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Corinthian canal\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/corinthian-canal-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/corinthian-canal.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corinthian canal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Departing Aigina at sunrise, Matt and I motored westward toward the Corinthian canal entrance. By 1:30pm we lay moored by the canal authorities control tower where I paid the 95 Euro transit fee. Several boats were on route from the western end, and as they approached I moved off the quay to avoid their wash. Easy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Just after 2pm we were literally waved through (so much for standing by on channel 11 VHF) and Eileen of Avoca majestically (if you ignore Matt&#8217;s laundry hanging everywhere) motored into the Gulf of Corinth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Spectacular! Especially when the sky darkened, storm clouds moved in and lightning forked menacingly over the mountains to the south. That sort of spectacular I can do without, especially when it is accompanied by rain. Thoroughly drenched, we motored on into the night arriving in Navpaktos by daybreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Departing Aigina at sunrise, Matt and I motored westward toward the Corinthian canal entrance. By 1:30pm we lay moored by the canal authorities control tower where I paid the 95 Euro transit fee. Several boats were on route from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=1246\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[415],"tags":[446,63,447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}