{"id":1543,"date":"2010-03-20T08:57:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T08:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T09:10:44","slug":"sailing-to-gibraltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Sailing to Gibraltar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 0.79in } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1544\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Gibraltar-from-La-Linea-anchorage.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1544\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1544\" title=\"Gibraltar from La Linea anchorage\" src=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Gibraltar-from-La-Linea-anchorage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Gibraltar-from-La-Linea-anchorage.jpg 428w, http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Gibraltar-from-La-Linea-anchorage-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gibraltar from La Linea anchorage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An 8am start on yet another misty day. Apart from checking the almanac for high tide (in order to catch a complimentary tidal stream), there was not much preparation required (from a navigational standpoint ), to reach Gibraltar. I aimed for the big rock to the south and tried not to get hit by, or run into (as vessels are mostly anchored), any shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the compulsory snapshot of &#8216;the captain&#8217; with Gibraltar in the background, I then headed for the anchorage at La Linea, bypassing Gibraltar to forgo clearing customs.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like the smell here&#8230; What with the Spanish refinery to the west, the airport jet-fuel vapors to the east and an armada of tankers surrounding Gibraltar, it&#8217;s no wonder the air and water is thick with the scent of odoriferous chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>The view of \u201cthe rock\u201d, is, by contrast, superb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 8am start on yet another misty day. Apart from checking the almanac for high tide (in order to catch a complimentary tidal stream), there was not much preparation required (from a navigational standpoint ), to reach Gibraltar. I aimed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=1543\">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":[490],"tags":[561,291,560,6,562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"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=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}