{"id":144,"date":"2002-02-22T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-22T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2002-02-22T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-22T17:47:00","slug":"144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a boat ride today.  Rick and I went out in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luhrs.com\/models\/40open\/40.htm\">40 Open<\/a> in order to evaluate some defects in the hull&#8211;it rolls to the left (&#8220;heels to port&#8221;) underway&#8230;  It&#8217;s an interesting commentary on the state of quality control here when the hull could have made it all the way through the pipeline to a finished boat with a hull flaw like that.  I dunno what they&#8217;re going to do, but it was pretty cool nonetheless.  The interior layout leaves a lot to be desired as far as I&#8217;m concerned, but that&#8217;ll be my department, so it&#8217;s something I intend to remedy as best I can.  The experience was like riding in a giant, amphibious SUV.  The big twin diesel engines underneath the helm roared almost deafeningly under full power, and the bow rose up on the water.  The helm was in a position of command, kind of like the high seating perch in a Ford Explorer or an equivalent.  The diesel fumes, backdrafting through the cockpit area, made me more sick than the movement of the boat.  I climbed up top, even, and experienced the helm area up there.  It&#8217;s a ways off the ground.  I suppose it&#8217;s perched so high in order to be able to spot groups of fish from far off.  I learned a lot.  It was neat to finally ride in one of the boats I&#8217;ll be designing.<\/p>\n<p>Geno, Greg, and I went to Larry&#8217;s Subs for lunch.  We&#8217;re thinking about making it a Friday tradition.  It&#8217;s payday, after all.  I had a foot-long meatball sub.  Mmm.  Not up to Jersey Mike standards but still yummy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rainy now, and grey outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a boat ride today. Rick and I went out in the 40 Open in order to evaluate some defects in the hull&#8211;it rolls to the left (&#8220;heels to port&#8221;) underway&#8230; It&#8217;s an interesting commentary on the state of quality control here when the hull could have made it all the way through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}