{"id":299,"date":"2005-07-03T22:08:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T22:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomwire.com\/2005\/07\/03\/sailing\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:42:54","slug":"sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/sailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing on Wells-next-the-Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10718,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Wells-next-the-Sea&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250810204149\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Wells-next-the-Sea&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 17:05:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-15 23:00:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-19 01:10:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-22 09:48:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-30 19:15:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 18:21:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-08 03:10:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-13 18:17:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:35:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:35:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This afternoon, my uncle invited my dad and I to go sailing in his new boat. We went up to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wells-next-the-Sea\">Wells-next-the-Sea<\/a> and spent a very nice afternoon on the water. There wasn&#8217;t much wind to speak of which was ideal for getting used to things but it did mean we had to resort to using the outboard motor a couple of times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2225\" height=\"1482\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5502.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43117\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2272\" height=\"1515\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5432.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43118\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2272\" height=\"1515\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5491.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43119\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, my uncle invited my dad and I to go sailing in his new boat. We went up to Wells-next-the-Sea and spent a very nice afternoon on the water. There wasn&#8217;t much wind to speak of which was ideal for getting used to things but it did mean we had to resort to using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1245,5,173],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoors","category-photography","category-uk","tag-boats"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5445.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":80069,"url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/zigong-salt-wells\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":0},"title":"The Deep Salt Wells of Zigong","author":"David","date":"15th January 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A weathered wooden derrick marks the site of an eleven-centimetre-wide borehole drilled 1,001 metres into the earth at Shenhaijing Salt Well (\u71ca\u6d77\u4e95). 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