{"id":179,"date":"2011-06-28T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sv-ananda.com\/almost-sailing-on-the-gulf-of-arabia\/"},"modified":"2020-01-24T10:53:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:53:36","slug":"almost-sailing-on-the-gulf-of-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"(Almost) Sailing on the Gulf of Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_11777\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Preparing-To-Launch.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11777\" data-attachment-id=\"11777\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?attachment_id=11777\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Preparing-To-Launch.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-W120&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1308904369&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;10.69&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KWT-Preparing To Launch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Preparing-To-Launch.jpg?fit=625%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11777 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Preparing-To-Launch.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Preparing-To-Launch.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Preparing-To-Launch.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Preparing-To-Launch.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Preparing-To-Launch.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Preparing-To-Launch.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preparing To Launch<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I have been on a quest for sailing ever since I arrived in Kuwait last February. Over the past several months I have followed a number of &#8220;leads&#8221; here and there but was not having much luck&#8211;until last Friday, June 24! Harry Morrow, a work colleague of mine spotted some brief articles about sailing clubs in Kuwait in the local newspaper. A few of us went exploring and, after a couple of dead ends, I finally connected up with one of the members of the Kuwait Catamaran Sailing Club. As it turns out, the club keeps their boats at a small dryland boatyard just a couple of kilometers from our hotel.\u00a0Friday\u00a0is their regular\u00a0race day so we were invited to come and meet some of the members and see the boats.\u00a0Darren Montgomery, another work colleague who is keen to sail joined the adventure.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_11778\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Fleet-Sets-Sail.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11778\" data-attachment-id=\"11778\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?attachment_id=11778\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Fleet-Sets-Sail.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-W120&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1308904561&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KWT-The Fleet Sets Sail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Fleet-Sets-Sail.jpg?fit=625%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11778 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Fleet-Sets-Sail.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Fleet-Sets-Sail.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Fleet-Sets-Sail.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Fleet-Sets-Sail.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Fleet-Sets-Sail.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Fleet-Sets-Sail.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fleet Sets Sail<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The club is made up of a variety of people from the UK, Europe and other far flung places. On this day there were several Dart 18s, a Hobie and a monohull dingy in the race fleet. All boats were fully crewed so we did not get a chance to sail but Darren got to help out in the safety boat.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_11779\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Race-Is-On.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11779\" data-attachment-id=\"11779\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?attachment_id=11779\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Race-Is-On.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-W120&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1308906412&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;21.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KWT-The Race Is On\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Race-Is-On.jpg?fit=625%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11779 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Race-Is-On.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Race-Is-On.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Race-Is-On.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Race-Is-On.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Race-Is-On.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-The-Race-Is-On.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Race Is On!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The safety boat captain set up a course of three marker buoys a few hundred meters offshore and the races were on. It was a great site to see and even though I was not on the water I had fun watching the races and taking a few photos. I was so engrossed in the all the activity that I almost forgot that the temperature was approaching 50 degrees C!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_11776\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Darren-Heads-Out-In-The-Safety-Boat.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11776\" data-attachment-id=\"11776\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?attachment_id=11776\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Darren-Heads-Out-In-The-Safety-Boat.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-W120&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1308905091&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;21.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KWT-Darren Heads Out In The Safety Boat\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Darren-Heads-Out-In-The-Safety-Boat.jpg?fit=625%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11776 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Darren-Heads-Out-In-The-Safety-Boat.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Darren-Heads-Out-In-The-Safety-Boat.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Darren-Heads-Out-In-The-Safety-Boat.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Darren-Heads-Out-In-The-Safety-Boat.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Darren-Heads-Out-In-The-Safety-Boat.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knotsnplots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KWT-Darren-Heads-Out-In-The-Safety-Boat.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darren Joins The Safety Boat<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Friday turned out to be our lucky day. We made some new friends and will have a chance to crew in some future races. Now if I could only figure out how to get Ananda over here for 6 months!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been on a quest for sailing ever since I arrived in Kuwait last February. Over the past several months I have followed a number of &#8220;leads&#8221; here and there but was not having much luck&#8211;until last Friday, June 24! Harry Morrow, a work colleague of mine spotted some brief articles about sailing clubs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-kuwait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-2T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11781,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/11781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}