{"id":7040,"date":"2017-04-24T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2017-04-24T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:45:34","slug":"boating-season-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/boating-season-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Boating season soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though the winter was mild, we are just now at the beginning of the boating season.  The Betty Jane<\/em> is the middle boat in this photo.  It’s shrink-wrapped like its winter-storage neighbrors.  Shrink wrapping protects the boats during winter storage and, as you can see, it’s commonly done in marinas along Lake Erie in NE Ohio.<\/p>\n

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Read more<\/span>In the Studio Oct. 14 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div>

You can see in this photo that most boats–by far–are still in storage and the marina docks are empty except for a few fishing boats.<\/p>\n

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Read more<\/span>In the Studio—10\/28\/12<\/span><\/a><\/div>

In this last photo, I stripped the shrinkwrap from The Betty Jane<\/em> and fastened the cockpit tarp in place.  The tarp protects the cockpit and engine well during the season.<\/p>\n

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Read more<\/span>Hurricane Sandy<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Next, we’ll touch-up the haul-bottom with ablative paint and then give her a good washing.  Finally, we’ll polish and wax her before launch on May 2nd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though the winter was mild, we are just now at the beginning of the boating season.  The Betty Jane is the middle boat in this photo.  It’s shrink-wrapped like its winter-storage neighbrors.  Shrink wrapping protects the boats during winter storage and, as you can see, it’s commonly done in marinas along Lake Erie in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":7029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":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}},"categories":[139,10,1,13],"tags":[312,185],"class_list":["post-7040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio","category-cleveland","category-uncategorized","category-vermilion_oh","tag-boating","tag-lake-erie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/betty-j-2.png?fit=800%2C353&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2771,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/lake-erie-boating-season-ends\/","url_meta":{"origin":7040,"position":0},"title":"Lake Erie boating season ends","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sadly, the boating season is over on the Great Lakes. 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