{"id":256,"date":"2011-04-25T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T19:43:22","slug":"spring-of-2011-onto-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Spring of 2011&#8230;.Onto Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Taxes are done and I have just spent the week catching up with the Ellie K. She now has a new Anchor Wash System and a Macerator Pump as well as a new rebuilt water pump on the engine. The best part of these jobs was realizing that I had put the macerator \u00a0pump sea cock in 180 degrees off and I had to take the valve apart to turn it around; it didn&#8217;t leak bad enough that a couple pieces of paper towel couldn&#8217;t stop it, but I did manage to get wet. This week I am replacing the water pump on the outboard that has gone flat over the winter. Things are great, yesterday I actually started teaching Becky to dock the boat. \u00a0Last night as I crawled into bed and kissed her goodnight she said she was ready to try to back the boat into the boathouse again. That&#8217;s encouraging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most of all I want to welcome Scott Wilson as a new partner. Scott is spending the first part of the summer on the Ellie K taking her up to Alaska and is planning on handing over the boat to me in Juneau\u00a0on the first of August. He is a good writer, so hopefully he will bless us with some updates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Godspeed \u00a0to Scott, his family and friends and may your trip north be good to you and our boat, Ellie K.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Paul<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes are done and I have just spent the week catching up with the Ellie K. She now has a new Anchor Wash System and a Macerator Pump as well as a new rebuilt water pump on the engine. The best part of these jobs was realizing that I had put the macerator \u00a0pump sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}