{"id":345,"date":"2015-05-31T04:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T04:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwendal.ca\/?p=345"},"modified":"2015-05-31T19:37:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T19:37:49","slug":"launching-a-merry-wherry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Launching a merry wherry for two"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friends Justin and Anne-Sophie have been working feverishly over the last few weeks to launch their two person Merry Wherry<\/a>. They named it “Oh\u00e9 Matelot”.<\/p>\n

My daughter was particularly excited to be part of the inaugural launch. She helped roll the boat down from the Grin technologies headquarters down to the water at Hinge island park on the south shore of False Creek.<\/p>\n

The most impressive things were the beautiful four part paint scheme of the hull and the LED lights imbedded in the hollow cedar and fir oars.  \"\"<\/a>  <\/p>\n

 

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walking the boat down Ontario street<\/figcaption><\/figure> 
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last minute wireing for the oar LED lights<\/figcaption><\/figure>  
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Hinge Island park has one of the only beach access points to the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>  \"\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

“Oh\u00e9 Matelot” comes from a French song that all children learn<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Il_\u00e9tait_un_petit_navire<\/p>\n

One thing I noticed participating in the launch was that although the sea wall brings people close to the water it keeps us high above the high tide line and in most places separates people from the intertidal zone. Hinge park is one of the few places in False Creek where one has access to the water. I think there is an opportunity to provide more access to the water and opportunities to launch small watercraft on the water’s edge in False Creek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friends Justin and Anne-Sophie have been working feverishly over the last few weeks to launch their two person Merry Wherry. They named it “Oh\u00e9 Matelot”. My daughter was particularly excited to be part of the inaugural launch. She helped roll the boat down from the Grin technologies headquarters down to the water at Hinge … Continue reading Launching a merry wherry for two<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[72,6,73],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voile-aviron","tag-rowboat","tag-rowing","tag-wherry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gwendal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0339.jpg?fit=2250%2C3000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p527QE-5z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwendal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}