{"id":2123,"date":"2008-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2009-04-20T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:02:44","slug":"dinghy-tent-awning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/dinghy-tent-awning\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinghy Tent\/Awning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mosimage\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"dinghy\/life raft with rescue orange awning\/tent\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/dink_tent_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dinghy\/life raft with rescue orange awning\/tent\" hspace=\"6\" width=\"648\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We have always thought of a properly prepared dinghy as a better option than the life raft in most situations. Our dink on <em>Wind Horse<\/em> always has its outboard spares\/tools of course, along with ground tackle and abandon ship gear packed in watertight backpacks. There is a five-gallon (19 liter) water jug, and two six-gallon (22 liter) gas cans stored aboard as well.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The one weakness has been exposure &#8211; to cold and sun. So, this fall we called Ron and Ron&#8217;s Custom Canvas in Ventura, California, and put our heads together. You can see the result above.<\/p>\n<p>That is a rescue orange Sunbrella fabric &#8220;tent&#8221; which will provide a degree of shelter from the elements.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mosimage\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"dinghy\/life raft with awning furled\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/img_1928.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dinghy\/life raft with awning furled\" hspace=\"6\" width=\"576\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The tent &#8220;furls&#8221; down the side, and will be in place from now on when we are passaging as well as using the dinghy for exploration in remote locales.<\/p>\n<p>The same approach can be made to work on larger inflatables with a little thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have always thought of a properly prepared dinghy as a better option than the life raft in most situations. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/dinghy-tent-awning\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}