{"id":8327,"date":"2009-09-07T20:48:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=8327"},"modified":"2009-10-08T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T19:57:18","slug":"bare-aluminum-topside-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/bare-aluminum-topside-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bare Aluminum Topside Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/uk-topsides2.jpg\" alt=\"uk-topsides2\" width=\"600\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have discussed in the past the advantages of bare aluminum topsides (no maintenance or worry, initial cost reduction, lower visual profile, etc.). And we have grown to love this look.<\/p>\n<p>But, after three-plus years of cruising, mostly off the beaten path, rafting with commercial vessels and laying on rough docks, we were getting a little tired of the view from the dinghy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Being hauled out at Berthon&#8217;s in the UK provided a chance to give the topsides a clean up. As you can see in these photos, Wind Horse is looking very polished.<\/p>\n<p>And the cost? Two thousand and eight-nine British Pounds (about US$3000). We are now ready for the next 37,000 miles of cruising.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/uk-topsides2-1.jpg\" alt=\"uk-topsides2\" width=\"600\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have discussed in the past the advantages of bare aluminum topsides (no maintenance or worry, initial cost reduction, lower <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/bare-aluminum-topside-maintenance\/\">&#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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327"}],"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=8327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}