{"id":314,"date":"2016-11-16T01:35:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T01:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/?p=314"},"modified":"2018-10-01T01:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T01:41:01","slug":"a-big-stick-and-other-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/a-big-stick-and-other-gems","title":{"rendered":"A big stick and other Gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\nNot the most relaxed drive, 150 km with a big stick!<br\/>The answer to the question is: it&#8217;s the bowsprit bowsprit of an old Thames barge, a rather well traveled stick. I brought it home from Kingston, where our sail maker had it sitting for some years but needed it moved.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" src=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"315\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/?attachment_id=315\" class=\"wp-image-315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick1.jpg 1440w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick1-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick1-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick1-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" src=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"316\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/?attachment_id=316\" class=\"wp-image-316\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick2.jpg 1440w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick2-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick2-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick2-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nOnly an old school British sail maker would have parted with his precious spar by leaving a message on it. &#8220;Sing high, sing low. A sailing along gives an old barge a breeze and you cannot go wrong&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/images\/emoji.php\/v7\/fa5\/1.5\/16\/1f642.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" src=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick3.jpg 1440w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick3-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick3-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick3-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nWe are hoping the stick will find a place in our rig as it is loaded with history, which I have yet to find more about. For now, I know it was the bowsprit of a working Thames barge, the SB Ethel. It was brought to Canada with an other barge, SB May, who knows why, who knows when.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" src=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick4.jpg 1440w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick4-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick4-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick4-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nAlong with the stick it is a few\u00a0nautical gems I brought home yesterday.<br\/>Lignum vitae dead eyes, an awesome Marlin spike, some rigging tools, cleats, shackles&#8230;. My own little treasure <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/images\/emoji.php\/v7\/fa5\/1.5\/16\/1f642.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick5.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"319\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/?attachment_id=319\" class=\"wp-image-319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick5.jpg 1440w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick5-500x333.jpg 500w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick5-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick5-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" src=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick6.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"320\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/?attachment_id=320\" class=\"wp-image-320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick6.jpg 1440w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick6-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick6-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick6-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bigstick6-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the most relaxed drive, 150 km with a big stick!The answer to the question is: it&#8217;s the bowsprit bowsprit of an old Thames barge, a rather well traveled &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sails-and-rigging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mimijane.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}