{"id":3628,"date":"2013-01-24T21:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2013-01-24T21:53:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T21:53:59","slug":"ready-about-on-the-river-blackwater-exploring-the-creeks-ditches-and-shoals-in-a-small-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=3628","title":{"rendered":"Ready About on the River Blackwater: Exploring the creeks, ditches and shoals in a small boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve added a new book to the SCA store:<\/p>\n<p>Sub-titled &#8220;Exploring the creeks, ditches and shoals in a small boat,&#8221; this &#8220;pocket book for the pocket cruiser&#8221;  details Tony Smith&#8217;s adventures exploring the shallows of the U.K&#8217;s Essex and Blackwater estuary region. Tony speaks specifically to the pocket cruiser and does not pretend to teach you how to cross the Channel or navigate a modern 40-footer in blue water\u2014but he does know something about pushing, shoving, pulling, poling, and rowing his little boat up every inch of ever creek of the River Blackwater. <\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/store\/product.php?productid=345&#038;cat=0&#038;page=1\">147-page book<\/a> includes many wonderful color photos as well as a nice little interview with the author&#8217;s mentor, the recently deceased legendary small-boat cruiser, <a href=\"http:\/\/shoal-waters.moonfruit.com\/\">Charles Stock<\/a>. All in all a nice little book that puts one in the mood for creek crawling and poking about. <\/p>\n<p>Because we try to find these less-well-known titles, and we have to import them directly form the U.K. in small batches, what would normally be an $18.95 retail price is instead <a href=\"http:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/store\/product.php?productid=345&#038;cat=0&#038;page=1\">$29.95.<\/a> \u2014Eds<a href=\"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?attachment_id=3629\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3629\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Creek_Sailor_Book_Cover-RGB-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Creek_Sailor_Book_Cover-RGB-small\" width=\"353\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Creek_Sailor_Book_Cover-RGB-small.jpg 353w, https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Creek_Sailor_Book_Cover-RGB-small-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve added a new book to the SCA store: Sub-titled &#8220;Exploring the creeks, ditches and shoals in a small boat,&#8221; this &#8220;pocket book for the pocket cruiser&#8221; details Tony Smith&#8217;s adventures exploring the shallows of the U.K&#8217;s Essex and Blackwater estuary region. Tony speaks specifically to the pocket cruiser and does not pretend to teach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}