{"id":710,"date":"2009-07-06T12:37:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2009-07-06T12:37:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T12:37:24","slug":"a-quest-to-bring-the-boat-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/a-quest-to-bring-the-boat-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quest, to bring the boat home&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to have joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/\">P&amp;H Custom Sea Kayaks paddlers team<\/a>. I have been paddling a P&amp;H Sirius for over 8 years now and it has seen me through some tough trips in that time. I feel the need for a change now so its time for a new boat!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_sixK9xxOPMc\/SlGRwGx0ZVI\/AAAAAAAAFKc\/VOuXOuMF5Yo\/s1600-h\/P1030066sm.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"center;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_sixK9xxOPMc\/SlGRwGx0ZVI\/AAAAAAAAFKc\/VOuXOuMF5Yo\/s400\/P1030066sm.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I have chosen a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/osb\/itemdetails.cfm?ID=17\">P&amp;H Quest LV<\/a> which I collected from the P&amp;H canalside base near Runcorn on Saturday morning. It was like christmas and birthdays all rolled into one as I cut through the wrapping to meet my new pride and joy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_sixK9xxOPMc\/SlGW9VWI1sI\/AAAAAAAAFKk\/QP0c_whOe7Y\/s1600-h\/P1030073sm.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"center;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_sixK9xxOPMc\/SlGW9VWI1sI\/AAAAAAAAFKk\/QP0c_whOe7Y\/s400\/P1030073sm.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>What better way to get my new kayak home than to paddle the 32km along the Bridgewater Canal, though the beautiful rolling Cheshire countryside, to within a few hundred meters of my home in south Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to wait at least a week to get it out on the sea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Sam, Pez and the rest of the P&amp;H team, and also to Jim from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayaksnorthwest.co.uk\/\">Kayaks North West<\/a> for helping me with the unveiling. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/kryzs.blogspot.com\/\">Chris Krawiecki<\/a> for the photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to have joined the P&amp;H Custom Sea Kayaks paddlers team. I have been paddling a P&amp;H Sirius for over 8 years now and it has seen me through some tough trips in that time. I feel the need for a change now so its time for a new boat! I have chosen a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}