{"id":27701,"date":"2017-04-13T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T11:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=27701"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T11:52:48","slug":"the-restoration-of-a-sail-powered-lobster-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/04\/the-restoration-of-a-sail-powered-lobster-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Restoration of a Sail-powered Lobster Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the 1920s, when combustion engines were first mass produced, lobster boats and other vessels were powered by wind and sails, and the Friendship sloop was the most ingeniously designed boat around. \u201cThis boat is representative of what is essentially the start of the lobstering industry,\u201d boat builder and shipwright Tim Clark said Thursday as he stood on the recently rebuilt deck of Blackjack, a Friendship sloop he and others at the Sail, Power and Steam Museum in Rockland have been restoring for the past three years. <a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2017\/03\/31\/news\/midcoast\/maine-still-has-at-least-one-sail-powered-lobster-boat\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2017\/03\/31\/news\/midcoast\/maine-still-has-at-least-one-sail-powered-lobster-boat\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the 1920s, when combustion engines were first mass produced, lobster boats and other vessels were powered by wind and sails, and the Friendship sloop was the most ingeniously designed boat around. \u201cThis boat is representative of what is essentially the start of the lobstering industry,\u201d boat builder and shipwright Tim Clark said Thursday as he stood on the recently rebuilt deck of Blackjack, a Friendship sloop he and others at the Sail, Power and Steam Museum in Rockland have been restoring for the past three years. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27703,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27701\/revisions\/27703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}