{"id":291,"date":"2011-11-22T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?page_id=291"},"modified":"2016-06-06T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:45:11","slug":"activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?page_id=291","title":{"rendered":"Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to our rowing trips, we&#8217;ve done other &#8220;experimental&#8221; activities.\u00a0 While books and historical records tell much about bateaux and bateauxmen, many things were left unwritten because they were too common or considered uninteresting.\u00a0 By trying things out ourselves, we learn much about the past.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bateau Wagon and Portage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?page_id=280\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/wagon-2\/thumbs\/thumbs_d010-050.jpg\" alt=\"wagon-2-d010-050.jpg\" \/><\/a> <br  \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bateau Wagon and Portage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?page_id=280\">Bateau Wagon and Portage<\/a> &#8211; Our bateaux got stuck on the muddy river bed after a hurricane, and we built and used a period bateau wagon to get them out.<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'  \/>\n<p><a title=\"Transporting a Cannon by Boat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?page_id=345\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cannon-2\/thumbs\/thumbs_o001-614.jpg\" alt=\"cannon-2-09-o001-614.jpg\" \/><\/a> <br  \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Transporting a Cannon by Boat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?page_id=345\">Transport a Cannon by Boat<\/a> &#8211; We load a cannon and take it across a river.\u00a0 This was an interesting experiment in cargo handling.<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'  \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?attachment_id=453\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-453\" title=\"sailplan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sailplan-150x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sailplan-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sailplan-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sailplan-100x89.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sailplan.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br  \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A New Sail for the Bateau\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?page_id=451\">A New Sail for the Bateau<\/a> &#8211; We make a period square sail for the <em>DeSager<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'  \/>\n<p><a title=\"Man-Overboard Drills\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?page_id=675\">Man-Overboard Drills<\/a> &#8211; We learn how the inflatable PFDs work in practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to our rowing trips, we&#8217;ve done other &#8220;experimental&#8221; activities.\u00a0 While books and historical records tell much about bateaux and bateauxmen, many things were left unwritten because they were too common or considered uninteresting.\u00a0 By trying things out ourselves, we learn much about the past. Bateau Wagon and Portage &#8211; Our bateaux got stuck&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}