{"id":1181,"date":"2007-02-11T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:36:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:36:05","slug":"come-sail-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Come sail away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_1602-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030076339200947986\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_1602-copy-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Just be sure to dress warm!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_1643-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030075085070497522\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_1643-copy-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> I&#8217;ve been waiting all week for the Navesink River to freeze up enough, in hopes that the iceboaters would come out of the woodwork, and today they did! Aren&#8217;t they beautiful?<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_1647-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030074853142263522\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_1647-copy-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Unlike regular sailing, in iceboating there is minimal friction, so you can sail upward of five times the speed of the wind. Therein lies the thrill. Sitting low, so close to the ice, they say it feels like you&#8217;re going 100 miles an hour. Sometimes the wind is so strong that only one side of the boat makes contact with the ice. Can you imagine the thrill?<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_1646-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030074707113375442\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/IMG_1646-copy-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> The Navesink only freezes every three or four years, so the people who practice the sport have to travel to wherever the ice is, and we spectators have to wait for the chance to watch them. I&#8217;m hoping tomorrow will bring the bigger boats and the races; a regatta of sorts.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just be sure to dress warm! I&#8217;ve been waiting all week for the Navesink River to freeze up enough, in hopes that the iceboaters would come out of the woodwork, and today they did! Aren&#8217;t they beautiful? Unlike regular sailing, in iceboating there is minimal friction, so you can sail upward of five times the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Come sail away<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}