{"id":7029,"date":"2012-06-12T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T18:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T18:01:44","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-just-plain-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/columns\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-just-plain-odd\/","title":{"rendered":"The good, the bad and the just plain odd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MISADVENTURES IN THE WINDVANE SELF-STEERING MARKET<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/4-Atlantik-Systeme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5829\" title=\"4 Atlantik Systeme\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/4-Atlantik-Systeme-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/4-Atlantik-Systeme-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/4-Atlantik-Systeme-1024x652.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Are you sitting comfortably? Here comes another unlikely \u2013 but entirely true \u2013 tale from the world of windvane self-steering. If you were still steering by hand in the 1970s (or if, indeed, you were yet to be born), you will have to take it on trust that the events I am about to recount really happened.<\/p>\n<p>In 1976, ownership of Windpilot passed to me, Peter F\u00f6rthmann, in exchange for a steel yawl. I lost my boat, but gained a job I loved and saw my horizons expanded beyond all measure \u2013 albeit at the price of one or two rather unpleasant experiences. Life (mine at least) has always been a magical mystery tour of shocks and surprises though, so my encounters with my fellow purveyors of vanegear fit well into the established pattern. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/columns\/deutsch-reflexionen-marktbegleiter\/\">continue reading here please<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MISADVENTURES IN THE WINDVANE SELF-STEERING MARKET Are you sitting comfortably? Here comes another unlikely \u2013 but entirely true \u2013 tale from the world of windvane self-steering. If you were still steering by hand in the 1970s (or if, indeed, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/columns\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-just-plain-odd\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}