{"id":2418,"date":"2024-01-02T15:04:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2024-01-02T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:04:21","slug":"loony-dook-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2418","title":{"rendered":"Loony Dook 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy New Year everyone! With the Lass off the water for her makeover, it was just the Maid who attended this year&#8217;s Dook &#8211; along with St Margaret&#8217;s Hope and Ferry Sonnet from North Queensferry. It was a special row for one club member, George, who was celebrating his 85th birthday. Many happy returns George!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53437797003_bfe93a2264_b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">George in the bow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also at the Dook was Richard, paddling his kayak. A couple of onlookers on shore were  overheard musing about why the kayaker was shadowing the skiffs. &#8220;He must be the rescue boat,&#8221; the chap said. &#8220;Oh yes, gosh that&#8217;s good of him, isn&#8217;t it!&#8221; Well done Richard &#8211; we&#8217;re sure you&#8217;d have managed to pack all six crew into your kayak in the event of a capsize! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53438103600_edb27b9337_b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Plenty of room&#8230; <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53436734362_4f55d75e7d_b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Richard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On shore, braving the Dook, was Lorna. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53437659391_525b9db713_o.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">That&#8217;s Lorna next to the meep-meep man<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53436743267_f09f680f2f_b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Good weather made for a big crowd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53437659486_ee04639a24_b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Cheryl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the Dook, the Maid visited the old harbour to wave to Sheena and Ranald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queensferryrowingclub\/albums\/72177720313768291\">More photos on the club Flickr.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year everyone! With the Lass off the water for her makeover, it was just the Maid who attended this year&#8217;s Dook &#8211; along with St Margaret&#8217;s Hope and Ferry Sonnet from North Queensferry. It was a special row for one club member, George, who was celebrating his 85th birthday. Many happy returns George! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loony Dook 2024&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}