{"id":1957,"date":"2019-03-10T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2019-03-10T18:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T22:25:13","slug":"australia-wooden-boat-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"Australia wooden boat festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0114-1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0114-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0114-1-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0114-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0114-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>I have long been intrigued with the discovery of New Zealand. This photo is of a wonderful, authentic replica of ENDEAVOUR that was at the show- Captain Cook&#8217;s vessel in which he made the first of his three voyages into the Pacific. It put a chill up my spine to walk the decks of this ship. Lots of people think Cook &#8220;discovered&#8221; New Zealand, but he didn&#8217;t. That honour falls to Kupe, the fortunate Maori who departed Raiatea in the Society Islands (near Tahiti) in a double canoe and sailed it over 2000 miles into the unknown about 1000 years ago. His canoe planted the first human beings on New Zealand, and every time I travel there I go to the spot in Whitianga where legend holds that he first stepped ashore. Coincidentally Cook also put into the same beach, where he performed a &#8220;transit of Mercury&#8221; which enabled him to fix the longitude of New Zealand to an accuracy of less than ten miles, an amazing feat for the year 1769. I&#8217;m sure you know that the first European who sighted New Zealand was actually Abel Tasman, who encountered it in 1642 , named it after his homeland (Holland) and reported the fact of the island&#8217;s existence, and the fact that it was inhabited by huge humans who bludgeoned and ate four of his crewmembers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}