{"id":35388,"date":"2025-07-18T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/?p=35388"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:06:36","slug":"rib-adventures-why-a-rib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/rib-adventures-why-a-rib\/","title":{"rendered":"RIB Adventures &#8211; Why a RIB?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J4JsTEluzC4?si=Azl1DbigYKwLJH0I\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RIB Adventures Episode 17<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This episode marks the day when I realised just how big a little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dtender.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5.5 meter<\/a> Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Usually this series focuses on the \u2018how\u2019 of running our RIB: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>how we launch,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>how we anchor,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>how we beach,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>how we recover,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode however I find myself steering more towards the question of \u2018why\u2019:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Why I love messing about in boats,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>why so early,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>why so fast,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>why so far and why I think it all works.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why not put on a brew and come along for the spin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My video was published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@VISTATREKKER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my <strong>VISTATREKKER<\/strong> YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find more of <a href=\"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/category\/vistatrekker\/\">my articles<\/a> on RIBsONLY.com\u2014feel free to check them out if you&#8217;re curious about my adventures.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@VISTATREKKER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIB Adventures Episode 17 This episode marks the day when I realised just how big a little 5.5 meter Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) can be. Usually this series focuses on the \u2018how\u2019 of running our RIB: In this episode however I find myself steering more towards the question of \u2018why\u2019: Why not put on a brew and come along for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[529,444,37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-tender","category-adventure","category-suzuki","category-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}