{"id":1638,"date":"2015-05-07T22:54:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T20:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2015-07-06T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:27:00","slug":"captain-ben-pops-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Captain Ben pops by"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1639\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/overhead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1639\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1639\" src=\"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/overhead.jpg\" alt=\"Bens view of Adina from the cockpit\" width=\"235\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bens view of Adina from the cockpit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s always some\u00a0fun happening on-board Adina but every now and then we get an unusual surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Anchored in Luganville, Santo we got a message from an old school friend Ben Lovering who is a commercial pilot saying that he was flying from Papua New Guinea to Fiji and would be flying over Vanuatu. A while later an updated flying plan arrived that he was flying right near us as he had to divert due to some storms &#8211; we suspect Ben had decided he was going to fly over us.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1640\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1screen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1640\" src=\"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1screen.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Ben!\" width=\"235\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hello Ben!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say Brilliant!&#8217;. Thanks for popping by Ben &#8211; hope we see you ground level sometime and happy flying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always some\u00a0fun happening on-board Adina but every now and then we get an unusual surprise. 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