{"id":5514,"date":"2021-10-01T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2022-05-19T21:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:59:39","slug":"riding-white-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/riding-white-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Riding White Horses &#8211; The Ribble Bore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The River Ribble empties into the Irish Sea on the coast of the north west of England. A tidal bore runs up much of the tidal section, downriver of the city of Preston. Here I paddle a run of the bore from Hutton Sands to Preston Docks.<\/p>\n<p>In the lower sections the wave is 2-3ft on a good day, but as the wave front  moves up river this steadily decreases until it is only a few inches high. The water depth decreases as  it goes too.<br \/>\nEarly on the bore makes for a fun ride, later on it becomes a challenge just to stay with as you thread through the shallows.<\/p>\n<p>This bore is far from the largest, or the smoothest ride around, but somehow it has a little bit of northern grit about it, as it makes you work to stay the distance.<\/p>\n<p>A good balance of fun, spectacle and challenge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Dh8k6j3fzQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>by John Willacy<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The River Ribble empties into the Irish Sea on the coast of the north west of England. A tidal bore runs up much of the tidal section, downriver of the city of Preston. Here I paddle a run of the bore from Hutton Sands to Preston Docks. In the lower sections the wave is 2-3ft &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/riding-white-horses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video &#8211; Riding White Horses &#8211; The Ribble Bore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,25],"tags":[63,39,89,88,71,35,62,67,36,65,64],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos-tidal-bores","category-videos","tag-john-willacy","tag-performance-sea-kayak","tag-preston","tag-ribble-bore","tag-river-ribble","tag-rockpool","tag-rockpool-kayaks","tag-sea-kayak","tag-taran","tag-taran-16","tag-tidal-bore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}