{"id":18,"date":"2010-05-07T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/blueflash\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2019-07-18T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:00:15","slug":"charters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/index.php\/charters-and-diving\/charters\/","title":{"rendered":"Charters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlueFlash is proud to own and operate Ruby Runner, the most capable RIB (rigid inflatable boat) in Cape Town. She is a Gemini 8.5m built in 2008 and surveyed to SAMSA Category B standards.\u00a0 Power is from 2 x Suzuki DF200HP outboards (new in 2018) which give her a blistering top speed of 40 knots even if fully loaded. Cruising at 30 knots her range is approximately 200 nautical miles (370 Km) with her 275 Lt internal fuel tank.\u00a0 Additional fuel can be carried on deck.\u00a0 She is equipped with a top electronics including a GPS chart plotter,\u00a0 VHF radio, sounder and hull mounted side scan sonar. We also have all new safety equipment and full foul weather gear for 15 persons. Her load capacity is 2 tons of deck cargo or up to 15 passengers and crew.\u00a0 She has jockey style seating for 12 which can be easily be removed if required.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueflash.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RR-LC-500W.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-802\" title=\"RR-LC  500W\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blueflash.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RR-LC-500W.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RR-LC-500W.jpg 500w, http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RR-LC-500W-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What makes charters onboard Ruby Runner run so smoothly and safely is the experience of her skipper; As a firm rule she is only ever skippered by Grant. Other charter operators allow their boats to be skippered by trainee and inexperienced skippers. Normally that\u2019s no problem, everyone has to start somewhere, but when things go wrong or conditions get challenging you want to have the best skipper in charge &#8211; no problem with BlueFlash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlueFlash is proud to own and operate Ruby Runner, the most capable RIB (rigid inflatable boat) in Cape Town. She is a Gemini 8.5m built in 2008 and surveyed to SAMSA Category B standards.\u00a0 Power is from 2 x Suzuki DF200HP outboards (new in 2018) which give her a blistering top speed of 40 knots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1864,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"charters.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/2316"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueflash.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}