Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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@Giles what is this knot called? I'd like to have a go at making some...
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@Giles said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
I have also made a few of these which are great:
I think Dita von Teese wears something similar.
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Progress so far.
Mat and I took the rudder assembly off the transom on Sunday, leaving GRP and bolt damage. Oh and a big hole under the waterline (that is where the rudder arm comes through from the engine room and rotates the rudder)...
Was given some heat and 10 tonne pressure treatment yesterday, and is back waiting for the transom rebuild. Keen followers of this thread (all one of you) will remember that last time she was out of the water, I decided to polish the running gear and leave it bare. With her out of the water again, I have decided that I will polish the shafts and the props, and then coat with Lanolin, and prime and antifoul the P brackets, rudders and rudder housing. So I have started prepping the port rudder and housing for priming...
Started to buy the hardware required to reattach the rudder and housing. The original bolts are either bent and/or had to have the heads ground off to enable us to get the housing off. Top 2 are old, bottom one is new. I have also decided to increase the diameter of the penny washers...
Starboard prop and shaft before polishing...Carl, the GRP guy, suggested that I moved the shaft anodes back a foot or so, so that the forward section of the shaft gets more cathodic protection. Also, where I had originally placed them, would have caused turbulence near the props, making them less efficient.
Starboard, polished...
The Sasga factory is closed for annual summer break, so we can't ask them what type of high density foam they used, so we took a core sample and will try and determine what it is ourselves, you can clearly see the delamination too...
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…and something else to check: https://www.compositesworld.com/news/mel-composites-infusion-strategy-enables-sasga-yachts-fiberglass-hull-designs
Edit: Specifically the naval architect Barracuda Yacht Design.
Might be able to reach them for specs on the transom repair. They should have details on materials used.
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Serious question for our European brethren: when everyone goes on holidays like this, what is open? Are daily commodities still available like milk, bread, etc? Restaurants closed as well?
Really curious as I’ve not experienced this before and the concept is difficult to understand.
"I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)
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love it when half the people at work in Paris goes on holiday for a month or so in summer and another over christmas. nothing in nothing out. their world stand still but ours go on...
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Begs the question, “why does our world go on?”. Wouldn’t we all be better off with a month holiday twice a year? At least?
I’m sure that I’m just a dense hedonist—but I don’t think it’d be a great loss for humanity to lose a few trillion out of our productivity/exploitation engine. Maybe the planet would start to recover, and we could all just, like chill more?!
Anyhoo, I hope you’re able to get the boat fixed without the help of the whole company on vacation. So that you can get back to chillin’ more
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There are 22 working days in a month, so people in the UK often get over a month of holiday a year, just not taken all in one go. The shutdowns in Europe are mostly just in factories I believe, I'd imagine you can be more efficient doing it that way - you need fewer staff as you don't have to allow for holiday cover, and the costs of running a closed factory will be much less than a running one.
For my American friends' sake I wish the US would catch up on the need for work life balance and proper worker's rights.
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@Giles said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
Long story short, Paula and I tried to pull the starboard rudder off the transom last Thursday. Rapid, unscheduled disassembly …
Seeing the damage and the huge effort you’ve to take for the repair, I would like to hear the long story now @Giles.
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The long story is not much longer really.
We were going for lunch in Yarmouth with friends. The harbour was shut to large boats, I think because there had been a fatality on a sailing boat the day before in the Needles Channel, and the yacht had been bought into Yarmouth harbour and it was moored on the large pontoon in the harbour with police and rescue services activity doing their investigations, so we were asked to pick up a mooring buoy outside the harbour. The conditions were tricky, with a lot of wind and current. Picking up a mooring buoy on SAKURA is a little complicated because the bow is so high above the water, we have to pick up the buoy from the stern and then walk the buoy to the bow. I had briefed everyone on board about what we had to do and what their individual responsibilities were (I'd even drawn diagrams of what we were going to do), we all had 2 way headsets on, so that we could communicate with each other through the manoeuvre. As I approached the buoy, Paula said she could grab the buoy with the hook and line I have made specifically for this purpose, it was earlier in the manoeuvre, than we had planned, but I said "OK lets just grab it". We did, but because the boat was not completely down wind/current of the buoy at that point, the boat pivoted on the buoy as the tension between the boat and the buoy increased. Net result, the buoy went under the swim platform and the chain attaching the buoy to the sea floor got caught between the starboard rudder and the transom. If the current and wind had not been so strong, I would have been able to thrust the stern to port and freed the chain, but the thruster had zero effect. I then made the rash decision to power her off the chain, that did the job, but basically pulled the rudder out of the transom, not by much, but enough to bend the rudder, and lift the mounting plate away from the transom at the base of the mounting. We started to take on water, not much and the bilge pumps coped easily, but basically not a good thing
Lesson learned: Stick to the the bloody plan and don't go freestyle.
Apart from the shit and aggro (which we deserve for being stupid, I am most upset because we could not use SAKURA whilst @goosehd and family were with us.
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