Hi @DeeDee85, you will be looking around September at the latest.

@kaacy1721 We generally get notified the week of any new drops, however, in the meantime, keep an eye out on the forum for any updates of the restocks.

@jayjay198666 with these only released in May @Tago-Mago would be correct.

@goosehd said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:

You may have even tired out Izzy

That girl needs zero help with tiring herself out....

Popped down this morning and did some paint removal and brass/stainless steel polishing.....

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.

@TuckedInShirt These may be back in the long term, but aren't on the cards for this year I'm afraid

State of the nation.....

The interior skin and high density foam middle layer have been rebuilt. Now, "just" the exterior skin to be rebuilt, then Matt and I can start on replacing the mechanicals...

@Notchas You would be looking at September/October for these to be restocked.

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It is...It's a euphemism for fuck....