Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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A condition of our insurance is that we have someone on board, when underway, who has a minimum of RYA Day Skipper.
I'm actually an RYA Day Skipper, but:
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I've not sailed for over a decade.
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I'm used to boats with sails.
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And I'm in Australia, so it's a bit inconvenient for me to pop over to Gosport when @Giles fancies a quick jaunt.
The rules of the road when sailing are easy: If it's hard for it to get out of your way, you give way. Or if it's substantially larger. Or if it's a French trawler.
Navigation is pretty straightforward. It's just a bunch of basic vector mathematics to take into account that the sea is moving beneath you. Never got into astronavigation, but that involves spherical geometry, so might be a bit trickier.
And I remember those flashcards.
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Yeah, that "pretty straightforward" navigation sounded like the announcers when I try to follow a game of cricket. Or maybe like teachers sound to Charlie Brown…
In actuality, I do understand the gist, but it doesn't sound straightforward to do vector math on the fly while the shit you're floating on is moving
Once I was in a little sailboat on Pickwick Lake on the borders of TN, AL, and MS. This is a Tennessee Valley Authority project (reservoir with locks) on the Tennessee River, so all sorts of watercraft make their way through. On my little voyage, I managed first to nearly be capsized by the wake of a cigar boat and then to struggle to stay out of the way of a very large barge.
Sailing is fun, but I can see why I should've learned more navigational skills before going out.
I did have a lovely time overall.
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Amazing! I hope you guys hammered some rum or some naval strength gin, just to be appropriate for the occasion @Chap
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Damn that thing looks good… So stoked for you guys.
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What an awesome day for you two!!! Pilgrim fits in Gosport perfectly!
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what a great boat
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you look extremely happy
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…@Madame Buttonfly @Giles once again congratulations! It's just fantastic!
Great stuff!…hopefully you won't be needing this for awhile.
What's the 'draw' on that boat Gile's, how deep is she sittin'?
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@Giles does Paula realize the main cabin is really the fishing gear locker?
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Iron Heart now has a Boss and a Captain.
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The Pilgrim looks great as do the new owners. Enjoy it, as I'm sure you will.
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Awesome… congrats Giles & Paula !
