Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Alex]

@vaquero357:

What's the 'draw' on that boat Gile's

If i was a betting man, I’d say 5’2’’ - 6’’

[Alex]

Actually, it could be a little less

[Giles]

4' 4"

[Giles]

Maiden cruise - Isle of Wight for lunch…..

Cap'n @Chap

Cap'n @Madame Buttonfly

Moored up on the Medina River, waiting for the boat ferry to take us to the pub

[Chap]

Cap‘n @Giles

[Chap]

The whole crew

[Chap]

Pilgrim pimped

[dinobarnesberlin]

Thats a Mötley crew if I ever saw one 
The big smiles say it all….really happy for you guys!!

[Kasi]

Lovely picture’s

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[ROman]

Looks great.

[Madame Buttonfly]

We had a wonderful day yesterday, thanks @Chap for putting up with our Pilgrim obsession during your stay and thanks @Ian72 for skippering us safely over to Cowes and back - gorgeous weather, great lunch and Giles and I grinning like Cheshire cats the entire trip 

[Anesthetist]

Love the maiden voyage pics and congratulations G&P!

So who makes that killer briefcase/satchel next to Capn Giles?

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[Giles]

It's by Faith.  i think we have a few here. @Graham ?

[Anesthetist]

Beautiful @Giles I will have to give them a look…

[Giles]

Yeah, as my eye-sight fails and I need to carry truckloads of shit (but, like not too much), I needed something that would work.  @Kurt-faith came up with the goods…..

[Graham]

@Anesthetist We will have the bag that Giles posted along with a natural version and both in a smaller version photographed, detailed, and available on the website soon. Will update you as soon as we have all the details.

[Giles]

Today, we went to collect the tender.  Next Monday we start our 5 day Day Skipper Theory course, @Madame Buttonfly took the opportunity to do some pre-course required swotting…..

The tender had to be partially deflated to get into the van, thank God I took the rear seats out of the van…..

[Giles]

Today, @Madame Buttonfly and I pumped up the rib, attached the outboard, started it (took me a little time until I found the fuel tap - in the end, Paula had to read the instruction manual, which as most men know, is a little bit cheaty), and took her to Pilgrim.

Here she is installed on the coach roof….

[Madame Buttonfly]

My husband is like a dog with two dicks! 

We did have a lot of fun today, after some cursing and after the "how you use the outboard motor" manual had eventually been consulted  ::)

[Giles]

Classroom work….