Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[goosehd]

@Giles By chance, was this one of your questions:

You are underway when a drunk Norwegian wearing heavy denim falls overboard.  What do you do?

A) Turn the boat around wasting valuable time and fuel
Throw a life ring to him and point him to the shortest direction to land
C) Pretend you didn't see anything and keep on your designated course

[Giles]

D) High-5 @Madame Buttonfly and open one of said Norwegians beers….

[goosehd]

There’s the G I know and love…

[Giles]

Last weekend of April (weather permitting), we will be taking Pilgrim to The Channel Islands.  They lie about 90 miles South of here, and we intend to overnight on both passages (yes, we are going with someone who knows what he is doing @Ian72 ).  Fuel is cheap in the Channel Islands, so seems sensible to go fill-her-up.

Today we had a wake for a very good friend and we got chatting to Mike Thomsom (Alex Thomsons dad), and he invited us to moor in "his bay", on Ecréhous..

https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Les_Ecréhous

We should be able to catch up with Alex, who now lives on Jersey, whilst we are there.

The adventure starts…..

[sabergirl]

Sounds like a very worthy maiden voyage [emoji3059]

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[Nik]

You will have a great time on Ecréhous. I went there a few years ago for a stag and it is a special place. Excellent first voyage.

[browniemcghee]

Wow.  Excellent news all around.  Please post photos of the voyage.

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[ROman]

Sounds like a great trip, voyage.

[Giles]

@Nkwkfld:

You will have a great time on Ecréhous. I went there a few years ago for a stag and it is a special place. Excellent first voyage.

What an inspired choice for a Stag…..

[Nik]

Had a nice morning eating oysters off the beach

[Giles]

I'm taking a Bass rod and a lobster pot

[louisbosco]

@Giles
@Ian72 is on the forum?? or is this a different Ian I'm thinking about?

[Giles]

Same Ian, if you are thinking of New Years Eve Ian…...

[Matt]

Fishing mate Ian?

[Giles]

Yep….

[Clint_D]

Congrats on the certification @Giles! Have you looked into adding any sort of fuel additives for the 5.9 Cummins as a cetane booster?

[Giles]

No I have not (well I just have :-).  Is there any way I can measure the cetane number of my diesel?

[Aetas]

As far as I know, there is no cetane quick test.
Methods like the Ignition Quality Tester (IQT) looking like this:

Trust the numbers of your local filling station .

[Giles]

That's not quick (or cheap).

I'm not sure the floating filling stations around here, have that sort of info.  And marine diesel is of very variable quality anyway.  I'm filling up in Jersey in a few weeks, I'll see what they say….

[louisbosco]

@Giles:

Same Ian, if you are thinking of New Years Eve Ian…...

yes. brilliant!!