Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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Don’t know what to say that hasn’t already been said,but using @Madame Buttonfly analogy… I would think you’re up to 4 dicks by now. Congratulations!
Hahahahahaha! We're definitely both very excited people.
We love Pilgrim and are looking forward to getting lots and lots of experience on her this coming year, the trip to the Channel Isles in late April (weather permitting) will be great fun, not least because we'll be celebrating Sarah's 50th birthday whilst away (wife of @Ian72 and one of my closest friends). We both want to learn as much as possible so that we have some idea of what we're doing before the practical day skipper course in July.
The Sasga Menorquin 54HT is something else, she will be our beautiful holiday home with changing views from the windows
There are (of course) plenty of spending opportunities with pimping the boat, extra "toys" and more, I am trying to rein Giles in, it's not easy…
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Try not to think of them as “ spending” opportunities, and more like “ improvement “ opportunities
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This is great reading about this, and I realize how excited the two of you are.
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holy shit!! that 54 is beautiful!! would that mean it's possible to sail across the world?
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She is a Cat A boat, which means….
Category A — Ocean – This is the category with the toughest standards and covers vessels 40’ and over-designed to be self-sufficient for extended voyages. It is defined as the “category of boats considered suitable for seas of up to 23 feet (7 meters) significant wave height and winds of Beaufort Force 9 (41-47 knots) or less, but excluding abnormal conditions such as hurricanes.”
So, yes.
But her range is only 1600 miles at 9 knots, so unless we get some external bladders for fuel, an ocean crossing will be tricky.....
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quite the potential for the future. I suppose going across Europe into Asia (e.g), you'd have many places to stop for fuel.
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I just watched a quick youtube tour of the 54. I love the kitchen and main cabin entertaining setup. That's going to be an incredible space to spend time in.
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We have not got that one yet. There's a catamaran in it, which should have moved, but hasn't. So they have given us temporarily, a nice, easy access finger which we go bow or stern into. I actually find parallel parking easier, and that is one of my concerns about the permanent berth, I'll get used to doing what I find easy and not be challenged. But as @Ian72 told me, just pretend it's a finger….
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To be fair Giles (not often I say that ???
). It was not exactly the easiest park, I was being a bit mean pushing you to do it 
More practice when you get back
Ian
