Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Giles]

Pilgrims home for the next 12 months or so…..

[Giles]

Tomorrow, we were due to head south to the Channel Islands and France. Unfortunately, the weather, in particular the wind, and wave height and direction, are not in our favour.  So we will head west instead and see if we can get as far as Devon before turning around…...

[Daniel San]

Good luck for your trip !!
have a save adventure without whales ..

[Giles]

[Kasi]

Safe travels… G…. As always

Avoid any cut up on the face 

[Giles]

Ready to leave Goz Vegas….

[motojobobo]

Go Captain!!

[Matt]

God’s speed.

[Giles]

[Daniel San]

full steam ahead Cpt G

[jordanscollected]

have a great time, you must feel like you are floating in more ways than 1.

[browniemcghee]

Love these pics! Bon voyage.

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[Giles]

Overnighted in Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight….Luckily found a pub that was still serving grub....

[louisbosco]

brilliant! smooth sailing ahead!

[Giles]

Hard at work at the helm….

[goosehd]

Looks like you’re having a great time.  Did I calculate correctly that you have about 100 miles (160 Kim’s) to travel?  How much of that is open water (no land close by)?  What’s your cruising speed 6-9 knots?

Definitely a journey and hope your weather holds out.

If I cross Lake Ontario from my house to Rochester, New York, it’s 55 linear miles.  My boat cruises 30 MPH, but can go 48 mph.  However at that speed it’s hard on gas.  I keep wanting to try the trip, but storms can show up out of anywhere, and the boats only 22 feet long.  We can get waves 6-10 feets extremely quickly and I don’t want to be too far from shore when they strike.

Enjoy the journey!!

[Giles]

Hi Dennis.

We try and cruise at about 10 knots, though we had 14.5knots speed over ground (SOG) earlier today, as we had a lot of current up our chuff.

At 10knots we burn about 40 liters (about 8.7 US gallons) per hour, Pilgrim will do a max of about 18 knots (and burns about 120 LPH, so we try not to do that too often).

We are currently moored in Poole Harbour, I guess we have done about 40 miles since yesterday.  Winds gusting to about 20knots, so a bit lumpy at times…..

[goosehd]

Love your navigation system.  Does it come with weather and radar?

[Giles]

We have radar and AIS, but not weather (well, just wind speed and direction), I'll fix that on the new boat…...

[Giles]

Home for the night - Poole…