Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[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…

[goosehd]

Is it wrong that I giggle every time I see Nordic Tug 37 and think of our favourite mod…

[Giles]

Nope, because I do too

[Giles]

@Madame Buttonfly at the helm….

[goosehd]

Since this is your first major outing, what are your thoughts?  Meeting expectations?  Giving you more ideas for your build in queue?

[Giles]

Dennis, I’ll jot my thoughts down when we are back home.

Currently having to keep south of the naval firing ranges. The range safety craft has been on the radio checking we know to keep south of 50 33.5. Seen one yacht who did not know they were firing today, get a bollocking

[steelworker]

Paula looking like she's already at home.
Keep an eye on the naval batteries Giles!

[goosehd]

Best to avoid a scene like this if possible…

[steelworker]

or this. this would not be good. for chrissake Giles cut the line

[Giles]

Note to self.  Get P a step…..

[68degreesorless]

@Giles:

@Madame Buttonfly at the helm….

Flowers are a nice touch

[Giles]

Left Poole at 08:00.  We motored to Lulworth Cove (remember it @twin ?) …..

and hung around for a few hours whilst we waited for the firing range to open so that we could motor across it.  To get into Lulworth we had to get very close to the restricted area again, so our friends the range safely officers got in touch again 

This time they actually came to eyeball us close to, after we had moored the cove…

We pratted around, playing with the rib etc and left about 30 mins ago…

Now, we heading east along the Dorset coast…..

[Matt]

Beautiful G.

[Nik]

That looks really fun