Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[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

[neph93]

@Giles:

Nope, because I do too

Everyone needs a Nordic tug now and again…

[goosehd]

Yep, a Rub-en Tug… i know it's misspelled

[neph93]

@goosehd:

Yep, a Rub-en Tug…

Well played. [emoji38]

[twin]

@Giles  Yes we both remember this. Walked all around that shore inside the cove. You also had the cow come right up to you.

[Madame Buttonfly]

What an amazing few days, and although I know we have a long way to go we both learnt a lot, and gained loads of confidence - thank you @Ian72 (and birthday girl wifey Sarah) 

[louisbosco]

just curious, does the boat have wifi or do you have to wait for the boat to anchor near to shore to get data off your phones?

[Giles]

It does not have wifi.  But mostly where we are cruising at the moment, we are in sight of shore, so cellular works…..

[Giles]

@goosehd:

Giving you more ideas for your build in queue?

OK, here are some thoughts….

We'll get significantly better radar, probably a 3' open array and integrate that with a thermal imaging camera.  As we will likely be doing quite a few night passages this will greatly improve our situational awareness.  The radar and the camera can be integrated, so that if you identify a target that you want to keep an eye on, the camera will track it and throw the image up onto the screen.

We will get 2 * 16" multi-function displays (MFD's) so that we can monitor stacks of information without dicking around too much. Also means that I can run 2 sepearte nav packages next to each other if we want.

I'll build a remote into the helm position armrest so that the MFD's and autopilot can be controlled from there (more important for Paula, whose arms are not as long as mine).

May stick a 7" MFD on the rear deck which can be controlled by a secondary remote.

And we'll get augmented reality.  It's a relatively cheap add-on:

I think I'll put some fender hooks into the hull. so taking the fenders on and off will be a breeze, and at least for our home dock, the fenders will always be at the correct height

[mclaincausey]

As an American, I have to ask: how many guns, what calibers, and where will they be mounted?

[goosehd]

In general I hate .gif's…However, that is pretty cool.  My favourite day ever in the Navy was when we went to the range and I got to fire an assortment of fully automatic machine guns.  That would put those to shame...