Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Clint_D]

Looks like a clean install! I recently discovered how great the Wago lever nuts are and I'll never go back to the old style twist connectors.

[Giles]

100% agree.  I used to use the chocolate box ones - jeez are these an improvement….Wago is the Wago

[Scasi]

@Giles:

And a pimped set of boat keys.  A fantastic present for Pilgrim from @Scasi at OGL…...

Thank you Johnny…..

You are welcome!

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[Giles]

On my way down to Cornwall on Saturday night, I was musing about boat names.

We have a candidate name for the new boat, but there are some permissions we need to get before we can be sure it will work. Let's call it XYZ, for the moment.

Anyway,  I came up with the following, which Paula has given me permission to use on the tender…..

"The Sea-Word", (Tender To to XYZ)......

[vaquero357]

…@Giles 

[Matt]

I like The Harpy II.  When people ask about the Harpy I you tell them she’s below deck reading.

[Giles]

Now that was bloody tight.  And with 20-25 knots of wind coming over the starboard quarter, I would be lying if I claimed that I was not bricking it.  @Madame Buttonfly , bless her, offered to take the wheel because she didn't mind as much as me if she stuffed it…...

[Giles]

[steelworker]

lovely!

[louisbosco]

damn. that's looking good!

[Aetas]

We’ve been looking into the direction of Menorca the last days.
Thinking about you @Madame Buttonfly …and Giles.
How far is the upcoming boat?

[ROman]

@Giles:

Now that was bloody tight.  And with 20-25 knots of wind coming over the starboard quarter, I would be lying if I claimed that I was not bricking it.  @Madame Buttonfly , bless her, offered to take the wheel because she didn't mind as much as me if she stuffed it…...

Great job @Madame Buttonfly

[Giles]

@Aetas:

How far is the upcoming boat?

The hull has been moulded, but now the factory is shut for 3 weeks.  We were trying to get out there in early sept, but the flights are fearfully expensive at the moment.  So we are next going in November when a lot more will be ready to see.  The current estimate for completion is Feb/March…...

[louisbosco]

are they sending photos to tease you of the progress?

[Giles]

Nope 

[Giles]

Paula and friend, hard at it…..

[louisbosco]

@Giles:

Nope 

because that would be cruel and borderline a violation of human rights. 

[Giles]

Paula and I were honoured to be asked by Gaby, the wife of our late friend Andrew McCall, if we would take her out with some friends and family to scatter Andrew's ashes in the Solent.  Andrew was the marketing director of The Whitbread Round the World race in the late '90's, so we anchored off what was the start-finish line of the race, and laid him to rest there.  It was a simply beautiful day, afterwards, we repaired to a local hotel, sat in the garden and ate lunch looking over where Andrew had been consigned to the deep…..

[Kasi]

Very touching…

Beautiful

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[Giles]

@louisbosco @Scasi We have pimped Pilgrim in preparation for your arrival…...