Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Giles]

A friend (and customer) sent me these 2 Titanium marlin spikes as a gift.  They are absolutely stunning and so brilliantly thoughtful, they will help with all sorts of ropework around and for the boat.  I'm going to splice a Dyneema lanyard onto the smaller of the two today.

Thank you again…..

[Madame Buttonfly]

@Giles:

A friend (and customer) sent me these 2 Titanium marlin spikes as a gift.  They are absolutely stunning and so brilliantly thoughtful, they will help with all sorts of ropework around and for the boat.  I'm going to splice a Dyneema lanyard onto the smaller of the two today.

Thank you again…..

Amazing, these are things of great beauty - a wonderful gift 

[Giles]

And done…...

5mm 12-strand dyneema - Brummel-spliced loop both ends....

[mclaincausey]

Those are sick!

You could definitely forestall a disagreement twirling that thing on that Dyneema too.

[Giles]

This is the floating safety line I will have out of the back of the boat when we have people in the water.  I found it impossible to splice, so I have made a seized whipped eye….

[Giles]

In any other news, Paula and I passed our VHF radio courses yesterday, and we are off to Menorca for a few days on Tuesday to piss the boatyard off by being overly anal about everything check on progress of SAKURA

[goosehd]

…no red stuff this time?  Looks really good G!

[louisbosco]

have a good time. over.

@Giles:

In any other news, Paula and I passed our VHF radio courses yesterday, and we are off to Menorca for a few days on Tuesday to piss the boatyard off by being overly anal about everything check on progress of SAKURA

[Giles]

Mahon harbour.

[EdH]

It looks beautiful @Giles. And I bet the food is great too. It's getting cold and rainy again here in the UK, I'm very jealous of the blue skies and sunshine.

[bryaneidins70]

Looks bloody wonderful.

Roll on spring here in the uk.

[Giles]

The weather is amazing.

[goosehd]

Looks like a great place to park a boat in the winter…

[Giles]

It is.  We have already talked to Sasga about mooring her here through the winter and having them haul her out and do maintenance if we need.

The single biggest issue is that now we are not part of the EU, thanks a lot fucking Brexit, we are not allowed to be in The EEC (well, actually the Schengen area to be precise) for more than 90 days out of a rolling 180 (and that is so hard to keep a track of, numerous apps have sprung up), so the boat can be here, but we may not 

[Giles]

Soooooooooo, we went to the progress made on SAKURA.  It's really great to see the build process and document it, it will serve us so well in later years when we need to know where something that is hidden from view is…

Engines are in:

And the generator:

And lots of other techy stuff…

Heating/cooling:

Deck etc, not yet joined to the hull, but in hull work is going apace:

One hell of a windlass:

And, there is the deck and saloon:

The electrician is going to have a heck of a lot of joining up to do:

"Mast" and radar:

Me, getting nerdy with shore power connector specs….

[Aetas]

Absolutely impressive and promising!

[bryaneidins70]

Looks really lovely.

When its time to collect will it be in the water or is there a breaking of the bottle on the side type launch?

[Matt]

No helicopter pad?

[Giles]

@bryaneidins70:

Looks really lovely.

When its time to collect will it be in the water or is there a breaking of the bottle on the side type launch?

I suspect it will be in the water, but I bet @Madame Buttonfly and I will get trashed on whatever people waste breaking bottles…..Maybe even on or close to SAKURA....

[ROman]

It's looking great and impressive. Simply beautiful.