Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[ROman]

Well done skippers….

[mclaincausey]

Way to go @Madame Buttonfly and @Giles ! I am proud of both of you for this entire project and all of the achievements required to bring it to bear, and also vicariously so excited for your lives at sea.

[Bums_Fan]

I love watching and reading this thread.  Well done you two!

[Giles]

Next will be the practical part of Yachtmaster Offshore, requirements for which are:

• 50 days at sea on yachts up to 500gt2 which may be reduced to 25 days if the candidate already holds an RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence3;
• 5 days as skipper on vessels less than 24m LOA, which may be reduced to 3 days if the candidate already holds an RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence3;
• 2500 miles on yachts up to 500gt2, which may be reduced to 1250 miles if the candidate already holds an RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence3;
• 5 passages over 60 miles long, which must include 2 overnight passages and 2 as skipper, which may be reduced to - 3 passages  including 1 overnight and 1 as skipper if the candidate already holds an RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence3.

Which we will both have after we have bought SAKURA back for Menorca, so we are planning to do it late Sept/Oct

[goosehd]

Congratulations!!  In all of the courses, did you ever learn the answer to the age old question “What would you do with a drunken sailor?”

[Twistlock]

Many congrats to both of you!

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[Giles]

@goosehd:

Congratulations!!  In all of the courses, did you ever learn the answer to the age old question “What would you do with a drunken sailor?”

I'm hoping this:

“Put him in the bed with the captain's daughter”

[Madame Buttonfly]

Thanks for your congratulations and kind words, it was an intense 6 days… but another big box ticked 

[Jcaz6996]

Congratulations both

[sabergirl]

Annnnd….result! Good work, you two.

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[louisbosco]

awesome work! 

[weftyarn]

Congrats you two! This may sound cringy, but it's truly heartwarming to see how excited you are about this all.

[TinMan]

I am so excited for two of you!!

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[Giles]

Two rather fine bits of Iroko from eBay, that me and a mate will fashion into tender chocks….

[Giles]

Been at the Dyneema soft shackles again…..

[goosehd]

Still have the Pilgrim?  When’s the turnover?

[Giles]

We give Pilgrim to the new owners on 31st March.  @Madame Buttonfly are off to Poole for the night tomorrow, We reckon it's about 5 hours each way.

After we pass The Needles….

We'll be 5 plus miles offshore for a while, so plenty of time to practise what we learned last week…

[Aetas]

@Giles:

Been at the Dyneema soft shackles again…..

Fantastic and saves a lot of money .

What about adding a thin line which helps to quickly open the shackle.

See

, start at 05:30 min.

[goosehd]

Looks like a place where you don’t want to break the needle…

[Giles]

I am not at home at the moment, I'll take some photos when I get home, but my version is more complex than that one and increases the breaking strength massively.  If you look carefully, you will see that my loop has 2 legs", the one in the D-Splicer video, has just the one…The D-Splicer version is what I would call the "standard soft shackle and uses a diamond knot (which basically has 2 loose ends), my ends are buried.  Because I have 2 legs, it is really easy to open the shackle.

See vid here: