Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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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
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Thanks for your congratulations and kind words, it was an intense 6 days… but another big box ticked
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awesome work!
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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…
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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:
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