Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[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:

[Aetas]

Plausibel with the two legs!
Your version is definitely improved!
Enjoy your trip!

I use this in the woods and without the thin line it wouldn’t function. Now I’ll think about a change, thanks G.  8).

[goosehd]

@Aetas I’m intrigued.  Do you use them for climbing (anchor points)?

[Giles]

Some detailed shots….

I like your chafe guard, I may retro fir them to mine…..

[Aetas]

@goosehd
As a simple and soft connection to a towrope and pulling and dragging stucked cars or trailers.

[goosehd]

Very cool!  I just watched a video of them being used for that purpose.

[Giles]

@Aetas:

@goosehd
As a simple and soft connection to a towrope and pulling and dragging stucked cars or trailers.

Any towing shit breaks at some point, when mine fails, I'd rather have Dyneema bouncing off the Gelcoat and/or my family than steel….