Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[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….

[Aetas]

@Giles:

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

Make it to an outstanding feature.
Use the most abrasion-resistant IH denim you can get your hands on.
Or it is time to convince H. to make a kevlar interwoven denim for motorcyclists and boat owners  8).

[Giles]

And we are away…..

[goosehd]

Safe travels and make sure you’re flying the “Jack”…

[Giles]

It's not up.  I forgot, and I don't want to go out there and put it up.  It's rougher out here than I expected…..

[Giles]

Yeah, and we are beating into it…..It's going to be interesting going down The Needles Channel, we will have wind over tide.......

In any other news, you shamed me into doing it....

[goosehd]

Met Uk weather:

[dinobarnesberlin]

Must be great having that ever changing view out the windshield