Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[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

[goosehd]

Good Show.  Stay safe…we’re leaving for Toronto today and the Turks tomorrow.  Have fun guys!

[Giles]

Paula is at the helm…

Hurst Castle…

[goosehd]

Awesome job skipper!  About the halfway point?

[Giles]

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:4520554/mmsi:235078228/imo:0/vessel:PILGRIM_III

[Giles]

[Nik]

Have a great journey, I was just out running but the same sea, windy as usual today

[Giles]

Yeah, it was seriously sketchy in The Needles Channel

[goosehd]

I’m glad you guys are ok and there’s always the positive of testing your comfort levels.  You can do it all over again in Sakura when you bring her home

[dinobarnesberlin]

A three hour tour.. a three hour tour

Steady as she goes skipper :))

[louisbosco]

damn. the swell looks intense. safe travels 

[Giles]

This is before it got rough, and Jeez, did it get rough…...

[jordanscollected]

Looks like Pilgrim had no issues navigating those waters.

[Giles]

She didn't…....

[Nik]

How did the two of you feel about it? Fun? Scary?

[ROman]

It looks like an interesting experience. In a good way.

[louisbosco]

she's definitely a sturdy boat.

[Giles]

@Nik:

How did the two of you feel about it? Fun? Scary?

We made two major errors…

1. We did not check the Met Office forecast and relied on windy.com....Bad move, windy.com gave us a very rosy picture of the days weather
2. We did not notice the wave icons on the chart way down the channel, because we assumed the worst conditions would be at the narrowest part.  WRONG... We got through the narrows with hardly an issue, then we got to The Bridge (it's a buoy called Bridge, so the whole area is known as the bridge)...