Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Giles]

Bit of a photo dump. Took SAKURA out for a sea trial today. Weds AM we head off to Palma to do export documentation, then off to Ibiza for an oil change (will have almost exactly 25 hours on the engines by then). Then off to Gibraltar in one hit (460 nautical miles)......

[A Former User]

@Giles wonderfull G! Enjoy and wish you and Paula save travels looking forward to more photo’s and some big fishes you’ll catch

[goosehd]

Does the boat come with the hot model on the stern? Looking good @Madame-Buttonfly

[jordanscollected]

@Giles forgive me if this has been mentioned or is a really really dumb question... Does Sakura have any "self driving" features? Can you be in a calm open ocean with nothing and no one around and set a destination/direction and you and Paula just relax in that amazing living room?

[Giles]

100%, we can set her to auto, have a few drinks and party down the back.....

But rule 5 of Colregs says:

Look-out
. Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means
appropriate in the prevailing circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the situation and of the risk
of collision.

So if we hit anything or anyone, whilst not obeying Rule 5, we'd we royally fucked.....

[Graeme]

From experience, French fishermen assume they have right of way. I remember having to change course in the Bay of Biscay because a line of boats trawling nets were on a collision course...

Sakura is looking good, and I see that @Madame-Buttonfly has made herself comfortable already.

Never mind the Orcas, it's these that you have to worry about!

[ROman]

@Giles Kind of like riding a horse with your eyes closed.

[ROman]

@Madame-Buttonfly looks great in the photo. Almost like she's been there forever. Great photos @Giles .

[louisbosco]

weather's looking good, bar's fully stock. ahoy it's full steam ahead

[Giles]

We have left Menorca en route to Majorca. 8 hour steam …..

[Daniel San]

@Giles
Safe travel looks like you have nice weather for your first part of the trip !
Full steam ahead Cpt Giles ️

[Twistlock]

Have a safe journey @Giles and @Madame-Buttonfly. AIS switched on?

[Giles]

Because of the bloody shenanigans with Menorcan customs we are having to go “dark” until we clear customs in Majorca. Once we have done that we will programme our AIS, once we have done that we will be trackable on various vessel tracking websites. I’ll let you know when we have done that…

[AdamC]

Enjoy @Giles and @Madame-Buttonfly looks like lovely weather! Safe travels and I look forward to seeing the updates

[Twistlock]

Cool @Giles. What is your MMSI number?

[tody]

@Giles said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:

We have been assigned a Call Sign and MMSI*

Call Sign: MNKT8
MMSI: 232046961

• Maritime Mobile Service Identities (MMSIs) are nine-digit numbers used by maritime digital selective calling (DSC), automatic identification systems (AIS) and certain other equipment to uniquely identify a ship or a coast radio station.

@Twistlock Is this what you are looking for?

[Twistlock]

Yep @Tody, thanks. slipped my mind that it was already posted.

[goosehd]

@Giles Please be careful and you might want to fly one of these until Majorca.

But then again, I think there were quite a few years of hostility between the French, Spanish, and British…

[goosehd]

…and all good pirates had a memorable name. I think we should come up with a pirate name for Giles. Suggestions?

[Karol]

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