Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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@goosehd said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
Assuming it’s IR?
No, IR was always going to be an upgrade at some point. Recently, a friend sold the idea of a FLIR to Paula with consummate ease (I had not plucked up the courage to cross that particular bridge), so we have bought one, but we did not bring it over here to install because travelling with stuff that sees at night, garners interest from people you don't want to have to explain shit to......
So it will be installed when we get home.....
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@mclaincausey I wonder if this is on the back of his easy shorts?
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@Giles said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
@Madame-Buttonfly finds another new place to enjoy the day.......
…just after she pulled on eight fender covers?!
North-north-west, Bahia de Palma with its beautiful view into the Serra de Tramuntana. Enjoy Palma!
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@goosehd Captain Padwash ( Brits of a certain age should get the connection)
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Left Ibiza at 15:00 yesterday, was not looking forwards to another night of drum and base.... Now 21 hours into our journey to Gibraltar. Weather and seas have been beautiful. @Madame-Buttonfly on her 3rd 2 hour watch.....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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Brilliant. Pure bliss.
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Spent a little bit of time completing the anchor bridle....
Stainless steel hard-eye spliced into the centre of 30-metre length of 4mm 8 braid nylon...
Then I had to make the pendant that attaches the anchor chain (or rope) to the bridle...
I basically made a "dog-bone" out of 8mm 12-strand Dyneema and integrated a 64-strand Dyneema chafe-guard at the point where it wraps around the chain (in the image below, it is attached to the anchor rope with a "cats-paw" knot). This then is attached to the bridle with a 10mm 12-strand Dyneema soft-shackle....
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Beautiful splicing work @Giles .
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Looks like a lot of fun
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@Giles said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
Left Ibiza at 15:00 yesterday, was not looking forwards to another night of drum and base....
I now know you’re getting old and can’t believe you denied a bunch of coked up teenagers the opportunity of a lifetime to party with Capt. Bootylicious and his band of Merry Marauders by leaving port early.
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Amazing view G! How are things so far?
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The passage to Gibraltar was amazing. Took us about 43 hours. It was a tad over 400 miles.
We lost power to the port engine coming into Gibraltar, we think it is probably a fuel flow issue, but the diagnostics say "call a Volvo Penta engineer".
We are currently moored up in Le Línea (Spain) going through Spanish exit formalities. Once that is sorted, we will motor around the corner and take a berth in Gibraltar proper.
We'll get the engine and the AIS looked at there.....
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@Giles nice picture and what a ride! Hope the engine thingy will be fixed soon, have a nice trip G!
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@Giles How does your gangplank work? It looks like it's on a hydraulic piston to lengthen/shorten it, but the height of it looks like you get on from the seat vs. onto the deck. Mind taking a picture or two of what's going on?
"I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)
