Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[IrishHeart]

@goosehd Captain Padwash ( Brits of a certain age should get the connection)

[Giles]

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.....

[cityofdelusion]

Brilliant. Pure bliss.

[Giles]

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....

[motojobobo]

Beautiful splicing work @Giles .

[Nik]

Looks like a lot of fun

[goosehd]

@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.

[Giles]

And there is The Rock....

[A Former User]

Amazing view G! How are things so far?

[Giles]

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.....

[A Former User]

@Giles nice picture and what a ride! Hope the engine thingy will be fixed soon, have a nice trip G!

[goosehd]

@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?

[Matt]

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

@Giles How does your gangplank work?

At his age he’s lucky if it works at all.

[goosehd]

@Matt You bastard...you owe me a beer and a keyboard...

[goosehd]

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

@Giles Mind taking a picture or two of what's going on?

On second thought after @Matt post, please do not share pictures.

[Matt]

I was waiting patiently.

[goosehd]

@Matt I take it you haven’t subscribed to @Giles onlyfans account. Once you see that you’ll never be the same…

I’m surprised he hasn’t chimed in, but he’s probably off playing with his dinghy.

[Daniel San]

Awesome entertainment for breakfast gentlemen!
Have swallowed me with coffee, cause Of laughing

[Giles]

It is called a Paserelle. Because there is very little tide in the Mediterranean the docks are fixed, rather than floating. Stern-to mooring is the norm and you need to be able to walk, not climb off the boat.

https://www.opacmare.com/en/category/gangways

Here is ours:

We are currently in Gibraltar where side-to mooring is the norm, so there is no need for the Pasarelle.

[Giles]

@Madame-Buttonfly signed the paperwork yesterday. we are now officially the owners of SAKURA. Which means that I can start after-marketing - Flag poles installed and flags a flying....