Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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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. :)
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Awesome entertainment for breakfast gentlemen!
Have swallowed me with coffee, cause Of laughing -
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.
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@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....
