Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[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....

[Matt]

Congratulations Captain.

[Daniel San]

Awesome
congratulations to you !!

[Twistlock]

Oh yes! Congrats!!

[A Former User]

Congrats G and i wish you and @Madame-Buttonfly many save trips ️

[endo]

Captain Padmore ... ah, and Giles

[motojobobo]

Awesome!!!
Velas y buen viento capitan!!!

[ROman]

Many congratulation @Giles & @Madame-Buttonfly ️

[sabergirl]

That’s so wonderful. We’re very happy for you two.

[Giles]

Still have the engine issue, took SAKURA out this morning hoping that it had miraculously resolved itself, but when we put the engine under load, it cut out. I think that we have managed to get an engineer to agree to meet us at the boat tomorrow. I am pretty sure that the problem is relatively minor, but I do not want to nullify the warranty, so need an official Volvo Penta engineer.

I think that we are now trackable. Let me know:

Go here:

https://www.vesselfinder.com/

Go to "Search Ships/Ports" on the top right, and enter our MMSI number - 232046961. You can search for SAKURA but there are loads of boats called SAKURA.

[goosehd]

[Daniel San]

Pleasure craft sounds good

[Giles]

Yeah, that's what my gangplank is for.....

[goosehd]

@Giles Quoting myself.

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

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

[Nocturama]

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

Yeah, that's what my gangplank is for.....

Also contains a sneak peek at the SS24 line up

[jordanscollected]

damn there's a lot of boats being tracked. I thought there might be like 18 or 20. there's thousands!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Giles]

Read about AIS here, but basically, I would not go to sea without it, it is great for viewing which vessels are around, it integrates with charts and radar as overlays and you can set various proximity alarms, it increases our situational awareness exponentially, especially in the dark.

Our system could see other AIS targets, but not transmit until we got it fixed a couple of days ago, which meant we were "dark", something Russian oligarchs find useful, but I found scary - not good especially in a plastic boat with a low profile that radar struggles to see.

Our AIS unit is this one.

[Craneman]

Yikes.

[Matt]

I guess they call it “dark” to match the color of your shorts when you finally make it back to land.

[Giles]

I started a FB page a while ago. Mostly I post the same shit there as I do here, but if you want to follow us there too. Here it is:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1230604874329102