Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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Awesome
congratulations
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Congrats G and i wish you and @Madame-Buttonfly many save trips
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Awesome!!!
Velas y buen viento capitan!!!
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Many congratulation @Giles & @Madame-Buttonfly
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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:
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.
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Pleasure craft sounds good
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@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
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damn there's a lot of boats being tracked. I thought there might be like 18 or 20. there's thousands!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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.
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Yikes.
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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:
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And, as I just posted on FB:
The fuel pump on the port engine is bust. It was analysed as thus on Thursday, the Volvo Penta guys here, got a new one expressed shipped to them and it arrived Friday morning. Spirits onboard were massively uplifted, but then it turned out that the pump was for the previous iteration of our engine and thus would not work
Another new pump is arriving Monday (we hope), and once fitted we should actually be able to get on our way. If you have been tracking us at https://www.vesselfinder.com/pro/map... , you may have seen us move today. We popped over to Gibraltar, on the starboard engine only, to buy diesel, it's tax-free in Gibraltar and because we are 18 meters or over, we qualified for duty-free fuel into the bargain. Paid 92p per litre instead of the £1.45 we paid in Ibiza
