Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

@Giles nice! Btw G, if i may, do you make the photo’s with a camera or just your phone? Curiosity in me..

Giles

Phone. I have a camera (and drone), but my phone is always with me.....

weftyarn

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

Well, what do you know. Turned up in Nazare, and it happens to be the The Euro 2023 Beach Handball finals here. I knew nothing about it of course........

The world is small… Players of my former club in Munich are in Nazare playing for Germanys women’s team. They just won their group stage, tomorrows the quarter final against Greece.

I personally never really got warm with playing the beach version, but I have to admit playing under the sun with the sea in your back is tempting haha.

Giles

How small the world is......

Giles

Set off an hour or so ago in the dark - so could not see the surf beach I am afraid @Jett129 , but we passed reasonably close and there was no significant swell.....I'm on first watch, and this is what my world looks like,,,

Nik

If you anchor up for the night does one of you have to be on watch at all times?

Craneman

@Nik in the States running watches anchoring at night isn't Federal law though states and towns may have their own laws
the Coast Guard would not be happy about no night watch

Giles

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

If you anchor up for the night does one of you have to be on watch at all times?

This is what ColRegs say about responsibilities at anchor:

Anchor watch
The duty to keep a proper look-out applies also when a vessel is at
anchor, especially if there is a strong tide running, or if other vessels
are likely to be passing by. Most importantly, a ‘proper look-out’ means one, which takes in the whole 360-degree panorama. Crew assisting the OOW should regularly report what they are observing.

https://seamanship.ie/col-regs-rule-5-look-out-explained/

I would interpret that to mean that if we were at anchor, I should set some alarms, proximity, anchor drag etc, but I would not have a person on physical watch unless there was a high risk of the anchor dragging, very strong winds, crowded/busy anchorage........

Nik

That's nice. I watch the silly reality show Below Deck and they usually have a member of the crew on anchor watch all night so I thought of you two and hoped that wasn't a necessity, but it seems like they are doing that when anchored almost next to other boats. Seems like the kind of thing where your tech helps a lot. Great!

Giles

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

That's nice. I watch the silly reality show Below Deck and they usually have a member of the crew on anchor watch all night so I thought of you two and hoped that wasn't a necessity, but it seems like they are doing that when anchored almost next to other boats. Seems like the kind of thing where your tech helps a lot. Great!

If your boat is coded (you use it as a business/have paying guests), the requirements are much more stringent. If I had a multi-million-pound gin-palace with some precious wannabes on board, I'd have a look out. Mainly to keep an eye on those stupid fuckers....

endo

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

if I had a ~~multi-million-pound~~ gin-palace

thought you had

endo

Read an article (sorry, german) about the orca problem. Seems to be a specific (genetically and ecologically) group along the Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsular (from Galicia to Gibraltar), of which now 15 animals show this behaviour to go against the rudder of predominantly sailing boats. A similar behaviour has not been observed in any other orca population worldwide. It's believed that it may be playful or a kind of social interaction that certain animals developed and others copied, certainly not an attack or another way of aggression. Unusual is that not only young roughnecks do it, but also older females. They seem to gain some kind of profit (joy?) from this behaviour.

There is also a recent scientific publication on this issue, but I cannot get full text access to it without an institutional account. Maybe someone else can? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.12947

Giles

And back into Spain - or at least Spanish waters......

goosehd

@Giles How’s the boat running with the two engines fully operational? Anything on the list to be fixed when you reach home port?

Nocturama

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

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

if I had a ~~multi-million-pound~~ gin-palace

thought you had

Permission to come on board, Cap’n!?

Giles

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

@Giles How’s the boat running with the two engines fully operational? Anything on the list to be fixed when you reach home port?

Running perfectly, well I noticed that the port engine takes a hair longer to fire up than the starboard, when we started her up this morning, not that I am worried, but I will mention it when we have the next service, which actually is what is exercising me at the moment.

The second service must be done at 200 hours (or a year whichever comes sooner). We are currently on 140 and will be at about 170 when we get to A Coruña, which is our launching point for The Bay of Biscay. A Coruña to Brest is approx 40 hours, so if we set off for Brest, we run the risk of invalidating our engine warranty, but we may not be able to get it done in A Coruña without wasting time. I'll call the Volvo Penta service line tomorrow and find out what leeway we have on the 200 hours, if none, then we will need to get it done in A Coruña or another northern Spanish town before going across the bay.

I have a list of about 20 things that I want to mention/need to get fixed. Most of them are extremely trivial: Get a stiff-bristled brush, get baskets for ropes, a few a bit more serious, like how the fuck do I access the diesel and water tanks (they are cunningly hidden behind a bulkhead), so I can install a watermaker and diesel polishing system.....

goosehd

@Giles Glad to hear you’ve worked out most of the gremlins and completely understandable for a new boat, especially when you consider how many systems are interacting with each other.

The hour thing shouldn’t be an issue considering the distance you’ve travelled and how much further you have to go. Is there anywhere you and P want to spend a day of two between A Coruna and Brest that would be a good stop for maintenance.

Remember you’re semi retired and you can take these luxuries.

Now that you and Paula have taken ownership of the boat, is the broker on the hook for any issues that arise or is that now on you and P?