Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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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
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@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-poundgin-palacethought you had
Permission to come on board, Cap’n!?
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@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.....
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@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?
"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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I would guess they have a warranty , that normally is 2 years in the EU for new bought things.
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@Giles said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
How small the world is......
Look who just won the tournament
https://www.instagram.com/p/Csywf3GtUND/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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@goosehd said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
Is there anywhere you and P want to spend a day of two between A Coruna and Brest
Yes, the boat.......:-)
"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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I guess we could, but that's a big "ocean" crossing....
It would be 400 or so miles, and we'd pass Brest on the way, OK, 50 miles to the East, but we'd still pass it...
I'm working on an extension to the 200 miles and get it done in Brest, or get it done before we do the bay.....
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@Giles said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
and we'd pass Brest on the way
I’m on my way.
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wow almost like a car servicing chart except on a bigger scale. realistically, would 400 hours come first or 12 months?
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Depends who you are and what you do. The average annual hours on a "leisure" motor boat in UK is 50. We'll have done 200-250 by the time we get home. I'd like to think we would have done 400 by year end....
"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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Plans for the next few days. We are currently in Portosin, Galicia, later today will cruise up and around Cap Finisterre to Muxia where we will meet up with Eddie and Beth Tejada, our friends and owners of Aitora, our Iron Heart retailer in North West Spain. On Wednesday we make our way to A Coruña, for our 200 engine hour service. It's a tad early, but by the time we cross The Bay of Biscay (which we plan to start late Thursday) and get to Brest, we'll have dove over 200 hours on the engines and we don't want to invalidate the warranty. The weather is looking good for the crossing, which we reckon will take about 36 hours. We will have lots of zero connectivity......
