Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Giles]

@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.......:-)

[Giles]

The problem is that we lost a week in Gibraltar, and now we are behind the 8-ball. We both have shit we need to deal with when we get home. If we get delayed, it wont kill us, but it would be less stressful to not hit any more delays.....

[goosehd]

@Giles Just a thought…could you push it to Falmouth or Lizard and skip France?

[Giles]

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.....

[Matt]

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

and we'd pass Brest on the way

I’m on my way.

[Giles]

Decision made. Will get 200 hour service done in A Coruña on Thursday

[tody]

@Giles Better safe than sorry. What does the service routine consist of?

[Giles]

[louisbosco]

wow almost like a car servicing chart except on a bigger scale. realistically, would 400 hours come first or 12 months?

[Giles]

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....

[Giles]

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......

[louisbosco]

@Giles That'll be quite some journey home. I guess you both have some big sailing trips coming up if you reckon 400 by end of the year?

[Giles]

We have a few planned. We also have our Yachtmaster Practical which will be 6 or 7 days, I'm pretty sure we'll rack up 50 or so on that.....

[louisbosco]

nice.

[Giles]

In Muxia.....

[A Former User]

@Giles that’s some nice photo G

[Giles]

Whilst in Muxia I fell in love with Galician Horreo's (maize drying thingies).....

[Giles]

Eddie & Beth (Aitora) and Bill (Paula's brother in law)......

[Mr Eddy]

Was an absolute treat catching up with you guys!...definitely have to do it again soon
Enjoy La Coruña and safe travels back!!

[Giles]

The treat was 100% ours. Thank youxxxxx