Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Giles]

We had a wonderful impromptu drink with the Graeme, the captain and Alex the stew (she's a delightful girl of 20, and I think stew is the woke-approved designation) of Lethantia (the crash victims) on SAKURA last night.

In this marina, there are probably only 2 boats worth over £2million, I chose the one that is worth well in excess of £10million to have an altercation with, Graeme missed no opportunity to remind me of that.

I managed to get rid of them at 10pm because Paula and I had not eaten, and were starving. When we got to the restaurants, the kitchens were closed. Luckily we had a bunch of empañadas in the fridge which we heated up upon our untriumphant return.

Lethantia is moored just behind us (also waiting for a weather-window), serving as a constant reminder of my carelessness....

[goosehd]

@Giles Don't want to raise the blood pressure, but I'm interested in how much damage there is to Sakura and Lethantia. Just a little rub that will buff out, dry dock and repairs, or something in the middle.

I was reading about the Lethantia and see it's an aluminum hulled boat and imagine it would be a little paint to touch up, if the damage is minor.

Also wondering if you've been aboard her. From the pictures, it is definitely something to see.

[goosehd]

Also see from the Predict Wind app that Saturday is looking pretty good for travel. You guys going to try for then?

[Giles]

We have friends coming out Sunday night. We cant do immigration until Monday morning, so we will depart immediately after that. The weather looks great until Tues at least, so we should be fine....

[Giles]

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

how much damage there is to Sakura and Lethantia

None that we can see to Lethantia, minor teak capping rail injury to SAKURA, which I am sure I can rub out, but I keep forgetting to get sandpaper when I am in the chandlery, which is 5kms away, so not exactly a pop out when I remember I have forgotten.

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

if you've been aboard her

Yes, when I went to eat plate-fulls of humble pie and mea culpa. But I did not go below decks.

Graeme told me last night that they replaced the teak decking last year. A cool £1.75million.....

[goosehd]

@Giles Have you googled it and seen the below deck pictures? Unbelievable is an understatement...

[Giles]

It's a bit too gentleman's clubby for me....I love this interior.....

[Mr Eddy]

@Giles ...hey Zeus..

[Matt]

I guess if you like that sort of thing…

[goosehd]

Not bad…amazing what is out there.

[Giles]

Being moored next to Lentantia for a few days has given me a bad dose of mooring-warp envy. So I made our own.....

Oh, and on that note, Graeme has invited himself for G&T's....

[louisbosco]

damn the leather bits look fineeee

[Giles]

I love how small this world is, I found out this morning that Graeme (skipper of Lethantia) and @Simon were best friends at junior school. Started in the marine industry at the same time......

[sabergirl]

That’s amazing, Giles. If you were going to bump into a multimillion dollar yacht, seems like you chose the right one!

[Giles]

Finding the Augmented Reality very useful.....

[goosehd]

@Giles That’s pretty cool and would be fantastic for night navigation.

[Giles]

100%.....

[Giles]

@Madame-Buttonfly and I took SAKURA out on our own for the first the today. Didn't really go anywhere, just wanted to prove to ourselves we could do it

[Giles]

And goodbye to Lethantia, her next stop is Guernsey for fuel (just the 16,000 litres) and then up to Bergen...

[goosehd]

@Giles 16000 litres…ouch

…and congratulations on the solo sailing you two!!