Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[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!!

[Giles]

Does 16 tonnes sound better?

[goosehd]

Either way that’s a lot of money…I’d be thankful for the sails.

[Giles]

They very rarely just sail. It's motor sailing for them the majority of the time. If the owner is onboard, they'll do it a bit for fun, but usually, it's 3 or 4 sails and the engine.....