Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[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.....

[goosehd]

@Giles So does the Captain and Stew just go from port to port and pick up the owners upon request. Not a bad life when you get to spend your life at sea, drive someone else's boat, and somebody else foots the bill for the essentials...

I am doing life completely wrong if that's the case.