Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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@Giles said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
suffered a rudder failure
No Orcas to be found, though?
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It sure looks like the behavior is spreading among the population
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/21/orca-rams-yacht-off-shetland-first-such-incident-northern-waters -
Some discussion on the capsize: https://forums.sailinganarchy.com/threads/gun-boat-66-capsized.242724/
Interesting read and definitely sad…
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@Giles @goosehd very sad, but it’s good that all on board were OK. The movie that You found in above post @goosehd kind of shows what lead to it. They were really pushing it to the limit, and usually in true racing catamarans you can move the entire crew on the opposite side to balance this out, but here plenty of mass is fixed. There is awesome picture in the same thread showing “points of no return”
https://forums.sailinganarchy.com/attachments/1688238123818-png.600468/
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Had some fam over today, so we went over to The Island for a swim. Saw some friends out and a bout on their boat, so we buzzed them.....
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@Giles said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:
Saw some friends out and a bout on their boat, so we buzzed them.....
Is that code for you hit another boat
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theres no ocean in Austria so he'll be aight.
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Today's project was to start making the travelling mooring lines. We have made fixed dock lines for our home pontoon, but as they stay on the pontoon, we obviously need some to come with us when we go away from home. This is the first, it's a 5 meter stern line made out of a beautifully supple 22 mm double polyester braid, at the main wear-point I have spliced in some 48 strand spectra (that's 96 individual buries, and it is exceeding fucking boring). A few more to make, but I ain't going to be rushing......The yellow whipping at the bitter end is code for "stern", the other lines will have different colour whippings, then all we have to do is remember which colour means what
This was not particularly difficult, but it did take a long time, I have another project on the go which is actually bloody hard......
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That looks super cool and an awesome splice job!
Hmmm, maybe motorcycles also deserve mooring lines? -
@Giles, looks like the orcas have set up a training program!
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Paula and I are on our way home after a magical trip to Jersey and Écréhous (if you ever get the chance, go there, it is other-worldly). Currently we are just west of Jersey heading for Big Russel, the channel running between Herm on the west, Brecqhou, and Sark on the east. I reckon we have about 12 hours to go until we get to Gosport. It's fairly lumpy, but I think it will get better once we get out of the islands and into the channel proper.
A few (rubbish pics)....
