Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[tody]

@Giles for future reference:

[Giles]

Thank you, I will bear that in mind

[Tago Mago]

They loved the music and wanted to start a pit?

[Giles]

Decided to up our travelling mooring warp game (yeah, it's winter and I'm bored).....The first part of the jigsaw is 10mm SK78 Dyneema dog-bones.....

[motojobobo]

That dog bone turned out well! Seamless transitions

[Giles]

Thank you. There is a tiny irregularity where the 2 buries cross in the middle. Not enough to cause structural concern, but it is fucking with my OCD, so I have bought some Dyneema chafe-guard sleeving that I will integrate over the middle 200mm. The trouble is, it is coming from, Australia, so won't be here for a while....

[Giles]

I got these decals made many months ago. They were to replace the rather small one (for some unknown reason, Sasga only put a decal on the starboard bow). Today, we got around to affixing them. There is one on the port side too now....

[goosehd]

@Giles very nice!!

[Giles]

Paula and I popped down to SAKURA in filthy weather earlier today. I wanted to show @Madame-Buttonfly the new decals. We wandered to an adjacent pontoon, so that we could see the port side and the decal. Here she is with her I-don't-like-all-this-fucking-rain awning on....

[Daniel San]

some inspiration for the board bar

[Giles]

Great ideas, thank you

[bryaneidins70]

Any developments on the fuel issue @Giles ?

[Giles]

Nothing significant. Volvo and Sasga in Spain cant recreate the issue. I have told the UK agent that If something positive does not happen very soon, I will fix the issue myself and argue the toss about who pays for it afterwards.....

[Giles]

Captain Keat...

[Aetas]

Great pic @Jcaz6996
It’s much easier to spot Sakura, than to find infos about an extinct IH-Shirt .

[Giles]

[goosehd]

You should not make it so easy for us, as you may find some vagrant sleeping on it the next time you’re aboard.

[goosehd]

…and they may rearrange all of the pillows

[Tago Mago]

@goosehd if you're going to rearrange the pillows, the least you can do is leave a cupcake

[Giles]

In any other SAKURA news, last week was a week of electrics:

Isolating transformer added - personally I think every boat that plugs into shore-power should have one.....

Tubular heaters mounted and wired up under each engine - Engines are essentially very large blocks of iron/steel, so soak up coolth, having heaters under them minimises that and the resultant condensation in the engine room...

24volt to 12volt step-down and wiring sorted for my new Diesel Polishing system (watch this space for the install of that, it's going to be great)...

Switch for water heater bought up to the saloon from engine room...

And a big one, the wiring and installation of the window demisting system is installed. There are a few tweaks I need to make to it tomorrow, but I think it will be amazing.....(pics of this are even more boring than the above......)