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    Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

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    • GilesG
      Giles
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      Captain Keat...
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      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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

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        • GilesG
          Giles
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          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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

            "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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            • goosehdG
              goosehd
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              …and they may rearrange all of the pillows 🙂

              "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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

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                • GilesG
                  Giles
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                  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.....

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                  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...

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                  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)...

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

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                  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......)

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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

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

                    I would be delighted.....

                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                    • GilesG
                      Giles
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                      @Madame-Buttonfly and I took advantage of light winds and blue skies to pop around to Chichester for a night with friends. an excellent couple of days.

                      SAKURA approaching the lock gates (Chichester Marina is a locked marina) this morning on the way home to Gosport. Although it was approx high tide and the locks were working free-flow, SAKURA was on the large size for the lock and just the 2 of us on board, so I had agreed with the lock keeper, Alfie, in advance that he would shut the outer gates, we would then approach those gates and hold SAKURA in position on the engines and the thrusters, the inner gates were shut and once the water had settled down the outer gates would be opened and we could proceed out of the lock. Got a bit hairy in the eddies, but we got out with no chips in the gel coat or dents in the fenders. I'd discussed what we should do today with Alfie last night when I went up to thank him for letting us through free flow when we arrived. Again we got through unscathed, but it was touch and go, so I wanted some advice for today 🙂

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                      About 5 miles from Gosport this afternoon...

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                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                      • GilesG
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                        We lifted SAKURA out of the water today. A few things we needed to check/clean.

                        Needed to jet wash the crud off
                        Check the anodes - 1 we suspected as not working (proved right)
                        Plan some hole cutting to put in some access hatches to instal cleats on the swim platform
                        Check if there were any remnants of the rope/net we fouled on Boxing Day
                        Plan for a new application of anti-foul

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                        The (sacrificial) anode we did not think was working, is the round one above the stern thruster tube. It is not corroded at all, so it is not doing its job! We checked for correct bonding etc and all looks OK.

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                        This is what an anode that is doing its job should look like:
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                        I replaced the one that is not working with a new one. Seems silly, but sometimes they just do not work....
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                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        • GilesG
                          Giles
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                          Refloating her.....

                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                          • GilesG
                            Giles
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                            Some (well most) of the components I need to install the diesel purification system I'm putting onto SAKURA.

                            Modern diesel is a lot kinder to the planet than old-fashioned diesel but is a fucking dirty, festering, bug-ridden recipe that is bad for engines. Long story short, if you are going to use it infrequently (boats, agricultural machinery), you need to keep it clean, otherwise, your engines WILL fail on you......

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                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                            • GilesG
                              Giles
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                              Spectra dog-bones for our travelling mooring lines....

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                              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                              • GilesG
                                Giles
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                                And here is one cow-hitched to a spectra-sheathed polyester double-core spliced-loop (I tried to get as many hyphens in that as I could).....

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                                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                • MattM
                                  Matt
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                                  Knot porn.

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                                  • goosehdG
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                                    Love it when Giles is being knotty 😈

                                    "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                                    • motojoboboM
                                      motojobobo
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                                      Also, lovely golden color on the dog-bones.

                                      The journey is the objective.

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                                      • GilesG
                                        Giles
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                                        I'm so shallow, when I saw that gold, I had to have it 🙂 Cant get it in the UK, so had to ask @chap to help me out....

                                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                        • MattM
                                          Matt
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                                          Attention to detail isn’t shallow.

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                                          • GilesG
                                            Giles
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                                            New burgee ordered, looks SOOOOOOOOO much better without a black border @goosehd ❤️

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                                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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