Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Giles]

@Tago-Mago

Swim platform cam:

Is there anything coming up behind me, before I execute a change of direction cam:

Forward cam:

[Tago Mago]

@Giles that's pretty cool that your cam is hooked up to the AIS.

[seawolf]

@Tago-Mago I thought one of those boats was named "Opeth" for a second there.

[Tago Mago]

@seawolf hahaha

[Giles]

I can also select chart objects:

Which is a game changer in low vis and at night. It also allows me to “see” around corners and see a boat that is behind another larger boat.

It saved us big time in <100 metre vis fog in Chanel du Four coming home from Brittany. We had a boat 60 metres away that I never actually saw with my naked eye, but I knew where it was, what direction it was moving in and what speed is was doing.

[Bridger]

What does the tech use to measure the other boats from @Giles ?

Curious whether this tech could be used to measure the distance of other things (eg people) or if there is something in the boat or about its structure.

[Tago Mago]

@Giles totally agreed. When we sailed from Tenerife to Lanzarote we had a night watch but keeping track of smaller vessels was made much easier by AIS. Also super useful to maintain safe distance and practice collision avoidance, especially at night at high sea

[Giles]

I think AIS should be mandatory...

Fishing boats are always turning theirs off, it's fucking dangerous. So I run rader too....

[Giles]

@Bridger

https://shipping.nato.int/nsc/operations/news/2021/ais-automatic-identification-system-overview

We have AIS transmitters on our life vests, if one of us goes over, the transmitter starts transmitting and automatically comes up on the chart and forward looking camera. Our camera pans and tilts and if we hit any AIS icon on the screen, the camera will point at the object. So if I go over, Paula can hit the "Giles-just-jumped-in" AIS icon and she will have immediate vis of me (as long as I'm floating). Our camera is infra red, so it'll work in the dark.

May seem a little over the top, but most of our sailing is done with just the two of us on board....

[Bridger]

@Giles Sounds like fantastic use of techology and very sensible with just two of you, like you say.

[Giles]

This is the tech @Tago-Mago ...

[Tago Mago]

@Giles the MOB capability is such a cool and more importantly potentially life-saving feature. Tried and tested (or at least filmed) in the Solent no less

[Giles]

I got a good deal on some 12mm red Dyneema. So I decided to make new loops for the end of the travelling mooring warps. Now the stern and bow lines have a red loop at the end and the "springs" have yellow loops. This will make it easier for me to instruct people who are not familiar with SAKURA, where each warp goes, as we approach a new mooring....

12mm red Dyneema dogbone with white Spectra chafe guard (not that the Dyneema really needs it, but it looks pretty )....

[Giles]

And here is the bowline and one of the springs....

[motojobobo]

Those dog bones look excellent! Well done.
How long did the dog bones and chafe guard take you to make?

[louisbosco]

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

This will make it easier for me to instruct people who are not familiar with SAKURA,

I'm pretty sure the actual term used was incompetent.

[Giles]

And we have pulled her out for a clean, touch up the antifoul, check the anodes and cut, polish and wax.....

[Giles]

And the anodes are looking pretty shot

[jordanscollected]

@Giles you seem like a feverish researcher and detail man, and I'm sure the boating experience is no exception. What has surprised you or caught you off guard the most about owning Sakura?

[Giles]

@jordanscollected said in Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure:

you seem like a feverish researcher and detail man

Guilty as charged.

Ooh, that'll take some thought.....I will respond soon.