Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[seawolf]

@Giles What a project! You must be so glad to be getting it wrapped up.

[Giles]

I am, because I fly to Morocco first thing Friday, so tomorrow is a sort of hard deadline.

But, on a positive note....I now understand a lot more about the boat, the hull construction, the steering mech etc, so in a masochistic sort of way, this cloud had a silver lining....

[Giles]

I was just checking the weather for later today, so took a look at wind speeds this morning. Gusting 42 knots, yeah, it was windy....

[Giles]

Waiting for the rain to stop…….

[Giles]

And it did....

Next stop, water....

And she floats...

[Karol]

[endo]

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

And she floats...

nice, always a hand's breadth of water under the keel (as we say in german)

[Giles]

It’s an extremely windy day in Cowes, just on the chain ferry from East to West Cowes (and Smoking Lobster)

[louisbosco]

was that the one we went past after lunch and had to be careful of the depth of water?

[Giles]

SAKURA, Duver Marina, Bembridge Harbour, Isle of Wight...

[Giles]

My little sister is having a party in Paris in July (she lives there, so it's not as pretentious as it sounds). Paula and I are working out if we can sail SAKURA there. Well, of course we can, but we are looking into the how we actually do it and how long it will take....

[Matt]

That would be pretty amazing.

[Jett129]

@Giles I’ll be in Paris in May,that would’ve really been amazing. If you were also going to be there then.

[ROman]

@Giles This does sound amazing......