Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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Paula and I went to Smoking Lobster in Cowes last night. Stayed over and sailed back this morning.
Nothing really out there until I spotted the Daring class Destroyer "Duncan" on the AIS with tugs fore and aft.....
Green AIS objects mean that I am in no danger of colliding...
So I altered course, and upped the speed, red AIS objects mean there is a danger of collision...
Once I got close enough, I backed off. I've had one to many run ins with the military police :(as @goosehd and @neph93 will testify to)-)
The a bloody cross channel ferry came and joined in the fun (at which point one of the police launched decided it had bigger fish to fry)
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on the way back from the mainland managed to sneak on the bridge of the st claire and saw this navel vessel as well.
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@Giles I sold a motorbike to a member of the crew.
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@Giles A lot nicer than the one I was on.
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If the Dale falls through, can I suggest Jenny? She's a 1933 motor yacht built by W.G. McBryde in Helensburgh, currently available on eBay for a quid. The restoration might cost a wee bit more.
More details at Silodrome.
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Yeah, it's easy. Take a couple of days from here to the Mouth of the Thames, and a day or 2 to get up to London. St Katherines dock is the obvious place to moor. I suspect it is super pricey, evidenced by no published fees
We are going half way thet later in the year to go to a party in Ramsgate, I have no desire to go further.
Just planning the Paris trip in June. It's been quite difficult to get info. But I had a chat with someone who has done it, and he has helped me a lot. I think we will go from here to Honfleur in one hit, that's about 100nm, most of which will be offshore. But once we are in Honfleur, the rest of the trip is up the Seine (so just point into the current
) Eight lock systems to pass, but apart from that should be easy. I'm thinking 3-4 days each way Honfleur/ParisHonfleur though we may amble back slower and enjoy rural France.But of course, navigational aids on an inland waterway are totally different to those at sea. So we need to learn those, and take an online course
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@Giles 5-6 days of cider sampling each way?
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Unless we decide to stay in Paris, or go all the way down to the Med, which is possible (though I would need to check whether SAKURA could do it - I spoke to a guy who had done it in a 47' boat, so I think it can be done.)
The speed limit on the Seine is 10knots. So say, we average 8.5knots, dicking around with locks and getting caught behind slower boats. It's about 160nm from Honfleur to Paris. So about 20 hours of motoring each way. 3 is easily doable, even 2. But part of the adventure will be taking our time and enjoying the ride, booze, food and part of France I have never seen, certainly not from a river. Taking let's say 3 or 4 to get there, then 5 or 6 or 7 to get back.
In both cases how slow or fast we have to do it depends to a great extent upon our channel crossing. For 100nm across open water, we need the weather to be kind....And we have a had have-to-be-in-Paris date, my sisters birthday party.....
