Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[endo]

With your incredibly funny and quick-witted manner, not a single soul on earth would take you for a German.

[Matt]

Zip ties fyw yet again.

[Giles]

If zip ties don’t fix it, you ain't using enough…

[Giles]

There she is, all innocent, not having any notion of what we will be asking her to do tomorrow…..

[Giles]

When that gauge reads 4.3m, we reckon we have enough water over the sandbank to miss it. Raring to go, it is going to be a beaut today.....

[Giles]

Pilotage plan done for entry into St Malo....

[Giles]

Almost perfect. We barrelled down here for 11:32 lock opening. Actually managed to get in the queue for the 11:02 opening. Then we got a call on the radio telling us that the 11:02 and 11:32 openings were not happening. Next time the lock gates open is 20:45.

So we are in the next marina on a visitors berth...

Bloody French

[Giles]

In point of fact. The above fuck up helped us in the end. Paula suggested that we pop around to the marina that we have booked, and check out our berth. Guess what? None of the berths are marked, and even the marina staff did not know where F4 (where we were told to berth) was. If it had not been for the lock being dredged (which is why they shut early today), we would had turfed up at 21:15ish and not known what to do. Because, guess what again? The marina staff knock off at 19:00

[motojobobo]

Given this chaos…how in hell did the sailing world come up with the expression ‘running a tight ship’?

[gazza61]

I love the relaxed attitude to work they have they know all about me time and clocking off is clocking off so that's a pretty tight ship as to where you berth is cest la vie bien sur