Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Giles]

It's by Faith.  i think we have a few here. @Graham ?

[Anesthetist]

Beautiful @Giles I will have to give them a look…

[Giles]

Yeah, as my eye-sight fails and I need to carry truckloads of shit (but, like not too much), I needed something that would work.  @Kurt-faith came up with the goods…..

[Graham]

@Anesthetist We will have the bag that Giles posted along with a natural version and both in a smaller version photographed, detailed, and available on the website soon. Will update you as soon as we have all the details.

[Giles]

Today, we went to collect the tender.  Next Monday we start our 5 day Day Skipper Theory course, @Madame Buttonfly took the opportunity to do some pre-course required swotting…..

The tender had to be partially deflated to get into the van, thank God I took the rear seats out of the van…..

[Giles]

Today, @Madame Buttonfly and I pumped up the rib, attached the outboard, started it (took me a little time until I found the fuel tap - in the end, Paula had to read the instruction manual, which as most men know, is a little bit cheaty), and took her to Pilgrim.

Here she is installed on the coach roof….

[Madame Buttonfly]

My husband is like a dog with two dicks! 

We did have a lot of fun today, after some cursing and after the "how you use the outboard motor" manual had eventually been consulted  ::)

[Giles]

Classroom work….

[Manticore]

@Madame:

My husband is like a dog with two dicks! 

Quite the visual…  ???

[jordanscollected]

@giles, I think I saw that boating hat on clearance on Sonder, maybe you could also get an employee discount and keep that noggin from getting sunburnt.

Looking stellar in the dingy, although i feel you were going a little fast for trolling.

[Giles]

This week is the hardest I have worked intellectually for over 40 years.  But @Madame Buttonfly and I both passed.  We have our 4 day practical on the boat booked for early July.

All I really want to do now is go to bed, but we have a party in London…..

On the train.....

[Matt]

Congratulations

[Bums_Fan]

Bravo!  Celebration time.

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[goosehd]

We all knew that @Madame Buttonfly would pass, you on the other hand…

Congratulations skippers!!

[sabergirl]

Awesome news, you two! Onward and upward

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[Daniel San]

congratulations 🥳

[ROman]

Congratulations to the two of you. Hope you relaxed and enjoyed the party.

[dinobarnesberlin]

That's great news! Time to buy some matching " skipper"outfits.

[louisbosco]

brilliant. aye aye captain

[Giles]

@dinobarnesberlin:

That's great news! Time to buy some matching " skipper"outfits.

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