Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[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.

Like fuck 

[dinobarnesberlin]

@Giles:

@dinobarnesberlin:

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

Like fuck 

I had a feeling that response was coming

[goosehd]

@Giles By chance, was this one of your questions:

You are underway when a drunk Norwegian wearing heavy denim falls overboard.  What do you do?

A) Turn the boat around wasting valuable time and fuel
Throw a life ring to him and point him to the shortest direction to land
C) Pretend you didn't see anything and keep on your designated course

[Giles]

D) High-5 @Madame Buttonfly and open one of said Norwegians beers….

[goosehd]

There’s the G I know and love…

[Giles]

Last weekend of April (weather permitting), we will be taking Pilgrim to The Channel Islands.  They lie about 90 miles South of here, and we intend to overnight on both passages (yes, we are going with someone who knows what he is doing @Ian72 ).  Fuel is cheap in the Channel Islands, so seems sensible to go fill-her-up.

Today we had a wake for a very good friend and we got chatting to Mike Thomsom (Alex Thomsons dad), and he invited us to moor in "his bay", on Ecréhous..

https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Les_Ecréhous

We should be able to catch up with Alex, who now lives on Jersey, whilst we are there.

The adventure starts…..

[sabergirl]

Sounds like a very worthy maiden voyage [emoji3059]

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[Nik]

You will have a great time on Ecréhous. I went there a few years ago for a stag and it is a special place. Excellent first voyage.

[browniemcghee]

Wow.  Excellent news all around.  Please post photos of the voyage.

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[ROman]

Sounds like a great trip, voyage.

[Giles]

@Nkwkfld:

You will have a great time on Ecréhous. I went there a few years ago for a stag and it is a special place. Excellent first voyage.

What an inspired choice for a Stag…..