Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Giles]

We saw this trimaran at the fuelling dock in Cascais, she was heading south and east. A few days later, this happened to her....

[Giles]

And we are off (again)

[Twistlock]

[Mr Eddy]

@Giles buena suerte!!

[Giles]

You will probably be very pleased to know that will likely be my last post for a while.....

[Twistlock]

I will be pleased to hear you had a smooth trip without any further incidents

[goosehd]

@Giles Don’t be a git…some of us enjoy your posts…very few, but there are some of us

[motojobobo]

Capitan, we look forward to your next trip update! Buen viaje

[Giles]

Almost made it…..couple of hours to the berth….

[endo]

congrats, capt'n

[Twistlock]

Vesselfinder did not update your position for quite some time whereas Marine Traffic did. Interesting...

[Giles]

Yes, I think that Marine Traffic maybe better, at one point earlier in the trip VF lost us whereas MT had us all the time....

Going into darkness last night....

[Giles]

Slowly slowly.....320nm run from Ribadeo on the north coast of Spain to Brest.....

We had planned to miss out Brest and go to straight Roscoff (because now we have to get stamped out of The EU - and it's a crushing fucking bore), but the sea state was awful a couple of hours ago, so we have peeled off into Brest....

[endo]

glad you made through the Bay of Biscay

[Giles]

So am I

[goosehd]

@Giles How was the fuel situation?

[Kasi]

Home sweet home very soon

[Giles]

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

@Giles How was the fuel situation?

Fine. The issue only seems to appear when the vacuum in the tank overrides the pull of the fuel pump. That seems to be fast about 30% full if we have not opened the filler cap to get rid of the vacuum - which I am about to do.....

[Giles]

Fuck, no discernible hiss, which means we do not know what the issue is. But we do know how to make sure it does not happen - keep her filled up

[tody]

@Giles Just some food for thought, does ambient temperature probably play a role?