Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
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Yes it is. The university is closed because of the danger of wind. Apparently parts of roofs of university buildings have already started blowing off. Fingers crossed for safety!
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WOW
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…you're absolutely welcome @Madame Buttonfly!
…the weather certainly looks foreboding, you'll be learning to find the calm side of land as often as you can. :o
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…the weather certainly looks foreboding, you'll be learning to find the calm side of land as often as you can. :o
I just hope the non-slip coasters I ordered arrive soon - don't want my first gin and tonic on board getting spilt!
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No sippy cups?
So happy for y’all—truly heartwarming to see.
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…@Madame Buttonfly Gimbal cup holders my dear!
I'd bet the Pilgrim is already equipped with this maritime invention. -
@Madame:
…the weather certainly looks foreboding, you'll be learning to find the calm side of land as often as you can. :o
I just hope the non-slip coasters I ordered arrive soon - don't want my first gin and tonic on board getting spilt!
with enough alcohol, you can't even tell the difference
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Will you be reenacting this scene?
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A condition of our insurance is that we have someone on board, when underway, who has a minimum of RYA Day Skipper.
I'm actually an RYA Day Skipper, but:
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I've not sailed for over a decade.
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I'm used to boats with sails.
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And I'm in Australia, so it's a bit inconvenient for me to pop over to Gosport when @Giles fancies a quick jaunt.
The rules of the road when sailing are easy: If it's hard for it to get out of your way, you give way. Or if it's substantially larger. Or if it's a French trawler.
Navigation is pretty straightforward. It's just a bunch of basic vector mathematics to take into account that the sea is moving beneath you. Never got into astronavigation, but that involves spherical geometry, so might be a bit trickier.
And I remember those flashcards.
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Yeah, that "pretty straightforward" navigation sounded like the announcers when I try to follow a game of cricket. Or maybe like teachers sound to Charlie Brown…
In actuality, I do understand the gist, but it doesn't sound straightforward to do vector math on the fly while the shit you're floating on is moving
Once I was in a little sailboat on Pickwick Lake on the borders of TN, AL, and MS. This is a Tennessee Valley Authority project (reservoir with locks) on the Tennessee River, so all sorts of watercraft make their way through. On my little voyage, I managed first to nearly be capsized by the wake of a cigar boat and then to struggle to stay out of the way of a very large barge.
Sailing is fun, but I can see why I should've learned more navigational skills before going out.
I did have a lovely time overall.
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Amazing! I hope you guys hammered some rum or some naval strength gin, just to be appropriate for the occasion @Chap
