Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure

[Giles]

@Madame-Buttonfly , @Alex , Kira and I went to Cowes on Wednesday night, and had a wonderful meal at Smoking Lobster. One of my mates who was in Old Portsmouth grabbed this pic of us returning to our home berth at Haslar Marina on Thursday morning.

[Tago Mago]

@Giles I recognize that berth. We did our berthing and boat handling practice there

[Giles]

Yeah, a lot of sailing schools use the visitor area of Haslar to do close-quarter manoeuvres training. I learn a lot (good and bad), just sitting on our boat watching....

[Giles]

The Dyneema loop on the fixed stern mooring warp was look a bit tatty . It is not a point of weakness, but the tattiness was annoying me. So I sewed a leather chafe guard on to it for more protection and to hide what was bugging me....

[Mister_Brue]

@Giles Beautifully done.

[Giles]

French Fam....

[Matt]

Ooh la la.

[Matt]

Do you winterize or use her year round. The boat, not Paula.

[Giles]

All year around.

We'll take her out of the water in March to check the anti-fouling and change the anodes, but that should be no more than a week....

[goosehd]

@Giles like @Matt said, for Paula or the boat?

[Giles]

Merry Christmas....

[gazza61]

@Giles great photo happy Xmas and thank you and your team for hosting such a great party at Portsmouth.

[Giles]

Over to the Island today .....

[gazza61]

@Giles are you off to cowes.

[Giles]

We took the French fam for a look-see today. Going over for lunch tomorrow at "Coast"...

[Matt]

Sigh.