Giles and Paula's Great Retirement Adventure
-
Watch out for them Orc's !!
They know the party boats -
congrats @Giles and @Madame-Buttonfly
@Tago-Mago is that comparable to mine, or rather like a german SKS?
-
Congratulations @Giles and Paula.
️ -
Update on orcas. One theory is gaining traction
https://newatlas.com/biology/orcas-killer-whales-boats/ -
Last weekend, Paula and did some mooring buoy practice, we think that we may have to pick up a few in Brittany if we are to avoid marinas. Suffice to say we were crap at it. The bow of SAKURA is very high, which makes hooking the buoy a challenge, and then when you do its nigh on impossible to reach down and get a warp through the ring of the buoy. In the end I lassooed it, but to the attach the warp safely to the buoy, I needed to get into the tender. Thats impractical to do on a regular basis. So, I have been scratching my head, working out a better method.
The solution I have come up, is to back onto the buoy and temporarily hook the ring on top of the buoy with a hook attached to a stern cleat. I’ll have a warp coming from a bow cleat to the stern outboard of everything. Once we are attached with the hook, we can put the bitter end of the bow line through the ring, take the hook off and lead the buoy to the bow. Here’s the hooky thing I have spliced onto a rope to attach to the stern cleat.
-
And, if we are not in a marina, or on a mooring buoy, we'll be anchoring. So, I wanted a short-stay anchor snubber.
I made a larger one last year, which we will use when over-nighting or if we expect high winds or strong currents, but I wanted an easy to deploy one for shorter stays/benign conditions.
Doing an eye splice in double-braid is essentially easy, but you need to be careful with the measurements. I was not, so my first attempt at the large eye-splice was rubbish. I slept on my failure and did it again with a load more measure thrice, cut once....
I'll attach the snubber to the chain with the carabiner....
-
@Giles Here's something you might enjoy: https://marine.wichard.com/en/stainless-steel-hardware/shackles
-
Beauty of a tool!!!
-
That is Sakura’s most handsome leash to date.
. And belated congrats
