Ship ahoy or How to get to London the difficult way

[HVC]

Thought he were making a new girl reference.

[Jacob]

Seems Brainiac is the only one who got the joke.

Which is, I'm talking smack about his distant relative who supplied the pine.

  

[The Larch]

That's really cool, Threviel! If you enjoy the experience, I know other people who also do sailing taking paying passengers with them. In their case they do smaller routes around W. Europe (Between Scandinavia, British Isles, Netherlands, the English Channel area and the Iberian peninsula) and from there to the Caribbean and back. You can book shorter stages of around 10 days or full legs of a month or more. They use much smaller vessels (late XIX/early XX century cargo ships), though, so navigation will be a bit rougher.

In case you (or anyone else) wants to check them: https://fairtransport.eu/sail-along/

[Eddie Teach]

Thought he were making a new girl reference.

Have you mixed up Yi and garbon again? /smh

[Threviel]

I'm in hard training and dieting now, I need to drop about 5kg in 6 weeks. Today I'm at 84 kg, which is 15 kg or so above my ideal weight.

I'm in fairly good shape, I swim two to three times a week and I can probably run 10 km in under an hour.

I will increase my swimming to 4 times a week and see if I can run inbetween and at the same time run a calorie app and eat as little as possible.

[garbon]

Thought he were making a new girl reference.

Have you mixed up Yi and garbon again? /smh

When do I make New Girl references?

[mongers]

So is there going to be a Languish London meet to honour our intrepid Swedish voyager?

[Eddie Teach]

Thought he were making a new girl reference.

Have you mixed up Yi and garbon again? /smh

When do I make New Girl references?

You have seen it, right?

[Threviel]

So is there going to be a Languish London meet to honour our intrepid Swedish voyager?

The family is meeting up and I won't be popular if I suggest that. But you could visit the ship.

[garbon]

Thought he were making a new girl reference.

Have you mixed up Yi and garbon again? /smh

When do I make New Girl references?

You have seen it, right?

I mean, sure I watched all of it.

[Threviel]

Equipment wise I'm buying some stuff.

An Vangedal (possibly some kind of Danish scout knife) knife with an attached marlinspike.

Blundstone boots to use onboard. 

Armour for my phone that has strings attached. Nothing can be allowed to drop from the masts onto deck.

Plane tickets for the family (ffs that's expensive)

Still looking for a hotel.

[Admiral Yi]

What exactly is the purpose of a marlinspike?  Does it help with tying and untying knots?

[Threviel]

What exactly is the purpose of a marlinspike?  Does it help with tying and untying knots?

Possibly, I'll get to know in a few weeks.

[Razgovory]

What exactly is the purpose of a marlinspike?  Does it help with tying and untying knots?

It's for getting swordfish drunk.

[grumbler]

What exactly is the purpose of a marlinspike?  Does it help with tying and untying knots?

It's primary purpose is to pry apart the strands of a rope in order to splice in another rope.  It's also useful to pry apart knots and is a symbol of deck seamanship in the USN (boatswain's mates have to make rate before they can wear one).