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          • Electrical Ingenuity >
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            • wired in radio
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          • Leaf Mugging
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 PENTARGON DAYS.
AFTER YOU COMPLETE MEET AND GREET

 INTRODUCTION TO PENTARGON
AND OFF-GRID LIVING AFLOAT
A day on board learning how to do pre-flight checks, how things work, familiarising with on-board facilities and equipment, esp. ropes and shackles, resting, testing, cooking, washing up,  the brutal difference between on-grid and off-grid philosophies including off-boat and on-boat interaction with the landside: buses, shops, pubs, libraries, etc. Choosing camp and how and why. Why and how to break camp. (£50)

POGUEAWAYDAY
Taking the boat away and back
Today you will be the skipper!
You will make all the calls!
I attend you as a mentor! (£50)
Planning and executing a round trip, nominally a
POGUEawayDAY  lasts five hours or more or less.

Lay out an itinerary. Do the preflight checks.
Starting up .. Casting off .. Making away.
How boat is moved forward by the screw
Tieing up.  Making away.  Theory.  Practice.
Forces acting on a boat moored or moving.
Observing lock strategies and tactics.
Mooring strategies, off-grid bank strategies
Make a cuppa rosie, bowla soup, snacking?
Moving when windy, theory and practice.
Moving solo as a 'supervised' skipper.

POGUE WEEK AWAY

Standalone, this option costs £150 on top of the M+G deposit.  This is not a fee.  It covers cost of fuel, wear and tear, food etc. out of the boat's
reserves. M+G on board visit must have been completed and the boat kitty topped up in advance. 

£50 is discounted when a POGUEweekAWAY has been  preceded by a POGUE HOME DAY.  Client plans and purchases their provisions for five days from the boat kitty.  This week away is the full Monty. Basically 5 POGUE AWAY DAYS, catering and dining on board breakfast lunch dinner tea supper and learning how to live and sleep in an enclosed space with another person.  In cold weather it may include buying, grading and using charcoal  and keeping the boat warm
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And At No Cost At All

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  • MUDDY BROWN WATER
    • CORDWAIN
    • Colour of Water
    • Lehman Way
    • Loadsa Money
    • Floating Man Cave
    • Cunning Lists
    • Later Lists
    • letters and articles
    • by buying a boat
    • and floating away
    • with a pint of milk
    • not quite 100 percent
    • begin boating
    • Uisge Donn Salach
    • Boat Survey
    • Hide & Seek
    • Hide and Seek
    • Real Deal
    • Finding a Fix
    • Give me my Boat
    • a failed survey
  • PENTARGON'S BLOG
  • HOME
    • CURLY WURLY >
      • ARTISTIC NARROWBOAT >
        • goldfinch restaurant >
          • tearpree blink
          • tearpree veriews
    • Sail The Dream
    • Sell the Boat
    • Sail-Away
    • ULYSSES UNRAVELLED
    • Pogue Away Day
    • Sailing Away
    • CONCEPT v REALITY >
      • to live off-grid
      • ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND >
        • Original List
      • Wrong Way Round
      • epilogue criochnaithe
      • On-Grid-Ways
      • Recession
      • Slough Arm
    • RELATION ... SHIPS >
      • 12-0 humans
      • 12-1 widminter
      • 12-2 WHO
      • 12-3 WHEN
      • 12-4 HOW
      • 12-5 WHY
      • 12-6 WHAT
      • 12-7 on board
      • 12.8 comms
    • 14-0 ODORSHET >
      • 14-1 facebooked
      • 14-3 excremented
      • 14-4 excretions origins
      • 14-2 macerated
      • 14-5 composting
    • Pentargon Days >
      • 2015
      • The Original Blog List >
        • PENTARGON
        • 60906
  • PENTARGONS GALLEY
    • Pentargon Coffee
    • Off-Grid-Catering
    • Pasta Management
    • Porridge
    • Drop Scones
    • Bolognaise
    • Marinade
    • CuppaCocoa
    • Burger Stew
    • Scromolet
    • Cooking with Steam
  • SPLANING
    • 2013-0 Water Wasted
    • 2013-1 Water Heated
    • 2013-2 water costed
    • 2013-3 water not wasted
  • HOT AND COLD
    • Fuelling Fires
    • Hampshire Heat
    • Charcoal Heat
    • Boat Heat
  • SAMUEL JOHN SPRINGER
    • Operation Pied Piper
    • Sam's Harborough
    • Harborough & Rolt
    • Samuel in Expansion
    • Patience is a Minor
  • BILLY'S STORY
  • TALES FROM THE TIDES
    • ponder not how >
      • London Stones
      • down river
    • Inland Storms >
      • river creek >
        • Mapping My Village
        • Dartford Departure
    • FROM WITHOUT >
      • Just Another Day
      • Spoons on the cut
      • Between the Locks
      • TECHNICAL TALES >
        • ships husbandry >
          • hull maintenance
          • recycling
          • carpentry
        • Mitred Fire Escape
        • qualified bullshitters
        • electric enterprises >
          • Electrical Ingenuity >
            • Charge of the Light Brigade
            • wired in radio
            • charging electric
        • boatpaint
        • propellers - propulsion >
          • Leaf Mugging
      • kenya jacaranda >
        • ebb and flow
        • ship security
        • 2017 jetsam
        • 2016 sink some
      • The Bristol Channel
      • The Boat Flag Story
    • years and tears >
      • Bottle of Wine >
        • The wine travels on
      • flow and ebb >
        • Mitre Gate Lock
  • HOMENENE
    • HAVEN FOR BEWILDERED
    • COMPOS MENSIS
    • JANGLERS HAVEN
    • REPRESENTATION
    • PENTARGONS HOMENENE
  • PENTARGONS BLOGS