In this episode of Sailing A B Sea our 'to do' list gets shorter as we're nearly there! Plus our dive compressor gets delivered, there's a fishy smell in the...

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The boys are going to come a little bit

later on this morning and help us get

this on board, but while it's here on the

dockside I want to open it up so I can

actually see what sort of size it is

because we're got to find somewhere on

board that we can store this bad boy.

Coz we've got to find somewhere on board

that we can store this bad boy and it's

got to be somewhere handy for us to

refill tanks. So let's find out what size it is.

It doesn't look that much smaller on the

inside of the box!

This is our extension

hose for our air intake. Because it's a

petrol driven compressor obviously it's

going to be giving off fumes. So we put

the air intake as far away from the

engine exhaust as possible because we

don't want those exhaust gases going

into the air mix that goes into our dive

tanks. So very important.

So it's actually it's actually a very simple set up.

Petrol driven engine provides the power for the

compressor to compress the air and

basically it's a single tank that can be

filled at any one time and this

particular compressor is rated to fill a

11.1 litre tank in

approximately 20 minutes. So if the two

of us go out on a dive by the time we've

got back on the surface, stripped our

gear off, filled both tanks again, you

look at an hour and a half surface

interval, so on a fairly shallow first

dive we'd be able to go out for a second

dive fairly quickly after filling the

tanks up. That's great.

A final decisionon where the compressor was going to

live has been made simply due to

logistics. The original plan was to store

it in this locker at the back here but

unfortunately, although it's

certainly deep enough to house the

compressor it's simply not wide enough to

allow us to get our hands in there on

either side and lift out

compressor easily. It's just very

difficult to access this locker here. So

an executive decision was made and now

the compressor lives in this locker down

here. Now of course what we've got to do

is decide where this lot's gonna live. It's

musical lockers once again!

Monday night

9 o'clock and for a couple of days we've

been having a smell in the fridge and we

thought at first it was like a leaking

fishy kind of thing that we'd bought

like octopus or boquerones. And then

we sort of like ate all of the fishy stuff

and the smells still in there and the

smells getting worse so there's

obviously something in the fridge

freezer that's gone off and it's very

rank. So now at nine o'clock on Monday

night we've got to empty the freezer

empty the fridge and it looks something

like that!

Now down in the bottom of the freezer

there is two drain holes. We've taken the

plugs out but because the way the boat's

lying at the moment it's not draining

out completely so now I've got to use

this and a sponge and suck all that

scumee...sh...water out of the bottom.

It's a horrible job

but someone's got to do it and

thankfully it's Baz!

One of the reasons Baz is actually

cleaning out the fridge is because of

its a very deep chest freezer and I can't

actually reach the bottom of the fridge

and he's taller than I am so he's doing

it!

It's er almost like a ballet movement there Baz,

what you call that?

This is the

Bazza ballet move. Right.

It's a specialist move takes years of

training. Yeah I can tell.

This is the first batch of of liquid

that I pulled out which is obviously not

clean.

Alright, so now it's clean in there. Does it smell?

Well do you want stick your head in?

It still smells ...

That empty box is going in. Why is

that an empty box going in?

This is an empty

box going in because it sits underneath

the fruit and veggie bag which is a

cooler bag and most of the fruits and

veggies go in the bag because when we

have the element turned really cold to

keep the meat and the fish as close to

freezing as we can we have to put other

stuff in there otherwise that freezes as

well and then it is just destroyed. But

it's too low down if we just put it

straight into the bottom of the fridge

so this is a builder upper and what we

found is is that it's really no point

putting anything in here because it's

just a pain in the backside trying to get

it out, so it's empty.

Let's just chuck em. Okay.

That's just just stuff you want to be

doing and 9 o'clock on a Monday night!

Probably nearer 9:00 / 9:30 / 10 o'clock now yeah. Oh yes

it's getting to Twilight it must be

closer to 10:00.

That's the trouble, because it's such a deep fridge you can't - you know like with a

normal fridge you can kind of like

look

look at all the different levels on all

the shelves. Coz it's a deep chest fridge

things could die down there like and you

know

Be lost in some black hole.

I'm happy with that

I think it's as good as it's gonna get.

Great. So that goes in. That's our

freezer box technically.

Alright so let's pop that down there for now.

Erm, apricots.

That's it. That's everything? Yeah. Let's get the lid down. Allright.

Done. But there's no fishy smell ...

Yeah! It's on us now! Oooh! It's spread!

We're done. We're done.

There's nothing worse than

the smelly fridge especially when it's

as deep as that one. But I think we sussed it out. Nothing had really gone bad it

was just that and we had a bag of

octopus that we bought that had a

tear in the plastic and when it kind of

defrosted the octopus juices leaked all

through and made it smell very bad.

But it's good now!

Yesterday we went through the eight life

jackets that had been left on the boat

from the previous owners to see if

they're still usable. But what I did was

before we threw them away we salvaged

them for lots of useful things like the

plastic clips and the straps and I also

took the reflective strips off them and

I've got a whole heap of them here

because there are lots of reflective

strips on them and what I'm gonna do is

I'm going to put them onto the lifebuoys.

I'll show you. So we've got two of these

babies and these are really important

obviously and the lifebuoys have got

reflective strips on four places around

them. It's starting to not be reflective

so what I thought that I would do is I

would stick these onto here and then

these are good to go again. Then all

we've got to do is thread line on these

which we've ordered.

So the first job is

to wipe the old reflective strips clean

I'm using white spirits to clean the

original reflective strips that I'm

leaving on the lifebuoys so that the

glue sticks really well. And I've got

some contact gel. This sets in 15 minutes

and it's slightly flexible and it's also

good in water. So that's basically it. It's

got an easy job.

Child proof lock!

Okay so we've got the reflective strips

on and the last thing that we have to do

is feed this rope through these holes so

that if we do have to throw it overboard

to somebody they've got something to

grab hold of.

We've got a little bit of rope here!

It's not just for this project, it's for other things that we're going to need.

So let's see how it works.

I was talking to Barry and he was saying

you know if we do get rings in future we

won't get the hard ones cuz I mean

there'd be nothing worse than

throwing out a life ring to someone and

knocking them out as it hits them!

So see that? That really does hold it in place look.

So I'm really yanking on that so

when this is looped here and somebody

pulls on it it's not all gonna pull out

so that's really good.

Let's do a Stopper Knot

I'm just measuring how much I need and then

giving myself enough to do the stopper

knot

Cut it about here.

So last little bit

So we've got our newly revamped lifebuoy

with its new reflective strips and its

new grab rope

And two awesome stopper knots!

There we go!

Look at the dirt. They came down with the

rain the other day. You'd think that rain

would clean the boat wouldn't you? But no. It just shows how much dust there is in the

atmosphere.

Look at the solar panels, they're

meant to be like shiny. That's all dust!

Even the underside of the bimini has got

dust that's seeped through with the rain.

It's gonna need a good scrub.

Summer is coming

here and we've been leaving the hatches

open for air flow but that means we're

being bombarded by buzzing biting

mosquitoes. And that's just not on.

A couple of weeks ago we found an insect

screen that attaches around the hatches

with Velcro and that's working very well

but we have one big problem: The

companionway or front door.

Velcro insect screen just isn't made to be

opened and closed regularly so we looked

for another solution.

We discovered Insectstop which has a frame and

attaches around a window with a magnetic

strip. So we got that and I spent most of

the day changing the design to fit our

L-shaped companionway

This is how I did it with a lot of help

from Baz.

Let's see if we've got enough magnetic

strip. Otherwise we'll have to go to plan B

You've got one insect screen you've got

magnetic strips and PVC edging and

corners and joining bits. This is a

diagram of the actual shape as I look at

it from the inside of the boat. So this

is the top the roof part and then where

it bends and comes down the stairs and

this is sort of the bottom edge. So I

think the sides need to be unbroken

and if I have to join any then I'll make

it the top part here and the bottom part there.

The issue that we have now is this roll

is 120cm long

and the actual length that we need is 130/135cm

So what we're going to do is fit it and keep as

much on one edge as I can because

hopefully that will give me enough to

place down at the bottom.

That took longer than we expected. I'm really glad though that we've done it.

As you can see it's in place

It just

magnetizes on.

And it's a thing of

beauty isn't it? Look at that!

No mosquito is going to get past that

barrier.

Because San Javier Airport is to the

south of the marina we're staying at

we're walking north along the beach to

try and put as much distance between us

and the airport as possible. I know that

the flight path goes directly over the

marina but I just want to be extra

cautious and get as far away from that

flight path as possible.

Join us next Saturday on Sailing A B Sea

as we take our Mavic Pro out for its

first test flight and we test some of

our personal safety gear.

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