In this episode of Sailing A B Sea Baz is learning to fly a Mavic Pro drone, Aannsha gets to grips with onboard safety and our fridge issue is finally fixed....

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It's Monday morning and I'm taking this

bag over there to do some laundry. I've

got a big week in store for you this

week so don't go anywhere.

You may remember from last week's video we had a

little bit of an issue with our fridge

We cleaned it out and got rid of the

smell but something dodgy happened to

the cooling element and a guy came

and fixed it and now a week later it's

not fixed. So I gotta go and talk to Jose

and say "dude we need fridge fixing".

If it ain't one thing it's another!

So here we

are at the Lavenderia right next to the

Marinero's office.

You may have noticed that it's towel washing day.

We're also throwing in all of the little

dusters and cloths that we use for

cleaning various parts of the boat too.

Now we could stay here and watch this

for another 41 minutes but it would be

totally boring so I'm gonna head back

and start writing this week's blog.

Oh and in case you're wondering about the laundry liquid it's all automatically done with this device

over here on the wall.

Just a bit of an aside here going way back to when we

first started looking at buying boats

and we looked at A B Sea, the guy who was

selling it has actually got his new

Hanse parked in the same marina as us

now and it's right over there. See that

one over there the blue one? That's the

front end of his 48 foot Hanse. It's got

a huge mast.

Well that's got to be a good

40 minutes. I've just finished writing the

blog. It's quite a good one this week, it's a

little bit of a different style than

normal; I think you'll enjoy it a lot!

So time to head back over to the lavenderia, take the now washed towels

out of the washing machine, shove them

into the dryer for one euros worth which

is ten minutes, and then seeing as it's such a

beautiful day we'll let them finish

drying on the rails of A B Sea

I think someone needs to clean the fluff

collector out of that. Very fluffy!

Because there's just the two of us on

board we're what's known as a

short-handed crew.

Did someone mention shorthand? In which case I'm your girl

To me that just looks like a spider's

crawled across the page! So if you know

shorthand tell us what it means in the

comments below.

Because it's just the two

of us on board we're what's known as a

short-handed crew therefore safety is

very high on our priority list. And

higher up than that priority list is

actually staying on the boat and if we

do go overboard, staying with the boat.

Therefore we need something that's

called jack lines, tethers and life vests

and we're going to show you what they

look like on board A B Sea right now.

These are our personal life vests. They're a

really good brand. They're Spinlock and

they are ergonomically designed and most

importantly they self inflate when they

hit the wate. They're very easy to put

on and very comfy to wear.

That's pretty much it apart from doing

it up

Good to go.

Jack stays. Nice bit on one

end and a looped bit on the other end.

So let's attach these to the side deck of

the boat.

The looped end of the jack stay

will attach to the forward cleat at

the bow.

Of course you wouldn't use a

jack stay while we're tied up to a berth

like we are so normally the cleat will

be free and clear of any mooring lines.

Now the manufacturer recommends

attaching this to this D-ring here. It's

pretty much near the back end of the

boat however we've just been having a

chat with our vastly more experienced

than us neighbor and he says well,

ideally you want it as far back on the

boat as possible. So we're going to try

and find a place at the back of the boat

where we can attach this.

One option is

to attach it to the aft cleat here.

Another option we've got is to attach it

to the base of our brand new davit, which

I know has got a huge backing plate on it.

We have a third option on the back

end of this boat there's a mounting

plate that's being unused which was

originally put there for the outboard

engine davit.

So all in all I'm happy

with the way this jack stay is attached

on the port side and we'll reproduce

something very similar on the starboard side.

I think what we'll do there is

we'll attach the aft end of the jack

stay on to the base of the stainless

steel davit and that should do the job for us.

Step one: wear a life vest. Step two: put

jack stays on either side of the boat

and step three: attach to a jack stay

with a harness that's attached to your

life vest.

So attach the harness to the life vest at this point.

And then attach either the short end or the

long end to the jack stay.

Step three: attaching to the jack stay.

So all things being equal between the

life jackets, the jack stays and the

safety harnesses, we should be pretty

much attached to A B Sea for a good long

while to come.

I can't believe I've actually had this

item in my possession for a month and I

haven't had the time to open it. I've had

a lot of will to open it, but certainly

not enough time.

What I'm talking about

is the DJI Mavic Pro drone that we

bought and this little beauty is going

to make some fantastic aerial shots for

us and really enhance our videos to

another level I think.

I actually bought

the DJI Fly More Combo which basically

gives you a lot more batteries and a few

little nice accessories. But the

batteries are the important thing in my

opinion. You can never have too many

batteries. So we'll open up the box and

see what's inside.

Sliding the cover off we're just met with a

plain black box and when you open it up

it's all nice and neatly packed up inside.

Here we've got the bag that you get when

you buy the Fly More Combo and this bag

is big enough to carry the drone, extra

propellers and the controller and

everything else you need to get flying

and it really is that small.

So apart from that being in the box there is of

course the drone itself.

This is what the

drone looks like when it's first

unpacked no propellers on these arms are

these arms fold out like so

and then the two arms underneath fold

out in this manner. The ones underneath do

have the props already attached so it's

not too bad.

I didn't mention that the

Fly More Combo comes with extra

batteries. We've got one battery that's

already fitted onto the drone itself. A

quick easy release. Two little buttons on

either side here and here and you just

squeeze those buttons in and it releases

the battery.

Putting the battery in is

the exact opposite of what you've just

done.

Make sure you've got the contact ends

to the contact ends. It is shaped so you

can't get it wrong.

Of course the drone

is just a drone unless of course it's

got something special and the Mavic

Pro has got a 4k camera built into it so

that's here at the front end a little

rubber protective cover on it and also a

plastic protective cover.

Also included

inside the black box as you dig deeper

are two extra smart batteries.

So now

let's take a look at what's inside the bag itself.

Inside here are the various

cables you're going to need for charging

the batteries and also for charging the

remote control handset.

You get your standard

connection power brick which

leads to a specific shape and size

connector and that connector connects

into the underneath of this little

charger here and the great thing about this

charger it's a multi charger and you can

charge up to four smart batteries at one

time.

Also if you're out about in your

car and you need to recharge one of your

smart batteries they supply a cigarette

lighter 12 volt socket connection which

leads to the power brick which leads to

the connection and that also will go

into the back of that four battery

charger block that I showed you

previously.

Then we have the controller

The controller does have a little screen

on it which will give you basic data

height and speed and battery life that's

left and all that sort of stuff. Again I

haven't fully read the instructions this

is just going off research, but you can

also open up these little

arms below and in there you can place a

small phone or a small tablet. There are

various extensions you can get for

adding on to this to put really big

tablets on but for me I think the weight

of one of those tablets while you're

trying to hold this and control the

aircraft at the same time might be a

little bit too much but you know it's

again it's a personal preference.

And finally in the bag when you undo this

front zipper you get to a little place

where you can store your blades.

So after being a very patient boy for a

month it's time to fit the props onto

here and take this out for a little bit

of a spin!

A quick update on my hand injury. Here's how the accident happened

Here's what the injury looked like on

the day.

Here's what my hand looked like two days later

and now three and a half

weeks on this is what it looks like.

I think I'm a very fortunate and lucky

person. So lesson learned.

Our frige had issues.

One random Monday night we found

ourselves cleaning it out because there

was a really bad fishy smell coming from

somewhere in there.

We got rid of the

smell, we got rid of the cause of the

smell and we thought everything was fine

and then a couple of days later the

element died on us. Well we've had that

fixed now and the fridge is fabulous

it's like a new one and everything is

just cool and fabulous!

Especially the

beer and the wine.

No we're not alcoholics!

We hope you enjoyed

this episode of sailing A B Sea. Next week we have an extra 48 metres of

rode added to the end of our anchor

chain and we also have our naming

ceremony for A B Sea.

Yeah looking forward to that.

Yeah it should be good. Yeah.

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Is it time for a beer now?

Wine.

Okay. Okay