In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we suddenly realise that we're at the beginning of the end, winter is coming and we must begin heading towards our winter ...

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What's happening? Well we're about 12 miles away

from our destination which is probably

about just over two hours and we were

cruising along quite nicely at five

knots when all the sudden we lost point

seven of a knot in speed and the revs

really dropped so we could have found

something around our prop.

Worst comes to worst we might just have to put a mask and snorkel on and have a quick look underneath.

The engine trouble

happened on our way back from Poros to

the mainland but we were still in Poros

and we were going to explore it

This is a mega yacht isn't it? We think it's mega!

All right, I'm gonna put my shoes on.

Right I'll go and put this rubbish away

We're just wandering along the port and

quay area of Poros. It's a very long

port and quay area simply because of the

shape of the island and the channel that

runs out here and it's just ... it's

gorgeous it's a beautiful pretty attractive place

Magical and you know

every corner that you go around there's

something pretty to look at it yes it's

got lots of different aspects hasn't it? It's just

lovely, I'm gonna take lots of photos

There's a supermarket. I think there will be others

That supermarket looks rather closed to me

What day is it?

Wednesday. Oh should be open some time eh? I think

that if we go into the main part of town

behind the main dock

we will find an open one

She has spoken ahhh

The architecture is so varied and colourful and it's just

pretty isn't it? It is. It's lovely. I know I keep saying pretty but it really is it's eye candy

And one of the things that we like to do when we

find these new towns that we've not walk

around is just find a likely-looking back street and go let's go down there and see where it goes

We've just had a nice little wander around

town and we found this nice cafe which

is not too busy and we're gonna order some beer and wine. Also gonna have a conversation with our

son Luke in Australia because we've got

free Wi-Fi

Also got free entertainment

as we watch the boats try an anchor and

come in to moor stern to

Yes so we're in

an outside taverna and the speaker's on

Can you hear me?

Er I can but I think it's probably best for you to take video off just coz the free wifi is a little bit slow.

Okay I just wanted

to see your beautiful face

We did say that we were going to explain to you our

plans for our winter haul out. We were

having a few email conversations with

a very small boat yard in the northern

section of the Evia channel of Greece

This boat yard in particular is really

good for us because the prices for haul

out half of what everyone else is

for hauling out, the price of staying on the

hard is extremely competitive it's so

good. Being on the hard you get water

electricity, showers, toilets, use of their laundry facilities and their tools if you want to work on the boat!

And you're allowed to work on

your own boat and they'll lend you tools

to do the jobs as well. They also have

accommodation on-site which is something

that we're looking into. It's two

kilometers north of Limni on Evia on

the on the Greek island of Evia so

we're going to be inside the Evia

channel well-protected for the winter.

We're planning on being hauled out for

four months and we've got a list as long

as both of my arms to get completed

before we go back into their water for next season. Yeah, we're gonna get fit though.

We will be fit and healthy

About time! Yes as long as it's not too

cold

And while we're here we just want

to say a big welcome on board to our

latest patrons who are Pukka Puu and

Bob Herzog. Thank you very much you two

welcome onboard. Yeah it's great to have

you aboard and we really really

appreciate that you're helping to keep

our journey going, sustainable, yes

Right now though, it is lunchtime and we're

here in this beautiful little bay very

close to Poros and we're gonna have

wraps for lunch

This is something we don't

normally do we're actually going

to insert this real time piece of

filming into an older video that's going

to be released if that makes any sense.

Yeah just to confuse you. Just to totally

confusion you, throw you off the scent!

Real time right now it is around about the 10th or

so of November so it's getting close to

the Christmas, New Year period and last

year we did a very successful Q&A where

you guys asked the questions and we

provided the answers, it was great wasn't it? It was, it was real fun.

We had a lot of fun recording that. Yeah we did.

So we'd like to do that again this

year - yeah - so at the bottom of this video

in the comments section leave any

questions you'd like to ask us about

life on board the whole lifestyle change

what it's been like living in close

quarters for 18 months and just

basically anything you want to know that

we haven't already provided in our blogs

or in the videos that we put out each week and yeah we'll do our best to answer them. Yeah.

So that's coming up

it's probably over the Christmas, New

Year period. Yes. And right now we'd love

to welcome aboard our new patrons Max K

Schwartz, Denise and Brian Keith and Henrik Thystrup

Yes thank you all four of you - oh yes - for

joining our Patreon family. Yes it's

wonderful having you aboard and as we

say to all of our new patrons you're

helping us out more than you can

possibly know thank you. And don't forget

if you are becoming a patron we do have

a private patreon only Facebook page

which when you become a patron you get

automatic access to so we can have

one-on-one chats there and also we bring

a lot of our real-time stuff on to that

particular page for our patrons. Yeah lots of extras there for you thank you.

So cheers and welcome aboard

It is the first week of

November and quite clearly we're not on

the boat A B Sea is actually parked just

over there on the hard

with those masts are behind us and we

are staying in a studio apartment for a

couple of months while we rip the inside

apart to get to the root cause of the

GPS, AIS and autopilot issue and also do

some fairly major work to the engine

It's nice being in a studio apartment

and we're only 200 yards away from the

sea so we've got a lovely view, we're on

the first floor. Yeah it is good - yeah

it's nice, it's great having continuous

running water. Yeah it's great

Another thing as well is, as

many of you might know Aannsha has injured her foot

That's a Moon Boot and so she's gotta wear

that for the next four weeks I would

say - plus or minus ... Yeah I'd say more plus

So a lot of hobbling short distances at the moment

Can I just say for the record no alcohol

was involved in the injuring of the foot

No, definitely no alcohol involved. No

Dream on, dream on! Why are we holding up

these books? Well it's getting close to

Christmas and these books are an

absolute blinder of a read. The reason

why we're promoting them is because our

story is one of eight stories featured

in the book. Basically it's ten sailors

five continents, one harbour, they meet by

chance in Turkey and tell of their own

personal stories of their escape from

the rat race and I tell you what there's some

fabulous stories in there. Yes we also

helped to translate this book from

German to English yeah and we got to see

the stories before they were published

and as we were translating them I was just like gobsmacked

at some of the things that people go through to

fulfill their dream of living on a boat. Oh my word

yeah yeah there's some

really sort of seat of your pants stuff

there isn't there? There certainly is yeah. So on

the screen right now we will put the

name of the author so if you go to

Amazon in whatever country you're in and

type in the name of the author (Brambusch) in search

Dream On will come up

You can get it in

hardback form or electronic form and in German or English too

yeah German or English yeah

Great thing to put under someones

Christmas tree yes

And also if you're looking for other gift ideas for

Christmas I don't know if you know but I

make jewellery out of beach finds like sea

glass and shells and are I use sterling

silver wire and make some really pretty

items which are unique one-of-a-kind and

I also give them with a little story of

where I found each piece. So if you're

looking for a gift idea or if you really

want to support us in another way then

head over to the Mermaid's Treasure Store

which is on our website

Yep and we ship worldwide - Yeah

We're on our way Baz

Yeah this is what you'll

call our final approach so to speak. This

beautiful Tuesday morning we are upping

anchor here at Poros and beginning our

hops to end up finally in the northern

section of the Evia channel where we

will be hauled out for winter. Sadly

we're not going to be able to sail I

don't think because we've looked at the

weather and for the next week there is

no wind, so we will be motoring all the

way so we'll have to figure out a couple

of fuel stops on the way because I know

that we don't have a full tank and

that's something we gotta pay attention to.

But yeah it's just coming up to

9 o'clock in the morning - yeah - we're about

to bring the dinghy up and we are off to

Sounion, that's our first stop. Yeah

first top to Sounion then to Porto Rafti

and then to 'Marmar-eye', 'Marmaree' even. Marmari even ... sorry if I'm ruining the

Greek pronunciation of all your beautiful

little towns and villages but yeah those

are our first three hops and then we'll

figure out something after that. Yeah

I've been looking in the pilot books and

things today on the way to find out a

few options yeah so come along for the

final ride, yes. Oh by the way

Noone Anybody Knows, got me anchor bib on

Good idea

Look at that!

What's happening? Well we're about 12 miles away

from our destination which is probably

about just over two hours and we were

cruising along quite nicely at five

knots when all of a sudden we lost point

seven of a knot in speed and the revs

really dropped so we could have found

something around our prop so I've taken us

into neutral, we've now got zero headway.

I'm gonna go into reverse

and see if that clears the prop

So she seems to be moving normally. Everything sounds and feels right

Through back into overdrive again and let's see what

happens. We should be able to get to

about five knots at 1500 revs in overdrive

Worst comes to worst we might just have to put a

mask and snorkel on and have a quick look underneath

But let's see what we've got here

Once we go into overdrive it takes a while

for us to come up to speed up to revs

just simply because the way the prop is

cutting through the water.

Four point five knots

at close enough to 1,400 revs ... 4.6

It's better already isn't it? It's better already

I just don't believe there'd be that much current here

that wouldn't take us down why point seven of a knot

It just suddenly went as well didn't it? There was definitely, something definitely changed

What I'm going to do is I'm going to go into

normal drive so back into neutral

Let the prop feather

Into forward

That's better. Right now we're in normal drive.

Let's see what we can do

That's our normal speed for normal

drive ahead - 5.3 knots at 2000

That's not good - (smoke). But we do have a lot of smoke coming out of the exhaust

which is more than usual. Yeah and it's not

white either is it? I might throw the revs up a bit and see if we can clean things out

Yeah that's not normal. No.

How far have we got to go? We've still got 12 miles. Okay

Coz we're going to here

All right well we're gonna stay in normal drive and we'll just get there and

When we get there we'll dive and take a look see if there's anything... around the prop

around the prop, but I think it's an exhaust issue. Okay

It's the exhaust elbow where the exhaust

comes out of the engine

it gets blocked with soot. Oh okay.

That was

one of the jobs on the list for this

winter to clean out the exhaust elbow or even

replace the exhaust elbow with a stainless steel one

Let's get from here to here

without incident. Yeah. Alright.

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