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We've got big news and it involves a

radical change to our long-term plans

and we're going to tell you all about it

in this week's video

We're heading back

to Turkey where we'll spend at least a

year sailing the stunning Turkish coast

and some of you might like to join us as

crew.

You're probably wondering why we're

doing this and there are several reasons

First and foremost we've got many good

friends in Kaş who we miss dearly

The exchange rate between the Aussie dollar

and the Euro is not in our favour. For

everyone Aussie dollar we only get 60 Euro cents

Whereas in Turkey one Aussie dollar buys

four Turkish Lira and the cost of living

is so much more affordable in Turkey

We're also planning doing something that

we never considered doing before and

that's taking out a 12 month contract

with a marina. And we've got several

reasons for that too!

The Setur marina at Kaş is just one

marina in a group of ten and when you

take out a 12-month contract that gives

you access to all of the other marinas

in the chain for up to 30 days at each

of the other marinas and this is an

important point

Taking crew on board at a marina is

obviously easier than at anchor and as we

sail up and down the Turkish coast we

can pick up crew at different locations

Hiding from the winter storms in the

Mediterranean is essential and even

though many of our friends who are based

in the Kaş marina have been out

sailing in December January and February

there's always a possibility that a

storm can pop up so it's good to have a

contingency plan and a marina as a bolt hole

We get so many private messages and

emails from our subscribers saying that

what we're doing is inspirational and

they're either saving up to buy a boat

in a few years or they're considering the

live-aboard lifestyle and not sure if

it's for them or not

What we're offering our crew is a try

before you buy option which i think is

pretty invaluable for someone who's

making such a radical lifestyle change

Yeah so if you'd like more information

about crewing send us an email to the

address on screen right now

But obviously before we set sail east to

Turkey we need to get A B Sea back in the

water and that means doing a lot of jobs

just like these

A few videos back we

asked you for a solution about our

seizing wire breaking fairly often and

what you have suggested is that we take

these shackles these new shackles and

put the actual bolt through the chain

here and that way the seizing wire has

less chance of being rubbed and broken

so we're going to swap those out today

put new siezing wire on, put new thread locker on it

So that's one done. Let's get on with the

rest hey?

Then we're going to lay the chain

out through the length of the boatyard

and top and tail it and remark it at ten

metre intervals. That's the plan let's

see how this one goes eh?

All right let's get measuring and popping

little bits of plastic in there

That looks a lot more than 50 metres

Yeah but...

it'd be great if it was a hundred wouldn't it?

It'd be fabulous and we've been counting wrong all year! And we've been like well over!

No I think I think that's probably right

Now would be a good time to use the rangefinder

Well we've laid our chain out through the

boatyard and when we looked at it we

thought wow that looks a lot more than

50 metres and I thought well let's check

and perfect time to test out the

rangefinder so Aannsha stood at one end,

I went down to the other end. Very simple

you just power it on, it's got several

modes and it'll go through fog and things like

that but I just put it on the basic

setting, focused on Aannsha, pushed the

button and it told me it was fifty point

five metres exactly. So great little tool,

gonna be using this for a lot of Med

mooring and stuff like that

Now back to the chain job

So it seems our chain is not exactly

fifty metres. It's a little bit short, but

we've been doing fine with it so far so

It's not how long it is Baz it's what you do with it. Exactly

So now we've marked

out our 10 metre lengths along the length

of the anchor chain we're going to take

this end which normally lives in the

locker and we're going to reattach it to

the shackles on the anchor and the

swivel, put Loctite on the bolts and

seizing wire where we can and tidy it

all up again. So this will go on the

other end of the chain then that gets

hooked into the - inside the locker

One of our viewers also said that

stainless steel comes to the end of its

life at some point and there's no

visible signs that it's going to give

it just gives and that's it so if you

know what sort of lifespan we can expect

from these stainless steel shackles

leave it in the comments down below and

inform us and everyone else, cheers

So you're looking a little bit

apprehensive there what's going on?

Well nothing much just gonna go up mast to put this in

Got your safety gear on? Yeah. Got your

Helly Hansons? Yeah!

And I've got ... if I do fall if you don't

break my head, I've got pads to land on.

At least your knees will be safe

that's great new.

With Aannsha going up the

mast we're gonna use two lines on her

for safety. One will be the spare halyard

and the other one will be the topping

lift. Now we've just released the topping

lift and you saw the water that came out

of the kicker. I want to know is that normal?

Is that standard that water would come

out the kicker like that?

Let us know in the comments below

Right once you've got the bulb in ... yes ... Let me know and I'll... It's in!

All right I'm going to switch on the steaming light.

Is it on? No. Oh

Have we got electrical power? Did you turn the batteries off?

No I didn't turn the batteries off.

Is it on? No. Bugger.

It might be a wiring thing then.

Yeah.

Wiggle the bulb a bit.

No

All right tell me if the deck light

comes on. Yeah!

So the deck lights on? Yes

Well that sucks

I mean the connections look good

It's not rusted or anything? No

The bulb you took out, did it look all right? Yeah

Okay well leave the new one in there. all right

It's definitely seated properly?

Yeah

It locks into place

Yeah so when you lock it into place

you can't pull it off and pull it out?

No! There doesn't seem to be

anything wrong with the connections

Right

Well that was a bit of a

disappointment really wasn't it? Yeah

I mean I was pleased that the whole

hoisting up the mast thing went well!

I told you coming down is the worst bit!

Yeah.

So you found that the fitting was

rust-free, no corrosion, you swapped out

the globe or the LED - Yeah -

And we tried to...

In fact this is the old one. Yeah. And that's stll in really good condition.

We switched

on the steaming light and it didn't work

so obviously we've got a wiring issue

between the steaming light and the

electronic panel. Yeah. I looked at the

connections and the connections looked

fine there was no trace of rust they

were solid so yes it's got to be the wiring hasn't it?

Like you say another job

Yeah

But you've got wiring on the

list anyway haven't you? Well not that

kind of wiring but anyway. Yeah we didn't

want to go at the mast again and ...

It is strange though because the the deck

light and the steaming light are one

fixture

obviously they've got two separate

cables running to them and the deck

light works but the steaming light

doesn't. Must be the wiring then. Got to be

All right, we move on

We mentioned in last week's video that we'd received

a package from Heinz in Canada and he'd

sent us this Brillean cleaning product

and we're gonna test it out today on

our very dirty dingy. You ready to go?

got me hose ready. Good girl

The hull of our dinghy is aluminium and

we've cleaned with the Brillean here

with a first going over and just

for comparison this is what it looks

like if you just cleaning with a

cloth and water

So there is quite a huge

difference there and here looking at the

inflated tube again this is a first

going over with the Brillean product

and this is just a quick wipe over with

some water

It's good to be using a

product that's all-natural and does no

harm to the environment

Thanks Heinz.

If you combine the Brillean product with a

lot of elbow grease this is a result you get

Very pleased with this

We noticed at the end of last summer

that this bumper here was going a bit

gummy with UV damage so when we do get

to Turkey we will have a cover

custom-made for the dingy

Now that we've

got the dingy all cleaned we've stored it

underneath the hull to protect it from

bird droppings and other bits and pieces

that might fall from the sky and we've

also got the outboard engine mounted

here again protected underneath the hull

When we first bought this engine in

Spain there was a kill switch fitted

here and it broke within the first month

and Mercury refused to replace it under

warranty for some reason or other

so while we were in Turkey we had Ayden

service the engine and asked him to

remove the kill switch mechanism. He's

also taken the the cabling out from it

so when we do get back to Turkey we'll

have him rewire it and fit the kill

switch that I bought in the UK

When the outboard is mounted to the dinghy and

we're at full throttle and planing the

prop kicks up a lot of spray on here, it

falls into the boat and eventually we

get a lot of water in the boat so to fix

that we bought this: The Easterner

hydrofoil. Apparently it eliminates

cavitation and porpoising, forces the

stern up and keeps the bow down and

includes all the stainless steel

hardware so we're going to fit that this

morning. Just going to position it right

at the the curve here and then uh-huh that'd be right

There's always something

Well that was a right royal pain in the bum

to get that first bolt through

simply because the the drill is always

at an angle no matter whether we come from

the top or the bottom here when we're

drilling it's always at a slight angle

so it creates the hole to be a slight

angle so the bolt will actually go

through the hole no problem, there's plenty of

clearance there but getting

the bolts through and then in a straight

line to the top of the fin I have to do

some macgyvering so basically just

drilling out the plastic a bit on one

side and then on the top and then

drilling out the plastic on a different

side at the bottom and also making the

hole a little bit off-centre if you like

but yeah that's the first one on

lessons learned from that one I'll see

if we can do something different on the

other side but yeah

Things are never easy on a boat

It looks like such a simple job doesn't it? It is a simple job!

So eventually we used

the universal tool of choice and

basically just hammered the bolt from the bottom

to force it through the plastic

So that's that bit done, now I've just gotta

tighten it up

Right, well that's another job off the

list and hopefully we'll have a drier dinghy

this season. Yeah.

Especially if we've got

extra crew - we don't want them getting

soggy bottoms do we? No we don't want soggy bottoms

I think Aannsha did

a fantastic job editing together this

week's video and I'd like to know what

you think about her editing techniques

leave a comment down below if you would

I'd like to mention that we've got a new

patron, his name is Chris Moore and he is

from America so welcome aboard Chris and

thanks very much for becoming a patron

Next week on Sailing A B Sea we are hooking

into more maintenance jobs and we do

finally get to take a look at the

situation about the keel bolts

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