In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we hook into more boat jobs and birds invade the apartment building next to us.Link to Brillean cleaning product - https:/...

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Getting boat jobs done has proven a

little bit difficult over the last three

or four days because it's been peeing

down constantly and if this rain doesn't

stop soon then some of these boats won't

need lifting back in the water they'll

just float out by themselves

Now we've

got the floor removed from the forward

sail locker we get access to our bow

thruster battery and the bow thruster

motor but the first thing to do here

right now is for Aannsha to get in clean

and get rid of all the mold and the dirt

and there's a bit of scummy water down

at the bottom there so Aannsha's going to

get here and clean and I'm going to tackle

another dirty job and go into the

aft day head to see if I can remove the

outflow pipe because I'm pretty sure

that that's going to be ... have a lot

of calcium buildup inside and I want to

get that out now while we're on the

hard and give it a good bashing on the concrete

I'm going in

This white pipe right here is the

outflow from the aft head and it passes

underneath here and through into the

base of the vanity cabinet, then it comes

up here, does a loop and finally exits

the boat through this seacock here. So we've

got to get the hose off here first I

think that's going to be the biggest

challenge and see how it goes

I've just spent a very sweaty and smelly two hours

getting this pipe disconnected from the

head and passed through the side of the

under sink cabinet. Now having a look

inside the hose it is actually in very

good nick considering. I've seen a lot

worse on some YouTube videos with the

calc really really reducing the diameter

of the house so for the age and the

usage it's actually quite good we could

have left it on, the thing is you don't

know unless you take it off and we have

taken it off and I had to cut this end

off because even though it was spinning

on the on the seacock I just

couldn't get any force on it to remove

it in the position it was in so I've cut

it off and I'll remove the remainder from

the seacock later

Now all the heavy grunt work has been

done in this aft head it's time for the

clean-up crew to go in.

There was a little bit of spillage

Lol. Woohoo

Oh, look it's not a big deal, it's just clear

water, doesn't smell

I'm onto it with gloves

No biggie

Dirty that at your peril!

Well there we go, a

brand spanking sparkly shiny nice

smelling the head and all we've got to do now

is get a replacement hose and connect

it up and that'll be that job ticked off

the list! Yay!

That Brillean works on rust stains. There've

been rust stains on there since we

bought the boat - Yep - that I've

used everything on - yeah - and this stuff

got it off in like two seconds

they actually hines did mention that

we'd be super impressed - yeah - with

the rust stains and I was thinking about the

ones on the deck so we'll give that a go

on our final clean

Right now though the

wind is picking up and we've got too

many things out on deck which can easily

blow away so I think it's time to batten

down the hatches and go and do some

research about replacement hoses

and make dinner (that's my job)

Guess who's doing which!

And we'll be back again tomorrow

for more fun and cleaning

and taking things apart and swearing

Anyway, toodles! Toodles!

While I've been battling away in the

aft day head Aannsha has done a superb

job of cleaning this forward sail locker

you can actually smell the cleanliness

in here now and it looks absolutely fabulous.

Now one of the things I wanted

to do while we had the floor up was to see

if I could drop the bow thruster and

take it out of its tube so I can give it

a thorough clean and just check

everything is good here and one of the

things that's associated with the bow

thruster is this forward battery so I've

come to test it and see what sort of

condition it's in. I'm not sure whether

it gets charged from shore power or

whether it only gets charged when the

engine is running so let's take a look a

Uh-oh!

1.71 volts. I would say that suggests

that this battery is cactus. Luckily we

do still have one spare battery

that was good when we had to swap out

the dead batteries in October of last

year so we'll dig that out and take a

look at the voltage of that and swap it

out for this one, I'm pretty confident

that it's going to be still around

about 12 to 13 volts

Our bow thruster is

an important bit of kit and I always

have it engaged at the helm ready for

use whenever we're coming into a fuel

station or a berth or an anchorage and I

always have a challenge with myself to

see whether I'm going to actually need

to use it or not so that's the game but

when we do need to use it I want to know

it's working fine so I've checked it all

inside the forward sail locker and it

all looks good. It'll work even better when we

get the new battery in there and I'm

just going to change you up this this

anode now. It still looks good when you

compare it to a brand new one but the

thing is it's a little bit difficult to

get at when it's in the water so I

might as well do it now

because this thing is 9 euros so easier

to do it now.

Removing the old anode is

fairly easy just take this bolt out at

the bottom, pull that out and

theoretically the anode should just drop

away. I think we're gonna have to get

something to lever that out. I think a

big screwdriver will do it. Yeah a bit of

a touch with the big screwdriver and

away she drops. We'll clean up this surface

here so we make sure we've got a good

contact and replace that

And there we go

a bright new shiny anode protecting the

inner metals of the bow thruster and

there you can see the new one alongside

the old one.

It's great to be back on

board A B Sea and we've had a few days of

rain since we moved on board but today

we woke up to sunshine which was great

and I made the most of the sunshine and

went back over to the little studio

apartment which is 50 metres away where

we were staying and I've brought back

all of my crafting things my things for

jewelry and resin new resin kits and

I've got a problem now because I've had

a few deliveries from Amazon and I've

also collected lots of shells and

pebbles from the beach I don't know where

to put it all, look

All of this has got

to fit in to there.

How's that gonna happen?

I think it's gonna take me the

whole afternoon to work that one out

Well I did it I had to reshuffle a few

things but I got everything away, look

I had to put my Dremel drill bits and

travel easel into the bottom of the

wardrobe and stack my shoes up in one

corner but it all fits really well so

I'm very pleased with that.

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Hey Baz! The courier's been. I've just found

a couple of things in the office

Well it's kind of exciting and it's also kind

of disappointing I'll go through each

thing individually. This is the outflow

sanitation hose for the aft head and we

ordered two meters of this, I think it's

a 38 mil or 35 mil diameter hose and we

also ordered one meter of a 25

millimeter hose and as I looked at the

parcel I thought maybe they'd been

clever and had stowed the smaller hose

inside the bigger hose but no there was

nothing in there except fresh air so I'm

gonna have to get onto the guys and say

hey you know I paid for the 1 meter of

25ml hose where is that please send it to me

The other thing that arrived is

this - it is a galvanic isolator and this

connects to the earth connection on the

shore power side of things so I will

talk more about that when we are

installing that but I'm glad that's

arrived that's going to be very

important for when we are tied up to

shore power on marinas

Yesterday something else arrived, this beautiful

shiny concoction is a cutlass bearing

now this does of course mean that we can

move on with a lot of jobs and now I'll

just take this opportunity to go outside

while it's stopped raining because it's

been peeing down for the last three

days solid and tell you how this is

going to allow us to move forward with

some other jobs

This new cutlass bearing lives inside here

so we'll have to tap the old one out and in

order to do that we've first of all got

to remove the prop shaft completely so

the sacrificial anode has got to be

taken off, inside at the other end of

the prop shaft we've got to take off the

key and we'll have to do that from

inside I think then we'll pull the whole

prop shaft out completely, somehow

manage to persuade this older cutlass

bearing to pop out and replace it with

the new one. Then we can put the prop shaft

back into place

reattach the key inside, reattach the end

of the prop shaft into the flange

reattach the flange to the gearbox oh

and while we're in there we'll also be

putting on the new stern gland. That then

will be this whole section completed

once we've got the anode back on and

then we can reattach the air intake

turbo and exhaust system to the engine block itself

And that will be a major

move forward in our boat projects

It's just after 7:00 in the morning and I've just

got up to go to the loo. There's a light

drizzle falling and I've just looked at the

apartment building and the boat here and

I'm not sure what kind of birds these

are, looks like little swallows or

swift's but they're all over the

building on every ledge

like a little bird invasion

Yeah definitely some sort of swift or

swallow because they've got a forked tail

I feel sorry for this poor bloke in

his boat. I bet he has to clean up a lot of bird poo