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
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