In this episode of Sailing A B Sea Aannsha wrangles the mangle, Baz goes galvanic and spring has sprung in Greece. The pros and cons of living on a yacht on ...

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Now one of the problems with being

connected to shore power is that you can

get stray currents which can cause

all sorts of problems to corroding the

metals of your prop shaft,

your prop itself, even if it's bad enough

coming in and corroding your engine.

With our plan to take crew on board once we

finally get to Turkey we will be

spending considerable amounts of time in

marinas and of course we will be

connected to shore power so we don't

want to run that risk of stray currents

while we're in marinas so we bought this

this is a galvanic isolator and it's a

very simple piece of kit and all you

have to do is cut your incoming shore

power earth connection, connect one half

to here, connect one half to there and then

the earth runs through this device. So

I've just had a quick look of places

where we could install this. So if you

look over here I've taken the shore

power panel off to have a look behind

and see what's there. Now this unit is

quite a big unit and I don't want to

connect it to the hull obviously

because that would be putting holes in

the hull. There's really no room in here

for this to be connected, so the idea of

hiding it behind this panel has been

taken off the table

That was one job I could do!

The other place to install it of course is where

the shore power comes straight into the

boat and that is under this helm seat here

So our shore power comes in here and

enters the boat at this point here. Now

this will quite happily screw against that

piece of wood there and be out of the

way so what we've got to do is we've got

to disconnect this here, strip out the

earth wire, get the two connections to

connect to here and Bob's your uncle

Sounds easy doesn't it?

But remember it's a boat job

So now we've got our earth wire ready to

be connected to the galvanic isolator

obviously the live and neutral wire are

going to be a little bit too long so

once we've got this fitted then we can

cut this a lot shorter and shorten down

the live and neutral wire as well. Just so

it makes it all nice and neat.

Here in the boatyard spring is showing its face

Let me show you the flowers that are

starting to bloom

Hello little foxy girl

How are you?

Hello Bobby. Ohhh big stretch!

You say hello to everyone hey.

Basically all I've done is split this

outer sheath to expose the earth wire

and then obviously just taped it back up

with some electrical tape to protect the

two wires that are still inside and then

just cut the earth wire, crimped on the

two little spades that come with the

galvanic isolator and now I'm just gonna

attach it and power up and Bob's your

uncle.

It's not the prettiest job in the

world but it is pretty straightforward

and it will work and it will protect our

metals once we are attached to shore

power.

Well that's it she's in and she's

secure, all I've gotta do now is switch on

the shore power and we'll be good to go

again. Obviously this is not going to

help us while we're out on the hard, this

is really only going to be beneficial

when we're in salt water and we have the

potential for any, you know, stray

currents to be running around the marinas

Love that fresh coffee smell, mmm

And look what

we've got for breakfast on Easter morning

Vegan chocolate peanut butter fudge

And chocolate peanut butter fudge

with crispy bits of bacon fried in maple syrup

That's for the bloke side of the camp

Here you are Baz!

Happy Easter love

You can't go wrong with that can ya

chocolate and bacon

Well it was something that you

were talking about yesterday

Yeah we saw a video about

making shot glasses out of bacon strips

and coating it with chocolate and then

putting your favorite drink inside but

this is good enough because we don't

have any drink anyway so

yeah wine wouldn't go... No wine would go

Mmm. It works

that is peanut butter, coconut oil,

chocolate powder, a little bit of vanilla

essence and a pinch of salt and maple syrup

and that's it. It's absolutely yummy.

And bacon!!

And bacon!!!

Good morning people in last week's

video one or two of you mentioned that

the sacrificial anode shouldn't be this

close to the cutlass bearing, it should

be at least 50 centimetres away and you

are correct it should be and the only

reason it's there at the moment is

because this shaft is partly out of the

hull so what we're going to do today is

we're going to take off the sacrificial

anode we're going to try and pull the

shaft out completely and also have a

look at the key that is inside and see

how easy or difficult that is

going to be to get off

So first things first

we're going to remove this...

Now we can see the key here on the end

of the shaft, it's one of the mechanisms

that keeps it locked into place in the

flange. The big problem is of course in

order to pass through the cutlass

bearing we're going to have to remove

this key and I don't know how easy or

difficult that's gonna be so first thing

I'm going to do is clean all the

shaft up, make it as smooth as possible

otherwise we're not going to get it

through the cutlass bearing. Okay so

what you gonna use?

I'm going to use Nikos's little tools that he leant us

Okay so we've come up against a little

bit of a snag, this key on the end of the

prop shaft, I'm not sure how it is fitted

or secured into the little notch. There

is a a small pinhole in the end of the

prop shaft which may or may not have a

grub screw in there. I'm gonna have to

find something to have a closer look

inside there. So maybe you could let us

know how that key parts company with the prop shaft

I've done some hand laundry

in a studio apartment so... I've washed it

and I've rinsed it and bringing it back here

to squeeze out the excess water from the mangle

So I haven't

actually used this before so we'll see how we go

It's not an ideal system this Baz,

I need three hands

Why is it not tight? Why can't you tighten it up?

That's as tight as I can get it

It's gotta be better than a hand squeeze hasn't it?

I can't get it any tighter

Of course you can.

Obviously you can otherwise it wouldn't be moving

Well maybe it's because...

We looked at the mangle

later to troubleshoot the problem

The plate on the end of the thumbscrew isn't

big enough to attach to this thin pushpit

rail so we've decided that we'll make

something similar to this which we use

to mount the outboard engine with and

that way it will hold the mangle securely

to stop it from moving forwards and backwards

My grandmother used to do this really well!

Yay! I might put it through again but

I think it's a bit of a work in progress

but I can see the potential I just like

I'd just like to take this opportunity to offer a warm

welcome to our newest patrons

Buck and Dania Buchanon. It's great to have you

aboard guys, thank you. And an

exceptionally big thank you to Heather

and John Drummond

otherwise known as the Old Travel Bums

for your very generous donation thank

you so much.

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