In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we take on a hot water challenge as we prepare to reinstall our 12 volt water heating system. But there are technical difficulties and we have to revert back to our 220 volt water heating system.

We also move forward with the next stage of preparing our keel for antifoul paint.

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Transcription:

And now for the reveal. Will it work

or will it blow up? It'll work. Water pump

Shore power. Water heater

One of the things we're always trying to

do when we're filming is to make sure we

haven't got a cluttered background. The

boat is in such a state at the moment

with so many different jobs still in the

ongoing process that every background is

cluttered so we've just given up so

apologies if you can see a load of

junk behind me. Now this just arrived

today it's from America and it's addressed

to me but then again we address all

things to me it's just simpler that way

I don't remember buying anything from

America. Not sure when it was sent but

let's open it up and find out what it is

okay. Oh I know how about this. Just

before we went into lockdown I was

approached by The Lady and the Carpenter

which is actually the name of the

business and they're in America and the

lady I'm sorry I can't remember your name

right now cuz literally we've just

opened the parcel - she does the marketing

in her husband who's a whiz at working

with wood makes these really sturdy pegs

amongst lots of other things and she

asked me if I'd like a sample and if I

you know if I'd do a test over time so I

said absolutely because that's one thing

that we've noticed on the boat the

plastic pegs they just disintegrate

really quickly and the wooden pegs

last that long

wood and a heavy-duty stainless steel

spring. So these look really sturdy

is, look at the detail just the attention

to detail, it's beautiful isn't it?

and I'm gonna buy some new ordinary

wooden pegs and I'll do a side-by-side

comparison thank you Lady and the

Carpenter, it's fantastic we'll put a

link below

a boat job. I've been putting this one off for

quite some time but today's the day we're

definitely going hook into it. It

involves getting access to our hot water

system and to do that we've got to empty

out the big locker in the flooring of

the cockpit here and then there's a lot

of heavy stuff: there's five scuba dive

tanks, there's all the lead weight for diving

there's our spring stern lines and a lot

of canvas and stuff like that. I've got

to take everything out of the locker

because I need to take out the sides

side walls off the locker to get access

to the hot water system.

your mind back to the great battery

meltdown of October 2019 we made sure

that we checked all of the reasons why

the batteries melted down and one of the

things that we absolutely had to test

was our smart controller from Solar

Green 12-volt hot water heating system

and we sent this back to the guy who

built them at the time in Croatia, he

tested it and said no it's working

within its parameters it does have a

fail-safe it has a double mechanism in

here apparently so it's a fail-safe if

one on them falls over the other one will

take over so it's been tested. This has

now been sent to France from Croatia and

then from France to Greece it's back

with us so one of the things we're gonna

do is reinstall this today... Yay hot water for

laundry! We're also going to tighten up

the nuts and bolts of the rudder stock

quadrant because they're squeaking a

little bit so there's a tad of movement

there. So which job are you doing first Baz?

Well I'm gonna do

the difficult one first and that is

removing the water heater, it's just a

difficult awkward job to get get it

removed. I'll be able to work on it here and

then of course got to put it back in

If you've been watching us for a long time

you might be able to cast your mind back

to the episode that I'm showing on

screen right now we were in Samos at the

time when we were first installing this

Solar Green 12-volt water heating system

and you might recall that I had a heck

of a time trying to find the right size

box spanner to take the heating element

out. Well no more because when our

friends Shelley and Ian came out to

visit us from Australia we had them get

a custom built 55 millimetre box

spanner with a big pry bar. This is the

beast and this is the pry bar

That is not gonna bend no matter how

much force I put onto that.

So let's get this one out

I bet you can't wait to use that hey? I'm so

excited about using this

Look at that, perfect fit

You do. Okay

How much easier is it this time?

with some vinegar. It's not too bad though is it?

thing is we need to dig in there to get

the temperature sensor out of there

so that's gonna be a bit of a challenge

accessing the temperature sensor coz if

we can't attach that then we're cactus

but let's do that. Well it's a little

more than an hour later and we're still

working on the hot water tank here

one of the things we noticed was where

the negative and positive electricity

comes into the element the little

ceramic isolators were showing fracture

cracks and breaking away in parts so we

consider that a little bit of a risk to

carry on using from an electrical standpoint

Christopher at Green Yachting and get

his opinion on it and maybe get a

replacement for it sent to Turkey. We

won't be able to get one here sent to

Greece in time before we leave so

reluctantly we've gone back to our 220

volt element which is now back in the

hot water tank and all that remains for

me to do now is to get the tank back

into position and reconnect the hoses

and then finally I can start tightening up

the nuts and bolts of the rudder stock quadrant

quadrant

So what we're actually looking at here

is this big stainless steel oblong rudder

stock quadrant and it's held in place

by two nuts and belts at the back at

two nuts and belts forward and when we're

sailing sometimes they can work

themselves just a little bit loose and

you get it creaking and a groaning

There's nothing to be concerned about

it's just annoying so every time we're

in this locker we just come in and just

give them a good tighten up and that stops it

for another 12 months or so

I'm now standing on the

closed lid of the locker that I've been

working in all day. It's an empty locker

everything else is still scattered

around the cockpit area here and it's

not going back in today because we'd

only have to take you back out tomorrow.

A little bit later on once the hardware

store opens I'm going into town to buy

half a dozen of these hose clamps and

replace the ones that are currently on

the hot water hoses because there are

little drip leaks and these are - when I

tighten them up they're just getting to

a point and going click click click so

I think new ones are in order and I'll

replace those tomorrow morning and then

we can put everything else back into

this locker and for me that's it today

it's just 3:30 in the afternoon now it's

been very hot, very sweaty, very bloody

Knees... Ow ...

forearms, fingers, hands, everything so

it's been very hot and bloody and sweaty so

I've had enough now

So tools away, shower time and then a nice

and cold beer.

It's a Saturday morning

and a lot of people are being quite

industrious in the boatyard and I'm

about to get industrious too. I'm about to

put the first coat of epoxy primer on to

the keel. I've never worked with this

stuff before I've never done this before

and apparently

I've read online that to clean up

afterwards the brushes or the mixing

bowl or cup, you use lacquer thinner. Well

I've just been to the local hardware

store and he's closed so we haven't got

lacquer thinner so I've gone down the

disposable route. I've got six of these

little aluminium baking trays so once I've

finished they can just be thrown away

For stirring sticks I just got these

little wooden spoons and how we're going

to mix the ratio of seven to three

we're going to use these standard

kitchen scales to weigh the seven to

three ratio. We've got just a little over

210 grams of the first bit and so now we

need to put in 90 grams of this bit

And now we need to go stir stir whir whir

and properly mix both of these two

together. Okay I reckon that is good to go

Well that whole can was used up just

doing this first coat so we're gonna

have to add another can of epoxy primer

two part to the shopping list from the

chandlery in Athens but I'm quite

pleased with how it turned out obviously

with this primer on we can see the large

indentations where we've ground away a

lot of the old stuff so then we will

actually use epoxy filler to flatten out

the surfaces and make it a smooth surface

before the anti foul paint goes on but

yeah that's the job for today

As you can see

Barry's being really busy working on the

boat so that we can hopefully splash

back in the water on the 1st of July and

it hasn't gone unnoticed and thank you

to Steven Brunning who's very kindly sent

us a donation so that we can buy a nice

bottle of wine

as a reward for all the hard work that Barry's done.

We'd also like to say a

really big thank you to Luke Jones and

Jim Furness who've both recently

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