In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we're confused by couriers, get a cuteness overload from kittens and tackle a deck filler cap.

Couriers, Kittens and Deck Fills are occupying our time this week.

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0:00 Teaser intro
0:30 1st courier delivery
1:40 Painting the keel
2:38 New born kittens
4:30 Sealing the fridge
4:51 Boats getting launched
6:00 2nd courier delivery
8:23 Fixing the toilet
11:11 Accessing the water tank
14:43 Next week on A B Sea

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What's in the box Baz?

Well it's a bit of an exciting day here on A B Sea because

we've just had delivery from

Athens all of the bits and pieces we need

to get the keel finished, get the hull

and keel primed and get the antifoul pain on

Just opened up these boxes and I'll show you what we've got inside

So these four here are

the epoxy primer. We'll be putting as many

coats of epoxy primer on as we can just

to make it so bullet proof so to speak

In the other box we have epoxy filler

and once the epoxy primer coat that

we're about to put on is dry we will

start with filling in some of the holes

in the keel. This is the anti foul paint

that we've chosen it's from the same

group as the antifoul paint that's

currently on the hull and keel. There are

in the shed stowed away two large ten

litre containers of this and we have these two here

to make up a total of 21 litres of antifoul

and we also some thinner so that when we get to the

final stages of our epoxy primer we can

actually thin it out and yeah just make

it easier to go on

So let's mix up some of this bad boy

and slap it on the keel

We've had about 36 hours of high winds

so there's a fair amount of

of dust on the keel so I'm just gonna

give it a wipe down with a damp cloth

Well that's code number two of the epoxy

primer on and of course we'll leave that

now for 24 hours to completely dry and

then we will begin with our epoxy filler

This camera is probably not going to

pick it up but there are lots of

indentations that really would be better

smoothed out before we put a final coat

of epoxy primer on and then once

that is dry we can begin the layers of

antifouling so it's a daily step-by-step

process. But we're getting there!

I've just heard of a birth of some babies,

hopefully we'll be able to see them today

You've had little kittens

Their eyes are still closed, it's been

about a week

Aren't they just gorgeous hey?

Good girl, you gonna go back in there now hey?

Well it's three weeks after the little

kittens were born and they've grown a

lot and they've also opened their eyes

so I thought I'd bring you to

where they're staying now and...

Hello, hello mummy

Where's your babies, hey?

Aw, hello beautifuls

Aren't they gorgeous?

The one in the front, he's

got little black markings on his head

and on his tail has got a black tail and

it's a little boy

And the one at the back is pretty

much all white and we think she's a girl

If there's anybody that's on Evia Island

that would like a beautiful little

very well socialised cat and her kittens

please email us through our website

We think that she belonged to someone

because she really loves to sit on

somebody's knee and have a good cuddle

she's very obedient, yes she's very well

socialised, she's such a friendly thing

very polite, she'd make a wonderful pet

She does need to go to the vets

though as she's definitely got worms

and I think she's got some ear mites

but she's a lovely little girl

All right peeps that's your cat segment

for this week!

One of the many smaller

jobs that Baz did was to seal the

fridge with Sikaflex because we've

noticed over the couple of years that

we've had the boat that the fridge comes

on quite a lot and that's especially

evident in the middle of the night. So we

scraped out all of the old sealant and

you can see Baz now just putting in a

really good thick layer of Sikaflex

Today is the 1st of June and we've

already seen two yachts leave the yard

this morning, a big one and a small one

And now our friends Mark and Marie are

off out of the yard too. They're not going

too far, they're actually just going over

to Limni Harbour where they've got to

complete some paperwork to get their

visas sorted out because they're Kiwis

and of course with the covid 19 lockdown

it means they've been here longer than

they should so a little bit of paperwork

needs doing

Of course for us it's

going to be at least another month, we

won't be splashing until the first of

July and that's if everything goes to

plan

The Speedex courier has just been

to the boat yard and dropped off a

parcel for us.

Unfortunately it's not the

cutlass bearing. It's a parcel from Germany

We ordered a lot of stuff from one of the

big online marine chandlers and they're

based out of Germany so I'm just gonna

quickly go through what we've ordered

and also associate with what we've got

in the box to the jobs that we can actually

carry on with and even bring to a conclusion

So let's have a look in the box

Well SVB is the name of the company we

ordered all the stuff from and they've

sent us this porn magazine!

Look at all the porn in

there. Oh that's dangerous! So that's something

that we can have a read of later

These two things, are spray cans and they are

antifoul for the prop and the propeller

shaft so we can actually get that coated

before it goes back in to the cutlass

bearing when the cutlass

bearing finally arrives

These two bottles contain liquid

which we can paint onto the building

here and make it waterproof so that we don't

get wet when it rains.

This is a toilet service kit

so we can actually put the

toilet back together and back in place

in the aft head and that will be job completed

These two tubes of Sikaflex

295 UV - I don't know why they wanted

the UV one because it's going to be

under water - will allow us to seal the

keel and the hull gap where the water

was getting in in the first place and

then we can actually put epoxy onto the

keel and then we can finally put our

antifoul onto the keel so that would

be another job completed

This box is a

little bit like the Ark of old, everything

is coming in pairs

These are desulfators and we've got one for our

engine start battery and one for our

bank of house batteries so we can get

those connected and then we can

hopefully just walk away and leave the

batteries to have a happy life living

there underneath the bank

forever and ever amen

And finally I only bought

one of these because I figured that I'd

only need one. This is just a complete

kit with crimpers included as well of

little sort of electrical connections so

if we ever need to do any little

electrical connections we have got this

kit to make all the connections of

various shapes and sizes that we need

And that little lot came to a grand

total of four hundred and forty-three

euros and seven cents.

Money well spent I'd say

Now let's crack on with some jobs!

To try and reduce some of the

clutter that's all around A B Sea at the

moment the first job we're going to

tackle is putting back together the aft

head so we'll put the the little salt water

inflow hose flush hose on and the

connector and then we can put the head

back in the head. It doesn't come with

any instructions but just using

common sense I would suggest that that

probably goes on there, that goes on

there and then that screws on there

Whilst I was scouring around the

interwebs to get some better insight on

this job with the toilet I did come

across someone who said always put a

little bit of Vaseline onto the rubber

which will make it last a bit longer with its

lifespan so what we're gonna do

It's just the outside, not the inside?

Yeah well I suppose we could put

it on the inside as well

Oh dear flashbacks to

my Tenerife DJ days

If Vaseline's not handy use

Flora if you can

Coz everybody knows that I'm a Flora man

Some of you will get that

some of you won't

Well I think that's a goodly coat

Well I think that'll last it for years

Mmm, other way

Really?

Yep, that's how you had it before.

Oh yeah okay

It's probably too greasy now!

Oh no, that's sweet

It was

easy getting in and getting the other

one out wasn't it? Certainly was

I can't pick things up now

Hang on a minute so...

Yeah how does that work?

Well can you just screw it on a

bit first just at least grab the thread

and then push it in?

I also seems to recall

the bloke said just keep it hand tight

Okay. Yeah I can't turn it anymore

Cool

Right that's not going anywhere

Marvellous

Well that's kind of quick and easy

Yeah it should be fairly simple getting back

on as well shouldn't it? Yeah

And there we go

the head is now back in the head

that's one job that we can definitely

cross off the list

The job I'm going to

hook into this morning while it's still

relatively cool here is something that

I've been putting off because it's a

destructive job and it always makes me

very stressful when I have to destroy

something on A B Sea.

We have two three hundred litre

stainless steel freshwater

tanks on board A B Sea and they are filled

via some deck fittings here on the

foredeck, one on the starboard side, one

on the port side

The starboard side we

can open and fill it with water no

problem. The port side however is proving

problematic to open and that's basically

because the fitting where the winch

handle goes in has rounded out over the

years so there's just no grip there

anymore and it's it's just impossible to

open it. So what I'm going to do is I'm

going to drill some holes into the top

of the cap that are the same distance

apart as these and then I'm going to

slide that into the holes put a

large leverage bar on here and then

hopefully that'll give me enough force

to at least open the

deck filler. So yeah I'm not looking forward

to this one but it's got to be done

because we reckon that 600 litres of fresh water

will get us from Greece to Turkey

without having to stop anywhere along

the way to top off the water tanks

One thing in particular that I'm trying to

avoid is drilling too deeply into the

filler cap because I don't want to make

a hole all the way through because if we

do manage to get it open and fill up with

freshwater I don't want to holes

allowing saltwater in so I've taped a

bit of tape around the end of the drill

to the depth that I need to go for the

little bit of a tool that I'm going to

try and use to open it.

Let's see how that goes

All right, the moment of truth

*Triumphant chuckles*

Well that's a sigh of relief on many levels

Now we can have our full complement of

600 litres of fresh water on our way to

Turkey, we haven't gone through the top

of the filler cap so it's still going to

be salt water proof and we can now

easily open it thank you

That's a huge relief

Okay so we're gonna

clean this area up bring the hose pipe

over here fill up that tank with water

and then we're going to go and play with

our Sikaflex I think it's 295 UV on the

keel and hull joint

I've just had a closer look at the two

holes that I drilled and this one didn't

penetrate all the way through but

unfortunately this one did so what I'm

gonna do is I'm gonna take the o-ring

off here and have a look how far that's

gone through. Probably what I'm gonna do

is fill these holes with Sikaflex

obviously we don't want saltwater

getting in there no matter how little

would get through there but I can when I

put this back on now tighten it up using

this device which is the proper tool for

the job and it will be just tight enough

so that I can undo it

using this tool in future

Next week on Sailing A B Sea I'll be

bringing you up to date on the cutlass

bearing saga and how we came this close

to the cutlass bearing nearly getting

sent back to the UK

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