In this episode we're in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to work on the boat. This marina is famous for being a hub point for blue water sailors preparing to cross...

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welcome to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria we

arrived yesterday night and it's a

really big marina that we're staying in

and the cheapest one so far so that's a

big class and I just woke up it tiring

it was a good sleep after three days out

at sea so behind me you see Palmas and

marina it's beautiful and it's a

beautiful day today I live it's a very

big Harbor so the plan and for this day

here in Las Palmas is that we're gonna

do some repairs and some things on the

boat las Palmas marina is a major hot

point for processors and for people who

want to prove on sailboats the marina is

famous for the arc the Atlantic rally

for cruisers it's a sailing competition

that starting as Palmas and ends in the

Caribbean and it goes every year in

November we realize that our fishing

reel that we bought in Lisbon was too

small so it went to a real fish store to

make an upgrade

our new sunshade is great and makes it

possible to stay in the aft cockpit when

the sun is shining and it made the

cockpit much cozier one thing that we

wanted since we left Sweden is a grill

finally we decided to get one and it was

great the food was delicious

yeah maybe remember the steering problem

that I was talking about in episode 14

I've been taking the parts out now to

try to solve this because it's really

annoying this is the problem right here

this hole in this part is in aluminium

and this hole has been it's not round

anymore it's too big it's been worn out

or since 87 the boat when the boat was

built

like you can hear there's a lot of

people working in this marina including

us what we will try to do here is to get

an stainless sleeve in here so we can

yeah make this whole new hole a bit

bigger hole and put a sleeve in that and

get a new box because in this single

bolt we have both the connection for the

Cobra steering this rod and also the rod

for the outer pilot we have a hydraulic

ram on the top and the cover steering

underneath it this need to be properly

done and it's hard to deal with the

tools we have on the boat so I probably

all right we need to find a machine shop

who can help us with this well yeah this

is the backside of crusing it's not all

the sunny beaches and Anchorage's you

need to work in the boat as well quite a

lot actually especially if you don't

have a new boat so but of course I like

it as well

I think this is a part of sailing and

when you're doing stuff like this you

get to know your boats a lot more so

when something happens when you're far

out to sea it's easier to look at the

problem find a solution for it if you

have to improve all the systems on the

boat

but it's a lot more work with an old

boat that's specially after a tip from a

local we went an industrial zone to find

a machine shop we got some help and now

we just have to wait and cross our

fingers that everything will be all

right as a coincidence we ended up on

the same phone tune as Peter from

Hungary when we found on YouTube

Peter are living in a sailboat body

reversible so kind of turn back just

long way I left England

one year ago I'm a musician and better

right wherever I go I play on the

streets busking on the street and I make

videos video although and I make music

for the videos the longest Swedish word

I know I was tough question actually I

mean I could make one up you know but I

don't know acetate solution Sarah maybe

Shelley soon Sheila I see two silsila

Michi Kish Kish Search Search mini she

should say kisses good Babu good Cobra

Cobra six lakhs a like toffee six six

lakhs axe and lacks a key six Lexus a

black stocking and I easy renounce it

sir

I'm going to try this snus ohmy sneeze

from you on this is a is a Swedish

tradition scorners tobacco that you put

on your lip

sneeze how do you say should feel this

push it up

try to keep it up top of the loop

Howard is follow me he might talk beep

you do see something how long should I

keep it there

how do you see it it's spicy oh good

burning oh you're turning liver

from Carrie Islands I'm going to sail

south visit Africa don't we know exactly

why when I visit Africa mostly for music

and and then I'd like to cross the ocean

I'd say with music around the world so I

would like to interact with other people

have a musician arrival record music

with other people

I'm retaking this off this role here

because it just takes a lot of space in

here so now we will be able to fill it

up a little bit more and to be able to

close this hatch and we save some weight

yeah that's really we're thinking that I

mean this is the last time for may be

quite a while before we are able to you

know find the stuff we need and you know

machine shops and stuff like that so we

decided even if you know of course some

of this stuff costs you a little bit of

money but you really need to do it now

because you know after you cross the

Atlantic maybe in South America it will

be a bit harder I guess to find some of

this stuff yeah let's go back to working

see you

sabisu surgeon

everything finished the steering

all the parts they yeah everything was

correct these are the drawings that we

made for the parts that we need for the

steering and the brackets for the motor

and yeah over here we have the results

this is a part of the quadrant we needed

to have this hole a bit bigger so we

went from 16 to 20 millimeters here

because it was a bit oval in shape

before this hole we have made this bolt

for it just will go through like this we

will have the steering rod to the wheel

connected to this sit like this and on

the other side we will have the ramp for

the hydraulic autopilot so they're

pulling in the same on the same spot

yeah so with this new piece there won't

be any play anymore that we had in the

past

so this clunking sound hopefully it's or

it should be gone now and then we have

the new brackets for the motor it's for

the front of the motor the one we have

now are very corroded and these are made

of stainless steel so we will insulate

them on underneath from the aluminium

that they stand on so there won't be any

more corrosion on the aluminium and the

original ones is in normal the steel not

stainless

we decided to get this made we went to

develop a Penta store here in the marina

and we asked them okay how much is one

new bracket like this in normal steel

and it was 120 euros with import taxes

and freight here to Las Palmas and we

paid 80 both in stainless now so a lot

better

sweet sound of silence works really good

the Beach Las Canteras is located in the

heart of Las Palmas it has a surfing

area a swimming area and a popular

snorkel area there is a reef that goes

as a long strip a few hundred meters out

which stops the wave during low tide so

it's perfect for snorkeling

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tuned for the next episode where we

finish the boat work here in Las Palmas

and try to get a solution to fit this

monster in the bow