We learn that the common shackle is the No. 1 enemy on a boat and get handy with seizing wire, a solution is found to the knife throwing issue and more grot comes off the yacht.

----- Knives -----

The kitchen knives shown in the video are from Lakeland (UK). So far, they are working really well and staying sharp.

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Bitters at the saloon -Bird Creek
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ah one of the reasons you don't get

bored on a boat is there always

something to do at the moment I'm

stitching the covering onto the rail but

I'm very contented very contented

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what's this all about why have you

gotten a big foam panel what have you

done

I'm just making our salty lasts more of

a home but you know what a quick wash of

the covers in the washing machine might

well do the trick I can see the

difference of color it looks a lot

better for it

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so these are the pro answer to my knife

problem on board salty less because in a

recent storm we find out that knives

were flying all over the boat if I used

my knife block so what I've gone for

instead of these which come in their own

sheath with a sharpener on the end of it

so as you use the knife it stays sharp

but because it's sheathed it can be

safely put in a drawer with a couple of

fingers of anybody he reaches in to get

it and they weren't expensive knives

that's the best of it so the knife has

its own sheath which protects its own

sharpener and it doesn't come out of the

sheath what you have to do it you have

to lift it up when you put it in it can

be hard to admit you've made a mistake

but if you're a sailor you might have

made the same mistake I did because I

have made a bad mistake I did not

service the engine before I took the

boat out now you've seen a video for

servicing the diesel engine

you haven't seen a video of a servicing

that engine and the reason for that is

you don't think about the rigging you

don't think about the mass it's there

it's like the hole it's like a feed I'm

sitting on it's just there it comes with

the boat you don't think about it but it

needs servicing just like the engine

down below the servicing is a lot

simpler but it has to be done it has to

be checked and that's what we're gonna

do today so to show you what caused this

sudden concern look at this this is our

fairing line which proves the for sale

in a night and it runs through this

roller and this pin is the pivot it's a

pin here look at that

pins loose it has nothing underneath

holding it in place

we were lucky this pop tight and it

landed here in the deck and rolled into

the trail

it could have gone over the side this

line came loose now fortunately we have

more of these which run up to the 13

drum but we decided after that to go and

check them all and check the clips so

what we know I have is some seizing wire

which I will be putting on here to hold

this in place so in general just get

methodical you work your way back from

the front

I check everything you check the split

pins you make sure that there is that

there in cylinder make sure there's no

cracks on the cleaver spins and no

cracks on top of these check thus wages

themselves look for cracks running down

this way jizan look for cracks that ring

line thus wages an interesting chip I've

come across is to well your fingers

dying you're standing rigging and if you

feel a lump anywhere within about 6

inches 20 centimeters of the swage then

you probably have a cracked wire in the

side of the rigging and it's going to go

you remember one enemy is the common

shackle this thing as you can see this

one is not seized there is nothing to

stop this screw coming loose this one's

not seized that was not seized neither

or either at first to the base of the

mouse is a shackle fest and none of them

are seized

this pin that was at the bottom of the

gift neck bolt has some sort of little

retaining rod thread nothing in it so

our sees that one nigh not retaining pin

will not move that holds the seal boom

on if I ever came loose you'd lose the

seal so after a few minutes with some

seizing where these shackles will not

become place again

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