We try to leave Porth Dinllaen in North Wales only to find that we have electrical and engine problems. We suspect that we may have salt water corrosion from...

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do the what happens if your engine fails

switch effective under nice happy

conditions but as always we're going for

the steep learning curve so we've gone

quickly through the options and the

closest place was 24-hour access is

Holly head but we're going to have to

get a shimmy on because we've got the

tie going with us five hours then the

tide goes against and it's going to be

difficult into Holly

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we've got to be able to make the

north-south staff which is at the bottom

of Anglesey

by particular time which is about twelve

o'clock one o'clock damn locking video

and we'll be very lucky

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her luck was a bit so so the wind 'red

I'd booked our reluctant engine had

started for us calm weather meant that

size stocks in from the Silver Falls

were actually very mild at this point

when we pass through them without too

much trouble

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tucked in as close as we dared to the

land until they made it round the corner

into Holly head Bay

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time spirulina can - are over grind so

the last week miles took several ours

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well we had an engineer here to look at

the engine and everything because we had

an issue with lights flickering now he's

gone through everything and he says it's

fine

during the engine checkup what

unpleasant little discovery did we come

across basically our starter motor

we've been having problems with starting

the engine well they've been on the

mooring now for two nights and we've

just had a little bit of a scare because

when we started the engine off the

starter motor it just wouldn't go

we're over press to see Eloise needed to

put the engine on for a few minutes I

don't we start now we've replaced the

battery no we have since found out we've

replaced the battery with the wrong

battery so they get that sorted but the

engine starter motor itself has got a

fault on it and when it was we were just

starting it up the first time it started

like a dream but the second time you

started it it just it went into it I'm

having a hissy fit and it just wouldn't

start and he says that starter motors on

the edge so what we're going to do is

get the engine start to move to serviced

anyway we've discovered a small leak

just coming out of the impeller so what

beb's doing now is she's dusting it with

talcum powder that way we should be able

to find out where it is

well after we had dusted the sea water

pump we found the leak to be at the back

if it was at the front it would just be

a gasket but it's actually at the back

of the sea water pump now the guy said

you know we should be alright to get

Banga which is where we go in but I'd

absolutely kick myself if that failed

going across the Irish Sea so we've

decided to get that sorted in Holly head

well this is our starter motor it has

been removed and it's going to go and

get it serviced so that entails cleaning

the brushes new brushes and

some magnets bling with some magnets and

just making sure that that's all done

excellent so that's it there hopefully

they all got sorted this is our seawater

posing that's for your leaky boot and

this is where our leaky bit is all salt

and things on there yeah okay anyway so

this is where the the leak is coming

from at the back but apparently there is

a seal in here so the mechanic is going

to get that all sorted for us but we is

going to also fit on you impeller so I'm

sure that you're going to get out which

I'm going to go and get out

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Holly had marina was devastated by storm

Emma in March 2018 all that is left now

is the big empty space you can see here

the remains of some of the pontoons are

still visible and the cleanup is still

underway

well progress is being made and plans

have been drawn up to replace the whole

marina so this is the plans for the

they're going to be putting in the

seawall start of April 2020 with the

pontoons 2021 so basically they're going

to actually have a this is a seawall

that you could actually drive on because

they'll be the trucks will be coming

down here well I am came in to Holly had

marina yesterday and of course I'm like

challenges I said to Beverly right okay

this is a marine or I've never been

before so I'll come into this marina the

only issue is the Beverly had gone

through and sort of like where I can get

information like Navionics our own chart

the pilotage guide all the rest of it

and the problem is reality is completely

different to what we actually have

because I think it was about two years

ago there was a huge storm here and

basically the whole marina got wrecked

and none of the charts have been updated

since then so oh it was definitely I

hadn't a clue what I was aiming you know

it was case of coming in and looking at

it and deciding what we were going to do

well the mechanic was busy we went for a

little walk

it's amazing what you can come across

with a little bit of a shock when we

find Holly head coast guard because

it looks a bit small but then we saw all

the coastguard things and realized it's

a bit bigger than it looked so then our

plans for world domination take a step

forward - whirring coastguard because we

just wanted to say thank you because

they do an awful lot with the ROI

rescuing beaumaris they were the ones

who were coordinating Beaumaris

Parrinello to come out and say yes on

top of that coming out of the Anchorage

they were monitoring us every hour just

to keep an eye on us just keep an eye on

it so it's up like that and that was

just really useful and it's just nice to

see when we got back we had two

surprises one of them was quite nice

well we're in Hawley head and one of the

boats that we definitely went on last

year just turned up pride of man 3 and

sailing for the disabled we'll put a

link to the video we did of that day up

there but if you know anybody who is

disabled in around the Irish Sea then

you know getting them onto that boat is

a fantastic opportunity for them

unfortunately our other surprise was not

so nice

the last pur fender step we knew you

well but your time has finally come

as you can see he's developed a bad case

of the splits

well this tiny little gasket is what was

causing us to have that leak and I have

to say hey when I look at it because it

cost not an awful lot really to get it

replaced for anyway when I look at it I

just think Oh for a water an engine was

lost okay so there's our

starter motor apparently it was nearly

seized so well his really you know it

was a good thing we got that done so our

engine trouble which was when we had a

bout back in Belfast Lough could well

have been the starter motor going well

last night I am I'm terrible I must

admit this but I found somebody who I

knew he was in Hawley head we got

invited to Polly head sailing club it's

lovely to meet people and talk about

boots and which way is the best way to

get out of places and getting all the

local knowledge because we have and I am

very keen on local knowledge after the

lollipops were eaten we had time for a1

to run the older parts of the harbour

and to look over the seawall and it was

time to leave Holly head and head out to

sea we could not have done it without

Stuart the engineer and his details are

in the video description below

top guy great mechanic

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and I

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it's a baby trying to sleep keep an out

we watched the sunset and settle down

for a long night passage across the

Irish Sea

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let's go

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you

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