Taking Anticipation down to the shipyard for a bottom job and some other work! Special thanks to my best friend for letting me stay with her while all of thi...
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so on one of the previous videos I
talked a lot about the autopilot here or
Auto helm I should say it doesn't work
anymore
I believe the belt inside of it has
burnt out and I'm gonna have to open it
up to check it already taking it off the
steering column here and now I'm going
to be the wheel to get it off the wheel
it's gonna be a little bit tricky
because I need to use my magical three
millimeter hex key wrench and that is a
suspended at so it involves using a very
specific swish and flick kind of motion
kind of like Wingardium Leviosa but you
know a little bit different because it's
an auto helm not a feathering class or
something like that so let's give it a
try thanks Louis this ridiculousness
okay and there it is off the wheel you
might notice that the Sun has
repositioned itself and the time has
also changed but that is just a side
effect at that magical spell and now I
mean I take it to the store and find out
if they have spare parts for it okay so
before I take it to the store actually
went ahead and took it apart and
confirmed yes the belt has shredded
which is good because that is a cheap
fix and one that I should be able to get
done in a little bit try the two stores
that would have what I need
guess I'm buying it online
all right so today is take the boat down
to the shipyard day I'm cleaning up here
in the morning gonna go get some
breakfast real quick and then got to
take the boat about three hours away to
the shipyard with the motor and the wind
is terrible it's going to rain and I'm
not really looking forward to it I so
I'm off the dock and we're on our way so
the goal is to go from here all the way
down D from here all the way down to
there the wind is pushing to the south
which is pretty ok for what we're trying
to do and it is drizzling very very much
drizzling I've got my waterproof pants
on as well as my waterproof jacket and
hopefully we'll get there before the
wind picks up too much it is forecast to
pick up earlier than it was forecast
yesterday so we're gonna find out okay
so I all about the jib and we're making
about four and a half five knots going
with the wind here to about only think
I'm gonna do that for a while before I
turn the engine back on just to save on
fuel and
engin icin nine years
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Christmas are my self tailing winches
that would be a lot easier right now
then so I've got a the chart water kind
of setup with a little track on my way
to shipyard and right now having working
Auto helm would be pretty cool because I
would not have to constantly dance with
the wheel here challenge about failing
and foul weather is that a normal
landmark study used to have to get
around here are pretty much hidden by
the blog tweens that I have to use my
heading a lot more which is a little bit
difficult win
by myself so as we we around the point
over there the waves actually shifted
they're no longer pointed in the same
direction as a wind which is a picking
for a little bit of a weird ride having
to dance with it right now and
not my favorite but we are moving along
at about six knots so can't complain too
much we are coming up to keema means we
have about twenty minutes boooring back
get to wave it all done people standing
on the boardwalk and I wait we have just
died down a lot now that I've get closer
to the channel
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Plus now nowhere in sight so it's pretty
good
stay warm and because it is cold out and
I don't really like this
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so I think next time round I'm going to
do this how do I eat where I don't have
to deal with any cold weather also will
be weird coming back to the popular
without my back my time and lunch
so that is where the mast was you see
the footprint from the step okay so I've
got the mast pulled out
well I didn't do it but somebody pulled
it out with a giant crane that is the
corrosion that was affecting it and I'm
really glad that I did not try and take
it all sure because that was sucked well
it's off of the boat I'm also going to
work on getting the spreader lights over
here these two need to be replaced and
all the way up at the top the masthead
360 light usually used for cankered it
needs to be replaced and something that
I didn't know about but our wonderful
rigging specialist found this shackle is
not fit for purpose in fact this entire
bracket needs to be cannot be that so
that needs to be corrected and we've
already talked about that so hopefully
over the next few days we'll have more
I'm glad that it is out of my boat now
though because the wind tonight is
ridiculous and if it wasn't for the fact
that this is out of the water yeah it's
bad okay it is my time I've already
eaten so I'm just gonna stay in tonight
but this is one project I've got going
on every window has a little ceiling
piece around it and the original ones
are pretty terrible they shattered as
soon as I touched them so because I need
to replace pretty much every single one
of my windows I've bought the PVC
sheeting
got two of them stacked on top of each
other I'm gonna be tracing out
patterning that I cut from wood onto
that PVC and then try to cut it later
but yeah it is going well today is
holiday I've got to get my boat all the
way from over here all the way over to
there out of the water before that
happens I'm gonna try to take out the
propane tanks so I got the propane out
problem with this one is that when this
valve is opened begins to leak right
there and that means that it is
basically unusable so I got to find out
how to get rid of it
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sebastien you excited to be roommates
for the next seven days yeah okay so I'm
taking out the shredder lights and I'm
gonna replace all the wiring with bits
of string that way when I come back with
the new wiring I can easily thread it
through all the intricacies of the mast
okay so up at the top of the mast I've
taken off the wind indicator which is
broken and corroded I've gotten the bulb
out of the anchor light but I need to
get a actual new mount for it I don't
like this one I want to get one with a
tricolor on it say hi to the coastguard
probably go ahead and try to find a
better shackle for that as well because
that one is not fit for purpose can't
buy after hours to check on the boat you
think they got it all the way down to
the fiberglass there I'm pretty happy
with how how quickly that went looks
like they've already painted some spots
on there to make sure that the stands
can be moved over and continue painting
pretty happy with that colour - yeah
just checking on my boat
one thing that not happy about is the
actual prop shaft was severely damaged
inside the boat I have to get a picture
of that later but uh yeah so that is
actually gonna have to come out of the
boat and be replaced but other than that
everything looks okay I did want to
check on this to see how that was
looking it looks like some of that metal
is actually coming exposed it's not the
end of the world
so that fiberglass was completely gone
yeah overall not bad looking forward to
seeing your painted while I'm here I'm
going to look at the mast as well looks
like they've already chopped the bottom
which is a excellent and I cannot wait
to see you back in the boat okay I came
down here to check out the status of the
boat and it looks like they have it
mostly painted are you happy with how it
looks it looks pretty good compared to
how it looked before few items are still
pending now
they are going to have to put the dome
over this air-conditioning Inlet that is
where all the dead fish have been coming
in I think they've already replaced the
through ball valve valve so that's nice
after that they'll have to put the shaft
back in a new shaft that is so I'm
looking forward to seeing that and done
and it looks like there's a few other
tiny spots where there's still paint
pending but other than that I am pretty
pleased with how they are doing and to
top it all off at the end they will buff
and wax the whole boat which it looks
like they've already done actually I'll
be giant black marks that we're up there
we're now gone and the hole looks pretty
clean so you know come back tomorrow and
check it out and okay so I got one of
the spreader lights on got the other one
wired up the mast should be going in
tomorrow and hopefully we'll have that
done you can see there the new wind
indicator is indicating that we are
horizontal as it should and let's walk
down to the
so they've already kind of epoxy the end
of the mass here and that will help with
the bonding to laser and guessing I've
got the new wires run here label them
before I leave and other than that we're
in business okay so the mass just going
through
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so the bottom looks painted asked is
back in will get the driveshaft back
later but it shouldn't finish it up like
how shiny this is
it's very aesthetic okay so while
there's still on the water I got the new
belt in the mail for the auto home of
Amazon it's a reproduction of the
original one they don't make the
original belts anymore so fortunately
there's other people that do make them
meantime I'm gonna go ahead and put it
in and we'll have to try it out when the
boat gets back in the water I'm not
gonna talk about that right now because
that has turned into a nightmare for me
but let's take a look at this
so with the belt on the sprocket here I
think it's kind of neat you can see the
mechanism here that actually makes it
work this cam here moves and locks it on
to be sprocket which drives the belt
this other one just kind of sits here
and you've got these rollers here and a
belt actually as a friction fit on this
Ridge right here that actually moves
spins this part of the wheel which is
connected to the actual steering wheel
on the boat and that is how that
actually works so we're learning
learning new things today so I've got
recombobulator here checking it out the
top half the wheel spins freely with it
unlocked but when I lock it down it's
hard one-handed we don't have that
freedom anymore which is exactly what we
want
it is pretty good so excited to get back
on the boat and in water okay so I'm
back on the boat I checking out
everything we've got the new through a
hole right there on the air-conditioner
looks like they went ahead and repacked
that got the new drive shaft and it
looks like they actually that one on
that up to here which goes back around
and I lose it
looks like they have it going out the
deck which is good that is out of the
way though so yeah overall I'm happy
with how much work got done with time
and I look forward to getting out of
here and going back home okay so it's
drizzling right now and before I leave
like to change into my waterproof pants
so in three two one
okay the back waterproof pants next step
I'd like to put the auto helm back on
the helm and if you remember that spell
requires a three millimeter magical hex
key so I'm gonna have to find that real
quick okay got it right here my set
three millimeter all right and
put it back Ulis like it was Ulis so
it's back on and last up I'm gonna put
the wheel back on the actual helm and
then we'll get out of here all right
we're headed out now going to knots here
in the marina because this is an
unfamiliar Marina for me I've only been
in here once doubt gonna take it nice
and easy coming out one thing I'm
worried about is the flow going out of
the channel because the next after this
I have to go into channel right there
and I can get a little bit hectic when
the tide is shifting and I should have
checked the tides but I was focused on
the way man because the wind is light
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suppose we into the channel just looking
at the way the water is it looks like
I'm gonna be fighting the current coming
out not my favorite but guys take what
God gives me and use it I can feel the
bow of the boat getting pushed already
and the stern is now getting caught up
yeah yeah we're gonna be fighting that
current so let's see how we can get out
of here we've got some rainbow action
going on over there probably doesn't
show up on camera very well but you know
that's a sign of some sort right
hopefully we'll make it back
pretty rainy up ahead
got a wave at all the people who were
smart enough to not buy about just
kidding
break out another thousand though that
has never felt so real before then it
has this last few weeks yeah
so I'm gonna test out the autopilot here
when we get on the main part of the
channel here and also turn the radio on
because I forgot to do that hopefully
that storm will have passed by the time
we get over there drag it all the way
over there okay we've got that autopilot
actually going it's not doing that great
of a job but it is trying sometimes
that's all you can really ask for when
we are facing a giant flood current
we're out of the main part of the
channel I need to be final few marks of
it I think I'm gonna have to motor the
whole way because fails not really set
up right now and we'll work on that
later this week but uh hopefully at five
knots we'll get there pretty soon so in
a 10 10 or so mile journey
get a little autopilot go you can do
this
I believe thank you
that said the autopilot I've put a point
about a mile ahead of us one point two
seven miles ahead of us in and watching
the off course they are to see how I've
rated actually hold the course that we
were on
I'll probably have to adjust it a little
bit there's a rule plus or minus buttons
on here in the panel that's how you
adjust the heading that it's holding
and it was the further out we're getting
the more speed we're getting so I may be
able to throttle back a little bit I
don't like right now we're at 2,000 rpms
which is actually pretty safe rpm for
this engine but I prefer to use
something a little bit lower
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yeah no rain yet however yeah taking a
look around the boat well she's Auto
piloting we're almost to be in the
channel now kind of like that new boot
that they put on there looks classy yeah
everything else looks pretty good I'm
happy thank you to the contractors thank
you to everyone else thanks to those who
didn't believe in me and all the haters
in the world just kidding there's no one
who hates me that I'm aware of if you
hate me let me know in the comments all
right so we've made our turn northward
GPS says that we'll be at the next
Waypoint at 5 o'clock and we'll put a
time there check it out everything
autopilot seems to be doing ok
about 4 degrees off right now let's
change that having two degrees to it see
what happens there you go
we'll let it do this thing for now can't
wait to get home
grabbed a room-temperature beer
therefore the journey get a little bit
wet unfortunately but we're almost there
the time keeps shrinking on the arrival
estimate so I'm happy with that every
minute you know saved is another minute
of daylight I get sunsets around 5:30
nowadays way too early if you ask me
they should change it
I should definitely change it next up on
the list after I get back I'm gonna have
to get the refrigerator replaced and the
plumbing redone
appropriate system I removed everything
all the old hardware I need to get new
hardware and
your tank and the water system still
needs to be worked on
all that'll come in a later video but
for now I'm happy with what we got done
here
stuff that I definitely couldn't have
done by myself you might be wondering uh
you know all these other YouTube
channels they they like to do it
themselves right but I'd rather pay a
professional to do the big stuff
correctly the first time
then accidentally damage it and end up
paying more for my mistake and anyway
that's all I have on that we're almost
to the next Waypoint I went the
autopilot drive the whole time
and it did a bang-up job frankly yeah
increase the throttle just a little bit
to get us there quicker
I am very happy with how is working and
couldn't ask for any better performance
out of it right now but that said it is
pretty combat here so we'll see how it
does on a rough day finally almost home
have a little bit of daylight but but
smooth sailing no actual rain cannot
believe it all right Elan back and got
the boat docked when I correct the lines
because right now they're kind of a
tangled mess and after that I'm gonna
plug in the boat go grab all my stuff
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