In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we get dressed up as banditos, settle into Kas marina and get more boat jobs done. How will life be for the next 12 months?

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Closed Captions (CC):

you would not believe the upheaval

needed to replace one small part on a

boat

this is a new victron battery isolator

and it's going to replace the old diode

isolator

that we think has a problem since we had

it looked at by an electrician

in demar red marina

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this is not a diode battery isolator

this is a phet

battery isolator and its efficiency at

sending power from the alternator to the

various battery banks

is as high as 99.9 percent which is

pretty darn good considering the old

diode battery isolator

has an efficiency of around about 30

so this is going to do wonders in that

department even if it doesn't

fix or find the problem that we may or

may not still have with the

fizzing anodes on the prop shaft i

digress let's get back to this job and

i'll show you a couple of things that

i've been thinking about this is the

current diode battery isolator

and you may remember when we were

attempting to get our 220 volt

sure power battery charger charging the

forward battery which powers the bow

thruster we simply ran

a cable from the 220 volt battery

charger

and with this spade here we connected it

to

this connector here and it seems that

that might have been a completely wrong

move

and buggered up this thing anyway or it

could be that this just died of old age

either way it's getting replaced with a

new one

and we're not going to connect that to

this a little bit later on i'm going to

talk about a temporary solution for

charging the forward bow thruster

battery

and then i'll explain the long-term

solution for keeping that battery

charged from

shore power but let's move on to this

job right now the first thing to do is

find out which one of these connections

runs from the alternator on the engine

and then find out which of the other

three go to

which battery bank and i'm going to

label them

and i'm also going to reconnect them all

one by one

and test that we've got power coming to

the battery when the alternator is

running i'm just gonna do

one at a time so it'll be disconnect

trace the source

label install the new fet battery

isolator and then one by one

install check that it's getting charged

from the alternator and

rinse and repeat until everything is

tested individually

let's get on with it as you can see

there's quite a difference in size in

these two units this is a master vault

and there's literally no marking as to

which is the input and which is the

output on here at least this one tells

us of what everything is input

ground output one two and three so i'm

gonna have to figure out a way to get

this bigger unit

into the same position because that's

where all the leads terminate

that's a new battery isolator in place

it's firmly affixed to the wood

that the old one was screwed to and now

i've just got to find out

which cables go where and also while i'm

doing that i'm going to isolate each

individual battery

and just check its voltage and see what

the voltages are

once we reconnect everything and start

the alternator running so

number three of our wires

comes from the alternator so that's our

input

and of course the input goes over here

and the cable's just that too short to

reach

so what i'm going to have to do is i'm

going to have to turn this whole thing

upside down

my ocd will forever know that the

writing is upside down

to extend the reach of my multimeter so

that i can

reach the batteries and also reach to

the end of these cables

i've got this uh little crocodile clip

set here

with a long length of cable attached to

it

and that will certainly cover the

distances i need

yeah go

and there we have it installed i've

labeled it as well here's the alternator

coming in

this one goes out to the starter this

one goes out to the bow thruster and

this one goes out to the domestic house

batteries

so that in future if we need to work on

it we know exactly what we're working

with

it's been a very sweaty job but apart

from doing a little bit of boat yoga

relatively straightforward so now i'm

quietly confident that when the

alternator is pumping out

its specific amount of amps and i've got

to find out how many amps the

alternator is that the three banks of

batteries will be charged from the

alternator

issue wednesday afternoon the heat of

the day has kind of passed

still bloody warm though isn't it yeah

especially underneath these things

we are wearing these things because we

are in turkey at the moment and

we're just taking our first walk into

cash town

and apparently the rule is if you don't

wear one of these in public

then you will be fined but to be honest

with you

we've been watching people going past on

scooters

and in cars

and so far we're the only ones wearing

them

but you know you've got to suss it out

and

do the right do the right thing i mean

you know i'm

pretty confident i don't have covered i

feel perfectly normal

um but then again we don't know if

anybody else does have kobe so

it's a gamble isn't it really

[Applause]

and it is definitely hot we're in a mess

but you know never thought i'd be able

to dress up like a bunny door or

go into town

[Applause]

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well town was a bit of a mixed bag i

would say probably

40 percent of people are wearing masks

in the right place yes not just on their

arm

quite busy with traffic um all the usual

places are there and open and

smiley's restaurants expanded a little

bit and we'll show you that when we go

and eat there we

talk to circle and uh she's still doing

her lamb shanks

so we promised that we go into town

and enjoy one of her fabulous lamb

shakes

so yeah just bought a little bit of

shopping mailed

off the this month's postcards to our

ten dollar patrons

yep um

um so yeah watch out in your mailbox for

that coming soon to you

wherever you are in the world and um

time for heading home and making some

din dins yeah

yeah ever since we bought abc about two

and a half years ago

we've never had any

free flow of the chain on the gypsy

because

the brake uh is is stuck basically

and um we did try a couple of things

while we were on the heart in limney in

greece

to try and free up the break and we just

have mike from spicy lady

here in cash marina come over mike's a

long time friend of mine

and he said you're doing it the wrong

way

so he's gone back to his boat to get a

very very large

piece of steel and he reckons he can

free it up with this piece of steel

i reckon he's got a snowball's chance

but let's see

here comes mike mike's got a big one

hasn't he

and it's very stiff in comparison to

mine

all right here we go

wow unbelievable

i'll leave you that unscrew it

and clean it up and clean it up the

whole spline come off as well

yep clean it up unbelievable michael

uh i'm going to see my mate mr hyden mr

idol will make one of them listen i

don't make one

definitely want one of them well

once again thank you very much sir no

problem

my job here is done don't have a beer

well thanks to mike for bringing his

great big stainless steel bar we now

have

a freed up windless break so to carry on

with that job

i'm now about to completely remove the

windlass break from the windlass itself

and clean it up and re-grease it and put

it all back together

again this is a job i've never done i

did have a look

at youtube to see if there any online

videos and all i could come up with

were these huge cargo ships

with these massive windlasses and

obviously much bigger brakes

not really relevant in this situation

but we're going to give it a go anyway

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in reality there doesn't seem to be a

lot to it i unscrewed the big metal bit

that goes on here there was a large

plastic disc in here and

there are four bolts that go through

here which i'm assuming hold the actual

chain part of the gypsy onto this piece

here

and just to check i'm actually going to

take the chain off we do have the anchor

attached with a big hook at the moment

so that's not going to go too far

and we'll just easily chain off the

gypsy and

see how mobile this section is

considering this hasn't been taken apart

in service for two and a half years

uh it doesn't look too dirty i'm just

going to clean up a little bit of salt

residue around here on the thread

this seems to be quite well packed with

grease as it is

so we're just going to add some more

grease to this thread

once again as we always do when we're

applying the grease we use a toothbrush

and today we're using anxious toothbrush

again because

mine is still in the plastic wrapping it

came in

and then put it all back together

and then we now have a working

windlass break which means we can if we

want to

free fall the anchor when we get to an

anchorage which

is kind of an important thing because at

the moment we're currently dropping at

the speed that the

windlass will run and in high winds

sometimes it's difficult to get the

anchor down and enough chain down before

the wind grabs out of the bow and we're

off on a little trip

that we didn't intend so it's very

simple mechanism the reason why i'm not

going any further

is because in order to get this side of

the gypsy off

i'd have to undo two bolts down here

which to me

is a bit difficult and i really don't

want to do it so i'm not going to do it

everything seems to be okay here all

right what are you up to today

i'm splicing two ends of rope for two

pieces of rope that are gonna go

on the end of the springs on our stern

lines

so that if the springs break there's a

bit of rope that

holds the boat still to the dock

good idea yeah and i've just done

one here i've already done one it's

already tying the boat

to the other and i've just done this end

i've just done that

and now i've just got to do another eye

we're good to go all right well we'll

show them the finished product when it's

attached

okay so here's what ang has been up to

with the splicing and dicing

on the rope these springs do have the

potential to give way

under heavy loads and if that does

happen then you want

at least some sort of connection from

your line that's attached to the boat

and the chain that is attached to the

key

or the pontoon so that line there that

we've attached

uh does that job there's one on both

sides

and it's just a plan b a backup plan if

you like

just in case it all hits the fan another

job ticked off the list

friday afternoon we've been in the

marina for a week now

and um we're off to the office

to meet amit and sign the contract for a

year

in cash marina in turkey so quite

exciting day

there it is and omits agreed that we can

film the whole process as well

yeah here's our neighbor struggling with

a lot of water

yeah it's very humid at the moment and

very hot

gallons of water being consumed

keeping it potassium actually that's uh

what a nice surprise because i got ice

cream for you

ice cream water no water that's not for

you

where's the beer look at your belly

take an ice cream did you move oh yeah

that's really for you all right okay

can we can we keep them too late because

we're just going to see omit

okay yes

hello we have a meeting at two o'clock

with amit

good to see you to see you hello hello

thank you all right hey

you can use my desk here this is your

contract thank you enjoy your stay in

cash marina thank you very much

welcome back well that's it we're

officially here

yes and although it's a 12 month

contract we actually get 13 months in

total

because uh jim who is our mate on

our bodybuild acheron he introduced us

to marina

and as a consequence we get an extra

free month and he also gets an extra

three months

so that's a pretty good deal so we can

do the same as well so you know if

somebody wanted to come to

cash marina and we introduced them then

we get a month and look at them

yeah so if you're thinking of popping

this way give us a shout first

and we'll make sure you get introduced

yeah

it's a win-win so really now we've just

got a couple of jobs to do on the boat

then the next big thing is timing our

application for

residency oh and while we've got you uh

a couple of people

quite recently have been saying there

are far too many adverts

on the videos and i looked into this at

the back end of youtube

and it seems that youtube basically just

switched everything on

with pre-roll mid-roll and post-roll ads

and just ticked all the boxes so we have

to physically go in there

and untick a few well untick every

single

video you can't do it on a bulk basis oh

really nope so i spent

a good three hours going through every

video and

making sure that we're appropriate

mid-roll ads were removed so you should

see

a great reduction in ads now because

well

you know obviously we've got to earn

some money from youtube somewhere so

there will be

ads because that's our livelihood it is

of course if you want total

ad-free then become a patron and you can

do that from as little as

two dollars and you get to see the video

released

on tuesday instead of saturday and it is

totally ad

free join us next week on sailing abc as

baz installs a dedicated bow thruster

battery charger

scuba dives in the marina and we discuss

our future plans over dinner

so until we see next week stay safe and

healthy

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