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this blue fishing boat is part of the

fish farm industry

and he's towing behind him quite a long

length of fish farm construction

and jim seems to be right in the

path for them to take it ashore to the

fish farm

repair area they were tooting the horn

jim's had to bring his anchor up

and move out the way we're not sure

whether we're going to have to move as

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well

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tuesday morning around about 6 30 a.m

and

here in the bay of asinkoyu it looks

like we're waking up to

a break in the weather over the last few

days it's been very overcast and we've

had a few rain showers that brought some

saharan dust with it so the boat is

absolutely filthy

but more importantly the solar panels

are filthy

we only cleaned them two days ago and

they've already got dust all over them

again she's been a lot of

dew fall over the night i'm going to

take advantage of the dew on the solar

panels

as fresh water to give them a bit of a

clean this morning and we're hoping that

when the sun gets

finally high enough in the sky it's

going to burn off a few of these clouds

and we should get a nice sunny day which

means with clean solar panels

we can get our batteries back up to

charge we do have a couple of plans

for exploration while we're in this bay

one of the plans involves going to an

island just over here we'll drop the

dinghy

go around the outside of the island on

the other side of the island there is a

small

harbour where we'll tie up and that will

give us a chance to

just have a look around see what's

available there hopefully some place we

can buy some internet top-up data then

we'll explore the ruins on the island

and that should be that we'll be staying

here for another night i think

no point moving on while we've got such

a

beautiful karma anchorage it's a very

utilitarian anchorage here

there's so far as we can see not much

facilities on shore

but we'll go into full details of what

this anchorage is

in our anchorage's series video that

will be included in the playlist very

shortly this blue fishing boat is part

of the

fish farm industry and he's towing

behind him

quite a long length of fish farm

construction

and jim seems to be right in the

path for them to take it ashore to the

fish farm

repair area they were tipping their horn

jim's had to bring his anchor up

and move out the way we're not sure

whether we're gonna have to move as

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we've well loaded a little dinghy off

the side of the fishing boat

and we've got two guys rowing

in a fashion a line ashore which

presumably

a tractor i'm sure is gonna take the

line and then pull

the fish farm construction closer to the

shore because the fishing boat can't get

any closer because of the shallow water

just on the shore there you can see

there's a tractor and a couple of guys

with a big heavy line gonna be

interesting watching them do this

the line's now attached to the tractor

on shore

and slowly but surely the whole thing is

being pulled in

the good news is that we're pretty

stressed out on our anchor chain

and it's a stern of us now so it's not

likely to come and hit us

and the guys in the tugboat fishing boat

just standing by waiting to pick up

their two guys

who took the line of short in the first

place it's a beautiful day today

so much so we're going to check out

the fort at the top of the hill over

there

then we're going to go and provision

because it's a long

lockdown weekend of three days starting

friday

we're going earlier rather than later

because the wind picks up a bit in the

afternoon and we just don't want to get

into being splashed while we're in the

dinghy

look how lovely it is

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good morning

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so

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do

all right unload

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okay

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so we're just at the entrance where you

go up the hill to

have it look at all the ruins and

there's a great sign here that says

warning beware of scorpions and snakes

so it could be an interesting day so far

we haven't seen

a sign posted or noticeable

track that says this way to the top

where the ruins are i saw this little

track coming up so we're following that

up now

and we'll see how high it takes us

uh what's over the hill where we get

there

we're up at the top of the hill where

the fort area is and just over there is

abc and acheron keeping each other

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company

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we're now walking uphill in our

direction that we

expect the supermarket to be uh

it's just after one o'clock in the

afternoon

and uh we need to get some

provisions on board it's a kind of a

public holiday tomorrow

then we run into saturday and sunday

which is locked down anyway

so today is our last day to

get provisions and get on back on onto

the boat and

stay put

so we're not even sure what we'll find

when we get to the top

hopefully some respite

as gymnasts our scout leader forging on

the head

beating off the snakes and scorpions and

anything else cockroaches here

okay the a101 supermarket looks like the

one for us

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it's sunday and as you can see it's

quite a dull and overcast day

overnight we did have some rain we could

hear it bitter pattering on the deck and

it's thought i thought

this is going to be good we'll get the

deck cleaned from all that red dust

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nope it just brought down more red dust

check out the solar panels

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that's the cleanest i can get them with

the reach of the brush in the corner of

each panel where the water pulls

there's a little bit of a collection of

dusty stuff but

overall i don't think that's going to

make much difference but in saying that

unless the sun comes through those

clouds there

clean panels or dirty panels ain't going

to make much of a difference

we might have to get the generator out

because today being sunday

it's day one of video editing we decided

to move the boat this morning because

they're starting to deploy fish farms

and we didn't want to get in the way

we were just going to move a little bit

further behind gym

but we've run into a problem we can't

start the boat

baz is uh troubleshooting it now we

think it's

the starter motor solenoid so he's

isolated all the wires off there

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all right i'm getting 14.35 volts so

we've got juice to it

okay well that sucks

so what i've got to do is

i've got to get positive onto that big

stud there

leaving enough room for me to be able to

short across

between that and that with the

screwdriver i need negative

anywhere on the body

so now i'll come from the positive

on here

that's not the best connection in the

world let me just test that i've got

some i should

now what i've got to do is i've got

shorts between that

and that

something worked yeah but it didn't

start started did it

so that's just the pin firing

yeah starter didn't start so

we can hear the the solenoid engaging

all right switch all the batteries back

off

so what we're going to have to do is

we're going to have to take the whole

assembly out so this is the solenoid and

starter motor out

the connection from the power source

for the starter motor comes through this

cable here

and it's just jumped off the solenoid

here the positive power comes into here

and this is the solenoid activation

switch which is also another positive

feed

and theoretically this should get a

positive feed from upstairs

and then the two of them because the

whole thing is earthed out

by being attached to the engine

it basically should just fire the

solenoid which should fire

the pin which should start the starter

motor spinning

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it's pretty tight

so now i've got it out i'm actually

going to try and

test this out of the water so to speak

to see if that comes out the spins so

this gets attached

to there yes gets attached basically

anywhere on the body and get it on there

we'll do the job

negative to the negative on our starter

battery which we do is good

because we've already tested it for

volts and it's good

positive

on our positive let me check that we see

that we've got what we say we've got

so now i should have 13.10 volts

so that's plenty to get juice from that

battery to get it started

so now i've got an arc between there

and there okay

and that that shot out yeah

so there's nothing wrong with it so why

isn't it right now i'm going to put it

all back together

okay and hopefully that will have done

the trick maybe maybe maybe

so we uh isolated the solenoid and

starter

direct test jumped it across everything

popped out

that's good put it back into place do

that jump again

it doesn't work now where the main

positive feed comes into the solenoid

there are three other cables connected

to that

i'm pretty sure one of them will go up

to the

ignition key at the helm position but i

don't know what the other two do

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

take those

other three cables off because i'm

trying to jump from here

and just put that big main positive feed

on and jump and see if we can get it

started

that way i can troubleshoot as i put

wires on which wire is stopping it

from starting okay

bit by bit so bowser's been cleaning the

terminals as a suggestion from jim

and that's come off the positive

terminal so

that's oxidation so it's possible that

it's something very simple

that's preventing the whole thing from

working let's keep our fingers crossed

what are you doing at the moment guys

well

we're just basically following every

single connection from the battery

to the solenoid and starter and

uh just cleaning every single connection

because we've obviously got enough power

we just don't seem to be getting enough

abs

through the battery

all right so we've cleaned all the

terminals and we're going to

try and start it yeah okay give it a try

all right let's give it a go keep your

fingers crossed peeps

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you know what it was well the main

earthing strap yeah to the engine yeah

when i went to undo it yeah

it was slightly loose so i thought hang

on

guys that's your uncle there you go

brilliant well we were on the right

track

good job lads how about if i cook

breakfast

you put the boat back together i'll cook

breakfast we're going to celebrate with

sausage and egg yeah

cool brilliant oh but isn't it a good

thing it didn't happen

you know when there was high winds and

some kind of emergency issue

thank god we had jim with us oh well

actually might be an idea now it's

working

just take that strap off and clean it as

well and put it back on yeah

yeah i'm going to turn it off now

so i wonder if when it wouldn't stop

doesn't it it's that dodgy earthing

strap man that just wasn't making the

connection just softer than stopping

something

that would make some sense yeah yeah

yeah yeah okay yeah

awesome all right all right we'll see

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