This is just an update so you all know we have not fell into a hole or anything and our plans for our winter works and sailing (hopefully) i hope you enjoy t...

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welcome back to cactus alien I know it's

been a while since we've loaded any

videos we've been busy doing a few bits

around the boat basically some DIY works

and we've been doing some mods on our

autopilot to basically get that working

towards the wind there's another video

on that one on this one I'm just gonna

basically show you a bit of an update

about what we've been doing on the boat

so far over the past couple of weeks

because it's basically been freezing and

winds have been really high as well so

it's not really been very good to get

out we did a bit of sailing try and do

some videos on basically how to do a bit

tacky and a drive in that kind of stuff

so we'll share that in the future as

well but basically our main project for

last couple of weeks has been this

companion way here so about when we

first got the boat a couple years ago

had some water damage on the sides here

and I wanted to kind of sum that Wayne

and dig it out and get it looking back

towards what it should have looked like

when we went when it was new but I was a

bit nervous about taking too much of the

varnish off in case it looks a bit

ridiculous so well I started where this

I took this steps off and I varnished

the steps separately and then I

varnished this as well so basically that

all I did is take the varnish off with a

scraper and then did a bit of sanding to

make it nice and smooth and then

varnished it because all I wanted to do

was make sure that if match it back up

to the sides and I think you know it

doesn't look too bad it needs another

coat and also if you look at the

companionway as well all the steps look

quite nice need some new rubbers here X

these are chipped out but the back still

need to do that because this is

basically the water marking then you'll

see here that was everywhere all over

the sides and everything else so we've

managed to dig all that out the other

thing we did so we spent hours sanding

around these because I didn't want to

dig these out and these are basically

just the wooden in force where the

screws fit but looking in the the back

of the aft cabin as well I found some

little bolts on the back of these so I

think I can take these off and whilst

keeping the screws in there and bolt

them back on on the other side without

damaging those too much and then I can

actually get the sander on those and

something properly so that's why they

don't look particularly too great at

them in it so that's what we've been

doing there I've also fitted a sole

event as well I did did a bit of a

messing about with a sole event I'll

show you that up there

corner there now the original Bank on Oz

was one of these kind here and basically

a solo event is actually slightly

slightly wider than this so I did a bit

of a cutting about of a fan I've trimmed

some of the edges of the edges of the

fan off to basically fit that into the

hole that we've got without putting a

bigger hole in the boat because I didn't

really fancy doing that but it has made

a difference inside it's a lot colder

now this is roughly around four or five

degrees outside and the boat does

actually feel as if it's more ventilated

and obviously it keeps that keeps the

rain out as well so I'm quite happy with

that and what else we doing what the

other thing I want to do is always in

the engine as well if you've been

following this quite a while your net we

have a few things with overheating and

I'll basically explain why I think

that's happening if I just quickly lift

this up on it and show you in there this

here this is the expansion tank for the

Colin and it's pretty much the same

level as the the heat exchanger here so

this is basically where all the the

coolant side of the the water gets mixed

it gets passed by the the raw water so

it cools down through these little tubes

in here now if the engine nice and level

these are pretty much at the same height

they call it slightly higher so you know

it works lovely if we're heeling over

this way and this heat exchanger lifts

up slightly here then the highest point

of the engine is actually in the heat

exchanger so I think what's happening is

the air in here is going into there we

end up with an airlock when we're heeled

over slightly and obviously that's

causing us to overheat so what I want to

do is I want to move this expansion tank

and put it up on the back here so

therefore we can still heal over and

I'll be fine

in the book it does say you can heal

over up to 15 degrees but even at 15

degrees this still ends up being the

highest point of the engine so I just I

don't know if that's something that

anybody else has come across or or

somebody has done a solution for that

before but that's what I think is

happening with it so I'm going to move

that up there and then hopefully that'll

fix that as well but that's the job for

another day as well

so that's that's basically what we've

been doing over the past couple of weeks

and we still keep hoping to go out

sailing even though it is absolutely

freezing but we will find we'll find

some time to come out at some point and

get some more footage both say in free

winter in the lovely UK but catch up

with us again