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Closed Captions (CC):
in our last episode we welcome you
aboard and take you on a comprehensive
tour of our beautiful floating home okay
so this is an interesting safety one for
you I was just reading and a story from
a couple of other cruisers who almost
lost their boat because their bilge pump
failed and luckily they were on board
and managed to get the situation under
control but it did make us think that we
should check our bilge pumps we know
that the shower one works definitely and
we had an interesting little moment
which I'll just share with you regarding
the bigger bilge pump that's in the
engine room so come and have a look when
Darren does this little test let's see
what goes on so part of our regular
chicks as we we always check the flight
switch which just activates the bilge
pump pretty much
if boats unattended there's a problem it
just pumps the water out oh boy so
anyway today I normally do the check on
I just take a simple piece of war and
I'll just go in and I'll hook the switch
up and trips the switch you can hear the
pump start today we've done something a
little bit different I just flooded the
bilge it's a part of the check anyway
part of the bilge pump didn't go off so
it's obviously a rule design fault there
with this this particular thing and
funny enough this system has been like
this for the whole life of the boat so
it really pays to check things in a what
saying and then controlled environment
so what what's happened in the past this
this thing's been just sitting there on
this piece of stainless which appears to
be fine and anytime I've done the test
I've just hooked the wire under lift it
up why guys but because of the angle and
I've never flooded it before because of
that angle the water would only sort of
it would only fly to there it's just not
quite far enough to activate it needs to
go right you can hear the little ball I
don't know whether camera can yeah can
clicking it's just got a little ball
bearing and there basically and that's
all it does but it's it's a really it's
a really bad design so we've been
sitting here all this time
pretty much testing at the wrong way
around I guess yeah well in the past
I've just took the you know from here
I'll just reach in there and virtually
just hooked up hooked a bit of war under
not quite like that but sorry except hit
the picture things can go wrong and
bilge pumps a very important piece of
equipment on the ship well yeah
do you know how many ladies that
supposed to pump in here 1500 gallons I
think it does amazing yeah right but if
that doesn't work it doesn't pop
anything yeah exactly
it really needs to be a hundred percent
or fill proofing oh I can see why
they've done that you know it's great to
maintain just pull it out replace it or
whatever you like but it's saying that
that doesn't work yes I that's useless
okay
so while we ponder a bilge pump fix we
go for an explorer around the bay then
stop off at a beach to give the dinghy a
good old wash down
stepping out into the shallows we had an
EMS with the trio of stingrays having an
afternoon get-together someone who'd
made up a rope swing so we took the
opportunity to feel like a kid again
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and after flying around for a bit we got
down to the task at hand
[Applause]
old high homes bottoms getting a bit
making she's got a bit of LV and a bit
of my Connor from living in the water
and we're going to give her a bit of a
clean make a go faster yeah
[Applause]
hi-ho silver is a very important piece
of equipment for us she's our Town Car a
dive platform and possibly a makeshift
life raft she gets loaded with all sorts
of equipment and provisions and takes us
for afternoons out with other cruises
she's a workhorse and takes a real
hammering at times she also spends all
of her time out in the elements so it's
important that we keep her in tip-top
shape so that we can travel in safety
and with ease
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we had been hiding up mokona inlet
waiting for strong winds to blow over
it's a muddy bottom bay making an
excellent anchorage in southerly winds
it was hot and humid so we were enjoying
the days catching up on some work
exploring and relaxing under our boom
tent most nights will be joined by
charter boats
however pretty much had the bay to
ourselves during the day to enjoy the
serenity of the beautiful bushland
environment around us
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you
so big day today big day O'Hara dazzles
May he has a nice healthy breakfasts
fruit and musi we've got a we're going
to leave today depart today from this
beautiful bay and but the winds are
still up still nice and high but we're
going to try out or we're gonna test out
our stay so see if it holds if it's all
well we haven't had it out for quite
some time a long time so we're gonna
check it out
make sure there's no repairs or anything
that need to be done to it before we
vote off again and yes I will about the
bootcamp bag um yeah we've done a little
trick before and that work just got some
a little bit of bracketing that we put
to one of the engine mounts it sort of
worked out quite well and so it's not
actually sitting on the bottom as of
such well it's still very easy to
service and so you're gonna sit sit
vertically on an engine out so it
actually sits horizontally Wow the
bracket drops down beside the engine
mount like that and there's a little
flat piece on the bottom so though the
the switch would sit on my hand if you
like yep
that way you can just drop it down and
pull it out and service it so that's the
fix on the bilge pump and I'm kind of
kissing you guys want to know why the
drone if we found the drone if you
figured out the drone flew into a tree
and good apollo-era there the pollen era
yes yeah but I sit here and Darrin have
gone to shore and he was going to take
some growing footage and it was acting
up a little bit and so he's pressed the
old returned to home button that we did
yeah I didn't return home didn't return
home so he came racing out to the boat
and said maybe an engine it can't help
me find the drone so yeah we we luckily
we had the tablet present the controller
for the giant has GPS signal water so
we've basically
got in the in the tender and raced off
to where we thought the GPS was telling
us to go to parked up underneath the
cliff face and then scrambled up the
cliff face and amongst all the trees and
the bush and whatnot how long did I
think you think it took I think we'll
probably scratching around up there for
better an hour I think yeah and yeah the
signal wasn't very accurate but we
eventually handed ya the signal was
about science probably about ten meters
off and so we got to the last point
where I'm sort of searching up and down
all these trees and around and I have a
bushes and goodness knows what but we
eventually found it so that's amazing
incredible incredibly lucky but yeah and
she's fine a little bit of damage we
have to replace the um that propellers
yeah yeah I didn't get any footage of
where we were but yeah amazing to have
found are incredible so luckily it
wasn't over water more drying footage
coming so yeah anyway we're gonna have
some breakfast and and get moving
okay so
excuse the bouncing
we thought we uh we better drag out the
old Stoops the sky soup
haven't done it for a while something
really had the winds for it but we have
the winds for today
and we just check here at
it's sort of blowing
hi twenties and thirties
see states a bit messy
we're actually travelling along
beautifully wind is from the South Bay
something we're doing about sort of six
seven five and a half six knots or
something
six and Sinan's six and seven
that's great so we put a new helmet on
our on the stools whoo and it's big ears
we are lost the witch to try the Helia
dog - so
you know you can still run out
all these last-minute preparation things
we need to do anyway I'll show you where
we are we're actually having a great
sale
rockin it
[Laughter]
anyway the hell is nicely balanced I
thought
we had a bit more you don't
they have enough ignore a glitter
that over there is where we came from
and it was flat as a pancake in there
it's doubly dishpan
and then out of the hits she's blowing
she blow they all when she blows
there would be a fun ride today
so much fun
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tell me what they like a bit bothersome
Randy Rhoads Tyson
well peggeleh società fly your
underpants off the prize lawn today
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down pretty good
oh yeah that's gonna get pretty well
on a couple of races ahead of it
I think you gonna kick me out there
fellas
Hey
he once he starts getting the 30 knots
he's really starting a driver
yes so she say that's dunking on and
then with sometimes today
yeah baby
on exact it'll break your cutlery
all those I wonder what's breakfast yeah
all you wanna with do is ate breakfast
and Maggie wanted to film nothing like
her there's nothing sacred on board