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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

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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