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the appearing one of those days

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this week we're enjoying more fine

sailing through the whitsundays when a

series of unfortunate events occur

okay that's pretty good

it's not porn big enough and wishes

I'm telling the joke

well I lost my cheerful face

we had a mini disaster occur just

previously when the my phone flew from

its bag in the top of it at the top of

the mast into the water the ocean blue

well we were trying to get decent enough

reception and internet to try and upload

this week's video anyway my clever

husband flew into the water like a

leaping lizard and miraculously after a

couple of dives managed to retrieve the

phone I put it in a bag and a bag and a

bag

and luckily the bag stopped it from

floating directly to the bottom like a

brick however it's now in pieces trying

to survive after having an open-heart

surgery and we should update you on

progress I guess you'll find out if this

video ever arrives

that's looks like two cameras gonna find

that the emissions and that just a white

now well I still like it

not to worry anyway we've got some wing

so good so it

rather my love tell our good friends

what's been going on this morning yeah

not such a good morning this morning

we've just done some engine chicks and

we're a little friendly dipstick here

and you can see it doesn't really look

like oil anymore you can see it's way

over full you know there's the it's the

full mark down there and that's where

the level is currently and because of

the nice gray colors it's telling us

there's quite a few litres of water in

there yeah so not a happy camper this

morning

we've got oh I've got a bit of terrible

will not say good weather coming in and

we need to be probably somewhere else

and you know got this little issue to

deal with so anyway we'll just have to

go through the processes and find it

where it's coming in

so that's a bit of a bummer we were

gonna move off to a safer Anchorage this

morning because there's a bit of bad

weather coming in and it's going to get

fairly uncomfortable here anyway we'll

have to hop to it we they have luckily

got about 20 litres of oil on board we

always carry as much as we can so we're

going to drain all the oil out and flush

it a few times and that'll be phase one

and at least we'll be able to get away

to a safer Anchorage and then yeah then

we'll have to do some thorough

investigation anyway we just skip

hustling yeah it may not be Major Tom

stuff anyway I've just dropped the

exhaust off the back of the elbow this

is where the where all the exhaust gas

is mixed with the water and you can see

the water surging up the pod and it's

obviously surging up high enough that

it's dropping it over the elbow and into

a an open valve or whichever valves open

it'll um it'll squeeze water down past

into the into the oil at the moment

we're just going through the long

laborious process of taking the oil out

of the engine you can see that the

watery oil on the end of this lever

I'm just gonna drop the oil filter off

I'm drying that out the best we can and

then we'll stick it back on its clever

little things just a oil filter strap

fits any size you virtually just put it

over the top of your filter and you want

it up like that

you can stick a shifter on there or a

spanner or even a half inch socket so

it's quite for this at all and that just

grips the filter and you keep warning

warning up the more pressure you apply

the more grip it's got yeah really good

little thing sad all right Nigel

cancerous to this engine so as you can

see that's not very good

it looks like a moldy old coffee down

there

and it should be nice clean oil so we

are gonna just I don't know if you heard

that or not but we're just going to put

it be that filter out then put it back

on because we're going to put some new

oil in the engine and then that'll allow

us to steam off to a safer Anchorage and

get out of this weather which is getting

nastier by the hour that's okay and then

yeah that process will get repeated

three or four times of draining the

engine of oil and refilling it up with

fresh oil so then Darren we'll have a

look at the non-return valve and see

what the issue is and whether we can fix

it or need a replacement but yeah first

priority is to get some nice clean oil

in there and get off to our next safer

Anchorage so with fresh oil in the

engine we could now move off to a safer

Anchorage

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it was all pretty good we started up the

old breath you don't cuz she went the

first time which is good we're now on

our way to a more peaceful Anchorage

which was better moving a lovely style

actually it's probably about 20 knots

behind us so they're pulling about seven

are they just glad lovely radio ma honey

what is that now this is their little

culprit that's giving us the problem

let's say a normally turn valve to the

exhaust this little boy

yeah there's come adrift I've actually

got a little bit of brass rod in the the

workshop of amazing the treasure chest

after cutting a replacement rod Darren

fits the flat back in place solving our

flooding issue that's how it works you

can see that little little flat B okay

so we are on day two of the save Syrians

engines s and yeah so it could end up

being a big problem for us if we had let

this go any longer

luckily Darren's pretty on to it and

pretty much every time we start the

engine from having being sitting for a

few days he checks the oil so this

problem has it with the water and the

oil hasn't been going on for very long

and so we've we're pretty hopeful that

we can clear it up with quite a few oil

changes and some fixes because yeah let

go a long time or if the boat sets for a

long time it can actually mean the death

of your engine so one to pay attention

off but we'll just see what Darren's

been up to and he'll show you what he's

been finding

radio hey mister what's been going on oh

yeah I'm at it again yeah anyway I've

got the what this it's pretty much what

I expected this is the rocket cover it's

probably a bit hard to pick up on camera

but that's sort of milky oil oily water

and you can see all the all the beads of

water in here yeah so if let go this

will spell death for your engine

definitely death so we're lucky enough

we've caught up pretty early I'm pretty

confident that we're onto a good thing

after cleaning up the salty residue we

refill the oil which now appears quite

clean

so Darren's just putting some degrees

are in there

he's worked at all clean and just trying

to get the last of any residue salts out

as you can say it's a bit of a stormy

day

luckily we got to our protected

anchorage before a way that kicked in

but as Murphy would have it that wasn't

the end of our troubles we appear to be

having one of those days that's the sea

strainer which just seems to be pouring

the sea water Oh Lord Lord

anyway it's broken it's got a crack in

it it's less than a year old mmm

meanwhile things were going from bad to

worse outside

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cyclone Owen had formed above us so with

the weather deteriorating and the engine

now going we could find me seek the

shelter of trammel bay it seemed unreal

though we were back in the same place

that we had hidden from dreadful cyclone

Debby a few years ago ok so we are just

going into

a little sneaky spot for the cycloid

we've got about 1.2 under the keel right

now so we're just trying to stay on

apart

where we don't touch the bottom you

could feed on my time we're a little bit

late we better time to come in is about

an hour before high tide so that if you

do hit bottom you've got a little bit of

water to lift you up but we are a little

bit late see how we go anyway I'm just

getting the lines really what I do is I

do four points of either side of the

stern and then up at the barre and I

just drape the lines over there Tyrael

over the lifeline so that I can easily

pass them down to Darren

coming through the entrance keep to the

middle of the bay until you round a

white marker to starboard looking back

you can line up the top end of Long

Island with Syd Island on your chart to

see the required bearing over the

shallow entrance yes so as you come in

here you stay on the right side of

little patch of mangroves ahead

you should then stay centered as you

traveled the Creek had time to dress for

the manga we had found a good spot so I

lowered the tinder so that Darren could

tie us off to the surrounding mangroves

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once he's fine is secured I tighten up

on them to position serían to the center

of the creek you know I might be around

on the wheel trying to keep serene in

position and the creeks going to try and

a little bit but it's gonna take quite a

while a futile a few little marks around

but I'm just kidding the revolution side

Darrin can get in there nicely tied off

stall the subs come in which instead of

a pendulum up anyone needs a date

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