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living on a yacht is often pictured as

hanging out on anchor and dreamy

destinations the reality of actively

cruising can be quite different and

you'll often find yourself figuring out

how to fix your boat in all sorts of

circumstances there's basic maintenance

such as sewing up your sails and then

there's the times when you're fixing

your boat on the fly this week with the

cyclone imminent the race was on to get

our anchor wench back in working order

before conditions deteriorated

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yes I will just take them back in front

all right

that's another great little adventure

over unfortunately

Hans always to be short

where the windows are just not long

enough anyway it's gonna blow 30 notes

tomorrow sigh we're heading to burn it

it's for a bit of cover and very

provision and get ready to do it all

over again

good morning so it's just around about

so 5:30 in the morning and we heading up

the river at Marburg

Dean coming toward the snake up here

beautiful little curls yeah that's

really lovely up

nice green trees along it and products

and there's quite a few people out

prepping this time with the cyclone

hanging off the coast and obvious signs

of damage from previous floods we were

pretty keen for a quick turnaround in

order to keep seryan and ourselves safe

its mysteriously quiet on board I wonder

what my honeys up to what you up to my

love pop you're up

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a little salary pit just got this little

bit of webbing wet and go around around

the clutter I thought it's not really a

big job yeah so I just yeah Silas pop

man

Silas comment and beside me pulling the

style off for a small job don't take me

from here just to stitch this up as

opposed to pulling the whole sale off

and setting up all Rexy and Colette

mucking around

good morning now for the last week or so

we've been tracking a cyclone that's

been moving up and up and around and

around and about calls big floods in

Townsville went off to Vanuatu and is

now heading back in our direction

so yeah we are moving off from the river

this morning what we're getting out of

the crowded Anchorage that we're in and

we're taking ourselves further down the

river to a place where hopefully there

will be less vessels and we're also

going to check out a creek that we might

be able to hide up so I'll just show you

how we figure all that out and why we

decide to make our moves come with me

okay so I think we've talked to you

about this before this is when dty

which is a program that you can have a

look at it covers wind rain snow

temperature currents all sorts of

information anywhere in the world and

we're currently looking at Australia

this is the east coast of Australia

this is Vanuatu and new Cal and this is

the current cyclone OMA that we've been

tracking for about a week or so she went

up to Townsville flooded Townsville came

out to new Cal gave it a visit and is

now heading in our direction we are

currently sitting about there and it's

at the moment we haven't really been

able to decide whether to run north or

south because the predictions have been

very difficult and they've been saying

it could either go north or south so we

haven't really known where to hook to

but because the full moon is gone and I

have a theory that cyclones won't cross

unless they're on a full moon with the

big tides we don't think this one is

actually going to cross but it is going

to sit off and cause us some strong

winds so we are going to move now how do

we decide where we're going to move to

we go to Google Maps and this is the

Bundaberg River and we are currently

sitting here which is pretty much near

the Bundaberg CBD which has been very

handy for us but we're going to move

we've had a look at all the different

creeks there's this little guy here

which would be an option apart from the

fact that it's got a bridge right there

so we don't want to hang out near a

bridge that wouldn't be very good for

our mast I did have a look at this one

Darren went down how to look at it

yesterday which does look over growing

with trees is a little little creek in

here it's got some decent dips in it but

we'd have to take our chain saw down

there that we don't have and knock away

a bunch of trees to get in there so we

have found this one which is further

down the river

away from all the boats which is great

and it's called Ruby anak Creek and

we're going to pop down there and have a

look so this is looking a good option it

looks like it's got a reasonable depth

here we're not sure about the depth here

but we'll get in the tender and sound it

out and yeah you've got mangroves here

to tie off to looks like it might be

about 40 meters wide and yeah it's

looking like it could be a good option

for us so we're going to go and check

that out

sure on this one we've sort of

fifty-fifty having austell maker and the

reason is because a lot of these trees

don't know that they seem to be broken

off and yeah broken off and it's quite

wide there's a long distance to travel

from one side of the boat over to a tree

that's broken off but I yeah we could

definitely do it we'd have to UM tire

lines together we'll see what the

weather's doing tomorrow morning see

what the wind shakes is it wind strength

has expected to be and see how how many

other boats turn up

will ponder it apparently we can get in

your iPod yeah we've got 25 meter

lengths cut off on our lines take all of

that to try out to tie over to a tree

which should be fine

or just ponder it so with the creep

thing a fail we decided to hit back

upriver to reprovision

so that we can make our run once cyclone

homers predicted path became more

obvious that is until the anchor winch

failed leaving us in the precarious

position of being stuck near the mouth

of a river open to a large swell that

was forming just offshore time was

running short and we were both feeling

the pressure of being exposed to the

wrath of the storm so having one of

those morning's this morning on board

unfortunately ah we were heading off

downriver

only problem is anchor winch has failed

its deed all together and Darrin's just

about to pull it apart and have a look

to see what the issue is

I kind of feeling a bit sort of a sort

of a bit worried that we might have to

that might be the end of it because this

is probably the third time we've

serviced it in about as many years and

it's the anchor winch that's been on the

boat since you know it's over 20 years

old even so we're sort of worried that

we might have an actually dead anchor

winch on our hands and that is a very

expensive replacement and I have to

admit I'm feeling a bit responsible for

it myself because not for the anchor

wench issues but you know because of my

health issues we're spending all a lot

of money on repairing my health which

means that we are not spending on

anything else as much as we have to so

all the essential items are being pushed

back and all of the maintenance items

items are being pushed back and we've

broken like there's a lot of stuff

that's been breaking and you know

MacDowell is very clever and he manages

to fix a lot of stuff by herself which

is great but yeah we've got broken

cameras that need replacing before we

take off offshore and we've got quite a

few boat parts that need replacing and

now possibly the anchor winch which is a

really costly spend and I'm sort of

feeling like if we weren't spending all

this money on my health and we would

have the money to go and get the parts

that we need so I'm feeling a bit

responsible this morning

this has been weighing on me for quite a

bit actually because you know it's I've

been a very expensive wife and the last

year or so operations and all sorts of

things going on to try and sort out my

health and yeah anyway can't dwell on

that too much we just have to keep

working hard and trying to keep our

income coming in trying to make income

so we can balance out that equation and

we are gonna sit to and bring the old

anchor which to pieces and see what's

going on

so yes the challenges of cruising anyway

um I know that make desert can make

better look it'll be something really

simple

in typical MacDowell style he began the

troubleshooting process trying to suss

out the cause of our words

turns out the brushes for the motor were

totally worn giving it no source of

power they needed replacing but we

didn't have a soldiering iron large

enough to take all the job so it was

back to the drawing board so just to get

us going I'll move the spring over just

a little bit and that'll that'll let it

push down on the brush and that will get

us out of trouble and I've got some new

brushes the only problem is I don't

think my solder mines big enough to de

cope with a job so but anyway this will

get us gallon for the minute which is

great news okay I'll just get you to

show everyone place what's going on so

that's where the brushes attached to he

sold it on to that bolt that runs

through the back of the motor and air

wish you even though we've got we've got

spare brushes I don't think my solenoids

quite big enough to cope with that if I

was in the middle of nowhere I'd

probably have a crack at it anyway but

because we're fairly close to

civilization oh I'll just be happy to

get the thing going on and

we'll we'll get a soul run on down the

road and we'll have another crack at it

a bigger solder iron bigger song okay so

of course you know it didn't end there

come on let's have a look what's he up

to what have you done my honey

yeah I'm just I'm just pondering a

couple of ideas whether I take this

that's where the brush has sold it on to

and maybe if I can take that out of

there and if I can on solder it with the

iron that I've got that means I can

solder the new brushes back in that's

sort of where I'm up to it's what I'm

thinking about doing so this is the

power wire to the brush and you can see

our Warren that brushes so I've worked

out that I can actually really solve

this just a little solver law and then

I've got so I'm going to stick a new one

on there and that should get us out of

trouble

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yeah Beauty what's happened

yes oh you know what happens when you're

halfway through a job and you're running

out of gas lucky because another gas

refill

oh my god another gas ready fell need to

get some more that stuff I'll hit this

for 20 years we sent the guy through

quite a bit later

oh yeah I just got enough heat into it

and just a bit of fluoride bit of solder

in there so it's running in their court

nice

that's pretty good yeah it's good

beautiful excellent good job my love

you're a champion that's fantastic yeah

cigarette water from the Alta beckon us

five bucks or a great thing safe they're

pretty little asses absolutely haven't

done much smacking lightly but it pretty

good for sale room Busch mechanics so if

you're wondering what to get your

husband for his next birthday give him a

set of Emery boards Darren's often

stealing mine who knew he was into

making things so beautiful true though

it's very handy for it to have a lots of

every on Emery boards or emery paper on

board in this case we've been using it

to clean up the armature I'll just show

you right beautiful that got brand new

I wonder whether I can get my

fingernails looking good this good point

I'm finished how could he give you a

manicure babe you're just gonna stop

biting your nails I don't know how they

can fix a little babies a lot okay so

we've got the winch back together again

and my pencil is just gonna do a bit of

a test to see if the brushes are good

and the solders are good here we go

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another saving my honey your craving at

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