We are happy to get back to sea after being weatherbound in Conwy, and we have a lovely sail across Conwy Bay. The only fly in the ointment is that funny sme...

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well these are the wonderful guys from

the RNLI pan-pan pan-pan

this is ceiling young saltiness salty

lass we are 100 metres sides of of our

sphere we are taking water aboard

we require immediate assistance

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after being weather bind in Conway we

were happy to make sail toward the Menai

Strait weather was pleasant and we were

enjoying our freedom of being at sea

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well why don't we see you again and

we're going across Conway beytagh puffin

island so we go down into the men I

stripped and it's a lovely evening as

you can see the solar panels are doing

their thing up there they seem happy

enough annie is steering the boat and

over behind us we have the Great Orme

and it looks absolutely stunning in the

sunset game is downstairs making a cup

of tea lovely and well do then just

enjoy the evening we were approaching an

area of drying sands on a falling tide

with the wind on our nose so we went

over to engine and drop the sails

after passing the sandbanks we continued

under motor as the channel was quite

narrow and the wind was dead ahead we

were passing into an area that required

some caution we had Sun banks support

and a large on let me ring field

starboard it was completely dark and we

could see the red boys so we stepped

close to them because we could not see

any of the bearings or the boats

attacked I went below to get torches and

realized I was breathing fumes got it

into the ancient space slammed it shut

and ran up the stairs and grabbed the

radio yeah so that's just having a look

at it and yes that colleague had ghost

are these for us oh so as you can see

you can dispense just a little bit fuzzy

oh I don't know if you can see this but

our build pump is hot working again as

you can see here's the water in the

engine and we've also got smoke it's not

very much safe well we have got smoke

and what's not Beverly it appears to be

the exhaust alpha ah we were just saying

to each other but we need to get

somebody to come and look at our exhaust

elbow down here and Oh golly

basically we've got something wrong from

the exhaust elbow yeah mishaps you name

it everything happens on salty laughs it

wasn't that it's not overly hot it must

have been something out there mixing

that good going but basically I don't if

you can see it's got like you can you

can feel you can see in the camera it's

got a slight smoke because the engine is

basically too warm

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and that's actually for us yes they are

in a lie and all our bow again oh no

yeah and water is going die yeah I'm

just adding some more light I don't

think do you need any more light down

there are you okay right he's okay but

it's just having a look at our exact

style okay so this is the exhaust elbow

and we have been looking at thinking of

getting a place but we just didn't huh

anyway I'm gonna make sure that the C

is closed that way no more water is

coming into the boat and so I've felt as

much as I can with the manual with the

automatic I'm now going to do the manual

okay and we've just identified another

problem in that as you can see here the

air filter but I suspect what was

happening there was just people were

coming in they were just put in the

hands various places and rather than

being cautious in round up a piece of

equipment no we're not complaining

because we're safe we're on a mooring

but we've got that to fix and we've also

got the elbow to fix and apparently

Beverly's got another problem so let's

go find out what about it okay so what

seal the problem Beverly the manual

bilge pump which isn't steering the boat

just the engine suspect the rubber what

I've been pumping it out through the

rubber diaphragm I think it's okay so

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just start it to the way we just escaped

from Conway

under more Beverly's up on deck I'm now

because we've got the water below the

level that the bilge pump can deal with

so now I am on the sponge and bucket

stage well this swing good and bad being

constantly in trouble Oh

basically when Beverly because I was on

the helm when Beverly told me that we

had engine trouble and we had a leak in

the engine immediately I turned round I

said we've were right next to a mooring

field let's get on a mooring just get me

to a mooring so you know so Beverly was

looking for moorings but although this

is not good you know so we've gone

through this but we just knew what we

were doing you know what was what was

gonna work where we were going what was

gonna happen and okay fair enough you

know we're on a mooring we're in

beaumaris we haven't got the name of an

engineer that we hopefully can sort it

all out we've got two issues that we've

found like the air filter is rapid and

that's going that's just doing your

change I say lovely oh but honest to

goodness it's just crazy adventures oh

yeah that's all right

well we've got you cake lag at the

moment on this moring basically just

low-level cloud but even within the

low-level cloud we're still bringing in

between 40 and 60 watts of power and

it's a good thing we are bringing in

power because we fitted them the solar

panels yesterday and now we're having to

use them in anger because rather more

the situation that we got in last night

so we really are using the solar panels

in anger it's gonna be a real life test

doesn't it bad but it is

okey dokey so what last night it was

pretty black anyway it was pretty black

but I was on the helm and Beverly before

the incident even happened

Beverly knew that there was something

not right with the engine she could

smell a smell and we'd already I said to

her Beverly I said well we can always go

into beaumaris but she said no we'll go

on we'll go to The Moorings that we want

to go to so I was going down the channel

but then Beverly said no you know

there's water coming out here so I did

no more than do and I went back to very

Maris but I'll just show you just how

far you have to go back this is us going

down the track we've just gone past

beaumaris I just turned round and then I

headed towards the mooring bore mooring

field because the Newell's here and you

know as soon as we identified a mooring

we just got on to it

yeah and we're actually in the channel

here just on the edge of it and as you

can see just if you look to the north

there again of the small craft Marines

marked yeah there's a small craft but

that's because they're dried but these

are the larger craft mooring

and as you can see we're currently in

thirteen point two meters of debt and

with a 6 meter tied around here so that

means what we're down to 7 go down to 7

so we'll be fine on that and this is all

rather nice Laurie field yeah but you

can see there's the red marker and the

channel that is about 200 meters away

your channel runs just off the stern of

the boat and you can see that the

mirroring field starts just there just

runs all the way around and we had to

dodge all these bolts here in the dark

coming into the mirroring field but we

did it yeah my biggest problem was I had

to keep very close to the Reds during

the night passage because I knew there

was a mooring field on the left-hand

side but not a single one had got the

light on so I had no idea where the

boats were Beverly was out with a torch

just identifying boats to me so that I

kept just over to the Reds that's all I

did

okay so on our checklist we have some of

the things we have are make sure that

the gas is turned off

another one is check through holes and

we always close through holes and

another item on the checklist is check

mooring lines now obviously when we're

in a pontoon we check those but today

we're on a mooring so let's do check

their mooring lines I would submit I did

go a bit crazy with them last night

because we were tired and a bit

shell-shocked and then I've got a nylon

snubber line and a polyester line as a

backup so we've got two backups but the

chain that we have is actually quite

loose there's no tension on it because

as you can see down there I have a

rolling hitch on the chin and on this

side I have a stainless steel shackle on

the chin with a nylon line on it to give

some stretch when we were last here at

beaumaris one of our followers said you

shouldn't be on that mooring because

it's got stainless steel chain we're

glad to say that this one doesn't so the

only thing we're going to do is put a

Fender dying just to protect the anchor

in the front of the boat

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