Did I mention that the marina we're staying at is directly underneath the
flight path for San Javier Airport and the San Javier also is the home to
Spain's air force aerobatics team> Well today San Javier airport is closed
because the team and some of their friends from France and Italy are
out playing.
So that was it it's three o'clock, it's time to go home now. We've seen all the
planes flying upside down, backwards, forwards, looping the loop and going...
smokey. Smokey. That's the word for today smokey. Yeah
So back to the boat. Time for a cold beer and... Instead of a warm one? Instead of a warm one yeah. I think
I might change shower actually. Get the sand off. Sounds like a plan.
Once again the courier has dropped off some parcels for us. I know that one of
them is from the dive shop in Murcia. We ordered some stuff online from them and
that's arrived. This one here is from the UK and I'm believing that this one has
actually got most of our courtesy flags in here. So we're just going to open it
up and see exactly what's in there because I've done so many online orders
now I'm getting confused as to which one I actually ordered and which one I'd
like to order and which one's been delivered in which one hasn't. So let's
open it up and find out what's in there eh? So this one is definitely from the UK
Courtesy flags. We've got to fly these whenever we enter the territorial waters
of a any given country and for us obviously being around the Mediterranean
that means Cyprus and Malta and France and Italy and Greece and all those sort
of things. Spain of course. We've even got a dive flag included in this package
as well because obviously that's one of the main things we're going to be doing
onboard is scuba diving. When we eventually get the ship's name
registered from Corajero to A B Sea and we're registered in the UK then we'll be
flying the British Red Ensign flag off the back end of the boat. So that's our
flags. Also very important, as we found out when I did this, is having one of
these things onboard is vitally important. This gives us a lot of the
basic materials and then we'll add to it as we go through this box and decide
what else we're going to need it in our first-aid kit.
Safety on board for us as just a short-handed two-person crew is vital
and one of the things that is quite important are these jack lines or jack
stays as they're sometimes also called. Now these things run along the side
decks of the boat and they go from the cockpit area right forward to the bow
and once we actually are sailing and we are wearing our life vests with our
harnesses on, whenever we exit the cockpit
we will always hook ourselves onto these jack lines and that way
fingers crossed we shouldn't go overboard if
the boat lurches around or something like that. So we've got two of these. One for each side
of the boat. This little tiny thing is a flashing strobe light and this will
mainly be used for when we go on night dives. We'll take the dinghy out, drop the
anchor and attach this to the anchor line as a flashing strobe and that way
we'll always be able to find exactly where we parked the dinghy.
That's important if we want to come home after the night dive! So that's a cute
little thing. Another handy thing that we need on board are these plastic tank
boots. We've got our scuba tanks out here at the moment. They normally live in the
locker down there but there's stuff going on that's getting fixed there. So
these are to protect the boat, not to protect the tanks. So we've got four
of those. Another thing that we're planning on doing is catching our own
dinner; in particular reef fish and cray fish or lobsters and so we bought
this spearfishing gun.
It's a Mares spearfishing gun. It's the PS55 if anybody's interested
in numbers and this basically is just going to be used for catching some
dinner, if we can.
Now the rain is coming down
we might actually film that a little bit later on
otherwise everything including the cameras are going to get wet that's not
a good idea.
I'm not sure if I mentioned this but a couple of weeks ago when Fernando was
doing something with the engine the engine starter battery exploded,
literally exploded! So that's been replaced. These are our Varta 12-volt 95
amp hour batteries sealed units so no maintenance and of course once we've got
them in we'll write the date on them that they were installed so we can
remember that easily in the future. Just for good measure because the three house
batteries are also of the same brand, the same model and the same date, we're
replacing all three house batteries at the same time so we just had the new
ones delivered they're going to get fitted in underneath the bunk down below.
Our boat's going to have the cherry picker treatment this morning. Hehe, it's a bit
exciting! So we're going from here, our berth, to just over there. So I'm gonna go and
walk around.
Monday morning and Jose is back at the helm but we're not going
very far. In fact we're only going from there
to there. Because that cherry picker that's over there is going to be used
to install a light up our mast.
Okay and the next adventure is we've got our tender and our new outboard
installed on the tender. Baz is just putting the paddles - the oars - on and we're going
to take her out for test drive. Excited Baz? It's going to be a lot of fun! Yay!
Next week on Sailing A B Sea we get down and dirty with a toilet repair plus we get
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