It is the 29th of October and that means one thing in Turkey, it means Republic Day
And today because A B Sea is grounded I'm going out with Jim and Suzzie
on Acheron along with a whole heap of other boats. Join me
Unfortunately Aannsha's not coming with us today because she has a couple of commitments that she
absolutely cannot miss so she's gonna stay home and look after A B Sea. You're gutted aren't you?
Yeah I can see that
So no words
Republic Day in Turkey is all about celebrating the creation of the Republic of Turkey and the
man who was responsible for that is of course Kamal Ataturk uh a very forward-thinking guy
much much revered in Turkey and rightly so and today all of these boats are flying the
the Turkish flag and some will have flags with uh Ataturk's face on it and we're just heading
out of the marina area, we'll head around the peninsula here and we'll go to cache
and play around in the in the bay just off of Kaş harbour then they'll go around the five islands
and then we'll all come back. But the big celebration happens tonight in Kaş town and that
is going to be something that you're really going to enjoy. So how many boats in this flotilla today
Jim? Uh, 58 I believe including us yeah so I don't think I've ever been in such a large
uh congregation - a large congregation - I know is it a flock of boats? It's a flock yeah, a school
yeah a flotilla... I think it's a fleet actually, it's bigger than a flotilla
Just a tad after midday and here we are back on the pontoo. We thought we might get a little
bit wet with the weather coming in but we got lucky and it missed us and the sun's come
out to play now. Now we move on to the nighttime entertainment. Well looks like covid is actually
taking its toll uh here we are now in Kaş town it's uh around about quarter to seven at night
and there are, there's a lot of police presence around... They're just making sure people have got masks on
Masks on, yeah maybe um but certainly that I don't think there's going to be a parade down the street
like there was last time when we're here so yeah we're going to go to Smiley's for dinner
and see what happens
Hey we got rained on! Yeah just as they served us our main course
uh the heavens opened and uh I mean big fat yeah big blobs, blobs of rain
so we all rushed inside here and uh brought our dinner with us so what we're going
to do is we're going to uh finish eating our mains for those who are still eating
we're going to pay the bill and then we're going to go into the main square of the town
where there is definitely lots of live music happening and we're going to see how it goes
All right we have uh come away from the main square now and I think we're getting to the
point where us uh more mature people are starting to feel a little bit tired
Speak yourself. Uh we're going to a very traditional sort of uh small
establishment run by a guy called Sadik and uh we're just gonna have a
few drinks there before we head back to the marina so yeah. Looking forward to that! Yeah
Nisilsiniz? Iyi. Iyiyim. You don't want a soda? Rose? Glass of Rose wine? Yo
Oh what a brilliant night my darling wasn't it? Well it was um
not as impressive as the first time we were here... But ...but still good still very very good
and for me one of the reasons why it was so good was that we were with a fabulous group of people
yeah and it was really lovely to connect with them yeah and Suzzie and I - my new best friend
we ... Because she dances with you?... she dances ... she's my new dancing partner so we were like
Woot woot woot
So it was really good. Yeah. All in all uh a great Turkey Republic Day
um yeah - yeah - great yeah now it's time to go back to the boat and lie down - sleep!
Good night. Good night
Tuesday morning, I've got my old work t-shirt on and that can mean only one thing,
we're about to explodify the boat inside with tools and bits and we're going to take
the intake manifold, the exhaust manifold, and the cylinder head
off the engine to inspect for metal fragments. So first things first I have to remove a few doors
and a few panels, that'll give us full access to the engine and then Kev and I can begin what is
possibly going to be quite a long task
Once again we've got full access to the engine and once again this section
here all has to be removed from the engine and dismantled.
The turbo needs to go away for fixing
But before we can do anything we've got to drain the fresh water out of the system
This is the air intake manifold that's got to come off and on the other side over there is
the exhaust manifold that has to come off and this here is the cylinder head that has to come
off. With all the coolant now drained out our next step is to remove the air intake turbo and exhaust
system off the back end. This will be the third time this system has been removed from the engine
so we're getting pretty good at this now and um then that means we can get the turbo off to Aydin
straight away and he can do what he needs to do to organize getting that repaired or replaced so
grab a spanner and dig in.
Once again exhaust, turbo and air intake is detached from the engine
and we're gonna get this back up to uh Aydin's workplace and we're gonna get
him to get started on the process of getting the turbo replaced or rebuilt somehow
Okay Kev what's the next step here?
Right what we need to do now is to disconnect the inlet side by the uh fuel pipes on both ends
There's four one two three four and this this lot down here? They come from the pump, we just disconnect those
Right. Then the inlet manifold bolts so there's that bolt there yeah obviously this fuel filter assembly bolts
there we'll just take separate okay. So that's the next big step, that's going to take some time isn't it?
Yep. So while you're doing that because really it's only a one-man job because it's such a confined space
I'm going to walk the parts that we've taken off up to Aydin and get him started
on sorting out the turbo situation. The intake manifold is pretty much ready to take off but
what Kev's found here is this I believe is a uh
un unspent fuel feedback line and when it gets to here it's just been so brittle from
the engine heat that when Kev took the clip off uh it literally just snapped. As usual on a boat one
job leads to another but that is a fuel line and uh of course engines get very hot so that's kind
of good that we've found that, that's averted a major problem. So the last bolt being loosened off
Oh yeah it's getting stuck on that pipe that you've disconnected there you go
This is the inlet manifold, the air gets pushed in through here and then one two three four cylinders
get fed. Now as you can see even inside there we've still got some residual oil deposits so
we're gonna have to clean those out. Just looking where it came off the engine again you can see
oily deposits which again we're going to clean up, that's the gasket that needs replacing
and
difficult to get an angle here for the camera and the light but yeah bit uh
looks a bit carbony deep inside and that one of the four of them looks a bit oily but anyway we're
going to get a closer look at inside so that's kind of step two of about four or five. Getting
this engine sorted out is turning into something bigger than Ben Hur and I'm very grateful to have
Kev helping me out and showing me what needs to be done. I certainly wouldn't be tackling this
job on my own that's for sure.
Just before we finish this video I'd like to welcome on board our latest patron
that is Clive Willis, welcome aboard Clive and thanks for joining our Patreon family.
Next week on Sailing A B Sea we go further into the engine strip down
and we also go into more details about what we need to do
to get everything fixed once and for all
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if you enjoyed this video. Have a great week