Well that was an interesting little dive I've just put on my scuba gear
and dived underneath A B Sea here in the marina at Kas. The bow thruster anode
the keel anode and the prop anode are all looking as
they were last time I dived which was in Greece
The prop anode is still
Today is the day that we released episode number 133
which is the one that talks about the fizzing prop shaft anode
Since we've arrived in Turkey we've had several of the best minds in the marina
thinking about it and offering us suggestions and one of the things that
could alleviate the issue is to reattach the grounding wire that
runs from the engine body back through the fibreglass
and towards the p-bracket. A lot of people have also suggested that there's a
grounding plate on the hull Well we went all over the hull while we
were on the hard and there's certainly no sign of any grounding plate as such
it could be that the p-bracket is the grounding plate. Either way
that earthing strap from the engine body
back towards the p-bracket has never been attached since we bought the boat
in fact it was neatly tucked away somewhere and wrapped up
with the cable tie by the previous owners
so I'm just I'm just going to reattach it anyway so I'll show you what I've got
to do that job. This is the part of the strap that
attaches to the body of the engine and I'm not sure if you can see but it
is highly corroded and the reason for that was because the
expansion tank of the cooling system overflowed quite a lot
because of the position it was originally in
I've since moved it and it's just corroded through this so
what I'm going to do is get this wire, attach it to
here and then undo the zip tie that is holding the rest of this
neatly packaged away and reattach the other end of this into here
and that will reattach that connection Will it make a difference?
we don't know but it's a connection that should be made
so we're going to do it. And there is the other end of the earthing strap
all nicely tied up with a zip tie, we'll clean off the grubby
corroded end and get that connection remade. On the engine
it actually goes on that bolt there
And there is the new earthing strap
connection to the engine block we're not sure whether that is going to
fix or solve the problem but at least it is another step in the
right direction of something that should have been done properly
in the first place. One bite at a time
Well that was an interesting little dive
I've just done my scuba gear and dived underneath
A B Sea here in the marina at Kas and the good news is that the prop anode
is still attached to the prop it's still very much intact, in fact
there's probably just a little bit of deterioration you would expect for an
anode that's been underwater attached to the
boat for that long, all of the other anodes the
bow thruster anode, the keel anode and the prop anode are all looking
as they were last time I dived which was in Greece. I then of course
took the half remnant of the anode that was fizzing down
and touched that against the bare stainless steel of the prop shaft
and it didn't fizz. That then doesn't necessarily
mean that the problem is solved. Of course we have
reattached an earthing strap to the engine
itself which then runs back through the boat and attaches to the
p-bracket so have we simply diverted the issue
from running through the prop shaft and now it's running through the earthing
strap to the p-bracket? I don't know. The only way I can
test that is that next time we're out at anchor or maybe even again here in
the marina I can disconnect that earthing strap, take
this down touch it against the prop shaft and see
if it fizzes If it doesn't fizz at that point then
whatever fiddling around I've done disconnecting all the batteries and all
the cables and connections and retrying everything one one one at a
time then somehow I've miraculously fixed it
and still don't know what the initial problem was, so
it's kind of solved but in the back of my mind
I'd like a more solid conclusion but we'll see how we go on
I'm feeling a lot more confident now that I've dived on the
prop shaft and saw that the anode is very much intact
We've been hearing from friends and family about rising tensions between
Greece and Turkey over gas exploration around the island of
Meis. It is a Greek island but it's very very close to the Turkish coast
and really from our perspective here on the ground
it just looks like a lot of sabre rattling. We have heard and seen a lot of
different types of helicopters flying pretty low across the marina area
and then out across towards the Greek island of Meis
The reality is that nothing's really changed here, life goes on as normal and
apart from the annoying noise from the helicopters
you wouldn't know there was anything different
This meeting is convened courtesy of Henrik Thystrup, thank you Henrik
and welcome back to our patron family. Tes thank you it's good to have you back
aboard This little restaurant in the marina is
fairly new, it's called Alp's Wine House and I've been told that the fish chips
they do here is extremely good and while we were in
Greece over winter I had this hankering for fish and chips
so giving that a try on the menu tonight and Aannsha's having - I'm having steak
so that's pretty good and we've got a nice
bottle of white wine to wash it all down and
also one of the reasons why we're here tonight is because we're just going to
sit down and have a chat about what our
next move is now that we're in the marina
we've signed the contract, we've got pretty much all of the big
jobs sorted, there's just a few little cosmetic things to do now
so we're gonna decide what we're gonna do, yeah where we're gonna go
how long we're gonna go away for Yeah
and of course with this marina contract we do get the choice of going to the
nine other Setur marinas in the group up and
down the coast here as well as anchoring in one of the many
many beautiful bays up and down the coast yeah so that's
that's the plan for our discussion over this dinner
yes so [Aannsha chinks the knife against the plate]
Here is my fishy chippies, looks really scrummy
and that is delicious steak with veggies and no chippies,
and rocquefort sauce
that sounds special It certainly does yummo
They were very good because I didn't want... I did want chips but I asked for no
chips and extra veggies and they they did, it's really nice
Enjoy Baz
My empty plate probably tells you how good the fish and chips was
the fish batter was just so crispy it was just
beautiful and the white fish was firm and fleshy, a really really good
fish and chips highly recommend that I didn't like mine at all as you can
tell! It was delicious the steak was perfectly
cooked the rocquefort cheese sauce was
just right and the veggies were really well cooked
it was just the right amount and I enjoyed it with a very nice glass
of red wine. So Henrik, Ithink we can call that a successful
meeting of the admiral and the captain thank you very much
Thank you indeed. And we have made some decisions about our next move
we're actually going to scope out a couple of anchorages
further south and east of here and that will tie in with us bringing on
board crew from our patrons
and we'll give you more details about patrons
being crew on board A B Sea a little bit later once we've ironed out all the
details of that Yeah but it's going to be a new tier
absolutely, so look out for this peeps
meanwhile time to sit back and just relax and
take in the atmosphere
cheers cheers
There's a clash of music from one place to the other. I know what do you do? Dunno
Um it was very good actually it was less than 400 lira
80 aussie dollars, 80 bucks It's very good. Wow
Following on from our battery charging situation
while on shore power the temporary solution that we put in place
to charge the bow thruster battery in the forward locker is just that
it's temporary so I had a chat with Mike Jones here at
Kas marina and after a bit of thinking his
suggestion makes absolute sense, it is the most cost effective
and also considering the location of the battery
the most easily monitored. So what we've bought is the Victron 15 amp battery
charger that runs from the shore power so I'm
going to show you what the unit looks like
and explain to you how we're going to put that in situ in the forward locker
and run the 220 sure power cables to it This is the unit a blue smart charger
the ip65 from Victron Energy and I'll just unwrap
this so you can have a look at the very compact size and also the
cabling that we're going to use as well we get our instructions that I'm
actually going to read because when I'm doing anything that involves electricity
whether it's 220 volts or 12 volts I'm always going to read the
instructions on a boat. This is how it comes in the package and
quite a simple setup once we run the 220 cabling
to the forward locker we can just put a plug on the end a standard European plug
and plug this unit in to the 220. Once this unit is installed into the locker
we really won't have easy visual access to be able to
read what all the various led lights are telling us
the good thing about this one and one of the main reasons we chose this one is
because it also has bluetooth so it will send the information that
it's doing here to an app on your phone via
bluetooth so it can be monitored from anywhere on the boat
As this unit can also be used by people just charging their
car battery in the garage it comes with two types of
connection to the battery and both of them connect to the
output on the unit simply by clicking into place and this little plastic piece
locks it into place this one of course has a positive and negative crocodile
clip on the end but for a more permanent
solution
we will be of course connecting this and connecting the positive and negative
to the battery terminals. It's been another one of those hot and sweaty days
dashing between the inside of the boat and the forward locker here where the
bow thruster battery resides We have got the 12 volt 15 amp battery
charger now installed and we did have a bit of a
lucky break there's a bit of string here and I didn't know what it was for so
I had a closer look and it turns out that that string is a
mousing line that runs through a piece of conduit
that goes all the way back behind the saloon seats so
we attached another piece of masking line to the massive line
attached the 220 volts 3 core cable to it
and then pulled it all the way back to the saloon so that was
a really really helpful thing because uh threading that cable through the boat
without that would have been nigh on impossible
and another bonus was I had enough of the 3 core 220
cable to run it right back to the AC panel
where I could connect it to the circuit breaker
for the battery charger that's in the saloon
so that's worked out really well, I'm quite happy to have
this battery charger connected to the circuit breaker
so should anything go wrong then we've got a circuit breaker which
should trip if it's uh if it's bad enough. So now all that remains to be
done is to put the boat back together and
then go for a shower and then have a bee. It's another job
ticked off the list feels really good
We've got some new Patreon rewards tiers haven't we Baz
we certainly have um now that we're here in
Kas marina in Turkey and we've signed the 12-month contract we've got access
to all the other Setur marinas the sailing season here in Turkey is
really long a lot longer than the rest of the Mediterranean
so we've organized some new patron tiers and those tiers if you sign up to those
tiers you can have the opportunity to
come and experience what life is like on board A B Sea
now for those of you who are considering this lifestyle
uh it would be an invaluable experience to
really see what goes on on a day-to-day basis of not just
living on the boat but keeping the boat doing what it's meant to do and that's
sailing. So you can learn all that if you like and
we'll be happy to answer any questions you've got
all day long if you just want to come and you know
see what we do and you just want to sit back and relax that's fine too because
as you know we we can single-handedly, well
double-handedly sail this boat so um the choice is yours in how much you want
to get involved really yeah I think, I think one of the nice things
is it's an opportunity um for these three higher Patreon tiers
to actually be able to come and really spend
time with us, full access with us, in you know and as Baz
you can just relax and chill with us or you can
um spend more time actually learning about the whole sailing life depending
on depending on what you want - yeah - so you
can learn the lines if you like! Yeah and you know we've been wanting to
give more rewards to people who support us through Patreon
and uh we figure this is this is a really nice sort of extra
thing that we can do yeah um so you want. So the Patreon uh
address is on the screen right now Go there
check it out, check out the top three tiers I think it i? Yeah well it's the
top but you have to scroll all the way down They're at the bottom of the list
but they are the top three tiers. Yeah Yeah it's a bit weird so yeah check
them out if you have any questions of course you
can get in touch with us via email or messenger or website
or anything like that, we'll quite happily answer any questions you might
have So we're looking forward to seeing you
on board A B Sea Yeah!