We're about to head off to Kekova again and this will be the first time of actual real
test of the engine since we removed the turbo.
We did run the engine for half an hour after we did the repair and it all seemed normal
but we've got a four hour run ahead of us so it'll be a proper test
Behind me is the hall of goodies I picked up in Marmaris yesterday so I'm just going
to run you through what I got and what I intend to do with it.
We'll start off with the boring bits.
One of the things we had to pick up was the 15 w40 engine oil when we were in Kekova and
we had the engine problem the only one we could get was the 20 w50 engine oil and while
that's okay this is the specified oil for our particular engine so we picked up four
litres of that.
And the things that go with engine oil are oil filters we picked up two of these simply
becauseI like to have spares on board.
Not really boat related but this is a black cartridge for our printer that we have on
board.
A printer on board is essential for printing out documents that may be related to check-in
check-out agents.
This is something I've been wanting to add to my tool kit for quite some time.
We do a lot of boat yoga when we're working on various bits of the boat and that of course
means that many of the things we're trying to look at are hidden out of sight or round
a corner so there's a large mirror and a small mirror here and they'll bend around corners
and also this is a telescopic arm with a magnetic tip so if you drop a nut or a bolt or a washer
into the bilge and it's just slightly out of reach this is the bad boy you're gonna
turn to.
And talking about dropping things into the bilge when Aydin and I were working on the
engine the other day he had a torch very similar to this and I was quite impressed with how
it attaches to parts of the engine.
There's magnets here and there's a magnet here and basically if you've got a couple
of big bolts on the engine block you just magnetize it, switch it on and point the light
where you need it.
This is a number five hex key or allen key and the reason why I purchased another one
of these, I do have a number five key, but it's a very small one it's only sort of like
that big and when I'm trying to change the hex nuts and bolts on the anodes underwater
it's very small and difficult to manoeuvre.
I always I'm in fear of dropping it and this I can grip quite nicely and get that job done
underwater changing the anodes and the great thing is as well it's got a little hole here
so that I can put a lanyard through it as well so if I do lose my grip it'll just hang
off my wrist.
This is four metres of floating line.
We're going to attach this to the front end of the dinghy because as we learned the other
day while we were in Kekova, Kevin ran over his non-floating line and got it wrapped around
his prop and I had to do a little bit of scuba diving to free it up so that will get attached
quite easily to the front of the dinghy.
I also purchased two brand new winch handle holders mainly because the two that we've
got they're starting to crack around the screw holes and they just look scruffy and horrible
and I like these because they're they're nice soft pliable plastic and they come supplied
with their own mounting screws.
These are Harken winch handle service kits.
The bit that goes wrong on the winch handle is this little plastic pin here.
That bit eventually breaks under the constant twisting of this mechanism and it happened
on both of our winches exactly in the same place so that is the weak link in this Harken
winch handle if you buy this kit it is the BK4517 kit service kit and it comes with all
the bits and pieces you need to service the whole winch handle.
I also bought a waterproof USB double socket for here in the cockpit area.
5 volt, 5 volt, 2.1 amps and that will allow us to charge phones and tablets.
This is a Harken cheek block.
I can't remember when it was but it was a long time ago uh somewhere on our second trip
across the Aegean Sea on a Greek island and I noticed that the plastic of the cheek block
had been sun damaged and it had broken and exposed the bearings inside.
So that's going to be a nice replacement.
It's exactly the same one that we took off so it will just slip into place nicely and
to make sure, we got this Sikaflex 295 UV and that will put here and here to make sure
that we've got a watertight seal.
And these little things are LED lights and these are the final pieces we need to replace
the incandescent bulbs that are still in place in various bits and pieces of the boat.
These LEDs are sitting on this mouse pad and I got this one with the gel pad built in because
where I sit at the saloon table it's just it's got a ridge like this and my wrist sits
on the ridge and it gets a bit sore so I can put that over the ridge and be cushioned.
Now the most expensive items that we bought were these two Sirocco fans.
These fans are probably the best on the market for use in a boat.
They can pivot in so many directions so for example this can do a complete tilt in that
direction, this bit here can tilt in that direction and this can tilt in that direction.
So wherever you want the air to blow you're pretty much going to be set with one of these
fans.
It also has three speeds so slow, medium and fast.
At slow you can definitely leave it on at night and it won't be keeping you awake.
I've had to listen to it it's very quiet.
And during the day even on the faster speed the airflow is great and the noise is not
at all disturbing.
The other thing about it it has a timer on it as well and when you press the timer these
LEDs here light up so you can have it on for three hours, six hours, nine hours or twelve
hours and then it will switch itself off.
So it looks like I've got my work cut out for me for the next couple of days, today
is Thursday we have Michel arriving on Saturday evening and then Sunday we're heading off
to Kekova weather permitting.
We are watching a weather system at the moment we'll see how that pans out, it may delay
us for a day but either way we're going sailing.
I'd better get to work eh?
We're about to head off to Kekova again and this will be the first time of actual real
test of the engine since we removed the turbo.
We did run the engine for half an hour after we did the repair and it all seemed normal
but we've got a four hour run ahead of us so it'll be a proper test.
We've also got a guest on board.
Michel is here and we'll introduce you to him a little bit later on once we're underway.
Looking forward to it?
I certainly am there's a slight breeze just picking up now so I think hopefully we'll
be able to sail.
Fingers crossed.
Yeah.
Yeah all right let's fire her up and see what happens.
Okay see you in Kekova!
Time of departure 11:40.
Thank you
We are just over halfway to Kekova and I've been monitoring the engine and I've gotta
say very pleased.
The engine temperature is up slightly to just around about 80 degrees and I think that's
because we've actually now completely enclosed the engine compartment so it's obviously a
little bit warmer in there.
There's a little tweak I'm going to do to the extractor fan, I'll talk more about that
when I do that job.
The exhaust is looking great um there's no no smoke coming out maybe a little titchy-witchy
bit of white smoke but that's to be expected so very pleased with all of that.
We're getting six point wow six point seven knots at 2050 revs and the engine is sounding
perfect so I think we've had a win.
That's great.
Now the other thing uh I've done here in the cockpit is I've installed a USB charger for
phones and tablets and things like that and I can't believe nobody's actually used it
yet.
Oh Baz, my phone is down to 92%, I need to charge it urgently.
I think you should.
Why don't you use this handy USB charger right here at the in the cockpit.
Oh that's new.
It's so exciting You stick it in - oh and it's working.
Tah-da!
Yay!
Thank you Baz you've saved my life!
We're just approaching the entrance to the inside of
Kekova and just ahead of us is a little tiny sailboat and quite a big deck saloon
sailboat with a nice head sail in this light wind it really wouldn't be any good for us
to put even our head sail out in this.
We're actually getting about eight knots of wind
at the moment and that's certainly not enough for us anyway we'll be inside Kekova in probably
about 10 minutes.
Here we are back in one of the bays at Kekova and I did say yesterday
that we had a guest on board so Im going to introduce you to our guest, well actually
our guest's going to introduce himself.
Hi my name is Michel, I come from originally from
Belgium but I live in Germany.
I'm an airline pilot flying for a famous cargo airline and
I'm I had the chance to meet Barry and Aannsha a year ago when I was in Kas and in fact
I was following them on YouTube because I had the intention of going sailing something
that I wanted to do for years but I always postponed it.
One day C was in Kas in Turkey
and had the chance to meet them, we had two nice wonderful evenings together and I said
oh it would be nice if I could come back on board with them.
Barry and Aannsha, they offered
this Patreon invitation scheme so I decided to list for it and here I am.
We were discussing
last night about doing some anchoring practice, are you still wanting to do that today?
Def-
fin-itely.
I really want to learn as much as I can because my intention is to be able
to chater boat after this and to later most probably have my own boat and so the more
I can pick up the more I can learn because going to school you learn a lot but still
a lot to be learned on the practical side.
Yeah well after we've had our breakfast
which is smelling great - oh yes - coming from down below
we'll up the anchor here, we'll go around into
the next bay and then we will do some anchoring practice.
Sounds like a plan to me.
Okay.
Very
good.
That looks like the breakfast of champions.
Yes don't tell my wife.
It was a very fun week
having Michel on board but there's more to come next week as we do a little bit of
anchor dropping and anchor raising practice and we explore a bit more of the area around
Kekova Roads in Turkey so join us then if you can and if you'd like a reminder of when
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wherever you are and whatever you're doing