The first sign that winter is upon us is waking up in the morning to condensation
on the inside of the ports and hatches. The second sign that winter is upon us
is waking up in the morning and putting your slippers on. The final sign and confirmation
that winter has arrived is the emergence from hibernation of the great Australian brown bear
You might wonder from that intro if I'm still in the middle of winter and the answer is yes, this is
Kaş marina in Turkey and it's still winter but this is one of those fabulous winter's days
that we get here in Turkey. Night times are still a little bit cold and you do still get condensation
on the inside of the hatches but that's just a thing you've got to learn to live with
but you make the most of days like this. Now I'm about to take you on board A B Sea and show you a
little bit of something that we learned after uh the week but last's video when we had the smoking
wire from the starter motor and um I'd just like to say to our newest patron and that is SV Second
Wind welcome aboard and you also might find this very interesting in fact I think anyone who owns a
boat would find this interesting and it's probably something you need to learn about your boat just
in case you ever find yourself in the situation that we found ourselves in. Anyway come aboard A B Sea
and I'll show you what I'm talking about. If you've watched episode 155 then you'll already know
the issues that we had with the solenoid and starter motor here on the port side of the engine, and you
also know the things that we did to fix that and you might remember that we couldn't shut down the
engine from the stop button at the helm position because the starter motor was still engaged as was
the solenoid which electronically disengages the stop button temporarily. After we got the situation
under control and everything calmed down we were able to shut down the engine by simply running
the fuel out of the fuel lines. However that is not the best method to shut down a diesel engine, there
should be some sort of manual way to do it and thanks to a lot of information given to us by our
subscribers and viewers we found out the solution. So come over to the starboard side of the engine
and I'll show you what we did and this is probably something that you need to look at on your boat too
Over here we can see our fuel pump assembly and all the bits and pieces that go to it or run
from it. Also we can see here another solenoid and this is the solenoid that is activated when
we push the electronic stop button at the helm position. Here we can see two wires coming from the
helm position going into the back of the solenoid and underneath this rather degraded little rubber
cover is the actual physical mechanism that moves when the solenoid is operated. When the
solenoid is activated it physically pulls back this plunger which pulls back the lever which
shuts down the fuel flow from the fuel pump. I'll show you exactly how that works in just a second
So there you have it. Just for reference our engine is a Yamaha 4JH2TE and that's where you will find
your manual shutdown on your engine if it's the same. Obviously a lot of different engines have
different configurations even if they're from the same manufacturer so check your manual if
you can, ask a friend if you can't use a manual and just have a look around for a shutdown solenoid
somewhere mounted close enough to your fuel pump and you should find what you're looking
for. Hope that helps.
We are now at the antique museum of Saint Nicholas. It's a building that
is so old it's actually got a structure built over it and around it to keep it from weathering
and there's good old Saint Nick himself.
This cute little fella here is dreaming
about what he's going to get for Christmas and there's mum with the rest of the kids
Mum's probably glad that this one's asleep
Go down and take a closer look.
Okay so here's more information about when Myra had a big river
or creek flowing by it. Myra was a port where pilgrims going to Jerusalem by sea
stopped in the Middle Ages and Saint Nicholas's church is one of the places
of pilgrimage for believers
In the late 20th century the bed of the Myros river shifted as a result of
natural disaster, thus Myra city and church and annexes in the north
were filled in by alluvial soil due to the arrival
of muddy flood water from the north
Wow who knew? So I guess that means they dug all of this out from that flood plain and protected it
And here's today's version of keeping the alluvial silt at bay.
At the entrance were four
columns and this one they've reconstructed complete with the bit on top that held up the roof
Amazing that they still survive
Yeah we saw that same sort of uh painting
but it was done in mosaic tiles in the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. Amazing it survived
And more paintings. Oh wow!
Imagine these when they were first paintings when the colours were vibrant
Plenty of sarcophagi in here, this is a very intricatelt carved one
with the roof still mostly intact. So they do allow filming but they don't allow flash photography
because the flash deteriorates the paint
That's where you're staying. Oh, oh look!
Oh wow that's quite good. I wonder why they haven't got any lights on in there
If you do come here you'll notice that as you walk around they have numbered plaques
and you can rent a little device that will tell you in your language what this is all about
This courtyard has been designated the place where they store all the bits and pieces that
they haven't restored back to its original place yet
And here once again we can see evidence of things being reconstructed
using materials that came before that time
Obviously this is the end of a column so is that, this is a half of a column and just up here
you can see some sort of carving, it looks like a sword in front of somebody with a cape on
So yeah all reused stuff to reconstruct this wall at some period from stuff that was even earlier
Oh nice and cool in here
Apparently the floors are a thing of wonder with a lot of colorful inlay tiles
That's where things happened I guess
Look at that domed ceiling
I think that's a lot harder to do with smaller bricks than it is with big bricks
except you don't have to have the problem of lifting a heavy brick
six of one half a dozen of another really.
Here's another domed ceiling that's been painted
And this sarcophagus protected by a glass front is the real one where Saint Nicholas's well
his bones at least were buried um but they're not here anymore they now rest
somewhere in Italy. You can see on top people have thrown in notes and prayers and money.
This place is really popular with the Russians. Of course Saint Nicholas is a huge figure in the Russian culture
so the Russians come here in their many many thousands during the summer months
Not sure whether that was a floor tile to begin with but it's being used as a floor tile now
I really enjoyed that Baz did you? Yeah it was great. I can see why they're charging more for
that one because they're actually still in the process of restoration and there's a lot of work to do
so you know we got our museum cards and that's covered of the price of them so anything else that we
see from now on is just a bonus. Yeah yeah, there are so many mosaic tiles still on the floor and
also beautiful paintings... mural. Best bit I liked about it? Yeah? The puppy dogs. Cute, but I think they're a bit more
you know this day and age rather than ancient. Oh really? Yeah. I thought they were his dogs
Damn you've ruined that. But the great thing is we found out that Saint Nicholas is the patron saint
of sailors. He is. How coo? That's pretty good. This marble plate with the relief of an anchor
and cross is the best evidence that Saint Nicholas is a protector saint for sailors
So back to the car and we're going to head back to Kaş. On the way here we saw a couple of um of
the brown... road signs... for you know, this is a tourism site and some of them were only three kilometres
off the main road, so while we've still got the light uh we're gonna go off on as many of those
turn-offs as we can and see what they lead to. Yeah. Okay let's get to the Batmobile. Can we find it?
Yeah I know exactly where it is.
On our way back from Demre we were coming along this main road here
and we saw a sign to Hoyran not too far off the road um but when we got here we've discovered
it's part of the Lycian Way which is a walk you can do. I'm not sure how long it is apparently it
takes seven days to do the whole walk uh which carries on all the way down around the coast
You've gonna be in good hiking boots to do that walk for seven days
so we'll show you what's actually here. It's another Lycian tomb and this one's got
some pictures or reliefs of people all along the top quite faded now there's a guy there with a
spear and a sword and next to him another guy with a spear and a sword. In the middle of the
soldiers, we've got the two soldiers here, and what looks like courtesans here, there's a chaise longe
They probably wouldn't call it that in them days, in the middle with someone lying with their feet
down at this end, their arms there and their head there, so someone was buried here was quite
important to have courtiers and soldiers. Again we get this relief of circular things which I've been
thinking about since I last talked to you about it and I think it might represent the wooden um beams
that they would put in to support the roof and they would stick out of the front of the building
and of course like every tomb we see it's been broken into and there's absolutely nothing inside
There you can see the tomb, we're well into rural part of Turkey now, a lot of farm houses here
and a place for the Lycian Way walkers to sit down and have a lunch, an old derelict building
there is actually a bus stop so we're not that far away from civilization
and of course the trappings of being in a rural area where they need to get stuff to market
Back to the boat.
It's a sunny but cool winter's day in Kaş, it's the end of January and we are in
downtown Kaş at the moment. Aannsha's just in the post office mailing off a few things to some patrons
that we've had join us recently so thank you very much for becoming a patron and hopefully you'll
get your stuff in the mail pretty quick. We are here today apart from that to also go into the
market it is market day so we're going to get some fresh fruit and veggies and while we're here we're
going to go to our favorite donna duram store in town and get a take away donna duram too
because uh it's nice and if there's a lot of the noise in the background of this video it's because
lots and lots of places in Kaş, just before winter set in they ripped down a load of the buildings
and now they're in the state of rebuilding them and I guess it's in preparation for what they
expect to be a good summer so I don't know whether they're just crossing their fingers and hoping to
have a good summer or whether they know something different about what's going to happen to the
tourist trade in Turkey in 2021. Hello crazy dog how are you hey? How are you? This is the crazy dog
that lives on the pontoon. No no there's no licking just I don't think there should be any licking
licking is not a good thing, no don't lick the camera either, yeah. Don't smell my crotch!