Welcome back to SailingJoy and on today's video: I don't know if you guys can hear that noise,
it's coming from the electric cables and my guess is we're talking about those electric cables here
so it's going to be the moment of truth whenever we Dismast JOY today
We have arrived in beautiful Valencia in spain, every cruiser spending the
winter time in europe make a plan and choose a safe marina to leave their boat
or to live aboard during the winter months we chose valencia because of
mild temperatures from november to april and because of its central mediterranean location
go for it you can do it
and as you can see it's not only us, everybody that stops on the marina we have very good
neighbors here marcelo is also cleaning his dinghy over there getting ready for the winter time
joy was covered in a very fine crust of salt and a good bath was definitely needed the sake
of translation she said this is not going to be a free lunch it's going to cost me a lot of lunch
i would say the biggest issue that we had so far would be related to the mast i don't know
if you guys remember on past videos i was uh uh showing you uh the roaring noise that we had
uh whenever winds were over nine knots so we would hear like a r
coming from the mast and uh moving towards the cabins so this is one issue the second issue is
related to the banking that we hear inside of the mast that one we don't know if it is
the cables the electric cables that are passing outside of the designated uh pass through for the
electric cables or if the uh this pass-through which is plastic has become loose and it's banging
on the wall so for that unfortunately we're gonna have to de-mast uh joy to see what is inside what
is happening inside of the mast i don't know if you guys could hear that noise look check it out
so it looks like the noise is coming from the electric cables and my guess is we're talking
about those electric cables here okay those are cables that come from uh the tv that is up there
in the mast we have the um the led lights here so much cable actually that is uh here and i think
there's a lot of slack inside that is actually banging inside of the mast so the masting will be
our only option here to see what is going on so it's going to be the moment of truth whenever we
demass joy to see what happens because this noise i'll tell you i mean you can hear it here okay
but it reverberates inside of the mast and it goes uh to our cabins so especially whenever we
are at anchor with uh some rolling on the side wow it becomes very very loud inside so we're
crossing our fingers that the rigger is going to be able to find out what the issue is and fix it
so for the next season we won't have this anymore and now for the roaring noise when i whenever i
was talking to the rigger he was giving me some some suggestions on what could it be well first
they're gonna measure the tension of the stays that we have here on this boat uh it could be
too much tension or not enough tension the other thing could be the top the top lifting a cable
that we have here at the end that gray one see that goes all the way to the mast that could be
noise coming from the wind roaring and then it equates inside of the mast and it goes uh inside
of joy that could be an option so i'm gonna check this one out because we're gonna have some wind
uh probably tonight so i'm gonna go up over there in the boom and feel if there's some vibration
coming from the topping lift and to the mask the joy there are several things that we need
to do uh first of all is we have to remove the genoa so they're going to be removing the genoa
whenever they arrive here and uh we're gonna have to be uh right here taking the boom out separating
this part here from the mask that is coming out and uh disconnect pretty much everything that we
have here and uh of course the cables uh the connections that go inside of uh joy release
pressure on all of the states that we have here disconnect of course and those things that are
there and uh that way the mast comes off it comes out uh with a crane that is coming uh to lift
this mast and put it in to the ground so we can look inside and see what is wrong
so we have removed the genoa so far and uh the guys here from pro rigging are
taking care of the rest and i believe in the afternoon we're gonna be removing the mask
you and me stuck on the ocean now nothing but waves in this villain in i wanna dry up a two
and
they disconnected all the cables everything is ready but there's a line for you to get
your mast off here in valencia so we're waiting for that boat over there to remove their mast
so we can get going uh that next challenge is gonna be
to put joy over there in that uh little square it's exactly nine meters and joy is eight meters
uh wide so i think it's gonna be only enough space for the fenders to go in it's gonna be
like something that i'll probably need help not to get any additional uh scratches on the whole
we took delivery of JOY in july of 2021
and a week later we already knew something was wrong inside of our mast
it took about five months to align our personal logistics approve warranty services with lagoon
and schedule a date for the mass to be removed so we could be here today
the support from marcus our dealer was very important and we were happy with
i was also very impressed with the professionalism of ignacio from pro
rigging that showed that he really knew what he was doing from the beginning
i was assured we had the right people working on joy
and today it's time to put mast back on we have found out several things that was wrong inside
of the mask in one way it's good because we found the problem so we feel like uh once the
mass is back on we're not gonna hear the banging noise anymore whenever we were removing the mast
yesterday the rigger told me i think i found the problem uh and we're not gonna have to
take the mast off then the last minute he said you know what we're here we're gonna remove
the mask because there may be additional noise coming from the mast and he was totally right
there was like two of the tubes inside of the mask that were that came off and they were like
banging from one side to the other and you can imagine inside of the mast it makes a lot of echo
and uh all of that noise was coming um inside of joy and we were you know sometimes we were
not even able to to sleep because it was so loud so uh the tubes are back in place the electric
cables go inside of the tubes and they're all good so we're not gonna have issues anymore crossing my
fingers here and uh today they're gonna what they're gonna do they're gonna apply a fix
uh to where the carts that hold the main sail go up and down because that kind of makes a noise
as well going from one side to the other so uh it looks like one of the screws that holds the
entire trail that holds the carts in place was uh broken so they're fixing that one up taking
advantage that the mast is over there this morning and in the afternoon the mass goes back on joy
and it took two days to remove the mast and put it back on they're finalizing it right now the guys
from the rigging company just connected the stairs here again they're gonna put some pressure
and i uh asked them uh you know i've heard that lagoon recommends 360 kilos of pressure in
one of those STAYS and they told me that they measure by feeling their rig in here and
you know! that made me wonder a little bit because if there's a recommended uh tension to
put here on the stays how can they just measure by feeling them, so i don't know, we're gonna do a little
research more see if there's like a machine that they can utilize so we can see how much
tension there is in each one of them because apparently if they're too loose or too tight
it does create a problem connect everything back on so we opened here as you guys can see
so all of the cables are coming from the mast is going to be reconnected so uh chart plotter
like the wind speed uh and everything else that is connected uh through uh the mast uh starts working
again taking the mast off it's already like a very stressful thing but putting the boat in this lot
here with wind is even worse so i'm glad that we didn't get uh too much damage on JOY I think