A B Sea has been out of the water for a month now and we've got a bit of an
issue at the keel which could cost us a lot of time and money. Come and take a look
So this is where our keel meets our hull.
Now this join here has got a flexible Sikaflex in there which wasn't replaced
when we had it all looked at in Spain but it's caused a bit of an issue. As you
can see most of the hull and the keel is all dried out but you can still see some damp
patches here and that dampness is oozing from between the keel and hull joint. Now
what we've got to do is we've got to scrape all of that sikaflex that's in the
joints out to let the air get in there and really allow things to dry out. It's
happening on both sides I'll show you the other side in a second. The concern
is that salt water ingress has happened there and if it has and it's been - we've
been in the water for nearly two years then we could potentially have a problem
with the keel bolts rusting. The keel bolts are big bolts that run up through
the hull and get attached with big nuts inside the bilge. So we've got to clean
this out, let it dry up properly, we'll ask a few people here in the yard in
particular Harris who knows a lot about boats what his opinion is about the keel
bolts. It may be then we've got to drop the keel and
inspect the bolts. That's time-consuming and very financially costly.
So Harris is the
boatyard owner and I want his expert opinion on what his advice is on what's
happening here with the keel and the hull.
As you can see we've still got some dampness coming through from the seal here.
I think
we must, you must ... take all of this out?
All out, very good. So no wet. Yeah. So first first this?
Your boat is very good
situation. Yeah she's good. Is a new boat? No 1995 - 25 years. Oh
Is perfect. Apart from this?
Oh it's nothing, it's normal. Okay.
Well that's encouraging news from Harris so it seems that the problem is not as big as
we first thought it was. All we got to do now is get the scrapers out and start
scraping this little baby, but it's a boring job so I won't keep you guys
hanging around for that
We've been saving up our parcels that we've been
receiving from Amazon because we we put our Amazon wish list up and ... at the
request of some of our followers, subscribers and quite a few people have
been very generous and ticked some things off the list for us. So we don't know
what's what's in any of these - no - It could be stuff that we've ordered or it
could be stuff that you've sent so, yeah
That's just a shipping thing. Any comments in there?
Selfie stick. Oh! Oooh. Monopod. Fotopro waterproof flexible hand grip with bluetooth and
phone tripod mount for live streaming
Oh look! Look! You've got to ... you can't
throw these away. This is a gift note. Enjoy your gift from Frank so that's Frank Schwarz. Oh Frank yes!
Thank you Frank that's fantastic. Thanks! That's excellent.
Oh perfect yes mmm new
toys! Thank you!
Yeah cuz so much of the footage that we give you on the boat for
instance is very similar to you know week to week because we have limited
spaces to mount the camera so this is actually going to give us more
opportunities to mount the camera in different places. Yeah and different angles
Perfect. Yeah thanks thanks Frank.
This is one of mine to me. This is keyrings
so that I can now make ... you know I make Mermaid's Treasures jewellery from sea finds
These are keyring so I can make not only Mermaid's Treasures, but I can make
Neptune's Bounty for guys as well as gals. And you didn't send yourself a note
I didn't send myself a note no.
Your turn.
Ooh another pressie for me from me! Your stuff!
Necklaces, so when I send pendants out I always include a free necklace.
Another pressie from me to me
There's a pattern developing here!
Guess who made her own wishlist!
Round crimp beads so that I can make more necklaces!!
Oh I think this is from Jim. Oh Jim fantastic!
Great and you can show everyone. Because it's got another
dead cat for the microphone Excellent. Two dead cats. Yep then ... no
cats were damaged in the making of this!
Jim's infamous infamous calendars! We can't put that on YouTube because it
will get erm ... that's a shame ... Jim does some fine art photography with models from
all over the world and he sends out these calendars every year and the
the shots he makes absolutely stunning - absolutely beautiful
Yes like here's here's a mermaid. It's beautiful
absolutely beautiful
Cool, thank you Jim
This is from Decathlon
a store that you can find in most European countries and
two years ago we bought some ... fabulous boat shoes these things but they're
coming to the end of their useful life These are great on a boat, absolutely perfect. Yep
So we ordered some more
online and I got two pairs for you my darling Thank you
and I got two pairs for me So that's another four years worth of shoes. Yeah!
Coz they last for ages and they're they're just so ... Grippy ... grippy they're fabulous
Oh a note
from Heather, Heather Drummond: Enjoy your gift from Heather and John. Yes The
Old Travel Bums. Thank you so much. Thank you. Look at this.
Wow. Look at that. You've been going on about that ... Oh selfie stick for my phone
coz my phone has got the best video shots and camera shots, it's
really good - yeah - but my selfie stick died ...
Oh look what's also for your phone Oh a lens kit! Ah that's awesome!
Thank you. Hey I'm doing well this year! And look. Oh
just what the housewife wants on a boat It's a washboard to make my
hand laundry washing much easier. Thank you!
Oh and it's so light, it's great Yeah that's going to be easy to store isn't it?
I think this might be another camera mount
I thought they all arrived separately but obviously ... No they box them all up. That's great isn't it?
Oh it's another camera mount. It is another camera mount. Fantastic.
Oh and these two work together don't they?
I believe they do yes. It's so exciting. They work in conjunction with each other.
You're gonna get some great shots guys and gals.
Thank you! Oh hang on! One more! What is this? I don't know what that is.
Oh I do. You do? This ... Thank you ...
this is a diamond-tipped
drill bit which will allow me to much more easily drill holes in sea glass
when I make them into pendants. Thank you so much that's awesome
One of the
reasons why we delayed this whole thing was because we were waiting for this one
This came from - our son Luke - Australia and again this is a lot of stuff that we've
bought for ourselves that we he had sent to him in Australia because we thought
he was coming out for a holiday and he could bring it with him. Plans changed so
we have to get it mailed over. Yeah
He's done a good job packing it up in a small box hasn't he? Yeah
This is a gas saving
device. This is a 12 volt water heater - oh brilliant! - so that we don't have to put the gas on it every
time somebody on board wants a cup of tea or coffee and seeing as I don't drink
tea and coffee I'll leave you to your own conclusions.
Oh and nutritional yeast
seasoning adds a really good flavour and Vitamin B12 and lots of other B complex vitamins to food.
so yeah cool. Thanks Luke darling for getting that
for getting that
A bloke could never have too many O-rings. Oh!
Look at that! Let's see. Ooh wow!
Oh yes, O-ring heaven
This little camera mount thing will work in conjunction with something else
that's in the box now. Okay, well let's go down to the next layer then
You can see that you can mount a GoPro on this but this nice little thing is gonna be
hooked around our drone with a piece that's in that box there so that the
drone can be caught by grabbing hold of what's in the box.
Oh thank God
because I'm going to be the one catching the drone and we all know how not
accident-prone I am don't we?!
Seizing wire for customs purposes it's actually
silver wire so that I can make more silver wire wrapped jewellery - sterling silver
A fuel filter for filtering out dirty fuel before we put
it in the fuel tank Excellent yeah. Yep. We've been okay where
we are but you just don't know you know some of the other countries we're gonna
be visiting. This is true.
So this is the other part that will go with this. They will
attach to each other like this. That'll be strapped around the body of the
drone and then that would be the grip you grab hold of to catch the drone. Thank gawd
Ah of I'd forgotten I'd ordered this. This is a rangefinder
It's go a cleaning cloth with it too. Yeah
So - laser type - it's a laser rangefinder which is kind of handy if
you want to make - find things!
It's very handy for making Med mooring decisions on when to let you drop your
chain so you can sort like aim where you're gonna Med moore - yes - find out the
distance then know --- drop the anchor now so we don't get to the end of the
Med mooring - not enough chain - manouevre and find out that we've let the anchor
out just that little bit too far out and we've run out of chain. That's a good
idea yeah I'm sure it'll come in handy for
other things won't it? yep
So let's have a look at this now let's unbox this one a little bit more. It's a
tripod and it's a bendy one but it's not those silly ball and joint ones
the gorilla grip type. They're okay but they break eventually.
So that will work in conjunction with that one there for us to mount because
this ... these are all super bendy and they will grip lots of things. Yes and
then if you want you can attach this don't ask me how to - this to this and
then you've got you know 360 degree angles so it's fabulous and and this can
also just be selfie stick as well and as can that so. Yep. Marvellous.
Yeah. Super
It's so exciting. I'm glad that it was only the things that I'd ordered that weren't
delivered. That would have been really upsetting. Something somebody had
ordered us something and it hadn't got here coz the guy couldn't find the place
So that was our Christmas unwrapping
Yeah! And thank you very much once again for your generosity it's heartwarming
It certainly is yeah. Right let's find places for our toys to live
Let's play with the toys
We were going into limni today to watch
the fetching of the Holy Cross from the water where people actually swim in to
get the crucifix from the church. It's a religious ceremony that happens here but
it's so cold and it's so wet we just didn't want to do that on the scooter
today. However we would like to welcome Steve Webb who's our newest patron
Welcome aboard Steve, it's great to have you with this
So we're having a cold spell at
the moment. It's cold, it's wet, it's windy and blustery and there's sleet expected as well
Let me show you the boatyard dog Bobby. He's sitting there with a really
thick fur coat and he's weathering all kinds of wind and rain and sleet that
we're getting at the moment. It's down to three degrees today and it's possibly
going to drop to zero or maybe even minus zero so hmm.
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