this is my disaster my insta disaster I was bound to have one it's very nice honey this
is what happens when your LP gas goes and you have no other way to cook we're back
at it hopping North along the Exuma islands in the Bahamas as usual we're having some issues
I'll try to figure this one out oh the gas is not working as we sail to an amazing Anchorage
located near Nassau I'm going to remove all this right here you look like a professional
then the captain is diving head first into propane maintenance don't try this at home
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I hope they won't shoot me I'm glad you have the Sykes we got the water to wash down
all right is it done
gosh I don't even know what to do it doesn't look correct does it
I'm trying to make lasagna and these are my only lasagna noodles I was trying
to like soften them up before I put them in the convection oven
on a plan B um the captain has known that our LP gas system has been on the
fritz it's completely shot now and I'm attempting to cook without it as you can
see it's not going well as the pressure cooker just spewed all over the deck
do have one more package that's awesome they're non-boiled noodles but last time I made it that
way the noodles are a little hard so I figured okay I won't boil them but I'll soften them up
and then of course LP gas is not working soften a month so like okay I'll pressure cook them the
way that I usually pressure cook is I take the time on the box and I divide it by two and I
pressure cook it that way so for these noodles I did two minutes you and you saw the disaster
unfold so here's my yummy dewy mess this is all my stuff I need for the lasagna so what
I'm gonna do this time I'm not gonna try what I did last time I am actually going to pressure
cook just water get it to a boil sit my noodles in it and soften them up let's see how it works
fill this up with water and pressure cook it for I don't know like
minutes maybe and then the water will be super hot that's also how I made our coffee
our pressure cooker has a little valve that sticks it's finicky but I'll get it
the water's hot so I'll just add the noodles and let them soak for
a little bit while Calypso sails us through the lovely Bohemian Waters
moving along at eight knots and 19 knots of wind is my kind of sailing baby
foreign
thanks bye no answer yeah I'm trying to get a hold of yacht controller you know just because
the thing is you know now it's like when I put the engines in Reverse sometimes it just kills
the engine sometimes it it's like just dying it won't like if I put in Reverse it was in Reverse
but then stalling trying to increase the throttle to get out of the stall and don't even have any
response so there's a bunch of things going on with it's all random it's all intermittent
so uh I got a hold of them considering just leaving Bahamas after we hit Nassau here and
doing a straight shot for like Bimini and then go to Fort Lauderdale so we can get
them to fix it because we've had no luck trying to get them out to the north where
we are so uh hopefully we can get this thing fixed otherwise I got the part numbers from
Antares for the original throttle and cables unfortunately the previous owner took it to
um the place at St Augustine was at the sailors exchange and gave it to them but we're thinking
about is buying the original cable system and ripping this thing out and then using the cable
so we'll see I'm going to give them one chance to try to get this thing working but if it's not
you know if we don't have confidence in it and it's not working right we're just gonna pull it
we've had an issue lately with our LP gas system um I know we've filmed a little bit about it but
it has basically itself so I'm going to try to replace this thing now with propane you know
you're supposed to have like a professional do it I've looked up like you know a lot about this
stuff and looked into it I'm not a professional so if I do anything wrong hey it's on me uh I'm
gonna go ahead and tear into this propane locker and try to replace this part today or disconnected
the propane tank we have fiberglass propane tanks which are mixed reviews I love them some people
are like oh you can but they're fine in my opinion they don't corrode or anything okay so this is our
LP gas system this hooks up to the propane tank goes down to a pressure gauge some people think
that the pressure gauge on these things is for like seeing how much is in the tank and all that
kind of stuff but really it's to see if you have any leaks in the system so you would put the tank
on let the propane in the system close the tank and then you can monitor it over a certain period
of time and see if the pressure drops and if you if it does drop then you have a leak somewhere in
the system right now we have obviously there's propane in there that I'm going to drain out
but I'm going to remove all this right here so the propane goes through this regulator it goes
through the LLP gas shutoff valve the solenoid and then it goes into one two and three different
locations this one right here with the yellow knob is for our Grille so I just turn that and
that allows the propane to go to our Grill these two go inside the boat this is the new setup brand
new valve a brand new solenoid everything the thread sealant you want to use whenever you're
doing this stuff is special you don't want to use just regular pipe thread this is actually
made for propane petroleum oils and all that kind of stuff the yellow stuff so but I want to turn
this thing apart and see if we can't go and get it going so I've drained the propane just simply
by draining it out of the stove uh it came on for the the valve came on for a second but I've
gone ahead and de-energized everything and now I'm just going to slowly start to rip it apart
propane maintenance isn't something that we'd recommend doing yourself after researching we
felt comfortable enough to make this change but we'd suggest getting a pro to do yours foreign
boats are switching to induction cooktops getting rid of propane altogether we aren't
against that idea but it's pretty far down the to-do list as of now
right here is the moment he realizes that someone somewhere made a change that makes it just a
little bit more difficult to do I went to put it all in and they put a different size bracket on
here oh so I'm gonna try to take the old bracket off I don't I don't know if that's gonna I don't
know we'll see but so these holes are wider than these holes I can drill it out and stuff like that
but if I can just pull it off I'm just going to replace it with you don't put the old one back on
because the bolt already the boat already has holes in it I'm saying yeah I hear you barking
captain in all seriousness I love watching him work on stuff this guy was a fighter jet engine
and fuel systems a mechanic for 22 years he'll get it done so they just made it a larger uh
bracket but I'll just put the all bracket on and that should fix the problem now to pressure test
it and just put pressure on the system over right like 140. what I'm going to do is close the valve
and then not mess with anything I'm just gonna make sure we're not going to lose any pressure in
the system as far as propane because I don't want to have a leak out here or anything like that I
wired it up all the wires are internal they're all sealed as long as that was the problem that should
fix our issue I have the little gauge that's down there that you switch from on and off and all that
stuff and I might swap that out I don't know we'll see so far so good with this and it looks to be
holding I'm going to leave it for like an hour something like that take a look and then I'll
just kind of keep monitoring it but meantime I'm going to vacuum this thing out clean it out since
it's torn apart and hopefully we're good yay I didn't notice any any leaks or anything like
that or reducing reduction in pressure um in the meantime I cleaned it out one thing to look at or
consider like about a couple things here actually first I would imagine it's not recommended to put
the sealant on these types of uh fittings only because it's like a it's like a fitting that I
don't know how it was called but basically the end is like this and it would go into like a
suction like that right and the end needs to be very clear and smooth I did put it just on
the threads in the very back um just because I was being really uh cautious about it but I made
sure that none of that thread would get on that fitting because I imagine that if you got any of
that in there it could mess with the seal right now I'm testing this for the first time it is on
um I'm not spilling anything one thing to consider too about a propane Locker is you need a drain
did you know that no propane drops so if you were to get a leak you don't want this just
sitting in here piling up piling up uh and then you know being an explosion Hazard you want a
drain that goes outside the boat so that drain goes straight to the bottom and goes outside
you don't want it draining into another you know Locker inside the door next he decided to
just replace everything in the system you look like a professional thanks I'm completely not
you've been doing a lot of wiring lately though you're right yeah I mean I've done
a little bit of research and I think I know enough not to get myself in too much trouble
well hopefully this works and if it doesn't then we'll just have to go convection or induction yep
decided to do this too yeah I figured since I was doing it I'm just going to replace it all
um oh that looks different there you go you're gonna test it yeah I'll test turn
on LP gas we should get a red light yep good all right come over here
okay so when you hit that button the solenoid gets activated or energized and opens now I
have this closed so now the system should have propane in it is it on turn it off
I'll turn let's turn it back on okay good I stayed on it's a good sign yes all right go for it
so far so good that's so That's so exciting no more disasters at Sea while cooking in the
insta pot yeah an Inspire yeah propane disasters maybe it's pot no no this spot's great it's just
it's just now I I was at a loss because we were at LP gas but you fixed it good job
honey yeah you get a kiss for that I'm joking all right time for you to clean
up the mess all right turn off no no no okay there you go that's enough now turn it back on
all right made to stand here and do this all night yeah okay good all right now now leave
it running because I remember uh it had a weird ringing sound before when it was running back here
no and now you can just hear the propane coming out I can feel it too it's getting low that's uh
interesting because that valve this one right here the old one was making like a loud ringing sound
so cool well there we go babe ringing is up done and now you can cook I'm already cooking nice
it's got a little stain how'd you get that that makes me sad I don't know
not sure but lasagna seem to turn out pretty good I had a bite pretty yummy um I forgot to put the
ground beef in so I just cooked it up real quick since Jeremiah got the propane system working
thank you cooked it up real quick and put the meat underneath just too much going on today with the
LP gas my noodle disaster and cooking two separate lasagnas separately different ways but I think
it turned out great boys that's what I'm talking about oh my goodness I'm the um boat Chef I got it
did I get it you got it all right thanks baby welcome let's eat
I heard you on the phone what's the verdict uh you know oh geez yeah I talked to the aquamaner
he he's not really sure you know he's you know if I would check the the idle set screw
but it doesn't explain why the system is doing it so it talks about possibly coming to uh Fort
Lauderdale and Miami and uh yeah he said just talk to the person try to schedule something
so we'll see if you have a boat you're just going out to the Sand Bar on the weekends
and you come back you have an issue you get towed back in and you can have you know things whatever
that's one thing but when you're cruising you can't rely on something that's just gonna
could fail at any time and do weird things at any time and then you're screwed because
the company doesn't even know how to fix it you know so that's where we're at boat
maintenance never ends for now we took a moment to enjoy this lovely Anchorage
our time in the Bahamas is coming to an end we've already pushed closer to Hurricane Season
than we normally would so tomorrow we're starting our trip back towards the states
thank you now this was cool our friends Ted and Annette made the jump over to Cruz on
their new leopard for a few weeks we just happened across paths as they head south
towards NASA we had hoped to see them in Port but they'll be back up to cross to the states with us
the beginning we went to the Miami show meet and greet well Ted's the one that yeah we met them
there and then he offered us to come to his house for dinner and then he taught us had a sale on his
22 foot little tiller boat right yeah we met him uh about a month ago at the meet and greet him and
his wife Annette it heals too much I'll just let this let this go okay and that'll flatten us out
yeah that was cool I got a little bit of balance look at some pictures for him they're headed
towards Nassau I think they're probably and they're gonna go down there and kind of turn
around real quick I think we'll probably you know meet up with them somewhere along the way
he said they were looking to turn around like next week Sunday we were all on sailboats and we passed
each other nobody's sailing he's dead today it is like three knots but we're almost there
we're going to Chubby I've heard good things yeah and he just said it was amazing he didn't want to
leave yeah but he's going to get his kids on an airplane so they can go back yeah commitments
um but yeah I'm excited he said the tiki bar is pretty sweet yeah so I'm feeling
like I needed some sober days but I can continue it's got the sun downers
coming up on the lazy geckos
that props damaged yeah did each side of the hall let's go practice pick up all
these but should we all set I don't know the Annapolis boat show there we go I can do this
how'd you think that went it went great it wasn't for John though the vote would have been destroyed
my warranty expired about 10 years ago brand new Max props these cam is Left-Handed I have to swap
them over to right-handed it was pretty heavy when I picked it up earlier do you leave it with the
prop hunkered down with high winds gonna get off the boat head on over to This Little Peanut Island
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