In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we show you what happens in a week onboard A B Sea. To be fair we did have Sunday off but we do show you most of the thing...

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Today is the day that we head back into

town to see Aydin and see what he's come

up with manufacturing new wheels for our passarelle in his magic workshop.

Good morning. Very good, you? So the passarelle is good? Yes

Ah he doesn't listen to you!

Only rollers. Yes only change the rollers, yes. Tomorrow afternoon.

Look at these shiny new wheels look. He's a clever man.

How much?

Okay. Goodbye, see you tomorrow.

All right let's get our toys home and

get dinner on the go.

The alarm went off

bright and early at 5:30 a.m. on

Wednesday morning because that was the

day that Baz and I were catching the bus to Fethiye so that we could pick up my

phone which was in the hospital there

being fixed and also get some bacon.

So it's 22 lira per person to go to Fethiye

and it should take something like two to

two-and-a-half hours. So that's er

five bucks each. It's not bad. It's very good.

still dark outside

It'll be light by the time we get there hopefully

Nice bus though isn't it? Very nice

Good morning. How are you? Good thanks.

Nice to see you

Well we're here. That took 2 hours and

22 minutes

We made a few stops along the way so now

going to go to find the phone shop and hopefully pick up the fixed phone

When we arrived in Fethiye we had a little

bit of a walk from the coach station to

the phone technician.

A lot of this water

that's rushing through this viaduct I'd

suppose you'd call it, is probably from

the rains but we also noticed on the way

that up on the higher mountains there is

snow at big at high elevations

We took two phones into the phone

technician while we were in Fethiye. Both

of them needed new screens. One of them

was easy to replace and we picked that

up the next day but my phone because it

is a Samsung Galaxy Edge meant that he

needed to order in the specialized

screen. There's a fairly long back

history with the phone, basically we had

to leave it in fFethiye because the

screen didn't arrive when he thought

that it would. We'd already paid the guy

to have the phone fixed so we decided to

trust that it would all be okay and came

to Kas because we had to catch a good

sailing weather window. So we waited for

over five weeks and despite several

emails and phone calls to the phone guy

he didn't send the phone back to me as

we had asked him to so Wednesday was the

day that we were going to get the phone

back. I was a bit thrown because he

wasn't there, in fact there was a whole

different crew there. Well that was

disappointing although not totally

unexpected but luckily they had Google

Translate on their computer and we were

able to discuss the fact that while they

have replaced the screen

there is another technical problem and

you can see that because the screen

it still flashes, so I've chosen to take

the phone back with me to Kas to have

it repaired there. It was a different

person that I saw today and she was very

apologetic so ... we could have saved a lot

of time and effort if they'd just put that

into an email and then we could have

collected the phone earlier and I could

have used the phone sooner it's one of

those things it's a learning curve. All

right so I'm ready for breakfast.

So after a quick snack for breakfast we set

out to find the place that would fill

our bacon dreams!

It wasn't the easiest shop to find.

What you doing Baz? Trying

to find the exact location of the

butcher that specializes in the pork

products. I know it's somewhere down this

end of town so we brought our internet

with us today and we're going to just

google it let the phone tell us how

close we are to our objective or not.

Well our journey for the pork butcher it's

proving a tad difficult! We're going

round in circles

and Google search says either there

or it's there so one more look and then

I think it's back home. Yeah.

Well after one

more try we thought we'll just come into

this little place and just see cuz this

is marked as to where the pork butcher

is even though it doesn't say anything

about pork on sign and it's the right

place. Who'd have thought?

Well I think we now qualify for

honorary Canadian citizenship because

we've walked half of Fethiye just to buy

some bacon. We also indulged in some

sausages at the same time. We walked past

the place twice because it didn't look

anything like a butcher's and when we

finally went inside the lady said that

apparently because of the economy had

had a downturn in Turkey they'd actually

doubled up what their business does and

they turned it into a little mini

supermarket as well.

What are ou barking at? Oh yeah I know I can

see you. You can smell our bacon can't you

Bacon. Dog wants bacon. Looks like a bacon

dog doesn't he? Any meat will do thanks. Any meat will do.

We got to the bus

station just in time to catch the 12:15

bus

Just a quick follow-up story on the

phone. I took my phone up to the phone

hospital in Kas and the guy had to look

at it and yes it did have more problems

that needed fixing. It wasn't going to be

a cheap fix so what I ended up doing for

the same price as the phone would have

cost to be fixed, I bought myself a

reconditioned Samsung Galaxy and it's in

excellent condition so I'm very happy

I've got a phone that does everything

that I want it to do

plus it doesn't have the curved edge

which means that I can put it into a

phone mount and carry it around with me

easily which was actually an issue that

I was having with my old phone. So

everything's turned out really well plus

we have a story to tell.

What I'm finding

with most jobs on the boat is that

something that I think is going to be

quite simple usually turns out to be

bigger than Ben Hur and this job is no

different. I thought I was just going to

take out the non stainless steel bolt

clean up the rust and replace the bolt

with a stainless steel bolt but now it

seems that the rust has been going on

for quite some time and as you can see

here all the metal around the bolt hole

is badly corroded. Now we could probably

get away with this for another year but

seeing as we're in Turkey were it's

relatively inexpensive to get things

done I'm gonna strip this down and take

it up to our magic mechanic Aydin and see

if he can help us out with getting this

stainless steel reinforced or replaced

Once again the magic mechanic Aydin has

come up with the goods and done a great

repair on the bracket on this swim

ladder but before I do put it back

together I'll get some rust remover on

there and have a go at it with a

toothbrush just to clean it up as was

suggested by one of our followers on

YouTube thank you very much for that tip

and then we'll get this thing put back

together and that's another job we can

tick off the list. I love ticking things

off lists!

Now because Aydin's made this a

lot thicker than it originally was, the

bolt that goes through here is a little

bit short so I'm just gonna temporarily

put this together for now and make sure it

all fits and works okay and then

tomorrow when the shops open again

we'll take this bolt out and replace it

with a slightly longer one.

And I deliberately didn't put the washer

on there because there's so little

purchase I didn't want the extra space

but I will put the washer on when I

replace that bolt tomorrow. One of the

reasons why this was rusting so much is

because when the swim ladder goes into

the water this whole section here

actually fills up with salt water and it

doesn't really drain out well so I also got

Aydin to put in a couple of drain holes

here and here which means that when we

do pull it up we can drain all the

saltwater out and make sure it's as dry

as possible for storage.

And there she is a very serviceable

swimmer for a good many years to come

With a bunch of my tools now taking over

most of the galley space the time has

come to finally fix these extinguishers

into place in the berths. In both of the

aft cabins we haven't really got a lot

of choice as to where we can mount the

fire extinguishers so this bulkhead here

which leads into the engine compartment

is probably going to be the best spot.

And we've decided we're going to mount

them just about here so that they're out

of the way as much as possible.

So there we go that's one done and I'll

do the same in the other aft birth and

then we'll go forward to the princess

suite and mount the fire extinguisher

there which is slightly more involved

because we've got to get under the bed

and remove some of the wood from beneath

the mattress to be able to tighten up the

nuts and bolts but I'm happy with that.

Well the princess suite's not looking

very princessy at the moment it's

looking more like a bombsite and the

reason for that is because where we're going

to mount the fire extinguisher in here

getting access to the back end so I can

tighten up the nuts and the washer is a

little bit difficult let's have a look

So here at the base of the bed is pretty

much the only position in the cabin

that's suitable for mounting the fire

extinguisher. I don't really want to mount

it on here we want to get it tucked out

of the way as much as possible. It would

also be pretty impossible to mount it

here because again these are our

stainless steel water tanks and they are not

going to allow us any access to the back

So this section here where we are gonna

mount it the only access to the back is

through here. Now I've got to get in here

and take this wooden panel off so I can

get access to the back end there so it's

a bit more complicated than it was in

the aft beths, but we're getting there

Well as you can see this one was a

little bit more involved than the other

two but it's in it's done and now all I've got

to do is put the princess suite back

together before the princess finds out.

Join us next week on sailing A B Sea as we

finally enjoy a sunny day and get to

explore the ancient amphitheatre and the

ruins of the Hellenistic temple plus

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