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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