In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we figure out where to store our suitcases while managing our small space storage and Baz has a digital disaster! There's ...

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Talk to me. Very sad. Why? That is a 4

terabyte drive.

Well it was sitting on the end of the

bed in the princess suite and I got off

the bed and accidentally kicked it off

the bed and it landed on the sole of the

cabin - the floor to everyone else - and now the the drive spins up but the head

won't lock into plac. And so it's not

being recognized, and so that's four

terabytes worth of movies, shows ... luckily I have the music and the photos stored

on here as well. But all the TV shows and

movies are all locked inside this device

here. Can I just say at this point - I'm so glad it wasn't me that did it!

So if it's already pooped already, do you

think you can pull it apart? You can pull

them apart so I'm gonna I mean it is

knackered, so yeah I will pull it apart and

see what I can do, if I can swap the

head out or something, I will. Joking

aside with me saying I'm so glad it wasn't me - I do feel for you because this - he put in so many hours actually

getting that collection together over

years really didn't you? Years, years! And we've just like

we've literally just turned my princess

sweet into a media room for the

evenings so that we can watch movies and things ... That's why you can't have nice

things! *laughs* So it's really, it's a bit of a

bummer really - Yeah - but if anybody can

fix it I have total confidence that

you can love. Oh well, it's not going to happen this

morning. No. I'll look at it later today,

I've got things to do. Yeah. So cheesed

off. Yeah okay we'll let you know how it goes.

Well another day out shopping. So today

we're heading to Murcia

because we've still got a few things to

get. I didn't get all of the arts and

crafts things that I need so I'm looking for

arts and crafts shops

and Baz has still got some dive stuff that he's wanting so he's going back to the diving shop.

And Ikea. And we're going to Ikea

because we've also got some kitchen

things that we still need to get.

Murcia here we come. Murcia, you're a

fantastic town for shopping!

So that quick trip into Ikea actually turned out to be a huge trip through IKEA. I don't

know if you ever been into an IKEA but

they've got it laid out with an arrow

system on the floor and basically the

arrow system you follow the pathway

through the whole store and it's a great way of selling things obviously it works for

them because you have to go through the

whole store. We did find some secret

doorways we went through to try and miss sections out but we are still in there

for I don't know maybe 45 minutes or so

and we were only buying three things. But

that's how long it takes to get through

the store get processed through the

checkout. Anyway that was our daily

workout 10,000 steps in Ikea. Now we're

in a new shopping centre where hopefully

fingers crossed Aannsha gets her art

supplies. Okay a found Cobalt or Cobalto which is

the art place in Murcia and

from just the window it looks like I've

come to the right place. So let's have a

look see what they've got!

I'm the first to admit that I know nothing about painting and coloUrs and all that sort of

stuff. I find it difficult to paint a fence

It's not true, we actually did very well

painting our house, but when it comes to

artist painting and colors and paints

and stuff and brushes don't know a thing

about it. So I've decided to sit out here

in the central walkway while Aannsha goes

through her long list and spends as much

time as she needs in the art shop

without trying to get me involved!

Are you set? Yeah, I'm set. I'm set! Whoo! So I can paint. I can paint, I can draw, I

can do all that can stuff. Still have got

any crafting stuff because they are a

purely for artists but their

stuff is beautiful and I've got a really

nice little compact easel which is great 'coz it goes on the desk and it's got some paints in it!

So it's after lost time now. We're just

going to head over there to Leroy Merlin

which is the hardware store and see if

we can get some bungee cords and then

after that I think it's time to head

back to the boat.

So we just got out of the taxi that dropped us off from returning the rented car. He only cost us

15 euros coming back to the marina

whereas two weeks ago the other taxi

that took us from the marina to the

rental car place cost 25 euros. Go

figure! So today is Saturday, we are now

pretty much stuck in the marina. We've

done a lot of shopping so we're really

just gonna chill out now because two weeks

of solid shopping is just - tiring as! We've

got some things to put away that we

bought earlier on this morning before we

took the car back and then we're just going to

open a bottle of wine or a cold beer and sit on the back and just go it's the weekend

chill time. Yep, have a nice chicken salad. Oh yeah. Yes I think it was fun ... the

shopping was fun to start with because

it was you know new but honestly after

two weeks worth ... over it! Yeah!

Yesterday evening as I was browsing

through boating channels on YouTube

I noticed quite a lot of the people who were mostly in marinas like this one were

when they were cooking they were using a hot plate. So seing as we don't

actually have to pay for electricity

here it's all-inclusive in the 800 euros

a month marina berth cost, it seems

rather silly that we're actually using

our gas to cook with when we could be

using the electric that we're getting

for free or included in the price anyway. So today we went and bought one of these.

So let's open it up and take a look I'm

sure it's not too complicated. I'm sure

it's pretty much a plug-and-play device. But this will certainly help save gas

which I have also read is hard to come

by in some areas. So by using this we

keep our gas until we absolutely need to

use it. It is made of stainless steel

which is good because you want that on a

boat because of the salt water

environment. So that's it very simple: a

big hob and a little hob. 1000 watts

and 1500 watts and variable temperature

controls on the front for each one and

very much simple to use...

Plug and play the way I like it.

So we've just used this for the very first time

this hot plate and I have to say I'm very

impressed with the amount of heat it

puts out. Even the smaller 1000 watt

element heats up really quickly and it

also you know pounds out a lot of heat. I

turned it up to 11

well I think it only goes up to 5 but

you know what I mean

on the first go thinking it might need a

bit of welly but I had to turn it down

we were sautéing some onions and they

started to burn so it really pounds it

out. We've already cooked lunch on it I'm now

using the rest of the minced meat that

I've mixed up with herbs and spices and

I'm going to make some meatballs and

we're going to put those into a tomato

sauce and have them with pasta for

dinner later on.

Today's the day we

decided that we're finally going to put

our suitcases away. We're going to store

them under the v-berth front bed.They

were living in this after cabin but

really even though nobody is actually

going to be using it for some time we

wanted to make it as clean as possible. We didn't want to try and turn it into

the garage. Because once you go down that slippery slope it stays that way. So we

finally moved the bags out of here. A

few more bits and pieces to clean up and

we're going to move them forward and that means

Hello! Got your head in another locker? Yes. Welcome to the master suit! This is what the bed looks

like underneath. It's got lots of hidey

holes in here. Yeah. And this is one of them

here let me show them. See that one. It's

fairly clean and it's dry although we

are gonna to put our things in a... Yeah we'll wrap them in a plastic bag or something

- just in case water sloshes in somewhere when we're on passage. Yeah.

I'm not sure how many are likely to get in there. No.

Hopefully we'll get these in. At least two would be nice. Yeah.

All right.

Is it going to fit? ....... Is it going to fit?!

Nooooo! Nooooo! ... Ow!

That sucks. Yeah. Where are we gonna put them? *laughs*

All right, well let's have a look underneath the bed where the

batteries are. Yes. In the aft port. Yeah

because it may be because a

lot of this space is taken up by the

water tanks so it may be that the other

bed has got more more length.

What is this? It's a first aid kit!

Ohh! (It's probably out of date)

Oh that's good.

It's certainly ... Ewww!

We're not gonna get them in here!

No throw all of

this but we can certainly erm ... No that's not gonna do... Not gonna get 'em in here either. *sighs*

Let's go to the forward locker

I think we're gonna win! Great!

Who'd have thought that trying to find somewhere to store 4 suitcases would be this bloody difficult!

So finally figured out what this was. In

the Mediterranean

most of the mooring is stern too and

sometimes the dock is higher or lower

than the back into your boat so it makes

makes getting off difficult so we have

what's called a passerelle which

basically is like a gangplank that runs

from the back end of the boat up to the

dock and we've been across a few

passarelles that are a bit woo-oo-oo. Especially that bendy wooden one. Yeah. That was like, Scary!

So this, these spikes go into the hole and this

acts as a handrail spread out along the

length of the passarelle, so now we know that is. And you can also play tennis, while you're going across!

Sure. So we're gonna stow that here.

Lovely jubbly.

Good. Okay let's go and put the boat

back together. Okay.

I love these. I so love these overalls.

They are so well made, they're a really good make. They're Helly Hansen and they just

have millions of pockets look. They've got

these things, got pockets for everything and

even in the pockets are linings with - for

extra tools . And this is the same. It's cool isn't it! I never

thought I'd get excited by overalls before.

Anyway let's put these in

here and then I'll show you what else

this has. So it also has pockets in the knees

but it's not really to store stuff it's

for the cushioning. So I can slam down on

the deck or even kneel when when I need

to do scrubbing or anything and my knees

are happy! So now they're the right length I

can wear them.

How good's that!

Next week on Sailing A B Sea, we get the mast and new standing rigging installed and

we put in a whole heap of effort to get

rid of black mold off the hatches. So if

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