In this episode of Sailing A B Sea Baz has an accident while installing a new anchor, Aannsha gets new dive gear and a hand espresso machine, plus we replace...

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And these are the through holes or

sea-cocks that were removed. As you can

see they're in pretty bad nick. That's the

outside bit, this is the inside bit and

this one's even got it's handle broken

off, so it's good that they're getting

replaced basically, because you need to

be able to close your sea-cocks all the time.

One of the many jobs that we're getting done while we're on the hard is

having some of the through holes

replaced. The actual sea-cocks themselves

are either seized or very badly corroded

so I think there's about four maybe five of

them need to be changed and

we've got Fernando just doing the easy

thing here by taking it off from the

outside.

Time to get put back into the water. Paco and his big travel lift are here.

It's down the ladder we go.

As you can plainly see Paco's here with

his big lift. He's going to put us back

in the water.

A couple of little jobs need to be

finished off. We're just standing off

the fiberglass repair on the bottom

of the rudder and there's a couple of

little spots that need to be touched up

with antifouling paint and then once the

vessel is lifted up into the travel lift

the underside of the keel needs to be

painted with anti foul too and then that's

pretty much it for out on the hard. We're

back in water with a couple more things

still to do and a lot of paperwork to

sort out as well so exciting times!

Gracias Paco!

De nada!

This has got to be the most unique

use for cling film I've ever seen. Paco

and his mate are just wrapping the lift

straps with the cling film because if

you don't they leave dirty blue marks on

the side of the boat and then you've got

to spend time cleaning them off. I might

have to buy some of this stuff it looks

pretty good.

Fernando has just got on board before we

completely lower in the water. He wants

to make sure that none of the sea-cocks

that they replace are gonna leak so

as it gets gently lowered into the

water he'll be checking all of the

sea-cocks and making sure they're good

and solid!

One of the little jobs we've got to do

on board is to swap out all the light

globes to LEDs.You would think that

would be a simple job but unfortunately

the LEDs are just that much too big so

we're gonna break out Aannsha's dremel and

all the bits that go with it and we're

gonna shave the light fitting just a tad

and make it fit.

I've broken out the dremel. I haven't used this since I was

in Australia and I'm using a drill bit

that have not used before and I'm not

even sure that it's the right fitting for

that so you know what could possibly go

wrong? And we've also got

the electricity still switched on

because we need it for the dremel so...

that's 12 volts ...

... It's 12 volts, so you know

small kick. So I'm gonna give it a whirl.

So that was our test one we only bought

one because they're quite expensive and

now we know that the fitting works

and we can modify the housing of the LED

then we can go out and buy the rest can't we? Yeah.

We've just taken delivery of our Mantus

anchor which arrived fairly quickly. I

think we ordered it on Friday, today's

Tuesday, so it's just arrived. Quite kind

of excited about that... having a little

bit of an issue with the fact that we've

also just had to pay 310 Euros extra for

some sort of import tax or some sort of

customs duty. I don't know why. Marina in

the office is having a look into that as

to whether we can reclaim it or not but

back to the happy times. We've got our

brand new anchor. It is a Mantus anchor

and that means it's gonna stick like

glue.

This is what a mantis anchor looks

like in its raw state in the box. It's

got to be assembled of course.This is

the galvanized 85 pound 38 kilo version

which is the right size for our

particular length of vessel. So I'm gonna

unpack this now and put it together.

We're gonna get lubed up!

Essentially that's it with six bolts and

six nuts, the anchor is assembled. I've

got to tighten them up fully now and

then we've got to get them, get the

anchor attached to here.

STOP!

Out out out out out out out! *#%@ Out!

Two days ago when we were changing out

the anchor Baz had an accident and

basically got his hand trapped between

the anchor and a bolt that was sticking

out underneath the pulpit, so he's got

a rather nasty gouge of about a

centimeter in the back of his hand

and we've been keeping it very clean and

cleaning it very fastidiously so, just to

show you where we're at with it now.

How does it feel?

It doesn't feel too bad. I think once the swelling goes down

things are gonna be a lot better. It just

feels a little bit stiff to clench a

fist at the moment and that's probably a

good thing because I don't want to

reopen that wound any any more than it

is. But overall I'm quite pleased with

the way that that looks and feels.

Yeah and luckily no breaks or tears or ...

No... other damage to ligaments or nerves hmm. Lucky boy. Yes. No sick days allowed here!

Back to editing for me.

Yeah but good job we're not sailing isn't it? Yes.

The other day the glass jar of the

plunger machine that I make coffee in

broke and I realized that would probably

happen again

if I get another one, seeing as how we're

on a moving boat. So I looked at some

alternatives to making decent coffee

because I'm a bit of a coffee snob but

really given that we've got shore power

rarely and most of the time it's solar

power I didn't think that electric

espresso machines would work. So I

discovered that there are a few brands

of hand pressed espresso machines and

I've actually got one.

I've ordered it and it's arrived today

and I'm really excited. So let's just

have a look and see what we get and then

we'll see how it works!

All righty ... Coffee pods ...

A hand tamper for pushing down

the coffee. A little travel case so that

if we go off onto an island somewhere I

can get myself some ground coffee

all ready

to turn it into proper espresso.

So this is a Handpresso pump and it's a set so

This one is fully hand operated. It has

16 bar of pressure which is why I got

the set because I figured it was... because

it was reduced it was the same price as

just buying the handpress thing and the

tamper so I figured this was a really

good value.

Four little unbreakable espresso cups,

aren't they gorgeous? And this is a

vacuum flask. It just shows you what

temperature the water is, how cool is

that?

This is the machine itself.

I'm so

excited I'm gonna make myself a coffee!

This is the first time I've used this

machine so you'll have to bear with me!

We'll see what we get! Now I've read the

instructions. Basically the first thing

I'm going to get ready is the little

coffee basket. So you just press it down like

that. And then it's time to pump the air

into the machine.

But wait until it gets

on to the little green line.

Here we go.

It's on the green now. I'm going to close the handle

So the next thing that we do is we put water in it.

Take the lid off. And this is hot water that I

prepared earlier!

Then you put the coffee in.

Then you put the lid on

And then you turn it over.

Huh! Oh look at that!

I think I over squooshed it.

I'll just wipe it up

I think maybe I put too much pressure in!

And then I'm gonna add a little bit of

cold milk coz I do like milky coffee.

Cheers

Oh, that's really nice!

Guess what we've hired a car again!

Woohoo!

And

the reason for hiring the car is because

our connections in Australia and the USA

for scuba diving gear for Aannsha didn't

quite pan out the way we wanted it to so

we're now heading back to Murcia and we're

going to buy all of Aannsha's scuba diving

equipment there. We've bought quite a lot of

stuff off Casco Antiguo in Murcia and

they're a decent shop they've got a

good range of stuff and the staff are

very helpful. Yea. So we're heading out there.

Then on the way back we're going to call

in to San Pedro del

no, San Pedro del Pinatar where there

is another Deutsche Bank because that's

where we can use the ATM for free and

we're going to grab out some more cash

because it's always good to have cash on

hand. Then we're gonna go shopping. Yes

For food and groceries

and other things for the boat so is

another big list! And also we've got to go

to one of these fabulous Chinese bazaars

that contain everything under the sun

Yeah. Because we need to buy two large

pool noodles which are going to be put

on to a certain part of the stainless

steel davits system on the back of the

boat to protect the dinghy from rubbing

against the stainless steel. And that's

just today!

I know! I'm feeling tired already thinking

about it! But I'm perked up on my new

coffee machine coffee so I'm all right!

Well let's get to Murcia! Yeah let's

go buy some scuba gear. Yeah.

Look at all

my stuff!

I'm so excited because I can now go

diving because I've got everything I

need. So in no particular order, this is a

surface marker that we inflate and it

shows people that we're diving so they

don't hit us if they're in a boat.

This one is my dive torch and it's got a

battery that recharges and it also take

two triple A batteries and it's really

good. It's 700 lumens I think so it's

pretty spiffy. That's that one.

This my dive knife which

doesn't have a pointy end so I can't

kill myself or anyone else but if I get

caught I can easily open it and cut

myself away so that's really very useful.

I've got two sets of dive boots

I've got winter ones which have socks,

thermal socks and I've also got slightly

smaller ones which are for summer wear

which don't require socks.

Got my you beaut

fins

which are easy to get on and off and the fella

in the shop fitted to my feet.

Dive gloves. Very important so you don't put

your hand on anything sharp like a sea urchin

A free carrier bag!

And this has got my first stage and second stage

regulator and

octopus in it.

Dive hood.

The all important

thing that a girl has to wear it when

she's cleaning bottom of the boat.

So I don't get things in my ears. Because apparently there's tiny little shrimps and things and when

you scrape them off the the hull

sometimes they go in ... because they're

looking for somewhere to live ... so they

can get in your ears and that's not good.

And this is my

BCD - buoyancy compensator device - and it's

absolutely fantastic because for the

first time ever in my whole life of

diving which hasn't been that long so

far it fits! It fits perfectly. When I was

learning to dive I had the choice of two

different BCDs. One of them was Luke's

that I borrowed and it was massive and

when I was in the water you know I was

down here and the BC was up here

and that was not good. And then the other

one that had was a friend of ours Gordo

lent me his friend's pink one and it was

great but it didn't really fit me

properly. It was a girls one but it was too

small. So this is perfect!

I know it has pink piping. Not my favorite colour coz I'm an

aqua girl. But I love it to bits!

And we all know I love aqua!

This is my beautiful 5ml wetsuit

and again first one I've ever had that

actually fits me. It's fabulous!

The baby of

the babies is my dive computer watchy-type thing.

So I'm set to go girl!

Mediterranean and other waters here I

come!

Next time on Sailing A B Sea we check out

the Spanish, French and Italian Air Force

acrobatics teams and even more parcels

arrive.

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