In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we are taking our dinghy for a test drive, having a new masthead light installed, opening even more parcels and we get fro...

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Did I mention that the marina we're

staying at is directly underneath the

flight path for San Javier Airport and

the San Javier also is the home to

Spain's air force aerobatics team> Well

today San Javier airport is closed

because the team and some of their

friends from France and Italy are

out playing.

So that was it it's three o'clock, it's

time to go home now. We've seen all the

planes flying upside down, backwards,

forwards, looping the loop and going...

smokey. Smokey. That's the word for today smokey. Yeah

So back to the boat. Time for a cold beer

and... Instead of a warm one? Instead of a warm one yeah. I think

I might change shower actually. Get the

sand off. Sounds like a plan.

Once again the courier has dropped off

some parcels for us. I know that one of

them is from the dive shop in Murcia. We

ordered some stuff online from them and

that's arrived. This one here is from the

UK and I'm believing that this one has

actually got most of our courtesy flags

in here. So we're just going to open it

up and see exactly what's in there

because I've done so many online orders

now I'm getting confused as to which one

I actually ordered and which one I'd

like to order and which one's been

delivered in which one hasn't. So let's

open it up and find out what's in there

eh? So this one is definitely from the UK

Courtesy flags. We've got to fly these

whenever we enter the territorial waters

of a any given country and for us

obviously being around the Mediterranean

that means Cyprus and Malta and France

and Italy and Greece and all those sort

of things. Spain of course. We've even

got a dive flag included in this package

as well because obviously that's one of

the main things we're going to be doing

onboard is scuba diving. When we

eventually get the ship's name

registered from Corajero to A B Sea and

we're registered in the UK then we'll be

flying the British Red Ensign flag off

the back end of the boat. So that's our

flags. Also very important, as we found

out when I did this, is having one of

these things onboard is vitally

important. This gives us a lot of the

basic materials and then we'll add to it

as we go through this box and decide

what else we're going to need it in our

first-aid kit.

Safety on board for us as just a

short-handed two-person crew is vital

and one of the things that is quite

important are these jack lines or jack

stays as they're sometimes also called. Now these things run along the side

decks of the boat and they go from the

cockpit area right forward to the bow

and once we actually are sailing and we

are wearing our life vests with our

harnesses on, whenever we exit the

cockpit

we will always hook ourselves

onto these jack lines and that way

fingers crossed we shouldn't go

overboard if

the boat lurches around or something like

that. So we've got two of these. One for each side

of the boat. This little tiny thing is a

flashing strobe light and this will

mainly be used for when we go on night

dives. We'll take the dinghy out, drop the

anchor and attach this to the anchor

line as a flashing strobe and that way

we'll always be able to find exactly

where we parked the dinghy.

That's important if we want to come home

after the night dive! So that's a cute

little thing. Another handy thing that we

need on board are these plastic tank

boots. We've got our scuba tanks out here

at the moment. They normally live in the

locker down there but there's stuff

going on that's getting fixed there. So

these are to protect the boat, not

to protect the tanks. So we've got four

of those. Another thing that we're

planning on doing is catching our own

dinner; in particular reef fish and

cray fish or lobsters and so we bought

this spearfishing gun.

It's a Mares spearfishing gun.

It's the PS55 if anybody's interested

in numbers and this basically is just

going to be used for catching some

dinner, if we can.

Now the rain is coming

down

we might actually film that a little bit

later on

otherwise everything including the

cameras are going to get wet that's not

a good idea.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this but a

couple of weeks ago when Fernando was

doing something with the engine the

engine starter battery exploded,

literally exploded! So that's been

replaced. These are our Varta 12-volt 95

amp hour batteries sealed units so no

maintenance and of course once we've got

them in we'll write the date on them

that they were installed so we can

remember that easily in the future. Just

for good measure because the three house

batteries are also of the same brand, the

same model and the same date, we're

replacing all three house batteries at

the same time so we just had the new

ones delivered they're going to get

fitted in underneath the bunk down below.

Our boat's going to have the cherry

picker treatment this morning. Hehe, it's a bit

exciting! So we're going from here, our

berth, to just over there. So I'm gonna go and

walk around.

Monday morning and Jose is back at the helm but we're not going

very far. In fact we're only going from

there

to there. Because that cherry picker

that's over there is going to be used

to install a light up our mast.

Okay and the next adventure is we've got

our tender and our new outboard

installed on the tender. Baz is just putting

the paddles - the oars - on and we're going

to take her out for test drive. Excited Baz?

It's going to be a lot of fun! Yay!

Next week on Sailing A B Sea we get down and

dirty with a toilet repair plus we get

new flares and a new life raft. You can

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