In this episode of Sailing A B Sea you'll see what it's like living life at anchor in Formentera Spain. Aannsha has her first birthday on board, Baz does the...
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The Sun is just about to pop its head
over the horizon over my shoulder here
and that means it's about seven o'clock
in the morning and I just wanted to show
you something today a little bit of
daily life here at the main anchorage
of Formentera in the Spanish Balearic
Islands.
This is what the anchorage looks like at seven o'clock in the morning
and we'll progress through the day right
through to when the sun goes down over there.
It's now about 2 o'clock in the afternoon
and this is what it looks like
surrounding our boat right now.
Okay off to the foredeck for one last
look around before I wrap this little
segment up for the night. Been a long day. Gotta be up early tomorrow, it's Aannsha's birthday.
It's now ten to eight at night
and the herd is starting its daily
migration back to Ibiza. A lot of the
smaller boats have gone. What we're left
with now is either big boats that are
going to stay the night or big boats
that are leaving to overnight passage
somewhere else.
Today is Aannsha's birthday and although
she's not expecting anything I just saw
the Postie drive past and drop something
off at the mailbox so I've been up on into
the cockpit and picked it up so... She
normally doesn't like getting up at this
time of day. This is the one day of the
year that she does get up early because
she's getting pressies and stuff like
that. [Pressies!]
Hello birthday girl the postie's just
been [Oh wow I wasn't expecting anything!] and delivered that in a dry bag.
Oh wow, happy birthday! Ooh! Oh! Ohh!
This is from Kaz. I know this is from Kaz!
That's the most beautiful thing. Ah look. That's
why you asked me about dolphins and
turtles isn't it? Which did I prefer? Yes.
Baz it's beautiful. Kaz it's beautiful. Look. Look at the back, oh my god!
I bet this is the only card you get! Have a
great birthday!
That is absolutely gorgeous look I'm gonna wear it
That's beautiful, isn't it?
So there you go.
Thank you. Now. Oh I'm all teary-eyed now.
Bacon and eggs for breakfast?
I'm just gonna put this on and I'm gonna get a necklace thing.
Wow thank you and I'm
gonna read my happy birthday messages on
facebook.
Ermagerd. Alright while
you do that I'll go make bacon and eggs.
Thank you, thank you
I'm doing the dance.
I'm doing the Rollie dance!
Thank You Jose and the team at Marina
Estrella Murcia. It's my birthday. This
is a nice treat!
In our little plastic [yeah]
champagne glasses!
Cheers!
Cheers! Thank you!
And happy birthday. Thanks love. Cheers to you too!
So many of you have wished me happy birthday on
Facebook and in Messenger and I just want to say thank you,
thank you very much I really really
appreciate that you said hello and wished me happy birthday.
We are musicians.
Oh, where?
In Formantera.
Okay so you do this
Yeah in the day so we can save our money
Excellent, good idea.
Where are you guys from?
We're from Australia but we sold [our house] we sold everything in Australia and bought this boat.
Nice. We're on YouTube, do you watch
YouTube? Yeah.
You'll be on the on the video.
We wish you all the best with your music
Thank you
So you just got your birthday wish
because we thought they weren't coming
around. These guys here they just cruise
this place making up drinks and
cocktails with ice.
Oh that's fabulous
it's a caipirinha YUM!
2 straws, you can share! Yeah
Otherwise, I'll get s$%^ faced!
I know!!
Happy birthday.
Again! OMG they just keep coming!
Well, well this morning has been a
bit exciting because we have managed to
get the tender and the outboard together
in the water. We were very lucky because
a very nice man in a dinghy came up and
helped us at the last minute when it was
swinging a bit a bit heavily for Baz
and me it was yeah I think we'll work it
out next time a little bit better. What d'you reckon Baz?
I reckon that we should get ourselves
some sunscreen, cold water and go and take a tour
of the anchorage
Sounds like a fabulous idea
Today's little challenge - the outboard
motor hasn't been firing properly. It
either needs full choke or it cuts out
and Baz is in the tender now
looking to find out what the problem is.
So what began as a fine-tuning of the
throttle idle speed turned into
something else because when I went to
flick the ignition switch upwards to the
on position
it's actually controlled by a kill
switch so when the kill switch came out
yesterday it's snapped the plastic bit
of the kill switch because this sits at
this angle goes up for on, down for off
So I've had to sort of like semi
disassemble the kill switch. So here's the
spring for it, there's a little rubber
thing for it and that's the kill switch
itself and with a screwdriver I managed
to flick the little switch inside into
the run position so we can actually
get the engine started. I've managed to
do the tick-over speed which is okay
for now. We'll see how it goes but at
least it's not going to die on us now
when we most need it in the middle of a
battle between several ferries and we we
have an engine die, it's not the best place
in the world for that to happen. So
throttle is good, kill switch is bollocksed
I've taken some photographs I'm going to email
them back to Jose so when we get back to
the marinain Las Salinas he can
already have the spare part waiting to
be put in because it's a brand new
engine.
And that's just this morning
As part of Aannsha's birthday treat
we're going to teach her how to dive off
the side of a boat. She doesn't like
diving off the back platform which is a
foot away from the water er I think we're
about I know three and a half feet away
from the water on the side here. But we're
going to teach hernot to be afraid of
water.
It might require a few beers.
but look at this. Look at this! It's days like today
these are the reasons why
just simple stuff
The Sun is getting her head just above
the horizon and we are going scuba
diving off the back end of our boat!!
Gotta get this dinghy out the way first
You ready? Yep!
Well that's unfortunate we
put Aannsha's gear together, of course its
brand new and it works perfectly and
even though I did a test dive just a
couple of days ago we just put my gear
together and I noticed there was a leak
coming from my power inflater
connection on the first stage so I took
it out and I don't know if you can see
that but the thread, if I move my head out
the way the camera will focus on that
rather than me, but the thread has
completely sheared.
So I thought well okay I'll get my old
one out so I got my old one out and put
it in into the first stage and that
thread
again I don't know if this is going to
focus on that to bring it in from here
and that thread has completely sheared
off too inside the first stage so that
means that dive's cancelled and I've got
to get a new first stage and two new
power inflator hoses. Still we can go for
a snorkel hey?
That sucks
Toes to the edge.
So it's definitely inflated isn't it?
Oh yes.
And there you have it the main Anchorage
at Formentera with the herd arriving and
departing. We'll be departing in a few
days too. Right now we're just waiting on
the wind to change direction and become
strong enough to blast us up to the
southwest tip of Ibiza and then we're
gonna go up the west coast of Ibiza and
find ourselves a nice little anchorage
there somewhere.
I think we've been here long enough. It's
been nice, it's been great, it's been a
very very good learning curve watching
all the boats come in and leave and
figuring out how close everybody anchors
to everybody else so yeah it's been a
great experience in Formentera but it's time
to move on.
Next week on Sailing A B Sea, Baz
has to put his big-boy pants on again as
we refuel before leaving Formentera and
we enjoy a proper sail to Ibiza. If
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