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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