In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we get lots of jobs done with help from our magic mechanic helper and Baz gets a full on pampering session at a Turkish ba...

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We were planning on taking our drone out

today to get some footage of the ruins

of the Hellenistic temple and the

ancient amphitheatre however the wind

and the rain gods said no you're not. So

we'll bring you that footage once we've

had a nice sunny day and a little less wind.

I am berating

myself for being a procrastinator. We've

been in Kaş for nearly six weeks now

and on the way over from Spain we made a

big to-do list and admittedly quite a

few the the big jobs on the to-do list

have been completed but since then not a

lot has been ticked off the list. So

today being a Monday I've decided to

hook into some of the the smaller jobs

on the list. One of the ones that I want

to do first is attach the fire

extinguishers to a bulkhead somewhere.

There's a fire extinguisher in the main

saloon underneath the companionway steps

and there's also a fire extinguisher in

every cabin but the ones in the cabins

are basically loose cannons they're a loose

item on a boat and that shouldn't be.

Especially when they weigh as much as

this. So today I'm going to go into town

and get the screws necessary to mount

these onto the bulkheads in each of the

individual cabins. That's one job, second

job is if you follow me over here to the

swim platform. This really is more of a

cosmetic job than anything else there

are two nuts and bolts that go through

here in this joint and this one here is

quite corroded because I think the the

bolt has been replaced with non

stainless steel belt and while I got it

off I used some steel wool to just

basically

clean up some of the rust stains. It's a

cosmetic thing but when I look at it

just the noise crap out of me.

The sun and the salt air basically rots

everything eventually and here on the

passerelle which we will be using next

week when we go stern to on the other

side of the harbour here at Kaş, the wheels

I'm not sure what sort of plastic they're

made of but basically they've been sun

damaged and if you look closely at this

one the plastic is so damaged that it's

actually just separated.

I have tried taking both of these nuts

off to see if I could actually get the bolt

out and take the wheels off just take

the wheels off but for some reason it

ain't doing it. So we're going to take

the whole passerelle up to the Magic Man

Aydan - he's got a workshop up in town and

leave it with him - as he will magically

make new wheels.

It's not far to walk to

Aydan's workshop but I will be carrying

the passerelle and so what we've decided

to do is make a little shoulder strap

and use a little bit of that pool noodle

as a extra support so the rope doesn't

dig into my shoulder too much on the

walk. Oh and in case you're wondering

about this we've also planned for this

rainy Monday afternoon to take myself to

the Turkish barber for the full monty.

That's going to be a lot of fun

Let's go see Aydan in his magic workshop.

So this is where Aydan's workshop is. Wait till you see inside it's a dream.

Aydan here today? Aydan at the marina. Okay

Today no. Tomorrow.

Okay good. This place if you want

anything fixing on your boat this place

is the place to come and one of the guys

from the marina had some stuff fixed

here and he got this sign made especially

for Aydan and this is so true Aydan is a magician.

Well Aydan was out at work at

the marina looking after somebody else

but his wife I think it was was quite happy

for us to leave the passerelle there and

he'll get on to it and get it sorted out and

we'll call back either tomorrow or

Wednesday. I think tomorrow he might be

going to Fethiye so it could be

Wednesday before we pick it up. Now this is

the thing that holds the fire

extinguishers and we'll go into a

hardware store now

and we will buy some nice stainless

steel bolts and nuts and washers so we

can get the fire extinguishers fixed

into place. One step at a time

Tea. ... You don't get this in Bunnings

Okay let's go do some fixin'

One of the major things on the list was

to service the furling mechanism for

both the mainsail and the head sail. We

not too bad getting the head sail out on

our trip across but we were very

reluctant to get the mainsail out

because it was just a pain in the bum.

A B Sea is a 1995 boat so she's 23 nearly 24

years old now and I think I can honestly

say that the previous two owners never

serviced the furling mechanism of either

the head sail or the mainsail.

So we addressed this situation when we

got into the bay next to Kaş marina. It

was a fairly simple procedure, we brought

out the mainsail and then released the

halyard to drop the mainsail and release

the sail from the track that's inside

the mast and once we had good access it

was a fairly simple procedure of pouring

copious amounts of hot water onto the

furling mechanism to basically dissolve

the build-up of salts that had happened

over the years. Let it dry for a few

hours and then applied liberal amounts

of a dry lubricant PTFE spray and gave

the the mechanism quite a good few turns

backwards and forwards to really make it

smooth run smoothly and loosely and then

it was just a question of putting

everything back together and reattaching

the sail, running the sail up and furling

it away and it basically works like it

should now.

While we had both sails down

one of the other jobs that we hooked

into was washing all of the lines and

halyards and sheets. Again I don't think

they've ever been done in the lifetime

that they've been installed on the boat.

They were filthy, I think I spent

somewhere in the region of three hours

hand-washing the lines in a big bucket

of water and the water was just black.

Then when we put all the lines back we

topped and tailed them because they sit in

one position for such a long time they

tend to get wear points where they

cross over pulleys and stuff like that

so by topping and tailing the lines we

moved those wear points to a different

part of the line and it basically

doubles the lifespan of the line we also

asked Aydan our magical mechanical guy to

manufacture some teflon washers for the

gooseneck on the boom. He did that in

short order and very very cheaply so now

the pivot points on the gooseneck of the

boom are all nicely protected from too

much metal against metal chafing. Cast

your mind back to when we were in Greece

and in particular exiting the Greek

island of Astypalaia. There was very

lumpy water and we had no choice but to

plow through it as best as we could. It

was at that point when one big wave came

over the bow here that we lost the lens

off our port navigation light. Well we've

also now completely replaced the whole

of the port navigation life fitting and

luckily for us the manufacturers that

make these navigation lights all use

exactly the same template for the

fitting holes on the back so it just

slotted nicely into the existing

stainless steel plate right here.

Our beautiful headsail which was used

the majority of the time when we had

wind on our trip from Spain to Turkey

was also taken down in a similar fashion

to the mainsail and again the furling

mechanism was disassembled, liberal

amounts of hot water were then applied

to dissolve any salt buildup and again

we used dry lube PTFE spray. This whole

unit here does come apart and I was

surprised how easily it disassembles and

it allowed us to get right into here and

remove the the furling line and get some

good lubrication right into the drum and

everywhere else. Only one slight problem

with the dry lube spray it does leave a

little bit of a kind of like an oily

residue on the surface. We had a go at

washing it off with some salt water but

that's obviously not been good enough

so I'm gonna have to come back here and

really get stuck into it with some sort

of proper cleaning agent. It looks a bit

well, it looks a lot grubby at the

moment.

Because we will be going stern to

in Kaş Harbour sometime this week we've

now got our dinghy mounted here on the

foredeck. She's upside down at the moment

so I can't show you the seat and how we

fixed it with swapping out the screws

for pop rivets but it works it works

perfectly.

So Zodiac please take note don't put

screws in to your seat fixings use pop

rivets they stay there longer. Yeah I

know what you're thinking she needs to

go clean to. I'll get around to that I'll put

it on the list!

And now we get round to our Mercury

eight horsepower outboard motor

Brand new motor came with a brand new

dinghy that we ordered. It was never set

up right in the beginning.

Now that disappoints me because Mercury

is a good name and maybe it was just the

the local franchise of Mercury where we

were that didn't do the job properly and

it wasn't until we actually got here to

Kaşand took the engine up to magic

helper

Aydan and his magic workshop that we

finally found out what the engine was

capable of and how it should run and how it should go into gear. Basically no

matter what the air temperature was I

was having to use full choke to get us

started and even then sometimes it was a

hit-and-miss affair. Ticking over well

she didn't really tick over it was more

like a splutter that was about to have a

heart attack and die. Putting it into

gear was a horrendous affair she would

clunk into gear and I figured something

was gonna break eventually.

But after taking her to Aydan and I don't

know what he did, she purrs like a kitten

and runs like a dream and smoothly slips

into and out of forward and reverse

thank you Aydan.

Now we're back on the

boat and just in time too because I can

see little drops of rain falling onto

the surface of the water and I can also

hear it on our shade cloth here. Stopping

for lunch

and then after lunch we're going to walk

back into town where we're going to go

to one of the many many many many

Turkish barber shops and do something

about this. I'm gonna get the full monty

and I think you'll enjoy the experience

as much as I'm going to.

While Baz is up on deck

filming and showing you some of the jobs

that he's already completed I'm going to

make lunch and I thought that I would

make a Turkish inspired chicken wrap.

First of all I'm going to make some mint

yogurt. Now I don't have any fresh mint

at the moment so I'm going to use some

dried mint I'll put a little bit of hot

water on just to soak it and soften it

and then I'll mix it with some lovely

yogurt. Fresh tomatoes. I go to the market

on a Friday and I buy all the fruit

veggies from there because it's they're so

fresh and so reasonable! ... She's

having a Fanny Craddock moment. If you don't

know who Fanny Craddock is google it

That shows that Barry is an ancient old man!

Love you. Love you too!

Mmmmm. Here y'are love.

Well that's lunch done now it's time to

head back into town and make myself look

fabulous. In Turkey the man is very much

pampered, there are more Turkish

barbershops per square foot in Turkish

towns than pretty much anywhere I've

ever seen.

Compared to Javea in Spain where there

was a female hairdressers shop on pretty much every corner.

Yeah walk five paces there's another female hairdresser shop.

The barber shop we're

going to is called Oktay and the reason

we're going there is because that's

where Mike goes so hopefully Oktay is free

and available - no he's got someone so

we'll have to come back.Oktay's

got a customer in at the moment

and he should be finished in about 10

minutes so we're going to take a seat

and that will give us a chance to sort

out the cameras.

I've so gotta give that a go!

That's a very contented face. Very.

Hey?

Very good.

Very good. Well that was fantastic. I would

recommend anybody to come and have that

whole thing done. It is an experience in

its own right and he has the best hands

they're so gentle when they need to be

and they're so firm when they need to be

and he's just skilled at his job. Yeah look at that haircut yeah beautiful.

Well that's it for this episode of Sailing A B Sea. Join us next week when we go

to Fethiye on a rescue mission for Aannsha's

Samsung phone and we'll do a few other

things as well but we're not quite sure

what they will be just yet.

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