In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we come to the end of our sailing for 2019 and experience our first haul out in nearly 2 years. At Livaditis boat yard the...

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We've just met Harris. Yes he's a lovely bloke

and he explained the procedure for

getting the boat onto the sled for the haul out tomorrow morning which is happening

around about 7:30 / 8 o'clock so tonight

is officially our last sunset on board

for the year of 2019.

It's been a heck of a

journey so far and now we're gonna be

spending at least four maybe even five

months on the hard. There's a lot of work

to do. We're gonna share it all with you.

You'll love this stuff, anyhoo

that's not the point, we'll talk about the maintenance later but right now we're just gonna say a big

cheers

and thank you - and thank you - to our

patrons, our subscribers and our followers

it's been great, yeah the feedback that

we've got from our viewers on a lot of

our videos throughout this year

it's really helped us make decisions on

various things on board so we really do

appreciate your comments and your feedback.

It's really nice to know you

are with us you know, like, because it's

just the two of us old farts on the boat

you know most of the time and so

just knowing that you guys and gals are on

the journey with us even if it is

through a screen and you know just

when you talk to us, it's fabulous, so

yeah thank you for being with us

Cheers! Cheers!

We're gonna be living in a house, yeah,

well not a house, a kind of a little room. I don't

know if this camera will pick it up. I'll try and show you.

So that's the boat yard and if I zoom in, just

there, there are, I don't know, maybe four

or six or eight rooms and we're gonna be

in one of them for probably a couple of

months while all the major jobs are done

on board and then once we've got the boat

back in a livable condition we'll move

back on board the boat and live on the

hard. It's such a lovely setting, it's

surrounded by tree covered hills and

well nearly mountains in some parts, yeah

and then it's got a lovely view across

the Evia channel to the mainland of

Greece. It's gonna be good

Yeah yeah. I am actually looking for... I

mean I love being on board and I'm also

looking forward to being in a house for

a while. Just for a change with a shower. Oh hot

showers and unlimited water oh my gawd such luxury

I mean we do have how shower but we don't have unlimited water so there's a rub you know.

Yeah. So if there's any water maker people

that would like to sponsor us yay!

Yeah, 12-volt water maker company send one

our way we'll show it - we'll give it a great review if it works well once we've installed it. Yeah anyway I think

it's time to go in. Anyway nighttime now.

It's 7:30 in the morning and I'm wearing

shades. Why? Because these are my long-distance

glasses that also happen to be shades

And today is the day we get this lady out

of the water and onto the hard for the

winter of 2019 into 2020.

Is that GoPro on? [A] Yes.

Thank you, so when you slip the line just let me

know where the buoy is.

[A] Then I've got to untie that and get in the boat

Yeah yeah yeah [A] Oh okay.

I'm gonna be cruising around, you can get in that dinghy

any time you want, [A] Okay. [B] I'm not going straight for it. So yeah slip it and let me know where

the buoy is. Let me see if the bow thruster

will work in the other direction

[A] Yeah that's working. It's moving away from us

So if you want to hop in the dinghy and

go and do your thing, [A] I'll do my best!

I'm gonna have to get some head way.

There she goes.

Alright off you go on your mission.

Yassas.

Welcome! Thank you!

Okay

Holy crap that was unnerving. Whoa

I guess we're on the sled

Welcome captain. Welcome. Thank you, efharisto

It'll be five months before she sees that water again.

How bad is she?

[A] Looks like she needs a good shave.

[B] A good shave!

Hey well done Baz.

Ooh a camera on camera action baby. Yeah!

We've got our winter home organized

Where we are it's surrounded by olive

trees. We've got hills in the background and

we've got the sea in front of us, it's

really pretty.

Look what we've got.

This was a gift from Jeff and Lena Bey who we

met at the hot spring Kythnos, yeah in Greece

and this is one of several bottles of

wine that they kindly gifted to us, yeah and

this is from Champagne, this is proper

champagne and we've decided that this

was going to be kept for this very

special moment because today was the day

that A B Sea got hauled out of the water for

winter time. Yep

And we are in a lovely little studio

apartment while she gets work done her

Barry works on her, so today is a day for

celebration. So Jeff and Lena thank you

So we've got our port and starboard

glasses thanks to Jim by the way. Yes Jim

Furness thank you very much for the glasses wonderful

So here's to all of our followers and subscribers

and our patrons and our Buy us a Beeries and

it's gonna be an interesting winter it

certainly is. We're taking two days off

Saturday today, Sunday tomorrow, yeah and

then Monday boom! Back to work. Hard work

Cheers! Cheers!

Ooh that's nice, thank you. That is good

thank you very much.

It's Tuesday today

and we're in the taxi going to the

nearest Medical Centre so I can have an

x-ray because after a week since I sprained my

ankle I still can't walk on it so we need to

know what it is, so we're going... it's 35

kilometres away and we're getting a taxi

and he's very kindly waiting for us so

that he will bring us back to Limni

so we'll let you know what the results are

Monday morning and I'm just heading over

to A B Sea, just ducking underneath another

boat that's on it stand here and it's

just a quick job really to do this

morning. I've got to put away the bimini

and probably fold down the spray hood as

well because there's a bit of a wind

coming from the south and this whole

yard is quite open to the south so

I'm just reducing the surface area that

the wind can potentially catch on

Shouldn't take too long but it's

something that needs to be done and then

it's back to the office to edit more videos

So I can quite happily just fold the

spray hood down and the wind blowing

strong will keep it down. It'll stop it

acting as a scoop anyway

Well that's that lot done. The wind is

only meant to pick up later this

afternoon and blow through the night and

then the week after that it should be

all fine and while I was just down on

the beach I picked up this load of nylon

string. The waves had blown it up onto

the beach we don't want them taking it

back out into the water to get wrapped

around somebody's prop so it's going in

the bin. Wednesday morning and this is

what we're waking up to, a nice bit of

proper rain, the first proper rain we've had for a long

time and we're just getting ourselves together here

and today is definitely a day that we're

not going to be working on the boat, we

are going to be working on computers. Just

catching up on social media, Aannsha's

just about to put together a sale of her

jewelry in time for Christmas and on our

seats here we have some pillows because

it supports our back a bit better, these

these chairs are for leaning back in and

relaxing while sipping a cocktail not

working on the computer and here's Aannsha

just putting their moon boot on for the

day. My little morning routine. Yes it's been a few weeks

and still a few more weeks to go how's it feeling now?

I can walk on it now

that's good. But yeah no the ligaments

are still sore. So proper rain as I was

saying, not a lot of wind associated with

it so it's just sort of like falling

down vertically. Time to hit the

computers. I'm gonna be working on a

special project today which we're going

to put out sometime around about the

Christmas/New Year period and

it's kinda like an in-depth look at

our journey from Turkey to here in

Greece over this last year. I think

you'll enjoy it. Before we end this

episode I'd just like to take this

opportunity to welcome on board our

latest patron and that is Jay Shafer

thanks very much Jay for becoming part

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