In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we really find out what the consequences are 2 years after running aground. 2 years after running aground this happens and...

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We do have a lot of smoke coming out of the exhaust.

I'm literally going to start work on

the engine today in particular the

exhaust section. I'm feeling very

trepidatious about it.

It's Monday morning and that means it's the first

day at work. Not too far to wonder or

hobble in some person's cases from our

abode to the boat - literally 100 metres

just got to duck under a few other people's boats

that's all. Don't want to bang your noggin on the

first day on the job.

And there she is

Actually just before we start work Aansha's

just gonna move some of her jewellery

making equipment and artist equipment

from the boat to the studio we're

staying at, then I can move all of the

bedding from both of the aft berths

forward into the princess suite because

I'm literally going to rip those apart

and start work on the engine today. In

particular the exhaust section of the

engine and see how that goes.

I'm feeling very trepidatious about it

Is that a word, "trepidatious?" Yeah I think so.

Yeah that's a word now. Yeah I'm just

hoping it's not as bad as I'm thinking

it is in my mind. We'll find out I guess

The starboard aft cabin is now

empty of the mattress. Just let me show

you this thing here. That there is diesel

engine soot and that's how much soot was

running around in the engine bay and

creeping up through the gaps. A few

things that were on the shelf are

certainly gonna need to be washed

thoroughly but first let's find out why

we have that soot in the engine bay. It's

a dirty job but somebody's got to do it

I've just spent the morning in the engine

bay taking apart the exhaust system

So this is the exhaust mixing elbow, the

hot exhaust fumes come out of the engine

and go in here, the hot water from the

engine cooling system comes in here, they

mix in here and they exhaust outta here

That's all pretty good in fact it's in

fairly decent nick considering but your

biggest problem is that we've got a big

rusted hole in here - very big hole

That's where all the soot was coming out

of and basically that means it's cactus

it is a cactus exhaust elbow and we need

a new one. We do. Okay well that's ... is that sort

of better than you'd hoped in one sense?

Looking at it I'm very pleased with the

way it looks but obviously you know the

engine bay is sooty. Tell me about it.

I've washed my hands since I finished work.

Baz you didn't do a very good job

did you? And whose sink did you use?

So erm. Okay. All right

so well done. Yeah. All right so

what's your next job? Next move is to

clean the engine and the engine bay as

much as possible. Okay

Just looking at

the port side of the engine this is the

hole that the exhaust gasses come out of

the engine and they mix with water in

the exhaust elbow that's here and

everything goes out through that

pipe there. So we've got the exhaust

elbow off and we've had the holes in it

repaired but next week we're going to

hire a car and go to a town on the north

of the island where a guy custom makes

exhaust elbows from stainless steel, so

we're going to take it up there to him

and find out what sort of cost that

would be to get one made. Another job

that needs doing before we put

everything back together is to take the

heat exchanger off the engine and give

that a good inspection and clean out. We

do believe that there are some bits of

impeller rubber somewhere hiding in there.

And because of all the diesel soot

that was being blown out of the hole in

the mixing elbow we've got to have a

pretty big cleanup of the engine overall

Here we are looking at the engine from

the starboard side and this space here

is where the air filter air intake is so

that's all got to be really really

cleaned up and ... to make sure that we've

got a lot of that diesel soot that was

being blown into the engine compartment

by the broken exhaust elbow, that's all

going to be cleared up and there's a

heck of a lot more cleaning to be done

here. This is an oil filter and it was put

onto the engine exactly the same time as

this fuel filter was and you can see it is

very very dirty with the soot,

so lots and lots of cleaning needed to be done here

These are the inspection

hatches which have been removed so we

can get easier access to the engine

while we're working on it but they've

got a sound deadening foam on them and

the diesel soot has really really

penetrated into the foam so we're going

to have a look at how we can clean them

up and see what they look like when

we've had to go cleaning them up. It

might be that we might have to replace

all of this sound deadening foam and

while we've got the after starboard

cabin in disarray we will be removing

this big piece of plywood which is the

base for the bed

so that we can get better access to the fuel tank.

We want to basically just have a look in there

see if there's any sludge in the bottom

of the tank and also check for diesel bug

Just having a look inside the

exhaust elbow that has been repaired you

can see in there some globules of liquid

which is still seeping out of the metal

so it has been repaired but obviously

there's a lot more going on inside there

than meets the eye.

There is the solder where the repair was

made. The guy here at the yard

actually fabricated a whole new neck but

yeah a new one would be preferable to

sticking this back on because it does

obviously have a limited shelf life

We have spent some time taking the caulking

or Sikaflex away from the deck and keel

joint and it's not looking too bad at

all on the port side here but when we go

around to the starboard side that's not

looking too bad but we now have another

concern here. This is something that has

been filled and it is weeping quite a

lot. It's not too much of a concern

really because the keel is actually a

solid piece of iron so obviously

something's being filled here so we're

gonna have to take that right back down

to the iron and find out what's going on

in this area. So the deeper we dig more we find

This is looking at the port side of the

keel and it's dried out quite nicely. I

think what we're probably going to try

and do is strip back the keel to the

bare metal and you know put it put epoxy

primer on it quite a few layers of that

and then also obviously anti foul.

Here on the starboard side ... while we were

scraping all of this away we noticed a

little bit of a weeping happening here

and it looks like it's being filled but

filled wrong, there's a little bit of a crack in

there but again that has dried out quite

nicely but when we take the keel back to

the bare metal we'll have a look at

exactly what's going on here and and do

this job properly from the beginning. We

can also see if we look up at the hull

you can see here the outline of where

the hull was wet so again we're going to

take the antifoul and everything else

off from here and see exactly what's

going on there in the hull and put

everything back together again so quite

a big job coming up on this.

It's a tad cold today isn't it love? A tad cold?

And Nikos has just sent me a video of the

pass over Evia to Chalkis and I

don't think it's helping somehow

Why? I just hate the snow,

and cold and ... So it's - why?

There's snow up there yeah. Wow. Yeah

um you know I was born to live at the

equator and not at these latitudes. Okay so

how many layers have you got on to keep warm?

T-shirt, sweater, hoody, scarf and the

inner lining from my wet weather gear

Okay and how about your feet? Oh my feet

I'm definitely going to have to put my shoes on

because these slippers are just not

doing it for me. Even though ...

Even though I'm right

next to the heater - fan heater - it's just not doing it

Poor boy

Well here's a bit of a surprise

we're in a car and it's not our car

because neither of us are driving. And it's a warm car

it's a warm car as well. Sunday lunch

time we heard a knock on the door and when

we opened the door to our surprise there

stood Nikos. He'd actually brought to our

place the oil heater that he hasn't been

using for some time so to keep us warm

throughout the winter which is very kind.

And now Nikos

is - Hello - is taking us to one of the towns up north and we're going to go have a beer

And lunch. Yeah.

And this is his lovely wife Kaliope

Yassas! Hello!

Cool!

Some of our viewers have actually said "how

come you never show the beers actually being drunk?"

So Cheers! Cheers!

We're actually in Limni at the moment having a couple of beers and waiting for

Greek lunch time to roll around which is a little bit later than midday and then

we're going to go to a restaurant

We're going to have something to eat

and to have Aannsha

read us more Greek phrases. Okay!

I'll be fluent by the end of today! Oh

yeah, or you think you will!

You should tell us all about you know, foreplay and after

It's so pretty

We felt so sorry for Baz with his cold

feet and noticed that he had lots of

holes in his socks which he hadn't told

me about so we bought him three new

pairs and they're nice and thick so he's

got lovely warm feet now!

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