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So we actually sat down today, yeah and

talked about it, yeah. Like you were saying we

have a hire car for a week and it's

a beautiful day to go out exploring and

filming and everything else but I was

just brought to a screeching halt and I

thought I just don't want to do that today.

This is just just blows your mind basically.

Day 2 of car rental and we are heading south

to Chalkida and we are going to meet up

with a couple of Aussie sailors who have

their boats down in the marina there for

the winter, hopefully gonna have a go for

a beer with them. We're also hopefully

going to be ticking a few more things

off our hardware shopping list and if we

get time do a little bit of sightseeing

Yes! Now you had a look at some places

to go yesterday didn't you? Yeah I did - the closest place in Chalkis is the castle, the fort

that was over the boat actually. Yeah we were

anchored underneath the fort area

Yeah so that would probably be our first

choice to go to. Yeah, we like old stuff

We do! We're also expecting some snow

remnants on the pass, the high pass

and if there is we'll film it for you!

There's snow on the road look

Well we've just driven up to the parking

at the castle here and Chalkida. We've left

it a little bit late, it's it's nearly

four o'clock now. Well we didn't get here

till 12:30 because of stuff we were

doing this morning and then we've

literally spent the whole of the time

sitting on our new friend's boat - chatting - talking about

boat stuff and places we've been. Yeah good time.

So we just found out that

this place closes at 3:30, it's now close

to four o'clock. In the winter it's only

open Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays so

Thursday the car's got to go back,

Sunday is no good coming here because

we want the shops to be open, so

Tuesday is the day that we will be back in Chalkida

Now it's time to drive back over the pass back

to Limni and do what we've got to do.

This morning I woke up feeling - despair I

think is the word. The biggest problem

we've got at the moment is unknowns and

specifically unknowns about the keel and

the condition it's in. And when I have

unknowns I can't make a decision and

that basically brings me to a screeching

halt. If I have facts and figures in

front of me I can make an instant

decision and things work out pretty good

The keel on the other hand is so unknown.

And I've been feeling ... because we haven't

really talked about it together have we?

No. I think we've both been sort

of you know not wanting to worry the

other person so I've been lying awake at

night thinking of all the worst-case

scenarios that could possibly happen you

know supposing supposing the hull is

compromised you know with salt water

ingress, supposing the bolts are

really badly corroded, you know lots of

things. So we actually sat down today - today yeah -

and talked about it - yeah like you were

saying we have a hire car for a week

and it's a beautiful day to go out

exploring and filming and everything

else but I was just brought to a

screeching halt and I thought I just

don't want to do that today, this is

it just it just blows your mind basically.

So we've sat down now and over

a couple of beers begun to make a

flowchart if you like of jobs that

need to be done and a separate sort of

flow chart for the keel situation and it

feels good just to be doing that

actually doesn't it coz yeah you know like

it gets it out of your head - Yes yeah it does

and it we know that once we start work

cuz we can't do until we get the tools from ...

the, oh Nikos has

got an oscillating cutter which we're

going to use to unglass the keel bolts

What we're going to do is with the keel

bolts it's probably going to be four in

the middle and then two at the front and

back. We're going to take diagonally

opposed ones from the middle and then

cut the glass away from them

pull those bolts. Now when we pull the

bolts two things are going to happen or

one of two things are going to happen: We're

gonna pull them and they're going to be

schmick which is the best case scenario,

we're going to pull them and they're

going to be bollixed - that's a technical term by the way (and worst case scenario) and then we'll unglass

the other six bolts and inspect those as

well. And take it from there really

you know. The worst case scenario is the

bolts are all bollixed and I don't think

they really are because the water that was

coming out from the hull and keel

joint was just clear water no rust, not rusty

yeah. So yeah. So the flow chart kind

of finishes there until we can actually

see it, so we've been working on other the

other maintenance side of things, you

know, the engine maintenance, fuel

maintenance and now we're looking at

instrument - wiring for the instruments. The wiring yeah

so we're sort of moving forward at least

in the planning stages I think. I think

we've been, well weather's stopped us for

a while didn't it because it was very

wet and very cold - cold - and just it

wouldn't have ... we couldn't have worked in

those conditions really and the other

thing has been I think we've both

been dragging our feet a bit you know cuz it's scary!

It's like opening Pandora's box. You want to see

what's in the box but you don't want to see

what's in the box! You've gotta be brave!

And I keep going back to, you know when we first bought the boat or even before that Baz said, you know

let's have an adventure. And I keep

going ... so when we see, when we sort of

come up against things that are scary I go back to

adventure movies in my head and I go well no

adventure movie is smooth, is it? No. It...

there's always a bad guy, there's always a

really at least one difficult situation

that the hero or heroine has to overcome

and that's what makes the movie good

that's what makes it an

adventure because you don't know what

the outcome's going to be well

unless it's a Holly movie then you

always do! So we're in a part of the

adventure of our life that is - we're just

about to possibly look at how bad the

bad guy is. Yeah. Yeah.

So anyway so that's

where we're at. Yeah. But it does feel good to

be actually at this stage now. Yeah. Cool

We're a team.

Team A B Sea continues!

A couple of days later

Juliano the boatyard guy came and sanded

the hull, the keel, the prop and the rudder

A warmest welcome to our newest patron

Simon Wallis, thanks Simon. We hope that

you and everyone can join us next week

as we take the hire car and discover

more of Evia island in Greece. We visit the

impressive natural hot springs at Edipsus

and we also notice the extent of

road damage that occurred during the

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