In this episode of Sailing A B Sea Aannsha has a rant about a mangle, we receive some gifts and our friend Nikos takes us to a beautiful waterfall. #SailingA...

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He's never gonna jump over those hurdles

with that buggy attached to the horse!

Oh you're a laugh a minute Baz!

We've just received an unexpected parcel in

the post from Canada and it comes from

Heinz who is one of our subscribers and

what he sent us is really gonna help us

out when we get to the final bits and

pieces we need to do on A B Sea before we

put her back in the water. What he sent

us is a cleaning product called

Brilleon and I know that the first

thing we're going to try and clean with

it is our dinghy. In the package Heinz

has kindly included a couple of

microfibre cloths which are going to be

very handy. I have watched the online

video about this product and I do know

that it is all-natural so it's very kind

to the environment which is always good.

A little note here says hopefully you

can get your boat now sparkling clean

all my best wishes, fair winds and calm

seas. Thank you for that. A couple of

brochures which we'll have to read on the

product. I mean this stuff apparently

cleans absolutely everything and

anything so we'll check those out and a

couple of little sponges, the hand clean

Ooh now that would be good for when we're cleaning the diesel soot! And two cans of the product

itself. This stuff apparently goes a long

long way because what you do is you wet

your the sponge that comes with it, you

make that wet then you rub a couple of

times onto the product itself and make

it go a little bit foamy by squeezing

the sponge and then you wipe it on the

surface you want to clean and hey presto

next thing you know it's super super

clean. So using this on the boat as I

said the first thing we're going to do

is clean the dinghy with it because that

needs a good clean and you'll actually see

the end results. So Heinz thank you very

much for sending these products through

to us we will definitely give them a

good workout when we get to the final

cleaning stages on A B Sea.

I'm very excited

today because I've had a delivery and

it's the hand laundry mangle or hand

wringer. It sounded by reading the

description as if it would stand up to

the environment on the boat because

everything's been coated to stop it from

corroding so let's just have a look at the

actual article. A little plate, handle. So this is

the mangle itself

I'll put it together and we'll see how

it works. Trying to get this, the water

assembly into the hand wringer is pretty

almost impossible it's like one side is

just just too high

to get it underneath the bit of metal

that's in there so I'm gonna get Baz on

the job I think, see if I'm doing it wrong.

It's not complex it's just difficult!

So it works

I got it together and it works. Sorry

about the glasses but it's very sunny

out here. There were a few things I was

disappointed with it was just about 5

euros more expensive than the

Collingwood (Calliger) which gets rave reviews

everywhere that I've been looking but

despite what the information on the

website on Amazon said it doesn't really

seem to be made of high quality

materials and it doesn't seem to have

been put together very well. It was made

in China and it seems like they must be

mass producing them because one of the

screws that actually holds it to the tub

is really really difficult to turn I

don't know if it's slightly cross

threaded and the top bar has got a

slight look of rust to it already so I

don't know ... you know they say it was

all treated with zinc but who knows

and also one of the blocks that's cut

that's inside of the mechanism it's been

really jaggedly cut you know there's

they've just obviously thrown it together

really quickly

The handle also wobbles at the place

where it's screwed on so I'll have to

put some electrical tape inside of the

join there so that it's it's nice and

firm and all of the screws that held the

rest of the mangle together were very

very loosely done so I'll have to go

around and tighten them properly. The

little water plate was very difficult to

install and Baz and I took ... I mean it

didn't take like hours it took us about

10, 15 minutes but we had to really think

about how we were going to do that so

that it would work. Apart from that it

does look as if it's going to do what it

says it will do so I'm excited to do the

first load of laundry although at the

moment I've got no dirty clothes for

anything so we're gonna have to wait for

that I've put a tea towel and a pair of

jeans through the mangle and you can

tighten and loosen the two rollers so

that you can get different thicknesses

through and it's wide enough to get

jeans through and I'm sure to do sheets

you know if you just fold them a couple

of times they'll all go through as well

so in practice I think it will make my

job a lot easier

when I'm back on the boat so I'm quite

glad that I've got it. I don't know that

it's necessarily worth the money that

they're charging for it. From reading

reviews on lots of websites the

Collingwood gets pretty much four and a

half five stars where if you look and I

was quite happy to pay the money for that.

Looking at this didn't have a lot

of reviews didn't seem to have had a lot

of people buying it I think probably

because most other places can get the

Collingwood but I just couldn't get it

delivered to Greece so that was the only

option I had. It was about five euros

more expensive than the Collingwood and

honestly if the Collingwood wringer is as

good as people say it is and that's

worth that value which I'll put on the

screen then this one

don't know. dunno... we'll see we'll see

how long it lasts because I will be

using saltwater we will just see how

long the parts last. It's very simply

made so if anything goes wrong with it

it could probably be fixed easily by us

Having said all of that having had my

little whinge about various things

I'm very very glad to have got it. I was so

excited when the parcel arrived today

and can you believe it can't wait to do

some laundry!

While we had the hire car I

suggested we go to Mantoudi Port to see

the eastern side of Evia Island. I

pictured a place to sit have a coffee

and take a look at the boats. But this is

what we found

Well when he said you would take me to

the beach ... it's not quite what I thought no ...

But I can't believe... so this is

like the eastern side of the island - yeah -

so that is the Aegean Sea and it's flat as a

pancake, it's like a mill pond. Looking at

the devastation on what technically is

beach I would say that it hasn't always

been as flat as a mill pond!

Okay and that's probably the ferry terminal

No. That's an industrial terminal

We decided to see if we could get closer to the

dock and check it out. Along the way we

found a big red toolbox on the road

Probably fallen off the back of

someone's truck

It's got tools in it. So I'm hoping that the locals know the locals

So I'm just going to leave it here and hopefully it will get back to its rightful owner.

As we were approaching the gate to leave the

toolbox at the gate the guy who was

looking after the place came out. Didn't

speak any English so it took a bit of sign

language to explain that we saw it on

the road and we were just hoping that he'd

know who it belonged to. Yeah. So either he's

got himself a toolbox or

it'll get back to the rightful owner

You did the right thing.

After dropping off the

toolbox we continued on to the ferry

dock but Flossy in our sat-nav didn't

know which road to take

Make a u-turn! Hahaha!

He is making a u-turn

Good driving Baz. Technically that was a

three-point turn. Yes Not bad though, considering.

Turn right. It's good job she's on the case. Whose

case I don't know but she's not always

been on our case!

We thought we'd go

there which is ferry terminal just to see

No no we don't want to go down. I don't want to go down.

I don't like the look of that road.

Let's have a look Baz

That's the road? Yeah. So there's definitely not a way

down there so we're going to backtrack on

ourselves get to a main road and

get to the main town.

One of the things

we've been noticing in the pine trees as

we've been driving around are these

cocoon-like structures and the fairly big

I mean that's probably as big as my hand

so we're just wondering if anyone can

tell us exactly what makes it, what lives

in there and does it bite?

Beehives

This is great! Nikos is bringing us

to a waterfall. Yeah we haven't been on

this road while we had the hire car so

this is a new little spot to check out and

this really is very nice up here is very

picturesque and we'll check that out

then we'll head back to Limni and have a beer

and buy Nikos lunch.

of course

Jim I found a juniper - we can

make our own gin! You'll have to wait a

while for it to grow

In our search for a taverna in a small

village we didn't have much luck, I think

the key is to have a Greek friend with

you and Nikos has just found out that

this place even though they're working

on it and getting it set up for the summer

they are actually opening and will sell

us food and drink

We'd like to take this opportunity to

say a big welcome to our newest patrons

Asa and Einer

thank you for joining us guys it's great

to have you with us

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