In this episode of Sailing A B Sea our cutlass bearing is finally delivered, we get to the stage of putting our first coat of antifoul paint on the keel and rudder plus we tick off several cosmetic cleaning jobs. But having our cutlass bearing finally delivered is definitely the big moment for Baz.

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Transcript:
I was coming back from my loo break this

morning and Evgenia the lady

who runs the boatyard: "Barry come here"

presented me with this which is of

course our bearing

I just hope it's the right size

Moving down to ground level and

thankfully in the shade of A B Sea

now that the sun is higher in the sky

we're going to put the Sikaflex along

the hull and keel joint and we did speak

with a guy from Sikaflex and told him

what we were gonna do and what we had

we sent him some photos and he

recommended the particular Sikaflex

that we're gonna use I think it's 295 UV

though why we've got UV under the waterline I'm

not sure but that's what he told us to use

I think wearing gloves might have been a

good idea but it is what it is, I'm

going to go and clean up and then I'll

show you exactly what the finished bit

looks like

Well the masking tape has now

been removed and what we're left with is

a black Sikaflex line all around the

hull and keel joint and where there were

gaps I made sure that I pumped an

excessive amount of the Sikaflex into

the gap so much that it did actually

went into the gap and then started

oozing out when the gap is full so we'll

leave that to dry for 24 hours and then

we will do some more

primer coats on the keel

So that little lot of primer actually

covered the whole of the keel so we're

very pleased about that

Is this some kind of musical instrument Baz?

Yeah this is

my Zen wind chimes to take the stress

away. No these are actually the guards

for our bow thruster, there are six of

them, one of them is off on a mission to

get new screws at the moment, so

I'm just putting antifoul on them

and I'm using the same antifoul that I'm

using on the prop and prop shaft

and this is the spray can stuff so just about

to give them another coat

and give this another coat

and then we've

just gonna wait for everything to dry

and come back and do the same tomorrow

so it's a bit of rinse and repeat

at the moment

We're up relatively early this

morning we're going to get another coat

of epoxy primer onto the keel while it's

still relatively cool and a longtime

subscriber of ours asked us a question

which made us think and he said when you

are mixing the two-part epoxy is it

mixed by weight or by volume? Now we've

originally been doing it by weight and

we've just done a little bit of a 'speriment' and found out that you are

absolutely correct in your thinking so

thank you very much for taking us down

that path, your name is on the screen

right now as a thank you and we've just

found out that it is actually by volume

and not by weight, so we've got a couple

of little cups here that we've marked

off now and we'll get the mix right and

maybe it won't go off so bad and maybe

it'll be easier to put onto the keel.

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Let's crack on with this keel, hey?

That's another step forward a

complete coat of epoxy primer on the

whole of the keel including the

underside and we had a little bit left

over from the can

so we've slapped that onto the rudder

and as we go through the cans whatever's

left over we'll just continue to cut the

rudder until it looks pretty good and

ready for antifouling. Just another day

at the office really.

That's the final coat of

epoxy primer and the next stage

is the first coat of anti foul, but first ...

I'm gonna have to do something with my

barnet, it's getting a bit out of

control and today is the day for it I reckon

We think it might rain so we're like

that whether we should start antifouling

or not.

Sunday morning and I've just been

through the latest comments on the video

that we released yesterday and I'd like

to say a big thank you to Dennis Cook

who pointed out that petroleum jelly

otherwise known as Vaseline is not the

right product to put onto rubber because

the petroleum will eventually eat into

the rubber.

So first job on the list this morning is

to take the connection off the back of

the aft head and clean off the Vaseline

and put the correct product on which is

a silicon-based product so we'll do that first

Then we're going to go down the

ladder and we're going to put the first

coat of anti foul paint onto the rudder

and the keel

and also for Murray Westenskow

I've got my big pliers out and

when I've got this finger tight I'll

give it one little twist with these bad

boys

Job done, thanks for the tips guys

We're using high-tech tools

for this next job as you

can see. The finished surface of the

epoxy primer is kind of smooth and kind

of rough so we're just going to give the epoxy

primer just a little bit of a sand to

give it a little bit of roughness

because better be safe than sorry eh?

Oh did you notice the barnet?

It looks fabulous doesn't it?

Lovely color

It's quite busy in the yard at the moment,

we've got quite a lot of boats getting work

done and our friends Renate and Wolfgang

on Meerkat they're on the sled now so they're

probably going to be finishing off the

bits of their antifoul that they

couldn't reach while they were on the

hard stands so that means they're pretty

close to splash

Whilst we have the prop out of the

bow thruster tunnel we're going to

paint the inside of the tunnel as well

because it's just easier with the prop removed

While we've been putting the first coat

of the anti foul paint on the wind has

picked up considerably so I'm going to have to

use the Canon camera and it's got no

image stabilization so I am

walking very slowly.

[sound of crash]

The stepladders just blew over, we'll

leave them down there they can't go any

further down than that!

So first coat on the rudder, first coat

on the keel, six hours from now we'll

come out and do it all again and slowly

but surely moving forward

All right it's time for beer

Oh yeah!

Can you show me your babies?

Hello mummy. Mummy just wants cuddles

Here in the boatyard as we've watched

winter turn to spring and now turn to

summer we've watched a few of the

various bits of wildlife come to life

and one of the things we have noticed is

a lot of the mud wasps are trying to

come in through your open ports on your

boat and find little places inside your

boat to make mud nests for their little

babies, so we found a way of stopping

that by putting flyscreen netting up

Also in the through hulls, the outside of

the through hulls, wasps like to make

little nests in there

so we've blocked those up as well

but this one is the classic one...

This a catamaran and if we go underneath the

hull and have a look up here we can see

that a swallow has built a nest

underneath this catamaran and we can

tell it's a swallow because it's got a

big opening for a bird to get through so

just be careful and check your boat out

when you do get back to it for any

hitchhikers that may have attached

themselves to the inside, the outside or

even the underneath

This guy's actually

been very sensible as he's prepared his

boat for leaving it for the winter and

into the spring. He's just rolled up a rag and

tucked it inside the through hull, there's

also one here and another one here

forward but this one must have fallen

out and you can see that the through

hull looks as though it's blocked up.

Some little creature has obviously laid

its little eggs or larvae in here and

then blocked up the entrance with mud

and I can actually break that, so

somewhere deep inside there there is a

nest mm-hmm

We have spent the last two

days doing various little bits of jobs

on A B Sea and we didn't film them at the time

because they're well they're relatively

boring jobs so I think it's probably

more interesting if I just show you the

end results. One of the first jobs we've

done is to put the first coat of

antifouling around all of the through

hulls so when we get to put the

antifouling on all we've got do is

just roller roller roller and not worry

too much about the through hulls. We've

also put the bow thruster propeller

back in and that's had

its first coat of antifoul on and

that will get a second coat tomorrow but

this side, the anode is reattached and we've

put the protection bars across the bow

thruster tunnel. So the other side will

look exactly the same when it's all

finished. One of the big jobs that I've

been doing involved moving this sturdy

scaffolding around the hull because I

was cleaning the white part of the hull

It did have quite a few marks from

fenders that eventually sort of like turn

into a sticky surface and as they rub

against the hull they just leave this

sticky residue behind

so I've cleaned all that and we didn't

want to put dirty fenders back on the

hull and just get it dirty again so

we've got Aannsha on the job over here.

I'm just looking at these blue boot

stripes I think once we got the anti

foul on here and it all looks nice to the

waterline those dirty boot stripes are

gonna look at horrendous. I cleaned them as

best I can that's as best we can do but

anyway let's take a look what Aannsha's

doing with these fenders

Eh, sitting down on the job again hey?

So how's it going?

Alright. I've got two of the really

really mucky ones clean. They were

covered in - and this one - covered

in a kind of sticky substance that

nothing got off. The only thing that I've

found works on it is acetone, so I've

decanted it into here because it was

just evaporating out of the tin and at

least this way I'm not breathing in too

many fumes either. So I've just found that

you know, a clean-ish cloth and

a fairly hard rub and it gets it off.

So the new ones

that we've got, I think just a regular

clean of them will be fine

This one is another one of the really

old ones that Jens donated to us and I

think that's the best that I can do I'll

give it another go but it's not

actually dirty, it's just discoloured

Yeah, yeah, okay. Carry on Admiral.

Thank you Captain.

Now we've got two coats of anti foul on the hull

I've put the anode back on and made sure

that the hole that goes through the hull

is bare metal so that this bolt that goes

through the anode actually touches the

bare iron of the keel.

Here at the prop I've put on

some marine grease on the

gears. It sounds a bit squeaky

But this stuff

apparently it's the bee's knees

it stays on and is quite resistant to

being worn away by salt water

That's why bees are dying out Baz

coz you're using bees' knees in props! Right!

Well they've got so many legs haven't they? So

They just take an alternate leg and it should be alright

I've heard they grow back

Oh, okay. Yep

So as you can see we have been

making step by step, bit

by bit progress forward into

getting A B Sea ready

to be splashed

Oh and I've just had word from DHL that

the cutlass bearing has arrived in

Athens. It only took one day to get from

the UK to Athens. Now let's see how long

it takes to get from Athens to Chalkida

and then to Limni

Don't hold your breath!

Yeah.

It's an exciting day at A B Sea. Can you

guess what's in the parcel?

I can. I can too!

It is of course

our bearing.

I just hope it's the right size

Before I open this I'd just like to say a

very big thank you to Tom from Exalto

Bearings UK, he has been exceptionally

helpful in dealing with this matter with

us so thank you very much Tom

All right let's open this

little baby. Okay!

Oh it's got popcorn in it. Okay, err...

I'll put this in here

Coz if this bearing is okay

then were gonna reuse its packaging to

send the previous bearing that was a

little bit too big back to the UK

Ta-daa! Yaaay!

Such a little thing and it's caused

such a lot of bother hasn't it!

Before we finish this video and with the

unmistakable sound of summer surrounding

me I'd just like to say thank you very

much to all of you, subscribers and

non-subscribers, all of you who have

stayed watching A B Sea all throughout this

8 months of being on the hard and also

thank you so much for all the tips and

helpful advice on getting the jobs done

in the correct manner and the easiest

possible way, it really does help us out

so thank you very much for that once again

Now of course we are getting very

close to the finish line and as you'll

see in next week's video we take on

leaps and bounds and things although

they're hard and difficult to do we're

making huge progress forward so make

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