In this episode of Sailing A B Sea Baz does a good job of making the never ending list a bit smaller and reveals what he bought in Marmaris and why he bought it. Plus we welcome our Patreon guest Michel on board for a week and head east to the Kekova Roads area.

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We're about to head off to Kekova again and
this will be the first time of actual real

test of the engine since we removed the turbo.

We did run the engine for half an hour after
we did the repair and it all seemed normal

but we've got a four hour run ahead of us
so it'll be a proper test

Behind me is the hall of goodies I picked
up in Marmaris yesterday so I'm just going

to run you through what I got and what I intend
to do with it.

We'll start off with the boring bits.

One of the things we had to pick up was the
15 w40 engine oil when we were in Kekova and

we had the engine problem the only one we
could get was the 20 w50 engine oil and while

that's okay this is the specified oil for
our particular engine so we picked up four

litres of that.

And the things that go with engine oil are
oil filters we picked up two of these simply

becauseI like to have spares on board.

Not really boat related but this is a black
cartridge for our printer that we have on

board.

A printer on board is essential for printing
out documents that may be related to check-in

check-out agents.

This is something I've been wanting to add
to my tool kit for quite some time.

We do a lot of boat yoga when we're working
on various bits of the boat and that of course

means that many of the things we're trying
to look at are hidden out of sight or round

a corner so there's a large mirror and a small
mirror here and they'll bend around corners

and also this is a telescopic arm with a magnetic
tip so if you drop a nut or a bolt or a washer

into the bilge and it's just slightly out
of reach this is the bad boy you're gonna

turn to.

And talking about dropping things into the
bilge when Aydin and I were working on the

engine the other day he had a torch very similar
to this and I was quite impressed with how

it attaches to parts of the engine.

There's magnets here and there's a magnet
here and basically if you've got a couple

of big bolts on the engine block you just
magnetize it, switch it on and point the light

where you need it.

This is a number five hex key or allen key
and the reason why I purchased another one

of these, I do have a number five key, but
it's a very small one it's only sort of like

that big and when I'm trying to change the
hex nuts and bolts on the anodes underwater

it's very small and difficult to manoeuvre.

I always I'm in fear of dropping it and this
I can grip quite nicely and get that job done

underwater changing the anodes and the great
thing is as well it's got a little hole here

so that I can put a lanyard through it as
well so if I do lose my grip it'll just hang

off my wrist.

This is four metres of floating line.

We're going to attach this to the front end
of the dinghy because as we learned the other

day while we were in Kekova, Kevin ran over
his non-floating line and got it wrapped around

his prop and I had to do a little bit of scuba
diving to free it up so that will get attached

quite easily to the front of the dinghy.

I also purchased two brand new winch handle
holders mainly because the two that we've

got they're starting to crack around the screw
holes and they just look scruffy and horrible

and I like these because they're they're nice
soft pliable plastic and they come supplied

with their own mounting screws.

These are Harken winch handle service kits.

The bit that goes wrong on the winch handle
is this little plastic pin here.

That bit eventually breaks under the constant
twisting of this mechanism and it happened

on both of our winches exactly in the same
place so that is the weak link in this Harken

winch handle if you buy this kit it is the
BK4517 kit service kit and it comes with all

the bits and pieces you need to service the
whole winch handle.

I also bought a waterproof USB double socket
for here in the cockpit area.

5 volt, 5 volt, 2.1 amps and that will allow
us to charge phones and tablets.

This is a Harken cheek block.

I can't remember when it was but it was a
long time ago uh somewhere on our second trip

across the Aegean Sea on a Greek island and
I noticed that the plastic of the cheek block

had been sun damaged and it had broken and
exposed the bearings inside.

So that's going to be a nice replacement.

It's exactly the same one that we took off
so it will just slip into place nicely and

to make sure, we got this Sikaflex 295 UV
and that will put here and here to make sure

that we've got a watertight seal.

And these little things are LED lights and
these are the final pieces we need to replace

the incandescent bulbs that are still in place
in various bits and pieces of the boat.

These LEDs are sitting on this mouse pad and
I got this one with the gel pad built in because

where I sit at the saloon table it's just
it's got a ridge like this and my wrist sits

on the ridge and it gets a bit sore so I can
put that over the ridge and be cushioned.

Now the most expensive items that we bought
were these two Sirocco fans.

These fans are probably the best on the market
for use in a boat.

They can pivot in so many directions so for
example this can do a complete tilt in that

direction, this bit here can tilt in that
direction and this can tilt in that direction.

So wherever you want the air to blow you're
pretty much going to be set with one of these

fans.

It also has three speeds so slow, medium and
fast.

At slow you can definitely leave it on at
night and it won't be keeping you awake.

I've had to listen to it it's very quiet.

And during the day even on the faster speed
the airflow is great and the noise is not

at all disturbing.

The other thing about it it has a timer on
it as well and when you press the timer these

LEDs here light up so you can have it on for
three hours, six hours, nine hours or twelve

hours and then it will switch itself off.

So it looks like I've got my work cut out
for me for the next couple of days, today

is Thursday we have Michel arriving on Saturday
evening and then Sunday we're heading off

to Kekova weather permitting.

We are watching a weather system at the moment
we'll see how that pans out, it may delay

us for a day but either way we're going sailing.

I'd better get to work eh?

We're about to head off to Kekova again and
this will be the first time of actual real

test of the engine since we removed the turbo.

We did run the engine for half an hour after
we did the repair and it all seemed normal

but we've got a four hour run ahead of us
so it'll be a proper test.

We've also got a guest on board.

Michel is here and we'll introduce you to
him a little bit later on once we're underway.

Looking forward to it?

I certainly am there's a slight breeze just
picking up now so I think hopefully we'll

be able to sail.

Fingers crossed.

Yeah.

Yeah all right let's fire her up and see what
happens.

Okay see you in Kekova!

Time of departure 11:40.

Thank you

We are just over halfway to Kekova and I've
been monitoring the engine and I've gotta

say very pleased.

The engine temperature is up slightly to just
around about 80 degrees and I think that's

because we've actually now completely enclosed
the engine compartment so it's obviously a

little bit warmer in there.

There's a little tweak I'm going to do to
the extractor fan, I'll talk more about that

when I do that job.

The exhaust is looking great um there's no
no smoke coming out maybe a little titchy-witchy

bit of white smoke but that's to be expected
so very pleased with all of that.

We're getting six point wow six point seven
knots at 2050 revs and the engine is sounding

perfect so I think we've had a win.

That's great.

Now the other thing uh I've done here in the
cockpit is I've installed a USB charger for

phones and tablets and things like that and
I can't believe nobody's actually used it

yet.

Oh Baz, my phone is down to 92%, I need to
charge it urgently.

I think you should.

Why don't you use this handy USB charger right
here at the in the cockpit.

Oh that's new.

It's so exciting
You stick it in - oh and it's working.

Tah-da!

Yay!

Thank you Baz you've saved my life!

We're just
approaching the entrance to the inside of

Kekova and just ahead of us is a little
tiny sailboat and quite a big deck saloon

sailboat with a nice head sail in this light
wind it really wouldn't be any good for us

to put even our head sail out in this.

We're
actually getting about eight knots of wind

at the moment and that's certainly not enough
for us anyway we'll be inside Kekova in probably

about 10 minutes.

Here we are back in one of
the bays at Kekova and I did say yesterday

that we had a guest on board so Im going
to introduce you to our guest, well actually

our guest's going to introduce himself.

Hi my
name is Michel, I come from originally from

Belgium but I live in Germany.

I'm an airline
pilot flying for a famous cargo airline and

I'm I had the chance to meet Barry and Aannsha
a year ago when I was in Kas and in fact

I was following them on YouTube because I
had the intention of going sailing something

that I wanted to do for years but I always
postponed it.

One day C was in Kas in Turkey

and had the chance to meet them, we had two
nice wonderful evenings together and I said

oh it would be nice if I could come back on
board with them.

Barry and Aannsha, they offered

this Patreon invitation scheme so I decided
to list for it and here I am.

We were discussing

last night about doing some anchoring practice,
are you still wanting to do that today?

Def-

fin-itely.

I really want to learn as much
as I can because my intention is to be able

to chater boat after this and to later most
probably have my own boat and so the more

I can pick up the more I can learn because
going to school you learn a lot but still

a lot to be learned on the practical side.

Yeah well after we've had our breakfast

which is smelling great - oh yes - coming
from down below

we'll up the anchor here, we'll go around
into

the next bay and then we will do some anchoring
practice.

Sounds like a plan to me.

Okay.

Very

good.

That looks like the breakfast of champions.

Yes don't tell my wife.

It was a very fun week

having Michel on board but there's more
to come next week as we do a little bit of

anchor dropping and anchor raising practice
and we explore a bit more of the area around

Kekova Roads in Turkey so join us then if
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