In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we sit out winds gusting up to 48.4 knots at anchor and show you some new toys we have on board A B Sea. The wind prediction websites showed gusts of 38 knots so when we recorded 48.4 knots at anchor we were very glad that we made sure our Mantus anchor was properly set and we had all of our chain out. For your convenience, we’ve included Amazon links. As Amazon Associates we earn a small percentage from qualifying purchases (at no cost to you). Turkish waters and Cyprus pilot guide https://amzn.to/3xJgykU Mavic pro fly more combo https://amzn.to/3uU4nQf #SailingABSea A brief history of our story and in depth personal blogs that bring you along on our journey can be found at https://www.absea.com.au/ GET MORE WITH PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/SailingABSea FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK - https://web.facebook.com/SailingABSea/ READ OUR BLOGS - https://www.absea.com.au/blogs PICS ON INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/sailingabsea/ Discover Aannsha's 'Mermaid's Treasures' and 'Neptune's Bounty' gift ideas here - https://www.absea.com.au/mermaid-s-treasure-store Still photos and videos are shot using the Canon EOS M3 with either the EF-S 18–55mm IS STM lens or the EF-M 55–200mm IS STM lens. https://amzn.to/2RpDNzU Underwater video is shot using GoPro Hero 4 Silver https://amzn.to/3uF9eED Sony action cam HDR AS300R https://amzn.to/3t7AJpW Still shots & video Samsung Galaxy S6 We record live sound when possible with a Takstar SGC 598 https://amzn.to/2OEQjdR and voice over sound with a Yeti Blue https://amzn.to/3wNio3B Intro music: Truth of the Legend Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Crazy - Patrick Patrikios FREE TO USE.mp3 Jazzeton by Quincas Moreira.mp3 Fast and Run - Nico Staf.mp3 Audio Hero music\17-High-Performance-FULL-SM480.mp3

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we are anchored just east of

did him in a bay called akbook

and this is a super well protected spot

particularly from the wind that is

coming into this area

on saturday as you can see that is

gusting up to 37 38 39 knots

and it's coming from the south

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oh

so we're going to just relocate our

anchor and obviously our boat position

in this bay to give us a little bit more

protection from that southern wind

actually we're just going to go a little

bit further south

into this bay sounds like a plan it does

okay i'm bringing up the snobber

so when you let it out go all the way up

to 40 meters of the water line

and then we'll just once once you've

settled it in we'll let out the last of

it

once he's in all right drop it

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now we're tucked further in for the

south wind

coming from over there there should be

zero fetch

we've got pretty much all of our 50

meters of chain out

and we are in 4.5 meters of water so

technically we're around about 9 to 1

10 to 1 so it can blow all at once in

this beautiful

muddy sandy bottom we with that mantis

in

and that mountain chain out this thing

is not going anywhere

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i know there are so many ways i'm going

to drop sitting like broken something

do you want to put an extra wrap on

there in case it's not

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oh

loosen it off lift it up swing it out

lower it down you've just got to guide

it

yes this swivel will swivel any way you

want it to go so

all right is it in the middle of the

transfer

okay

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yay

yeah good to have her back in the water

yes

summer sailing season 2021 is official

yes

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48 cuts geez

i did have to dig it down on the

painters but because we're whipping

around so much

and the thingy was actually being

exposed to the gusts

and actually lifting up out of the water

so she's much safer on the davits plus

the fact that if you do need to pull our

backsides out of here we are ready to go

and don't worry about opinion so big

winds like this blow in

we usually say why does it always happen

at night

well we're actually getting it starting

during the day which

means we can monitor things and monitor

our position from

the shore and the thing is it is

actually going to go through the night

as well

hopefully things should peak sometime

around about

between six tonight and nine tonight

here comes a big one

so yeah we will uh we'll be having to do

this at night

but the great thing is as i say we've

got our marks on the shore

and we're fairly confident that mantis

is not going anywhere don't worry

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i think the sustained winds are

somewhere around about 25 knots but

these gusts are coming in

48 knots was the biggest one so far and

that could have been

slightly bigger any who's all

we're here now come here to the end of

this ride

i couldn't pay for one as exciting as

this could you don't

those gusts are what we're getting every

three to four minutes maybe

maybe less maybe two to three minutes

but um

when it calms down it's almost as if

nothing's happening at all and then

these gusts

just come ripping through and uh

right like i say so far it's now uh two

o'clock in the afternoon

and we're still in the same position we

were

so looks like the ground tackle's doing

its job our get out of dodge

option is did in marina which is just an

hour away

and quite fortunately it is um

in the direction that the wind is

blowing so we wouldn't have to fight

into the wind

or fight the waves we would just go with

it and go straight into the entrance of

diddy marina but like i say grand tackle

is doing its job

looks like we're here for for the

entirety of this ride

the weird thing is looking at the wind

prediction websites both

predict wind and windy the wind should

be coming from

that direction there in actual fact

it's coming from that direction there

which presumably is an oddity

of the way the mountains here are

funneling the wind

into the bay here either way whichever

direction it's coming from

it's not much fun it's now sunday

morning and we made it through the night

we are still in exactly the same

position

that we were when we went to bed which

is great

so again a big thumbs up to our mantis

anchor

mantis we trust right now though we've

got kind of like a

normal-ish wind and a bit of rain coming

down

sadly this rain is not going to clean

the boat because it's got saharan dust

in it so the boat's just going to get

covered in a load of brown sludge

the expression it never rains but it

pours comes to mind we've got the dinghy

up as you can see but i've taken the

bunk out so if

any rain does collect in there it will

fall out of the back end

today we're just going to sit tight it

is a travel restriction day

sunday is a no movement day

so we're going to sit tight and uh do

some editing today

our mate jim on our buddy bose acheron

has recently been in marmaris and

had some upgrades to his boat which

makes him more self-sufficient

so surplus to requirements after having

his lithium batteries

and big generator installed and a few

other bits and pieces

are the um sure power battery charger of

his

and the current one that we're using is

25 amps this one

is 60 amps and jim said if we can use it

then he's happy to give it to us

so we're going to fit that at some point

not today

today we're going to be using this other

gift that jim gave us

which is a generator he's just had a

brand new generator installed

and this portable one is just taking up

space on his boat so he's

kindly giving it to us and today is the

perfect day

for giving a good test run we need to

edit so we need power

and the clouds in the sky means there's

not enough sun hitting our solar panels

to give us power to charge your

batteries

so this little guy is going to do the

job we're going to get it set up

we're going to power it on and we're

going to flick the switch

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once we have this thing started off we

have two outlets here for 220 volts

we'll only be using one of them

and it's just a case of plugging our

shore power into here

and then the boat thinks it's on shore

power and everything will work

on the 220 volt system being petrol

driven of course it does have an exhaust

so we've got to make sure that this is

aiming downwind

so that we don't gas ourselves with

noxious fumes perfect spot for this is

right here

next to the swim platform obviously at

anchor we are downwind anyway because

the boat will point into the wind

and we've also got our shore power cable

connection in here

so it's not a very long distance to

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travel

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now our panel is showing that we've got

shore power so we're going to switch on

our battery charger which is the one we

need

and we're also going to switch on our

220 volt ac

plugs around the boat

and then the microwave and the hair

dryer

all the important things obviously yeah

and so that's it we now have plenty of

power

probably for the next i don't know five

to eight hours

uh and we don't have to worry that we've

got no sun and we're not going to bugger

up our

house batteries how much fuel does it

take i don't know

what the fuel capacity of the tank is i

haven't got the instruction book from

jim yet and i also don't know how many

liters per hour

it uses so as soon as i have that

information i'll either put it on screen

right now

or i'll put it in the description below

this video

cheers jim thank you thanks mate

well what a difference a couple of hours

make

well it's been more like two days but

it's a couple of hours since it stopped

i'm talking about the wind

here in agbook bay we've endured 48.4

knot gusts and we are still in one piece

just going to show you a couple of

things that happened while all that wind

was going on

and explain what we've got going on and

why we've got them going on

when we put this snubber line together

we thought we'd put some shape

protection

on it for when it goes through the

fairlead here

well it turns out that this shape

protection

is not as good as we thought it was

going to be this is what happened

during the the big blow the

i don't know whether it's just friction

or whether the line has broken that from

the inside

but either way we're going to have to

rethink our shape protection

it's actually happened here too as you

can see that's separated from

that side so that's not so good we're

going to have to

figure something out as a better shave

protection

for our snubber line during that two

days of the big blow we also got some

saharan dust filled rain coming through

so

all of the hatches are filthy as is the

rest of the deck of abc

also as the violent wind gusts were

swinging us from side to side

in quite a vigorous manner we noticed

that the helm wheels were spinning

as the rudder was getting whipped from

one side to the other in the water

so we ended up lashing the wheel and the

rudder in one position

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