Sailing Catamaran Maintenance Stuff BREAKS; We FIX It - The Boat Jobs Never End! This week we are enjoying time in Majuro Atoll. After nearly a year of cruising, we take the opportunity to complete a few boat projects. Majuro has good access to hardware shops and the US postal system, so we have better access to spares and supplies. Project one: Reinforcing our escape hatches. There is a manufacturer recall on our Goiot escape hatches. Until we get new lenses sent to us, we are required to strengthen the attachment of the lens to the frame. This requires us to source the parts, use the angle grinder to cut aluminium plates and drill through the perspex lens so we can bolt it all together. Fortunately we complete the work with no issue and still have a waterproof boat at the end of the day! Always a good result when making holes in the boat! Project Two: Re-attaching part of our kitchen bench. A repair that was done to our bench wears out so a stainless steel upstaged ‘falls out’. We much skill and copious amount of silicone sealant the skipper manages to get it all re-installed. Project Three: The backed up toilet. Plumbing on a boat is pretty serious stuff…especially when there is a blockage. There is some debate as to the cause of the blockage, but there is no doubt that the captain did a great job (eventually) clearing the pipes. Project Four: A broken washing machine. With a loud grinding noise and the smell of hot rubber our washing machine signalled that it needed some attention. We spent quite some time diagnosing the problem and attempting to fix the spider that attached to the drum. We called in the welding expertise of a local auto repair shop, but it was no use. The repair was terminal. So we stripped the machine for its parts and after three years of excellent service we are now using buckets to do our laundry! Project Five: Let there be light! There is a lot of strip lighting in our galley, but it had yellowed with age and some of the resistors looked like they were starting to get quite hot. So it was time to replace them. A fairly quick job, but it needed steady hands to solder the new connections and then stick the new lights down. Another successful job done and a much brighter galley! A win-win! Project Six: We were definitely on a roll, so time to finish big and replace the fridge seals. After looking at the replacement seals for a year and writing the job off as ‘ a bit complicated’ it turned out to be a really quick process. Remove the old seal, clean the door groove and apply the new seal. After a few days the seals were not staying in place, so applying a touch of ‘super glue’ at key points did the trick!. Six weeks in Majuro was plenty of time to get boat projects done and re-stock the larder. A nice reset before going out exploring and seeing what else the Marshall Islands had to offer. Footage from February 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ☕️ Want to Buy us a Coffee? Support our videos: https://ko-fi.com/sailingdoubletrouble 🌎 Blogs and updates on the website: http://sailingdoubletrouble.com/ 💁🏼‍♀️ Photos and real time stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 📷 Random Travel Pics and updates: https://www.instagram.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 👉Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👩‍❤️‍👨About us : Hello and welcome to our channel! We are Jo and Rob and we are here to share our sailing adventures with you. In 2016, inspired by the likes of ‘Delos’, ‘Sailing La Vagabonde’ and ‘Gone with The Wynns’, we sold up everything we owned and bought our 40ft, Fountaine Pajot ‘Lipari 41 Evo’ sailing catamaran ‘Double Trouble’. We had no sailing experience whatsoever, so the past few years have been a huge learning curve. We thought it might be fun to document our travels for anyone thinking of following a similar lifestyle. So far we have visited 7 different countries and sailed over 13,000 nautical miles. We have had many unique experiences that would not have been possible in our prior life and we don’t regret a second. We're both super keen on protecting our precious environment, so amongst other things, we both follow a plant based diet. You wont find any fishing footage on this channel! Subscribe now and join us as we continue our salty travels around the world. https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 👏Credits: Thanks to 'Shure ' microphones for voiceover sound. 🎼Music: DT Theme tune - 'Happy' by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/g6swHZbWtRc 🎧Other Music: Epidemic Sound Library #sailingdoubletrouble

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time to leave today

a little bit of a side swell happening

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and uh we need to get back into town and

do some internet

and bits and pieces so we're going to

have an

hour and a half sail back to maduro

downtown

here we are in mazaron lagoon

beating up wind 24 knots on the nose

just going across to look here we've got

both engines on

and i'm mostly concerned about my

kombucha because i don't want it to

spill

so yeah it's uh it's a ton of breezy out

here

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there are a number of advantages for

recruiting yachts to visit metro and the

marshall islands

typically yachts come here instead of

going south to australia and new zealand

to sit out the south pacific cyclone

season

this year the visiting yachts were made

up of a mix of new zealand

us and canadian boats getting around

majuro is easy

there are many private cars registered

as taxis

with every trip costing one us dollar

per person

alternatively there are a few dingy

docks around the lagoon

some are in better repair than others

but this makes for an easy dinghy ride

and shorter walk to the shops

immigration restaurants or the hospital

the yacht club hosts a cruisernet and

also a regular tuesday dinner at

different restaurants around town

occasional sundowners on different boats

is always an enjoyable way to spend an

evening as well

while there are no yacht haul out

facilities access to supplies

laundrettes propane fuel and spare parts

is good

there is good internet access for online

ordering and a regular us

postal service as well as dhl and fedex

offices

three large hardware shops make

completing boat projects much

easier we had a number of maintenance

items we needed to get done

one of the more urgent ones was to

strengthen the lenses in our goyo escape

hatches

which were subject to a manufacturer

recall i love you though you've got your

safety gear and you're bare chested

yeah i've got some uh

aluminium shards in my belly button i

think great

fun to pick out later what are you doing

i'm

making some aluminium uh reinforcements

for our escape hatches which we will

explain more of later

yes welcome to our starboard hull this

is our escape hatch

and i'm just going to go over what the

problem is

there is a aluminium frame and within

that there is a perspex lens that is

silicon

and glued in essentially the issue is

that that silicon over time will fail

especially at the top part of the lens

they've had it come away

and then as soon as the water gets in

behind there there's nothing holding the

lens in and

water will come into the boat we've

fabricated our own repair

which consists of some aluminium

brackets

that we've bent to shape and then we've

glued them to the lens

this is very similar to the phantom

peugeot repair which was a longer piece

of aluminium channel

with a similar profile and then you glue

that

onto the lens like this however

uh phantom per show have indicated that

there have been a number of failures of

this temporary repair their current

recommendation

is that we drill through the

lens put a bolt in there and then that

bolt will then secure

to a piece of aluminium channel and that

aluminium channel will then sit

between the frame and the lens and

essentially sandwich it all together

and we'll put one in each corner

with a couple of bolts and have a very

secure

repair now this repair will be in place

until

phantom peugeot and goyo get around to

manufacturing

their new uh safety lens

and hatch system and then they are going

to send us an entire

new hatch this surround will stay in

place

but the lens will be fully replaced

but in the meantime we cannot leave port

until we bolt these

in place and then send them a picture

and confirm that we have the fix in

place

and then we can leave just doing a

little bit of uh

spring cleaning on the boat and notice a

little bit of a wobble so

um i've got some unplanned

maintenance uh in my future because uh

i fixed this a couple of years ago in

other words he broke it

and uh the repair needs redoing

nice job captain thank you just gonna

do some cleanup top johnny banana

yeah didn't take too long it took longer

to break it than it did to fix it

seems to be some commotion from the uh

the port side dunny there darling

it's a bit backed up is there an issue

yeah yeah it's not working

ah and and who's just used the port side

donnie

that would be me that would be you so

who has to fix the port side donnie yeah

i blame the doll

would you uh like me to get you some

rubber gloves

yeah i think actually um right here we

go yeah

our toilet seat has been uh it's got

these little plastic things on the

bottom of it

that have been disintegrating and

falling into the toilet right

yeah so i think i've just dropped a

blade

is that what we're calling it these days

is it

the new euphemism i've just dropped a

blade

my masticator isn't masticating oh dear

i'm going in i'll do it till i do it

before lunch if i was you

yeah no there we go just fix this

i problem two toilets hey

why are you sweating over our washing

machine robson um

it uh the drum is we think damaged

and it's not spinning straight so we've

got to take it off the wall

so things are progressing well it's a

little sweaty very sweaty

uh so we've taken the bolts off i've

disconnected the hose

and this was glued in so i've had to uh

gonna fix this later who's who's there's

a tournament

there somewhere i thought that was four

candles

it does same thing awesome in theory all

i need to do is just take

uh this off the wall because it's just

being held on by the bolts we've taken

the nuts off

so let's see how that goes eh

just finding somewhere to hold it oh

there we go

there's not much weight to it that'd be

watered down my leg

are you sure is it from the washing

machine

so it looks i feel come and assist you

though that's all right

this is what we wanted to have a look at

le back

so we think this bolt is crooked because

our drum is not

happy is it it's not wearing away the

rubber seal inside the door when it

turns

just outside it's three year warranty

it's actually not

i don't think did it happen for you

i'd be surprised that was humor oh

okay

washing machine yay almost felt

backwards and that would have been fun

it would have made good tully

washing machine is now on the table

outside

and we're troubleshooting

but it's definitely uh the drum is

definitely rubbing against the

seal of the door here i'm gonna get rob

to spin it and show you what's happening

as it goes around you can hear it

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and that's all the rubber that's falling

out when it does it

oh when you live on a boat you're

everything mechanical

engine mechanic washing machine mechanic

yeah i'm worried about getting the bill

send it to yourself i'm worried about

putting this back together without

having any

bits missing

so we've got a washing machine in bits

and i and some kind of

alien life form growing on the back of

here i don't know what that is

yeah what is that cat i don't know

it's weird hey it's like old soap yeah

here's the drum

it needs a pretty good clean um

everything else on the mechanism kind of

looks okay

more soap it's going to take a while to

get it clean

the stainless strum of the washing

machine is attached to a 3

arm aluminium spider which once we had

cleaned up we saw had cracks on two of

its three arms which was causing the

misalignment

we took the unit to an auto repair shop

and they tried to weld it back together

unfortunately this didn't work as there

was no way to get a spare drum we had no

choice

but to scrap the unit so today is a sad

day

our washing machine is going in the bin

unfortunately

after three sterling years of service

it is uh irreparable so we've stripped

it for parts

and uh we're going to be disposing of it

now disposing of rubbish here so we've

uh we're paying about four dollars a

month i think

and that gives us access to this green

skip

so we can put our rubbish in there and

then they take it away and dispose of it

good grief you're having a busy day

husband oh

quite sweaty down there very sweaty and

very fumey with the acetone

what are you doing i'm taking the

foam backing off the old

strip lighting because the strip

lighting over time as yellowed

so that's the current one and this is

the the new one

current very good yeah but uh what's

happening with this

is um it's on all of it you see the hot

spot there that's actually

sort of melting and getting quite hot

when it's being used

so and it's also discolored with age so

it's just time to put new stuff in

then just lift these off so are that's

the old ones

well that works

so are you all done uh yeah

yeah just uh flip the switch fairly

straightforward actually look at that

they're way brighter than the other ones

yeah

thank you greg it's a pleasure

i lying on the kitchen floor husband

we've had

a fridge seal hanging around the boat

and i've not put it in because i thought

it would be really really complicated

it comes out quite easy actually i

thought i'd have to unscrew a whole load

of bits and pieces and stuff

so i just i just need a little wedgie

device

to slot this in

they say to put it in place and then

just wait 10 minutes for it to

sort of lock in place moment of truth

just check the seals aren't going to

pull out

it looks pretty good

thank you fridge seals in australia

the only company that i could find that

does these so it was good

and uh yeah easy to install so it's

another job off the list

comfy down there yeah just uh

got some super glue this is an update on

the

gosh these were easy seals to fit to the

fridge story from the other day

they keep coming out they're easy to fit

but they haven't stayed in

so what did you do i contacted the

company

and they said yeah what are you super

glue for that i've just got visions of

the glue in the fridge shop never been

able to get in there again

see how we uh yeah every time we've

opened the fridge since they were

fitted the other day they've fallen off

six weeks in masro was plenty of time to

relax

re-provision and complete a number of

much-needed boat projects

but we now had itchy feet and it was

time to explore more of what the

marshall islands had to offer

next stop malolap atoll

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