In this video we just make it to our mooring before a massive storm hits the Med wrecking boats and causing havoc. We find our lifejacket would have failed when testing it.

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in this episode we'll leave the I'll

upon sir heading for Gator a winter

morning just before the storm has and

boy does it hit and makes an alarming

discovery when we check our life jackets

we see the command center for the USA

Sixth Fleet then we take a walk on the

beach after discus big waves swells not

huge it's coming up and shallow in there

unfortunately this chap lost his boat

because his bilge pump wasn't working

we've talked about that before and this

lovely vessel well

she dragged from her mooring and went

ashore last trip of the season

I'll endure Ponza across the terrain E&C

to gator in Italy been a beautiful

island five days that we've stayed here

well you know as soon as you complain

about no wind it fills in doesn't it

a 37 mile jaunt across the Tyrrhenian

sea in the Mediterranean took us to

Gator fairly quickly I had a real good

silence as I'm in the last 10 minutes or

so that we put the sails down as we

headed into the bay into Gator

aircraft carrier over there

pretty town

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so while David and Caroline on eternity

he went into the marina we dropped our

rib off the davits down into the water

so it was easier for us to get in Stern

- we then tie the rib to the bow of the

boat and as we reverse she just flips

around into the right position makes it

really easy as we enter the fairway

eternity is still getting into her birth

the wind is on our nose it's slightly

different here so what we do is we

reverse out and then come down the

fairway in Reverse so we've got to

reverse into the birth anyway I'm

powering into the wind

we'll make the boat more steerable more

manageable not only that the wind will

then be on our port side and it will

push us up against the boat that's next

to us on our starboard side with the bow

thruster damaged we wanted to be able to

have the boat under full control we did

a bit on boat handling before in another

video I'll put a link to it so we're now

reversing down the fairway and this is

interesting look at the flag on the

flagpole and look at our courtesy flag

both in slightly different directions so

watch what happens with these two flags

as we go down the fairway the wind on

the courtesy flag has virtually stopped

now

our two meters as we turn into our birth

the wind picks up slightly or exactly

where we plan to be I then come back to

the stern to secure the docking lines

once the aft lines are secured we can

then tie off the bow lines using the

slime line which is handed to us by the

Marineros

we'd only been in Gator a few days and a

huge storm came in swept right across

the Mediterranean

it caused havoc everywhere jump timber

washes now there now

it's in by plug-in doc over there wind

was so strong it ripped the flags and

told this gazebo to pieces and the swirl

lifted this pontoon almost a meter at a

position another casualty was this big

square rigger

we'd had been AB Mariner a couple of

days before she tore away from her

moorings and was rolled up on the shore

breaking her bowsprit and a forward mast

she really was in quite a sorry state

luckily they managed to tow her into the

boat yard and started repairs a few days

later two large cranes a 300 ton and a

200 ton ur came over to the dockside and

lifted all the broken pieces off the

boat unfortunately she wasn't the only

casualty this day boat well his bilge

pump wasn't working and with all the

heavy rain the boat filled with water

and sank his new 80 horsepower Yamaha

was submerged for two or three days

before they could lift it out the storm

lasted for two days once it was over we

decided to take the pups for a long walk

there are a couple of large rivers

running to the bio Gator the swollen

rivers have bought all the debris for

the mountains down into the bay there

were huge logs some massive pieces of

driftwood

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you wouldn't want to run in today would

you

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but she thinks compass down there

we were crowned to the other side of the

peninsula to the large beach oh shut up

that's some

that's big waves swells not huge it's

coming up and shallow in there

at four or five meet waves

and

that's the kind of stuff that's washing

up

and they walk on the beach now

so else washed up

at a light bulb moment

we should begin

they'll say that don't y'all welding on

that

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what we're doing we're checking all

their lifejackets so at the end of every

season with all with we have a list of

things that we're going to do one of

them is to go through all their

lifejackets and just check the bottles

are ok we blow them all up make sure

they stay inflated for a couple of hours

check all the tags and all the seals but

I just wanted to show folks this now

this is actually my lifejacket hang

there's a couple of things first is this

cylinder has started to corrode and that

is only two years old but the Bell six

months ago

I wore this jacket when we were in some

some rough weather and a couple of days

later we found a little Oh screw em

little cap bolt didn't we on there the

day on the deck and we come before

where's that come from that it looks

like a guest fit in or anyway we kept it

to one side and didn't think any more of

it eventually when it didn't find a home

you know when it didn't find a home we

couldn't work out where it had come from

what's for it why just come to do the

lifejacket test on this one and the

whole thing fell apart

and the reason it fell apart was because

that little nut which is on this one

here look which is a cat not come undone

and fallen off so if I'd have fell in

the water this lifejacket literally

wouldn't have bought it it rejected it

would have gone off because there's gas

in the cylinder but the gas from that

cylinder goes through a little valve

arrangement and into this like Schrader

valve here and that Schrader valve

wasn't held on the firing device wasn't

held on that little kept come off there

somehow come unscrewed so when that

cylinder went off when the pin went

through the end it literally would have

blown the guess straight out of there

and the jacket wouldn't have inflated

even if I'd pulled the toggle to make it

go the gas would have simply come

straight out there okay so well you

could even float it manually

yeah you could but you know in the big

if you're in big swells you've just

fallen over you've gone cold shock and

what have you so check your life jackets

because this one now needs to have a new

firing mechanism and the new bottle so

we'll put that one to side

we've actually got six life jackets on

board

to match our six men life raft even

though there's only two of us most of

the time occasionally for people yeah

check your life jackets inflate them

blow them up make sure that they hold

air for at least a couple of hours just

blow them up through this and then when

you let them down there's a little pin

on the end there you can just do that

next time we go out into the town and

have a good look round of all the

fantastic Christmas lights really is a

brilliant show the lights were

absolutely fantastic they really were

and then starts our winter maintenance

schedule thanks for watching

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