The pulpit gets some adjustment in preparation for mounting; the sole boards get lifting eyes, along with some varnish frustrations; we sail out into the North Sea and through to the Baltic.



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Tony

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tonight

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what it's about

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hi i'm tony this is esv

patcher we're building a cruising

sailboat and

let's have a look get straight in there

this week i think um and here we are

the bell pulpit um something i've been

working on

thinking about this week made a couple

of adjustments first of all these

these feet at the front were at the

wrong angle so i had to

cut them off and re-weld them on get the

angle right

and then also fitted

four brackets on here and that will

serve to fit a bigger

seating area there so it's possible to

sit at the bow

i'm not sure if it would be possible to

face forwards it's a bit

narrow through there for people with

um certainly face out aft or kneel on

there and look forwards

dolphin watching or whatever you know so

the plan is to put a antique seat on

there

i've got some 316 stainless and cut it

and welded those brackets on there

coming on thinking about mooring cleats

i've got a couple of cleats

some big old bronze cleats and just got

some stainless

similar size again three one six

thinking about um mooring cleats and

positions

still under thought that one

and the bowel pulpit itself will be will

be fitted

i've ordered the bolts for it so waiting

for the bolts to arrive

but it's ready to go but these these aft

feets come down which is under my finger

there and just off the camera shot i

think

where they come down is nicely in the

four peak nicely tucked out of the way

and see here these are the the wires

for the nav lights so they're all nicely

integrated

and that goes straight through under

these feet well sealed

and looking forward to fitting that soon

as the screws arrive

she'll be actually mounting it

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try this

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and here we are down below and

as you can probably tell all the cabin

soul boards are in position

these two here aren't finished and and

the problem is i've run out of varnish

needed just two coats short

of that varnish and i've used a

different varnish on the sole

what i've used everywhere else

everywhere else is epiphanes

in the soul i've used this um

varnish claims to be a boat varnish but

four soles you know

um and i've run out now i bought the

varnish on amazon

a two and a half liter can and i don't

want to buy another two and a half liter

can just to finish two coats on those

two boards

so i looked at the company's website and

they sell one liter cans on the website

they don't sell them on amazon to one

liter can

but they sell them on their website and

i've ordered one

and i ordered it two weeks ago and it

hasn't arrived

and i've written the company two emails

now and they haven't answered

and i can't say i'm very happy with them

you know if you want to sell stuff

people

at least answer your customers emails

so yeah there i am being grumpy waiting

for a can of varnish to arrive so i can

finish the last two boards

hope he does one day

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hey what's going on here

rocket recording english rocket i think

but i don't know what they call it

elsewhere

that's good run into flower though so um

yeah yeah i don't know

um let's have a look

yep there it is yeah that's right

and the zucchini looking great aren't

they

beautiful

last weekend we took a sale on hazel's

boat actually the same trip that we did

last year from

uh where she has had our home base up

till now

in billabo's half and on the on the

german north sea coast

and the german bikes at the north sea

and i remember you know when i was a kid

the shipping forecasts would come on the

radio and and

they should name all these areas around

the

around the the coast of britain

going a fair way out german bike was

always one of those

it's kind of interesting to be sailing

in german bite

so anyhow yeah we left the villains half

and and sold around

now it's very very shallow water there

um along that

german coast it's what they call the

buttermir

so it's uh sort of mud flats title

drying out you may know from the riddle

of the sands that book

the film um so you have to go quite a

long way at the sea

to to have water that's deep enough so

quite a big

loop around and up into the river elbow

which is the river that runs up to

hamburg and then on

basically into the czech republic runs

right through germany right down to the

south east of germany

into the czech republic i think it

changes its name somewhere along the

line but

um we only went a short way up there

although you know it's a big river

and very tidal um short way up there and

into the

keel canal there's a lock into the canal

and that keel canal is a as a 100

kilometer or to be precise

97.5 kilometer long

it's mainly marked in half kilometer

steps along its banks there's a section

that hasn't got the kilometer markings

depending on 97.5 kilometers long you

have to motor

you're not allowed to sell for it a big

old plug motor through it but it's

pretty

pretty uh there's a couple of places

that you can stop overnight and

not many but a couple and there's one at

the 20 kilometer mark so we stopped

there overnight got there

uh sunset on the saturday

uh having left at you know about six or

so in the morning

so sunset mid summer saturday we got to

the mooring place

20 kilometers in and the next day you

got up and and

continued through the canal and then you

come out

through the lock at the other end into

the baltic sea at keel which is

one of the great german sailing harbors

and it's

very very pretty and a lot of boats

around

i left her there and keel and she's now

off single handing on her adventures at

summer cruising adventures

heading up towards denmark that i think

as i sit here talking to you

today she'll be sending to denmark

good stuff unfortunately one or two bits

of this

video one or two clips have got a bit of

wind noise on them and and clearly i

need to invest in some

better microphone technology before we

set off into patcher

but hope you enjoy all right so

was it 6 30 in the morning six weeks

just before that night

by six we're about to get going

yeah leaving villains half and where we

going

uh

so we're going to go around out into the

north sea this is the

the yard or the jade bay at the

inlet off of the german bite of the

north sea

and we're gonna go around out into the

german bite the north sea

outside a couple of little islands and

then into the river elba

up there a little way and then if all

goes well of course

and into the keel canal yeah we'll just

just get a little way into the kill

canal today if it goes well

lovely morning sun's out

and it's a very very nice little hub

here there's the

the villains half and yacht club we're

on a

guest berth here

and it's very beautiful

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time to get going so

as you can probably tell we're

motorcyling so we'll look forwards

we've got the autopilot steering we

probably need to do a bit of adjustment

on that

for the reaction time just going past

the big

german naval base here power station

over there look

all the sights um

this is the yada or the jade however you

wish to pronounce it really

it's a glorious morning and we've got

paul saying that by saying motorcycling

went from a bath

pretty much it's lovely

let's see how the day develops

uh

the wind's picked up a bit we've got

probably a good 15 knots now i suppose

i'm guessing of course we're taking a

reef in the

main so which is the forward master

place which is a catch

um wind's a bit forward to the beam but

we're scooting along very well

very well and as we're passing the

approaching an hour after high water so

i suppose it's going to start to run in

our favor

now it accelerates

as time goes on i'm getting on very well

it's the number one marker

for the river elba the first of the

channel markers into the river elbow

and looks like we're around slack water

doesn't see much current around it

which is nice and his hazel on the helm

how are we doing

quite well that's warm so

we're not going too fast but that's

right yeah but we're going forward so

yeah so counts because there as you can

tell there

oh you can't because the flag's in the

way as you can tell there

is the number one boy that we've just

gone past so certainly going forwards

sailing into the elba

this green one is number seven doesn't

it

oh yeah

oh there's a ship coming in

four knots or something

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my mistake

making good progress we're hoping to get

into the canal tonight

i'm saying very nicely keeping up with

him to up there pretty much

it's not too shabby we're in the keel

canal

i got through the lock it's all a bit

busy so i didn't get a chance to film in

any of the lock but we're in um

in time to get up there's a a mooring

spot about 20 kilometer

20 kilometers up the canal

that we're heading for so overnight let

me do the rest of it tomorrow

very nice busy lots of ships

there's a hazel ships

very busy

okay you can hear the motor running day

two

about eight ish in the morning i think

we're a bit late getting away it was

raining

to start with and we had one other

little problem that the

engine buzzer was coming on at lower

revs and turned out to be the alternator

belt that was a bit slack so to tighten

that up

looking good now and motoring our way up

the canal we're around

25 25 and a half in fact it's coming up

to the sign

and it started starting to clear up

brightest guys behind us come around

zoom that like that he's on the helm

smiling heavy

because there's a bit of a worry about

that buzzer wasn't it and it turned out

to be nothing really so

yeah that was very good

about the alternator belt yeah i did

yeah lovely and really you know just

getting out and doing these things is

such a delightful thing

brings you out into these morning lights

and that you wouldn't otherwise get out

in really

without some determination anyhow

quite a bit of boating around

a bit of bird life let's try and get a

bit of bird life for you later

looking good

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has begun

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she was kissed by the sun

no one can stop her now

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and we've arrived in the keel bay

tied up at the public dock in holzen l

which is just the other side of the lock

coming out of the canal and it's very

beautiful

very beautiful indeed

hey what are you doing i'm just writing

my lookbook right in your logbook good

one

what do you think of the shipment it was

pretty good actually it was

yeah i thought the day up to the

uh canals

after the canal all right yeah it was a

great sound the canal is just a motor

through isn't it a bit of a plug plug

really

yeah it's pretty but but it's just

motoring on it yeah that's not

that big no the sail up the elbow was

actually most of the sailing from

villains half and second to the canal

was great

yeah motored for

but not much did we much enough remotely

an hour two hours at most

yeah yeah yeah very good

cool alrighty i've got to get myself

home get on the bus

leave you alone and that's it for this

week

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and back to boat work most certainly

next week that's the end of my sailing

for a while

i'll be pushing on here hopefully

hopefully

getting that pulpit actually mounted and

have lights wired up

be nice to switch them on and see

glowing at night um

also thinking seriously or will be doing

the the aft

bullwork caps and the drain

in the uh in the day tank locker there

just in case any water gets in there so

it can drain out

those are thoughts still pushing on the

radar

doing a bit of glass and now and then

now and then just so you know there's no

rush on the rudder really but

just do a bit of fiberglass and every

now and again and we'll be

continuing with that no doubt hopefully

my varnish arrives

girl see you next time bye

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