We were planning on taking our drone out today to get some footage of the ruins
of the Hellenistic temple and the ancient amphitheatre however the wind
and the rain gods said no you're not. So we'll bring you that footage once we've
had a nice sunny day and a little less wind.
I am berating myself for being a procrastinator. We've
been in Kaş for nearly six weeks now and on the way over from Spain we made a
big to-do list and admittedly quite a few the the big jobs on the to-do list
have been completed but since then not a lot has been ticked off the list. So
today being a Monday I've decided to hook into some of the the smaller jobs
on the list. One of the ones that I want to do first is attach the fire
extinguishers to a bulkhead somewhere. There's a fire extinguisher in the main
saloon underneath the companionway steps and there's also a fire extinguisher in
every cabin but the ones in the cabins are basically loose cannons they're a loose
item on a boat and that shouldn't be. Especially when they weigh as much as
this. So today I'm going to go into town and get the screws necessary to mount
these onto the bulkheads in each of the individual cabins. That's one job, second
job is if you follow me over here to the swim platform. This really is more of a
cosmetic job than anything else there are two nuts and bolts that go through
here in this joint and this one here is quite corroded because I think the the
bolt has been replaced with non stainless steel belt and while I got it
off I used some steel wool to just basically
clean up some of the rust stains. It's a cosmetic thing but when I look at it
just the noise crap out of me.
The sun and the salt air basically rots everything eventually and here on the
passerelle which we will be using next week when we go stern to on the other
side of the harbour here at Kaş, the wheels I'm not sure what sort of plastic they're
made of but basically they've been sun damaged and if you look closely at this
one the plastic is so damaged that it's actually just separated.
I have tried taking both of these nuts off to see if I could actually get the bolt
out and take the wheels off just take the wheels off but for some reason it
ain't doing it. So we're going to take the whole passerelle up to the Magic Man
Aydan - he's got a workshop up in town and leave it with him - as he will magically
make new wheels.
It's not far to walk to Aydan's workshop but I will be carrying
the passerelle and so what we've decided to do is make a little shoulder strap
and use a little bit of that pool noodle as a extra support so the rope doesn't
dig into my shoulder too much on the walk. Oh and in case you're wondering
about this we've also planned for this rainy Monday afternoon to take myself to
the Turkish barber for the full monty. That's going to be a lot of fun
Let's go see Aydan in his magic workshop.
So this is where Aydan's workshop is. Wait till you see inside it's a dream.
Aydan here today? Aydan at the marina. Okay
Today no. Tomorrow.
Okay good. This place if you want anything fixing on your boat this place
is the place to come and one of the guys from the marina had some stuff fixed
here and he got this sign made especially for Aydan and this is so true Aydan is a magician.
Well Aydan was out at work at the marina looking after somebody else
but his wife I think it was was quite happy for us to leave the passerelle there and
he'll get on to it and get it sorted out and we'll call back either tomorrow or
Wednesday. I think tomorrow he might be going to Fethiye so it could be
Wednesday before we pick it up. Now this is the thing that holds the fire
extinguishers and we'll go into a hardware store now
and we will buy some nice stainless steel bolts and nuts and washers so we
can get the fire extinguishers fixed into place. One step at a time
Tea. ... You don't get this in Bunnings
Okay let's go do some fixin'
One of the major things on the list was to service the furling mechanism for
both the mainsail and the head sail. We not too bad getting the head sail out on
our trip across but we were very reluctant to get the mainsail out
because it was just a pain in the bum. A B Sea is a 1995 boat so she's 23 nearly 24
years old now and I think I can honestly say that the previous two owners never
serviced the furling mechanism of either the head sail or the mainsail.
So we addressed this situation when we got into the bay next to Kaş marina. It
was a fairly simple procedure, we brought out the mainsail and then released the
halyard to drop the mainsail and release the sail from the track that's inside
the mast and once we had good access it was a fairly simple procedure of pouring
copious amounts of hot water onto the furling mechanism to basically dissolve
the build-up of salts that had happened over the years. Let it dry for a few
hours and then applied liberal amounts of a dry lubricant PTFE spray and gave
the the mechanism quite a good few turns backwards and forwards to really make it
smooth run smoothly and loosely and then it was just a question of putting
everything back together and reattaching the sail, running the sail up and furling
it away and it basically works like it should now.
While we had both sails down
one of the other jobs that we hooked into was washing all of the lines and
halyards and sheets. Again I don't think they've ever been done in the lifetime
that they've been installed on the boat. They were filthy, I think I spent
somewhere in the region of three hours hand-washing the lines in a big bucket
of water and the water was just black. Then when we put all the lines back we
topped and tailed them because they sit in one position for such a long time they
tend to get wear points where they cross over pulleys and stuff like that
so by topping and tailing the lines we moved those wear points to a different
part of the line and it basically doubles the lifespan of the line we also
asked Aydan our magical mechanical guy to manufacture some teflon washers for the
gooseneck on the boom. He did that in short order and very very cheaply so now
the pivot points on the gooseneck of the boom are all nicely protected from too
much metal against metal chafing. Cast your mind back to when we were in Greece
and in particular exiting the Greek island of Astypalaia. There was very
lumpy water and we had no choice but to plow through it as best as we could. It
was at that point when one big wave came over the bow here that we lost the lens
off our port navigation light. Well we've also now completely replaced the whole
of the port navigation life fitting and luckily for us the manufacturers that
make these navigation lights all use exactly the same template for the
fitting holes on the back so it just slotted nicely into the existing
stainless steel plate right here.
Our beautiful headsail which was used
the majority of the time when we had wind on our trip from Spain to Turkey
was also taken down in a similar fashion to the mainsail and again the furling
mechanism was disassembled, liberal amounts of hot water were then applied
to dissolve any salt buildup and again we used dry lube PTFE spray. This whole
unit here does come apart and I was surprised how easily it disassembles and
it allowed us to get right into here and remove the the furling line and get some
good lubrication right into the drum and everywhere else. Only one slight problem
with the dry lube spray it does leave a little bit of a kind of like an oily
residue on the surface. We had a go at washing it off with some salt water but
that's obviously not been good enough so I'm gonna have to come back here and
really get stuck into it with some sort of proper cleaning agent. It looks a bit
well, it looks a lot grubby at the moment.
Because we will be going stern to
in Kaş Harbour sometime this week we've now got our dinghy mounted here on the
foredeck. She's upside down at the moment so I can't show you the seat and how we
fixed it with swapping out the screws for pop rivets but it works it works
perfectly. So Zodiac please take note don't put
screws in to your seat fixings use pop rivets they stay there longer. Yeah I
know what you're thinking she needs to go clean to. I'll get around to that I'll put
it on the list!
And now we get round to our Mercury eight horsepower outboard motor
Brand new motor came with a brand new dinghy that we ordered. It was never set
up right in the beginning. Now that disappoints me because Mercury
is a good name and maybe it was just the the local franchise of Mercury where we
were that didn't do the job properly and it wasn't until we actually got here to
Kaşand took the engine up to magic helper
Aydan and his magic workshop that we finally found out what the engine was
capable of and how it should run and how it should go into gear. Basically no
matter what the air temperature was I was having to use full choke to get us
started and even then sometimes it was a hit-and-miss affair. Ticking over well
she didn't really tick over it was more like a splutter that was about to have a
heart attack and die. Putting it into gear was a horrendous affair she would
clunk into gear and I figured something was gonna break eventually.
But after taking her to Aydan and I don't know what he did, she purrs like a kitten
and runs like a dream and smoothly slips into and out of forward and reverse
thank you Aydan.
Now we're back on the boat and just in time too because I can
see little drops of rain falling onto the surface of the water and I can also
hear it on our shade cloth here. Stopping for lunch
and then after lunch we're going to walk back into town where we're going to go
to one of the many many many many Turkish barber shops and do something
about this. I'm gonna get the full monty and I think you'll enjoy the experience
as much as I'm going to.
While Baz is up on deck
filming and showing you some of the jobs that he's already completed I'm going to
make lunch and I thought that I would make a Turkish inspired chicken wrap.
First of all I'm going to make some mint yogurt. Now I don't have any fresh mint
at the moment so I'm going to use some dried mint I'll put a little bit of hot
water on just to soak it and soften it and then I'll mix it with some lovely
yogurt. Fresh tomatoes. I go to the market on a Friday and I buy all the fruit
veggies from there because it's they're so fresh and so reasonable! ... She's
having a Fanny Craddock moment. If you don't know who Fanny Craddock is google it
That shows that Barry is an ancient old man!
Love you. Love you too!
Mmmmm. Here y'are love.
Well that's lunch done now it's time to head back into town and make myself look
fabulous. In Turkey the man is very much pampered, there are more Turkish
barbershops per square foot in Turkish towns than pretty much anywhere I've
ever seen. Compared to Javea in Spain where there
was a female hairdressers shop on pretty much every corner.
Yeah walk five paces there's another female hairdresser shop.
The barber shop we're
going to is called Oktay and the reason we're going there is because that's
where Mike goes so hopefully Oktay is free and available - no he's got someone so
we'll have to come back.Oktay's got a customer in at the moment
and he should be finished in about 10 minutes so we're going to take a seat
and that will give us a chance to sort out the cameras.
I've so gotta give that a go!
That's a very contented face. Very.
Hey? Very good.
Very good. Well that was fantastic. I would recommend anybody to come and have that
whole thing done. It is an experience in its own right and he has the best hands
they're so gentle when they need to be and they're so firm when they need to be
and he's just skilled at his job. Yeah look at that haircut yeah beautiful.
Well that's it for this episode of Sailing A B Sea. Join us next week when we go
to Fethiye on a rescue mission for Aannsha's Samsung phone and we'll do a few other
things as well but we're not quite sure what they will be just yet.
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