In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we show you some of our on board storage spaces, buy some scuba gear and take you sightseeing around the marina. The scuba...

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A yacht with a mast looks like that. Obviously it's got the big aluminium

mast but also it's got all the rigging

that keeps the mast upright. Well right

now all we've got is a place for the

mast. That's where she normally lives.

We did promise you guys that we would be showing you around the marina. It's

Monday morning 8:30 so things are still

a little bit quiet and basically I'm now

walking towards the shops restaurants

and service areas of the marina.

It's basically an L-shaped structure

that faces inwards towards the towards

the berths here. The first thing we see

when we get to the end of this walkway

is a kind of dealership for Yanmar

engine parts and Mercury outboard motors

and they also have a few boats that I guess are for sale sitting in front of

their shop. And we've got a dive centre - a

couple of guys setting up for the day.

There's another ferreteria that sells

not just boat parts but also, like fairly

liquid and soap and stuff like that. This

is the Marinera's office. These are the

guys that help you tie up to the docks

when you pull in for the first time and

they generally just keep an eye on

everything around about the place.

There's a little laundromat there it

costs 5 euros to wash your clothes on

whichever setting you want and then 1

euro per 10 minutes of dryer time. We've

got a big bag full of stuff that's got

to go in there very shortly! So now

walking around the corner takes us to

the toilets.

Hola, buenas! That's the cleaning lady.

She's always in at this time of day so

that's the men's and that's the ladies.

There are quite a few restaurants and

bars in the marina area but most of them

seem to be closed for the winter. Then

there's a sportswear shop for kite

surfing and skateboarding and all that

sort of stuff. Next we've got the

Argentinean restaurant that's where we

ate one night. That was very good and

again we were the only customers in the

place it was that quiet. Then we have

Jose's office. Of course Jose is the

broker that we're buying our yacht from.

And right next to that is another

restaurant which is more sort of an ice

creamery/coffee shop than a restaurant

really. This walks out to the car parking

area and just beyond that wall there

is a big beach the arcs up across over

to those buildings in the distance. So

this one here is the Spanish bar that

does the 10 euro daily menu - Really good.

Very basic down-to-earth food but really

good value and really tasty. And then

there's the Clipper Pub - claims to be an

Irish pub but to be honest with you it's

more like a Spanish bar than anything

else! An other restaurants - do have a

daily menu as well but we've never been

in there. Have seen a lot of Spanish

people eating there so it must be quite

good. And then there's a clothes shop. I'm

sure that everything in there is twice

the price that it should be! Gourmet steaks

and cakes in Cielos, that's clowds bar/

bistro. The infamous ferreteria, where

light globes are a stupid price. It's

just a little kinda like souvenir shop I

guess. We had a look in there. There's

some fishing gear in there but I think

I'll go into Murcia and go to a fishing

tackle place to buy buy that sort of

stu. So now we'll wander back to the

boat

and I'll give you a quick glimpse of

topside. She's got a lot of work that

still needs to doing to her, so we're not

going to do the boat tour until the

mast is on, the stainless steel arch for

the davit's is on, and also probably the

solar and the dingy and the outboard.

Once all that is completed all that work

is completed, we will do a full boat tour. But for now take a look at this where

the mast should live. A yacht with a mast

looks like that. Obviously its got the

big aluminium mast. But also it's got all the riggin that keeps the mast upright.

Well right now all we've got is a place

for the mast! That's where she normally

lives. This aluminium section here - this

is the boom. So the mast and all of the

rigging has gone, so she doesn't even looklike a proper yacht at the moment. Let me

just go forward to the anchor and I'll

show you what she looks like looking

backwards. Yeah pretty barren, pretty bare.

So walking back to the cockpit along the

side decks here...

that's our sunscreened dodger,

and our Bimini. This is mostly mostly

where we sit when the weather's fine -

a big table so it's even if we wanted to

work out here there's a lot of space to

do that as well.

So not really a proper boat tour, just a

quick look on deck to see how the land

lies so to speak. If you can say that

when you're on a boa. But we will be

giving you a full boat tour inside and

out

once all the construction and building

work is over.

Well that parking took half an hour? Yeah

half an hour. But ... We've got the best

parking angel in the world who was just

waiting for the one that's just around

the corner from the shop. No, the shop's right there. There.

Oh my god, we have got the best parking angel in the world!

The man in the shop very kindly gave us

one full tank didn't he? Yeah, he's filled all the tanks.

Oh all of them! Oh isn't that cool. Okay so we're off to...Where are we going now?

We're going back to the boat now because

it is already quarter past seve. We've

got a 40-minute drive ahead of us then

we've got to get this heavy stuff

including 30 kilos of lead. Onto the boat. From the car to the boat. Luckily

we've got two trolleys now which will

help!

I reckon you'll get two tanks on there. Our complete halt from our shopping

trip to the dive shop included for S80

11.1 litre aluminium tanks,

4 plastic tank boots, 4 tank valve

caps, 2 x 5ml wetsuits and enough

lead for three divers broken down by 6 x

3 kilos, 6 x 2 kilos and 6 x 1 kilo

weights. Quite a haul but something

we need. Next we've got to get a petrol

driven compressor so we can actually

refill our own tanks on bore.

Okay, today's little exercise has been to

stock up with lots of tins and things

and dry goods and you know, toiletries

and things like this that we can store

in behind the saloon cushions her. See!

So that's nice and clean and behind

every single one of these there's ample

storage so we thought we may as well

start doing this now. Most ... I've put ... I've dated them and I've put the names on them

because anything that was in cardboard,

because cardboard carries cockroach eggs

you need to get rid of cardboar. If

you're going to store tins in the bilges

where you've got the potential of the

water dissolving ... softening the paper and

having the paper go into the bilges you

also have to take the labels off. But I

didn't have to do that today because

it's all going in behind thee! Well I've

been really surprised because all of

that stuff that was on that shelf I've

put into here. All the sort of soft things behind the seat here.

And all the tins and the other things in

here and look how much more space there is!

There's heaps! So when you think how many other seats we've got, we've got lots of

storage! So it's really goo. So we'll be

able to put lots of water on board and

plenty of drinks and other things like

toilet rolls and I mean we've

already got 12 toilet rolls we bought

the other day. But we're certainly well

off for storage and you know I've still

got more art things to buy. I've got one

cupboard that's in the big cabin forward.

But I'm thinking now I'll probably be

able to commandeer one of these as well because I think we're well off

for space, so that's really good.

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the comments... Now where is the Dremel

drill stored? Why? Because we're going to

have to modify the light fittings down

below to accept the new LED lights that

we're going to install. Ah. It's in the

forward cabin in the forward port locker.

Perfect. I'll go and get it!