In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we finally get around to reinstalling the mast on our yacht together with the new stainless steel standing rigging. There'...

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What's the plan today? Today we're going

to get rid of black mold off all of the

aluminium hatches. Okay and how we go

about doing that?

Well first of all we're going to wash it

off with water and then we're going to

go around and with a spray solution of

white vinegar and water and tea tree/

Melaleuca essential oil. Okay so let's

get it done! Okay!

So we're just finished cleaning all of

the topside windows and hatches. The

rubbers are in surprisingly good

condition considering the age of the

boat. There was only one little thing

with one hinge on the port aft berth - the

whole rubber sort of hinge mechanism has completely disintegrated. So we're

probably going to go and look for a

replacement for that tomorrow. But in the

meantime this is what the aluminium

frames windows now look like without all

the black mold on them. So I say that's

looking pretty spiffy. Time for a beer!

In last week's video I showed you the

four terabyte hard drive that I

inadvertently kicked off the bed and it

broke. Now ideally these things should be

taken apart in a clean room. Now we don't

have the facilities on board for that

obviously and we really can't afford to

send it off to a cleanroom to get done

because it's 4 terabytes worth of data

and they charge by the amount of data

they recover. So you're probably looking

at a three thousand Australian dollar

charge to get the data off this. So seeing as it's buggered anyway what I'm going

to try and do today is take it apart

find out where the heads are sitting

because the drive itself is spinning up

but the heads are not locking. So if I

can find out where those heads are maybe I can push them back where they should

be and maybe it will work.

So a specialist tool for this job because of

the shape of the screw heads and there

are six around the outside that need to

be removed. And then there's usually a

secret one which is right there

underneath the label - you can feel it

with your fingernail.

Yeah there's the hidden one. All right so

this is a delicate bit making sure we've

got no bits of fluff all over the place

and now we just have to prise the top

off so we can actually get in to the

inner workings. Now this is you discs where

are all your data's stored. This is your

drive head. Because it's a four terabyte

drive it's got lots of arms that go in

between - there's lots of - there's several of

these disks layered on top of each other.

It's got several arms there that go in

and read the data off the surface of the

disks.

There appears to be no damage to

the actual platter itself, this big

silver disk. However it's my belief that

the read/write heads is where the damage has actually occurred because and

to confirm that when I spin this drive

without the heads engaged (if you can get

that closer for a listen) Silence, but

once I engage the heads onto the surface

of the disks and then do the same thing

with spinning it - have a listen.

That's not a normal sound for a head on

a hard drive disk, so that tells me that

the actual heads themselves have got the

damage and once you've got damaged

heads ... Theoretically you could find

an exact copy from the same manufacturer

with the same numbers and same

everything and take this head out and

replace the head and you should then be

able to read the information off the

disk but with it making that noise it

means one of the heads is actually

scoring into the platter

and finding an exact copy to replace the

head is like trying to find hen's teeth

basically.

Oh yeah there it is. Oh show

them. You can't see it. Oh. It wouldn't be

able to zoom in that close. But

it's the ... if you look at the top two you

can see they're good. If you look at the

third one down and fifth one down you

actually see the heads hanging off the

end of the arm. Aah. I'm not sure how close this camera will actually get but yeah

the heads the actual read/write head on

the end of the arm - four of them are

hanging off and these are the heads here.

That's those: one and two. Very very

small objects that read and write the

data to a hard drive platter. So four of

those were hanging off the end of the

arms and so that essentially just says

No cactus. Ain't gonna work. Not in a

month of Sundays. And of course they will

have damaged the surface of the disc

anyway.

Unfortunately, this one has gone

to hard drive heaven.

Today my job is lining the cupboards.

So I'm using this cupboard liner which has

got anti-slip bottom and it's quite anti-slip on the top surface as well and

I've done one. The fun thing about this

project is that every single part of

these cupboard - every single cupboard even the top to the bottom is a different

size because because of the shape of the

boat's hull. It you know it may be 39cm deep

here but it'll be 40cm deep in that one. So

I've got this one, I've got that

cupboard to do and that one and that one.

Basically all I'm doing is I'm measuring.

I have to measure the width up at the

back as well as the front and I have to

measure the width on both sides and then

I trace it, well actually then, that's the basic shape,

and so what I do then is I write the

measurements down on there, transfer them

onto here. Cut.

That's pretty easy. It's just bit fiddly

sometimes.

I'm pleased with how that turned out.

Three more cupboards to go.

So good news! Things are moving forward. We've got Jose at the helm at the moment.

He's taking us to the other side of the

marina where we're about to get our mast

re-seated in its proper place on the

foredeck and Jose's taking us all the way to

that place over there where that big

crane is going to put our mast which is

hanging from it already, back into that

socket on the foredeck there.

So the mast climber was just to release

one of the backstage cables that was

actually wrapped around the other side

of the mast. So now Jose's got the slack

to be able to get them across the top of

the Bimini and through the holes

designated for them so they can be

attached to the back of the boat.

And now we're getting the foresail re-attached to the forestay.

They really made quick work of that,

installing the foresail and the lines

and running them all back to the winches

and the jammers in the cockpit. So now we

have a headsail or foresail,

or jib. See everything's got a

really different name and sometimes lots

of different names for the same thing.

It's crazy!

As you can see from the back end of the boat,

today's the day that the stainless steel

davits and solar arch gets installed. The

guy should be arriving in about an hour.

But of course we'll show you the full

installation process in next week's

Sailing ABC video.

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