In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we ask the question, what do Greek fishing boats catch and we get to have a day out on a Greek fishing boat that lays out ...

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How cool's this?

We're on a Greek fishing boat with

Xaris who owns Livaditis boat yard in

Sipiada. Actually I'm learning quite a

lot and I think we might get a useful

segment about Greek fishing boats and

their fishing methods

which will be helpful to other yachties

It's different from what I imagined it

was - yeah - from my yachtie perspective - yeah

it is good to see because we only have

the sort of worries of not getting caught up

in the fishing nets - yeah - and so now

we're actually on board with the guys

that lay the fishing nets so we we're

really getting a better understanding of

how it all works and hopefully it will

help to alleviate some of our concerns

and help us to know how close

and how far away we need to be. Yep

definitely. Yeah cool

Beautiful day too isn't it? Gorgeous.

In a future video

we'll include a more detailed segment on

Xaris's fishing methods and how they

may or may not impact on you as a yachtie

Baz and I really enjoyed our trip out

with Xaris on his fishing boat and the

following day he showed us the catch

that he got and he was really pleased

because it was larger than normal

Very good very good catch yeah

so these are the langoustines that

Xaris is fishing for when he goes out

on his boat and when he brings the catch

back he splits them off into three

different sizes. So this is size A the

bigger ones, size B and then size C the

smaller ones. So there's quite a few

kilos there. Other things that were

caught include all of these fish

So this is a normal catch?

Better from normal

okay so this is better than normal. Very

good day, a very good catch - yeah - okay

So where do you sell these?

Now my father will go

to Chalkida

to sell all this. Okay

A guy is waiting for this. Okay

Because Xaris had had such a good catch he very

kindly gave us some fish that we had for tea

cooked in the oven with lemon, pepper and

salt, it was just delicious. Thanks Xaris

We've got a car haven't we Baz?

Certainly have. After months and months of

sitting in the boat yard

we finally got round to hiring car

we got it for a week and

one of the first missions that we're on

is to go north to a town called Oreoi. We're probably

completely buggering up the pronunciation

We're going there because

there's a guy who custom makes stainless

steel exhaust elbows for boats so

we've got the the one that was repaired

in the yard in the car and we're going to take it up to him

and get a quote on how much it's going to cost

him to custom make a stainless steel one

because the one that we've got here, even though it's been repaired and it's probably quite serviceable

for quite a few years, there's still rusty brown

water globules seeping out from inside

the metal inside the unit so it's a

nagging doubt and I'd rather just get

the stainless steel one put on if the price is right

Road closed. Yeah don't read Greek but

I'm going to say that's a no-go

We were trying to go along the coast road

instead of over the mountain pass but

obviously there's been some sort of

rockslide and the road is closed to us

yes. I've seen cars coming through this

way but obviously this side says no you can't

so it looks like we're taking the mountain pass

Yeah mountain pass, let's hope the snow

hasn't come that far down coz there is

snow on the top of some of these hills still

I think this is where Sten and Rita have got there boat isn't it? Yeah.

This is our exhaust elbow

Yes. It had a leak here. Yes always. The boatyard made a new collar

But inside there's

still liquid coming out.

This exhaust elbow is in really bad condition

and I mean that

if you see around there is a lot of - pitting -

a lot of corrosion

that means that it's not worth it to repair.

If I remember I said we migh be able to repair this elbow

Also this elbow [new] is about 335 Euros - that's not bad at all - plus the

shipping the cost would be 15, 20

something like this. Okay okay

and it's brand new and the original

- Original from Yanmar? Yes and I think that

it's not worth it to make a custom one

because you will pay about the

same price. Okay. You can buy the original

one - okay - and be sure it will fit perfectly

For sure it will fit perfectly

and will do it for many years

Okay

So we've got quite a good haul of

goodies that we've bought now and we'll

show you those when we get back to the

apartment in Limni. We've also

ordered in some parts which may arrive

Saturday or probably Monday

more likely but either way very helpful

great English and quite willing to

assist us and give us good advice you

know so that's that's the main thing you know. Straightforward advice

Glad we found the place. Absolutely

After all that hectic spending of money in the yacht chandlers

we are having lunch now at the small town,

seaside town of Oreoi. I think it is.

It's on the north of the island

yeah it's a big fishing port, well it's a

decent sized fishing port for the area and

we just stopped by this little place here

for lunch with beer of course - brunch really

we didn't have breakfast

Yes breakfast as well. Cheers! Cheers

Well it's nice to get out and about isn't it? It is.

That's quite nice. Mmm

So with lunch all done and dusted

which was very nice we are now in the town of Istiaia

This is a fairly big town in fact probably one of the

biggest in the north of the island

and we're hoping

to find a hardware store here where we

can tick off a few more things on our

shopping list

They were lovely in there. Yeah very nice people.

Helpful. And they've just moved to a

bigger store because we found the one

that's on the main street and it looked

very closed and they had a sign on the

door that said 'moved to bigger premises' in Greek

that Aannsha figured out so we asked the taxi driver and he said "yep, they've moved down there, turn left"

So that's today's mission kind of complete

I think now it's time to go back and we're going to

try the coast road because we've been

told that regardless of what the

sign says about it being closed it is

actually open

Well the good news is the coast

road was open and it had been closed due

to huge landslides since the recent

early January rains. There were still

some huge boulders sitting at the side

of the road and quite a few up the

cliffs that still looked as though they

were ready to drop so probably they

didn't want too much traffic on that

road just in case before they'd assessed

the situation properly.

Anyway on to our haul of goodies

I'll just basically show you what we've

got and why we got them. This is a 10

litre petrol can and this is just to

replace the one that we've got that

currently holds our spare fuel for our

dinghy because the little plastic cap

has completely disintegrated, must have

been a cheap one. So that's that's that's

that. While we're on the subject of fuel

this here is another can of biocide this

stops the diesel bug, we do still have

some remaining but I thought seeing as

we're moving on and we don't know when

we can always get it I just grabbed one

just in case. This here is a diesel fuel

additive and this will go and clean the

engine and the valves and everything

else so this is something that has been

recommended by you our viewers.

This can here is a can of grey spray paint but this is

a high heat spray paint and

it withstands temperatures up to 700

degrees so basically that means that

when we clean up the engine and little

bits of paint peel off or scrape off we

can put this spray paint on

and that will be good for keeping the engine nice and

protected. Now talking about fuel again

this is a primer bulb and nine times out

of ten you'll see these in the in your

dinghy between the fuel tank and your

outboard engine if you have a separate

fuel tank and this was bought to go in

line of the fuel supply to the main

engine because if we ever run out of

fuel and we need to top off our tank with

the 40 litres of spare diesel that we

carry, priming the engine after the

air has got in there with the little lift

lift leaver, lift valve it just takes

forever so pop this in line on the

engine give it a couple of good squeeze

boom your engine's back running in no

time at all. We have a new padlock. This will

eventually replace the one that's

currently stuck on the outboard engine,

we'll get rid of that one and we'll put

this one on and we promise to keep this

one maintained so we don't get the other

one stuck. This is a dirty great big

steel wool or steel wire attachment for

a drill bit. I'll be using this to take

off the areas of antifoul and epoxy

thatare on the hull as we do repair

work there and when I am doing that

repair work I will be wearing this. This

is a disposable cover all overall really

so I definitely want one of those for all the

dirty jobs. Also did buy two new spark

plugs for the outboard engine. I'm pretty

sure we've got two onboard but I can't

find them so just to be sure to be sure

I got another two. This little beauty

here the piece de resistance, that's our

brand new exhaust elbow Yanmar brand

not a bad price, it was 340 euros something like that and we

also bought two gaskets for it so that

if I have to take this one off and the

gaskit's failed I can at least replace

the gasket and in comparison to our

old elbow, it's like chalk and cheese, so there is

the old elbow side-by-side with the new

one

Dmitri at the boatyard up north reckons

we'll get quite a few good years of use out

of this but I've kept the old one just

in case this one finally blows at some

points in the future and we've got soot

coming into the engine compartment again

at least I know I can put this one back

on temporarily and that'll get us to

where we want to go to fix the problem or

buy another one of these

Let's hope it's many many years from now

I'd just like to take this moment to thank

all of our viewers, subscribers and

patrons, we've been getting some

fantastic tips and helpful hints about

our winter maintenance onboard A B Sea, so

thank you very much for all of that and while

we're on the subject of patrons we'd

like to say hello and thank you to Lyndee

Brider, she is our newest patron

welcome aboard Lyndee.

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