In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we fix a few more boat issues and install another Victron device for battery monitoring made easy.

Battery monitoring made easy is managed with a Victron 12 volt - 15 amp shore power battery charger with built in Bluetooth monitoring.

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Wave_in_the_Atmosphere by Dan Lebowitz

Closed Captions (CC):

well that was an interesting little dive

i've just put on my scuba gear

and dived underneath abc here in the

marina at cache the best ross renault

the keel anode

and the prop anode are all looking as

they were last time i dived which was in

greece

um the prop anode is still

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today is the day that we released

episode number 133

which is the one that talks about the

fizzing prop shaft anode

since we've arrived in turkey we've had

several of the best minds in the marina

thinking about it and offering us

suggestions and one of the things that

could alleviate the issue

is to reattach the grounding wire that

runs from the

engine body back through the fiberglass

and towards the p bracket a lot of

people also suggested that there's a

grounding plate on the hole

well we went all over the hull while we

were on the hard and there's certainly

no sign of any grounding plate as such

it could be that the p bracket is the

grounding plate either way

that uh earthing strap from the engine

body

back towards the p bracket has never

been attached since we bought the boat

in fact it was neatly

tucked away somewhere and wrapped up

with the cable tie by the previous

owners

so i'm just i'm just going to reattach

it anyway so i'll show you what i've got

to do that job

this is the part of the strap that

attaches to the body of the engine

and i'm not sure if you can see but it

is highly corroded

and the reason for that was because the

expansion tank of the

cooling system overflowed quite a lot

because of the position it was

originally in

i've since moved it and it's just

corroded through this so

what i'm going to do is get this

wire attach it to

here and then undo the

zip tie that is holding the rest of this

neatly packaged away and reattach the

other end of this into here

and that will reattach that connection

will it make a difference

we don't know but it's a connection that

should be made

so we're going to do it and there is the

other end of the earthing strap

all nicely tied up with a zip tie we'll

clean off the grubby

corroded end and get that connection

remade on the engine

it actually goes on that bolt there and

there is the new earthing strap

connection to the engine block

we're not sure whether that is going to

fix or solve the problem

but at least it is another step in the

right direction of something that should

have been done properly

in the first place one bite at a time

well that was an interesting little dive

i've just

done my scuba gear and dived underneath

abc here in the marina at cache

and the good news is that the prop anode

is still attached to the prop

it's still very much intact uh in fact

there's probably just a little bit of

deterioration you would expect for an

anode

that's been underwater attached to the

boat for

that long uh all of the other anodes the

best roster anode the keel anode and the

prop anode are all looking

as they were last time i dived which was

in greece i then of course

took the half remnant of the anode that

was fizzing down

and touched that against the bare

stainless steel of the prop shaft

and it didn't fizz that then doesn't

necessarily

mean that the problem is solved of

course we have

reattached an earthing strap to the

engine

itself which then runs back through the

boat and attaches to the p

bracket so have we simply diverted the

issue

from running through the prop shaft and

now it's running through the earthing

strap to the p

bracket i don't know the only way i can

test that is that next time we're

added anchor or maybe even again here in

the marina

i can disconnect that earthen strap take

this down

touch it against the prop shaft and see

if it fizzes

if it doesn't fizz at that point then

whatever fiddling around i've done

disconnecting all the batteries and all

the cables and connections and

retrying everything one one one at a

time then somehow i've miraculously

fixed it

and still don't know what the initial

problem was so

it's kind of solved but in the back of

my mind

i'd like a more solid conclusion but

we'll see how we go on

i'm feeling a lot more confident now

that i've dived on the

prop shaft and saw that the anode is

very much intact

we've been hearing from friends and

family about rising tensions between

greece and turkey over gas exploration

around the island of

mace it is a greek island but it's very

very close to the turkish coast

and really from our perspective here on

the ground

it just looks like a lot of saber

rattling we have heard and seen a lot of

different types of helicopters

flying pretty low across the marina area

and then out across towards the greek

island of mace

the reality is that nothing's really

changed here life goes on as normal and

apart from

the annoying noise from the helicopters

you wouldn't know there was anything

different

this meeting is convened courtesy of

henrik fistrup thank you henrik

and welcome back to our patron family

thank you it's good to have you back

aboard

this little restaurant in the marina is

fairly new it's called alps wine house

and i've been told that the fish chips

they do here

is extremely good and while we were in

greece over winter

i had this hankering for fish and chips

so giving that a try on the menu tonight

and then just i mean

so that's pretty good and we've got a

nice

bottle of white wine to wash it all down

and

also one of the reasons why we're here

tonight is because we're just going to

sit down

and have a chat about what our

next move is now that we're in the

marina

we signed the contract um we've got

pretty much all of the big

jobs sorted uh it's just a few little

cosmetic things to do now

so we're gonna decide what we're gonna

do yeah where we're gonna go

and of course with this marina contract

we do get the choice of going to the

nine

other seto marinas in the group up and

down the coast here

as well as anchoring in one of the many

many beautiful bays

up and down the coast yeah so that's

that's the plan for our discussion over

this dinner

yes so

here is my fishy chippies looks really

scrummy

and that is delicious steak

cake with veggies and

rock for sauce that sounds special it

certainly does

yum oh they were very good because i

didn't want

i did want chips but i asked for no

chips and extra veggies and they

they did it's really nice

enjoy bears my empty plate probably

tells you how good the fish and chips

was

the fish batter was just so crispy it

was just

beautiful and the whitefish was

firm and fleshy uh really really good

fish and chips highly recommend that

i didn't like mine at all as you can

tell

it was delicious the steak was perfectly

cooked

the um rockford cheese sauce was

just right and the veggies were really

well cooked

it was just the right amount and i

enjoyed it with a very nice glass

of red wine so henrik i think we can

call that a successful

meeting of the admiral and the captain

thank you very much

thank you and indeed and we have made

some decisions about our next move

we're actually going to scope out a

couple of anchorages

further south and east of here and

that will tie in with us bringing on

board

crew from our patrons

and uh we'll give you more details about

patrons

being crew on board abc a little bit

later once we've ironed out all the

details of that

yeah but it's going to be a new tier

absolutely look out for these peeps

meanwhile time to sit back and just

relax and

take in the atmosphere

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cheers cheers

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clash of music from one place to the

other i know what do you

um do very good actually it was less

than 400

lira 80 aussie dollars 80 bucks

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following on from our battery charging

situation

while on shore power the

temporary solution that we put in place

to charge the bow thruster battery

in the forward locker uh is just that

it's temporary

so i had a chat with mike jones here at

cash marina

and after a bit of thinking his

suggestion makes absolute sense it is

the most cost effective

and also considering the location of the

battery

the most easily monitored so what we

bought is a victron 15 amp battery

charger

that runs from the shore power so i'm

going to show you what the unit looks

like

and explain to you how we're going to

put that in situ in the forward locker

and run the 220 sure power cables to it

this is the unit a blue smart charger

the ip65

from victron energy and i'll just unwrap

this so you can have a look

at the very compact size and also the

cabling that we're going to use as well

we get our instructions that i'm

actually going to read because when i'm

doing anything that involves electricity

whether it's 220 volts or 12 volts

i'm always going to read the

instructions on about it this is how it

comes in the package and

quite a simple setup once we run the 220

cabling

to the forward locker we can just put a

plug on the end a standard european plug

and plug this unit in to the 220. once

this unit is installed into the locker

we really won't have easy visual access

to be able to

read what all the various led lights are

telling us

the good thing about this one and one of

the main reasons we chose this one is

because it also has bluetooth

so it will send the information that

it's doing

here to a app on your phone via

bluetooth so it can be monitored from

anywhere on the boat

as this unit can also be used by people

just charging their

car battery in the garage it comes with

two types of

connection to the battery and both of

them connect to the

output on the unit simply by clicking

into place and this little plastic piece

locks it into place this one of course

has a positive and negative crocodile

clip

on the end but for a more permanent

solution

we will be of course connecting this and

connecting the positive and negative

to the battery terminals it's been

another one of those hot and sweaty days

dashing between the inside of the boat

and the forward locker here where the

bow thruster battery resides

we have got the 12 volt 15 amp battery

charger now

installed and we did have a bit of a

lucky break there's a bit of string here

and i didn't know what it was for to

have a closer look

and it turns out that that string is a

mousing line

that runs through a piece of conduit

that goes all the way

back behind the saloon seats so

we attached another piece of masking

line to the massive line

attached the 220 volts 3 core cable to

it

and then pulled it all the way back to

the saloon so that was

a really really helpful thing because uh

threading that cable through the boat

without that would have been nine

possible

and another bonus was i had enough of

the 3 core 220

cable to run it right back to the ac

panel

where i could connect it to the circuit

breaker

for the battery charger that's in the

saloon

so that's worked out really well i'm

quite happy to have

this battery charger connected to the

circuit breaker

so should anything go wrong then we've

got a circuit breaker which

should trip if it's uh if it's bad

enough so now all that remains to be

done

is to put the boat back together and

then go for a shower

and then have a beer it's another job

ticked off the list

feels really good

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