In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we discover that we're burning oil rapidly on a trip to Kekova.

Once we've figured out that we're burning oil rapidly we can keep an eye on it and keep topping up the oil as needed until we can return to Kas marina.

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the beast coincided with the oil

pressure warning light

coming on of course when we came to

anchor and we're just in tick over speed

the oil pressure warning light was on

constant and the beep was constant

so we've had a chat with uh jim on our

body boat acheron and we've

nailed it down to three possibilities

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we've escaped the confines of the marina

and cash we

are in kekova the plan was that we were

going to spend at least a week here

checking out

a lot of the anchorages and flying the

drone over them

and getting the depths and the holding

see what the bottom was made of and

just as we were coming into the gap at

keckover

there was a beep from the engine

instrument panel into me very intimate

beep

and then i stopped and watched and the

beef coincided with the oil

pressure warning light coming on just

for a second then it sort of came on

quite a lot more

permanently on it was just at that point

we were getting to

the stage where we are on our last 45

minutes of the trip

and that's when we put our engine up to

full revs to blow out all the

decent superpowers

so by putting the revs up to full which

is currently

2500 rpm uh the

oil pressure warning kind of almost

disappeared

just we were sort of thinking oh let's

fix the problem whatever it was

and then of course it was a little beep

and then of course when we came to

anchor and we're just in tick over speed

the oil pressure

warning lights are constant and the beep

was constant

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so we've had a chat with uh jim on our

body boat acheron and we've

nailed it down to three possibilities it

could be

a blocked oil filter which is

possible but not likely because i just

put a new oil filter on

six weeks ago so it's not likely to be

that

it could be the oil pressure sensor

which is blocked and needs cleaning that

is a strong possibility

that easy to mix if i can find it

and the other thing is it could be the

oil

pump itself which is probably a

mechanical pump

and again i don't know where that is on

the engine so

look we're just going to enjoy the

sunset tonight we're going to

chill out and relax and then tomorrow i

gotta start troubleshooting

yeah right now though sun's going down

you know what that means sunday at a

time

we're just gonna not worry about it

because we can't do anything about it

now we're just gonna

we're safely anchored yeah engine's off

beautiful bay

and look you've got something else to

look forward to

we're going to change the name from

sailing abc to repairing abc

you fixed it buzz yeah slightly

embarrassing to admit this but when i

dipsticked the oil this morning

it was below the minimum mark on the

dipstick

which is odd because when i dip stick

the oil yesterday

it was right at the top mark on the

dipstick the thing is

i can't remember yesterday because we're

in a bit of a hurry when i pulled the

dipstick out

and it showed that the oil was just

below the top notch

on the dipstick i can't remember whether

i wiped it clean and did a second dip

so that oil on the dipstick might have

been a memory

of when we were crossing from greece but

that still begs the question

where's all that oil gone because it's

not in a bilge and it doesn't appear to

be blowing out of the exhaust

so anyway i've just put oil in uh it's

almost up to the top notch

on the dipstick now fired up the engine

and the

low oil warning light or oil pressure

warning light

has now gone off it's it's functioning

normally

so an easy fix and lesson learned always

wipe the dipstick

and do a second dip otherwise who's the

dipstick

right now we can get on with enjoying

our day and our time here

in kickover thanks it's that time of the

month again

for our 10 and up patrons postcard time

i'm hand delivering this one to jim

because he's actually

just over there in that boat so i'm

going to

double bag it into some ziploc bags so

that it doesn't get wet

and i'll just go and swim over

special delivery gym oh wow thank you

very much

come aboard thank you well it's not like

in scotland where

the postie's a bit different here where

have we got

this to you officially okay all right

thank you oh fantastic i'm gonna stick

that on my fridge

cool thank you welcome

we've spent two nights here in this

first anchorage at kekova

in turkey and it is time to move on

we're going

three and a half miles further down

kick over and we're going in to the

inside bay and i think we're staying

there for one night

yeah um i think this is sidjak

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um so it's uh around about lunchtime

we're gonna move on

three and a half miles shouldn't take

too long there's a bit of a breeze

and it's kind of like hopefully gonna

allow our

head sail to fill yeah uh if not then

we've got an engine

so yeah and tonight we're dying tonight

we ride for york

no what is it landlord

more ale for tonight

actually we're going to hassan's

restaurant tonight so

kind of similar there will be ale and

fish

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so

oh that took ages didn't it do you know

the longest

hop we've ever done i didn't even look

at what time we left and what time no i

didn't know it was about half an hour

maybe half an hour

yeah fairly straightforward coming in

follow the channel markers and

the chart says something different from

what the channel marcus says

so probably best to follow the channel

markers but yeah here we are

in the yeah is ucha's and um

we are in 4.4 meters

the anchor is in mud yep and we've got

30 meters of channel yes and we've got a

great view

of the fort we'll be going up there

later

yay but i've got to finish my editing

first yeah

my lunch is editing i am going to take

the

rubbish ashore looking down there

because that's where it is

that's where the rubbish is here and

dispose of the

recyclables and drop off all the smelly

things that are

starting to smell in the heat and maybe

top up the oil if it needs it

i'll check the oil in the morning just

let it cool down and uh

check the oil first thing in the morning

but yeah that's uh that's the situation

we're actually

losing oil because we're burning oil

so i'm going to do some research on that

see what we can do

and i'm also going to put that engine

cleaning

fluid into the fuel tank and let that

clean the engine

okay yep try anything right now and just

over there is the main town where i'm

going to thinking over to dispose of the

recyclables and rubbish and i'm also

going to talk to hassan

before tonight in his fish restaurant

this is a world-renowned fish restaurant

are you her son's daughter yes oh thank

you for the pears

we just had the best meal here at

hassan's restaurant

and you saw us come in you've met hassan

and now this is his beautiful restaurant

and look at all these fabulous photos of

all the different people that have

visited

look at this here it's all

fresh fish look at this

those beautiful daughters hello

it's a beautiful calm hot and humid

morning even though it's only about

eight o'clock and we're going to

go on a walk up to the fort today but

first of all we're going to pick up our

friend kevin morning kevin

that's a real deal for that one isn't it

this boat didn't make it out beta

testing it just ended up here

all right look at this high-tech stuff

lovely do you want me to go

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first

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so the word on the street is we follow

this road

until it gets to a dog leg up there

and then eventually we end up at the

castle

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that's the boatyard where we parked our

dinghy walked along the road and came up

here

clambered up the hillside and we are met

with heaps and heaps of lysene tombs on

the hillside

and just for scale there's kev

look at the size of that tomb

next we conquer the castle

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well murray this certainly isn't the

oldest we've seen but it's certainly

very fascinating

and whoever was stationed at the fort or

the castle

um had entertainment because this is a

little mini amphitheater

i just love the way they've carved the

steps out of the rock as well so people

can climb up to the top

it's an inside joke what's the episode

that i've got in the top corner of the

screen right now

and looking down into the bay right

there

is abc

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behind me is the beautiful setter marina

in cash

and our boat is quite happily ensconced

there now we have had a few trips out as

you

have seen in this video and we've got

lots more to come now just before we end

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