In this episode we visit McNabs Island, then I take some friends out for a sail and a dip in the deep blue! After that we replace our Aging wind instruments ...

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tied up on a morning on the other side

of this beach right here it was a good

bushwhacking yeah yeah we were real Boy

Scouts today we walked through like some

really thick nasty really nasty spider

webs I'm sure probably have ticks all

over our junk

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last time in Saline valley chandra we

left Luneberg then sailed home

completing our 10-day journey down the

south coast of Nova Scotia yeah we grab

yourselves a mooring just on the other

side of this beach here it was a nice

hike over it wasn't too long but I don't

think we're on the proper trail mind you

definitely not no way off the beaten

path but I mean the rewards I mean it's

a really nice spot there's a fantastic

it's fairly the beach is great the

mooring wasn't it was okay there was a

lot of big wakes a lot of big shipping

containers going by and yeah a little

noisy rustle yeah it was a hell of a

windy day yesterday - oh man the sail in

here was not fun we wanted we wanted to

record it but we literally couldn't even

get the camera out it was so squirrely

and windy in there like out in the

harbor yesterday so sorry with that guys

you missed it but he was probably

freaked yeah yeah that's for sure yeah

so we're here

yep now there's something you don't see

every day

pace

we got guests

and we are sailing outside Halifax once

again a beautiful day today we got the

fishing rod out we got sails up but we

also have the motor running because

there's not a lot of wind right here so

we're trying to get out there to the

mouth of the harbour where the wind is

higher and we're gonna try and get some

motion and maybe catch some fish another

day on the high seas

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captain dan crew

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so we got jumping in the water at sea

here we're not a tanker it's not that

cold oh that's good

all right go for it Man Overboard you

notice he started to drift away hey hey

what do you think

nice hey guys so I'm going to be heading

up the mast tonight before it gets too

dark out it's a little cool today it's

only about 17 degrees right now and it's

gonna be like 15 degrees Celsius by the

time we get up there but so I'm bundling

up a little but yeah I'm going up to the

top I'm gonna have one of my friends

help me crank me up there and I've got

to have a look at how the Windex goes on

and replace it the wind instruments for

my wind direction and wind speed it's

kind of wobbly so I have to have a look

at that and see if I can fix it as well

so wish me luck

so for going up the mast what we've got

here on board is a bosun's chair this

bonus chair came with the boat when I

bought it and it's in great shape it's a

decent bosun's chair it has pockets to

put your tools and stuff so I'll be

using that is my main ascension harness

I've also got a climbing harness that

you would use for you know rock climbing

or rappelling that kind of stuff and so

I ordered one of these online and this

is a pretty heavy-duty one and it's more

for me just as a backup I'll be

ascending with the bonus chair but this

is sort of like if something goes wrong

this will hold me really well and I've

also got in a sender that's what this is

called but I'm just using one as a way

to hold me on one of the halyards in

case something goes wrong and I slip

this will catch me and how this works is

there's a little catch here with some

teeth so it'll slide up the halyard but

not back down unless you pull this

trigger which will release

these teeth and then it'll slide down

the hill here so so how this works is

you ascend on one halyard and then you

slide this up the other halyard as you

go and it gives you this extra measure

of safety

hey guys so I'm just up here on top of

the mast right now at the very top

here's why my the wind ain't broke off

yeah so I'm fixing that I'm also fixing

my digital wind vane here and it's

pretty amazing up here I've never been

up here before

and here's the boat and that's how high

up I am

it's crazy high up here and kind of

spooky but yeah I'm gonna get my work

done and get down yeah if you look you

can see that my wind vane that's where

it was attached and that's just what

come apart or something so that's where

I gotta have a look at that oh my god if

the smallest wick just hit the boat and

I'm feeling it like it's

oh my god this is nuts all right

gonna get some work done so we recently

purchased some new wind instruments for

the boat the old ones were the PNG

hercules system from like 1980 something

and they desperately needed to be

changed some of our dials in the cockpit

we're starting to fade and we couldn't

read them and it was getting annoying so

it was time I'm going to go up on deck

and cut some holes and get them

installed and we're gonna have some new

wind instruments here we go

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all right so that's it holes are cut and

it's all cleaned up I fled all these

little holes here so that I don't get

gel coat cracks what I might do is once

I've got the instruments put on I might

put epoxy from the other side and just

fill those holes as precaution you know

just to keep the exist so here's the

other ones these ones here actually

there's no panel going here so I'm going

to be treating that and epoxy and gel

coat

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hey guys I'm just up here on top of the

mast again I am fixing the wind vane the

last time I came up I just took a look

at the wind vane to figure out what to

do but now I've had a chance to come up

here fix it this is a digital weather

vane and it was spinning around so the

little wheely here would go on the top

and anyways not good so I land it with a

piece of poly pipe here whatever and a

couple clamps so it won't spin around so

we'll get accurate weather readings on

our new digital readouts down then the

cockpit so now I'm just installing the

new Windex and here's the new Windex so

it's just hanging there I got all my

tools in a bag here every tool this time

is tied to a string so I don't lose it

everything's tied to a string this

camera is tied to a string and so you

know I don't want anything falling you

know you learned the first time you go

up things are slippery you want to hang

on so so yeah I'm about to put the new

Windex Illin so it's a pretty good sunny

day to do this last time it was getting

dark and it was cold not cool so it's a

little cold today up here but it's not

really a cold day but way up here it's

cool anyway yeah so just we're done all

right and the new Windex is installed so

as you can see I've got my new

instruments installed here this is my

wind speed in wind direction over on

this side and then I put on this

Raymarine multi unit here because I

wanted something to give me my speed and

my depth and then I've got these holes

that I filled in they're not pretty

looking but I couldn't color match the

gel coat so I'll probably do that at a

later date but you know I just wanted

the hole sealed for now but that's up

hey guys guess what

this is our one year anniversary of

making sailing Bella Chandra we are one

year old today Cheers

all that hard work and dedication paid

off

so I just want to thank all you

subscribers and people who have been

watching your channel since the

beginning those of you who have left

comments has been very helpful thank you

so much thank you for watching so in the

next few videos we got some really

exciting stuff coming up for you guys I

went on a trip to Lebanon I did my best

to get some really good footage for you

guys I'm sure it's gonna turn out great

I had a really good time and I'm excited

to share with you we've recently

switched softwares over to Adobe

Premiere this is our first time using

Adobe Premiere I spent a few hours with

Dan so far on it it doesn't look too too

bad I'm still just trying to get my

fingering just right it's there are

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frustrating with it but no so far so

good

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rendering

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repeat after me

I'm too nervous

why does it have to be less it's always

been one taken it's easy well sometimes

things have to change

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