Sitting in the marina we take the opportunity to tackle a few jobs, then explore the Townsville markets. Darren slashes his finger with a super sharp blade, ..

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last week onboard serían we sailed from

Cape bowling-green to Townsville mixing

up a fresh batch of muesli on the way

and discovering a major fail with our

prop upon arrival

making the most of our time in the

marina we're set to and got some chores

done first Darrin goes up the master

check the spinnaker sheet he then

performs a general rigging inspection on

the way down when hauling Darrin up the

mast we ensure Lee is secured by two

halyards one as a safety catch should he

fall and the other one I haul him up on

we also ensure he has all the tools he

thinks he'll require each with their own

rope halyard

because nothing beats dropping valuable

tools into the ocean or onto the head of

your loved one my job is to keep

Darrin's line taut at all times watching

and listening for his call as he moves

up the mast

we have Mastiffs which makes things

easier so each time he goes up a level

I'm pulling the line taut ensuring that

he can't forward

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Theron is checking the genoa cooler

after a recent repair and now

lubricating the working parts

as he checks the rig on the way down he

checks for cracks or signs of wear

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why'd you grandma honey pretty good just

playing up for a bit of an inspection

just checking the rig in general and all

all the heads and topping lifts just

where they come through the shoes I've

just been checking them fish for chafe

because most the time you can't actually

see them so we've we've unhooked all

Howard's and all actually where they

come over that they come over the top of

the sheave in the top of the mast most

the time you can't actually see that

piece in behind the shoe so I'm just

going to the trouble of slacking them

all off and pull them out of the mast

just so for inspection purposes that's

all going up too and everything looks

pretty good

we took the day off to explore

Townsville and its city markets Council

has a very pretty waterfront which is

well laid out for people to enjoy the

historic buildings give a feeling of a

big old country town with the maritime

museum & art center providing interests

in places to explore and learn about the

Great Barrier Reef and local history

the markets were pretty chilled with an

uplifting lizard provide fresh fruit and

vegetable stalls and freshly made bread

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we couldn't resist trying out the

freshly squeezed cane juice it was

delicious and a real thirst quencher

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sorry

you show me flocking all up and then got

there's still sugar in there at the

moment seem like this crystal form yeah

yeah they put through there and this is

like a juice extractor sorry

juice out of the crystal schism up

together he gets along whatever liquid

isn't out of it

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back at the marina we got on with more

boat chores and preparations for hauling

serían out of the water another bonus to

being in a marina I have to say is that

we actually have a dock that we can sit

on do a bit of work on caesarian so

Darren's head o tied up quite tightly

and is uh running a few repairs to the

brightwork and giving our sign riding a

nice new touch up make it look lovely

bright and fresh you're a clever fella

yeah it's a quite unorthodox they're

writing hand-painted with love bette

midler from a distance

so I carry from a distance

looks great it's given that I really

lost Terry kind of color rather than

that sort of brownish tinge yeah

she's looking at the old man isn't it

yes so we've really enjoyed our time

here at breakwater marina we are yes

super friendly staff super casual marina

they're really on to it though they

actually sent somebody down to help us

with our mooring lines which which is

fabulous and yeah great facilities here

and just super friendly people yeah we

were pretty impressed with with the stay

here the prices are really reasonable

and yeah they've got a laundry here and

common room and all the cruzi people get

together and meet up on Friday afternoon

for a barbecue and it's chittim a

chinwag

and just everyone seems really friendly

here which is super cool and I was

pretty pleased to note if you're a

cruiser with a with pets you're most

welcome here which is really groovy yeah

so we've borrowed their courtesy car a

couple of times and run off to get a few

supplies which has been super handy and

yeah nothing seems to be a problem here

which is great it's a really really nice

very welcoming place to be

so yeah breakwater marina thumbs up good

on you

I'm on a roll ah okay you may wonder why

I'm cutting a toothbrush into pieces

very handy item I needed something to

splint Darrin's finger because earlier

on today he gashed it really badly with

a blade twice across here across the

knuckle actually pretty deep and so I

put some Styria stitches on it the only

problem is I can't get Darrin to hold

not use this finger it keeps bending it

which is breaking the stitches open so

it probably does need proper stitches

anyway so we're going with this end of

the toothbrush to use as a splint it's

going to sit under there and get

bandaged around and it's gonna stop him

from being able to be in this finger

there you go another use for the humble

toothbrush hopefully it'll work it's

very sticky stuff isn't it yeah it's

amazing

don't bend it that's what you keep

telling me wow you're so disobedient no

I can't help it you like a little boy

yeah looks pretty good really it's cuz I

did a good job you did do a good job the

only problem is you my darling

what do you mean nah shocker right

I could put a padded gauze on here I

think this might do so that'll give the

stitches some protection well then you

put some masking tape on we're not

putting masking tape on it actually

saving the good stuff in this is what I

have to deal with masking tape it's

amazing here must blood fell outta there

considering it's only a little cash you

got to you quite deep wide gashes yeah

cuz whole finger was guessed from here

to here and then across the knuckle we

have to stop him from doing this you

can't oh well anyway we're gonna try

this so this is quite good it's kind of

like take it in but you can buy it in a

roll because sometimes these just don't

fit this is what you'd buy it at chemist

pre-done which is great for the side of

an arm or something but around a finger

or there's a little bit difficult so

I've got a bunch of all of this this

roll we can kind of cut it to shape and

hopefully stick it down okay so what I

did is I cut this into a shape that I

think will fit around Darrin's finger

and

I should count it backwards so I had to

make a new mold but I think I'm just

wrapping it around now

and you pull the backing off it and it

should be a nice waterproof bandage

why should have taken a patent

you're so gentle did I cause you pain

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sorry my love

anyway so what we've ended up there is a

waterproof sort of bandage over stitches

this is what I originally did this

morning except Darrin I continued on

with his work and kept bending his

fingers so I'm gonna put a splint it's a

bit thick that that's what we have here

put a splint under it and that will stop

it from bending right hand me your

finger

awesome it's gonna work out perfectly

sure about that I know you're not gonna

like it cause you're not gonna bend your

finger I think we could have found

something a bit more slender we should

have just typed up Bernie and launched a

good type of brain headlong either you

want me to write it

how's it right perfect you're not

bending your finger that's fabulous

good on you babe

I'm gonna show happy anymore honey I'm

happy you sound depressed but at least

to be able to use your finger without

being vegan see toothbrushes do come in

handy okay guys so I really wanted to

talk to you about a couple of citizen

science projects that we are involved in

and I don't know if many of you have

been to our website to discover this but

the one that I'd like to talk to you

about today is the second disc and it

was actually developed many many years

ago by a chap called mr. CQ I can

remember as first name and it is a

really simple disk on a measuring tape

that you plug into the ocean and measure

the city depths and what that is is

helps monitor phytoplankton levels in

the ocean so yeah you may have learned

in school that phytoplankton actually

underpins the life cycle with a marine

life cycle in the oceans and it's really

important to Planet Earth

survival really phytoplankton actually

produce 50% of the oxygen in the air

that we breathe and also I just learned

this recently recently that

phytoplankton actually removes a hundred

100 million tons of carbon dioxide from

the Earth's atmosphere every single day

which is huge yeah it's a large amount

so the thing that's quite concerning

that scientists have discovered that

there's actually been a 40% drop in

phytoplankton levels in the oceans and

it's the apparently they warmth of the

oceans that is actually causing them to

drop off so they've come up with a

citizen science study that we can all

get involved in you and I and they're

encouraging cruising sailors or anyone

who get goes out on the water whether it

be for a big voyage or just cruising

locally

or fishing or whatever just to get your

measuring tape and your sticky disk and

plunk it in the water and take this

measurement and send it off via an app

to give these guys the information that

they can that they need so it's super

cool it's a really simple app that you

have on your phone it takes your GPS

coordinate

it takes the sickie depths and also if

you can there's a little note section

where you can write in our sea

temperature if you know what if you

record that and also anything else that

you might see so it might be some marine

animals or some plastics in the ocean

you can make a few notes about that so

it's a really easy app to use and if you

don't have data because your voyage in

somewhere you can actually take the

readings each day or every couple of

days or whenever it is that you go out

and it'll keep it on the app and then

when you get to understand internet

connection you can upload it so it's

really user friendly and really simple

and yeah I'd really like to encourage

you guys to get onboard and yeah give

back to the oceans I guess that'd give

us so much joy yeah get on board and

just help save the planet really it's

it's really easy to do and yeah that

helps us so I just add a little bit more

for a bit more information really yeah

yeah exactly it's important stuff so

yeah take a look at our website it's on

the home page about the sticky disk and

also there's another citizen science

project there around ocean plastics so

yeah please I encourage you to sign up

and give back yeah get on board help

save the planet anyway thanks so much

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