There's a hole in our boat! URGENT REPAIRS!!
July 10, 2024 by Sailing Melody | Language: EN Play Time: 00:46:17 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
Last week we came to the conclusion that seawater is getting into our diesel tank so in this week’s episode we lift out to investigate. Right, this is a nerve-wracking and exciting day as we are lifting out part of the reason we’re staying at Deanwater Marina at the moment is because um we’ve still got water getting into our diesel tank, in the K as you may be aware which is why we put that upgraded day tank in and a lot of people were saying well why haven’t you just sorted that keel tank? Well we’re trying to do exactly what we’re doing now, yeah but it does look like it’s coming in from the sea. It does look like it so um we’ve spoken to our insurance company because there was an incident with the lock Gates and what have you and the insurance company have appointed a surveyor quick pause just to give a shout out to our amazing insurance company Craft Insure who have been just fantastic regarding all of this, seriously if you want boat insurance, we 100% recommend them. The link is in the description as always, the surveyor has requested a lift out and Dean so what it means is we’re coming out staying here for the weekend to inspect the underneath of the keel. And we might be wrong, it might be nothing to do with the keel and but just to clarify: there was an incident with the lock Gates where all the water went out of the marina where we were in Debenham, and the boat hit the bottom quite hard um we wonder if there was something under there. Yeah, exactly.
This week we lift out to do some urgent repairs to our keel where we believe some water is getting into the boat and making its way into the diesel tank.
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There's a hole in our boat! URGENT REPAIRS!! Locations
- Deganwy Marina (53.2908033,-3.8276539)
- Deanwater Marina is a small and friendly marina located in Debenham, Suffolk, UK. (50.9018,-1.2782)
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Sailing Melody is the official YouTube channel for the Bennington Family and our sailing adventures. We are now well on our way to becoming a full time live-aboard family. We started with a little 24ft Snapdragon bilge keel, and then moved up to a 28ft Great Dane long keel yacht. Now though we're working on MELODY, our 38ft Steel Pilothouse Cutter. We're working hard to get her ready to go back in the water but as you'll see there's a lot of work to do. Join us on our epic journey restoring this beautiful boat to her former glory and then come with us as we set off around the world.
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