GUESS WHO'S BACK?? Ep. 42. Final preparations before we depart down the east coast.

[@wesailwillow]

Fantastic first season. Congrats and we look forward to seeing many more videos. Cheers.

[@sailinghjem]

@@wesailwillow thank you very much. We’ll never forget that summer. Come to think of it, we won’t forget this summer either. One of the reasons we started our blog was to have a look back on ourselves and appreciate what we’d done. Honestly it’s amazing that anyone else would want to watch it too, so thank you again.

[@wesailwillow]

@@sailinghjem totally understand, that’s why I keep up with facebook and Instagram, it’s really like a diary. We watch quite a few channels but we really enjoy your style. Plus Ywey’s a massive bonus 💕

[@johncurry6047]

Bon Voyage!!

[@sailinghjem]

Thank you!

[@lizharrison535]

Wow Faye your brave 😱 my vertigo set in watching you do that!!! We watched you on the Whitby webcam coming into the harbour & mooring up. Take care on your onward journey.

[@sailinghjem]

Haha, we had an audience for our first reverse raft in a river 😂

[@Cptnbond]

I have hot tips to keep your anchor and boat again. Never use these connecting links on the chain. They are notorious for failing.

[@sailinghjem]

@@Cptnbond thanks for the heads up! The Cox Engineering write up and tests were pretty conclusive enough for me to feel comfortable using them. I haven’t seen any examples of the Crosby links failing, have you seen anything online yourself that you can share?

[@sailingsheriff3349]

Well done on the anchor recovery. The section on the Crosby fitting I wish I had watched a few months back. I can’t get mine to articulate due to the narrowness of the links. I am sure I could manage it anyway as that is some vice. I am currently looking at a mast ladder as the load is shared between the climbing and winch man, plus it’s more safe than just the chair. Looking forward to your coming travels.

[@sailinghjem]

Thank you! The vice was an absolute beast and it still took a lot of welly! We did have a mast ladder that was left by the previous owner, but unfortunately it took up too much space for the use it got. We’ve had to be pretty brutal about what we can and can’t take!

[@sailingsheriff3349]

The one I was looking at is smaller than the Bosuns chair called the Mast Rope ladder

[@BigBadLoneWolf]

That peening with the hammer, is proof, that project managers, have never picked up a tool in their lives

[@sailinghjem]

The thing is you’re absolutely right in this case! But to be honest I like tools very much and feel like I’ve missed out all this time!

[@Spud63]

the peening would have taken 10 times less time after the hit rate, (lol) great news on the anchor, we used what 3 words when my new trailer sailor lost its wheel after collection, great app.

[@sailinghjem]

I’m usually very good at getting hammered apart from when it involves a hammer, evidently 😃

[@jasonchamberlin1532]

Had to call out Raymarine over my dodgy wind instruments. They advised that there are two seals on the masthead transducer - one into the unit itself and one onto the socket and both can fail - let water in and the insides rot.

[@sailinghjem]

This makes perfect sense, thank you for sharing! I’ll be unveiling my cheapo hand held anemometer just as soon as the wind fills in! Although with the speed transducer showing me 53 knots today on approach to Whitby, it appears everything is going haywire!

[@mattanderson9029]

Good job I'm not watching in 3d, you'd have just poked my eye out with a "very lovely screwdriver" 😉 I'm sat outside my van in Rowlands Gill trying to get some sun, it's not working, hope it's a bit brighter your way

[@sailinghjem]

Haha it is a big screwdriver! It’s been unexpectedly sunny today, sun cream believe it or not!

[@maesy6730]

are you calling me heavy ? So I think like as you were were saying Melvin ...😅

[@sailinghjem]

😂

[@Ian-tg4wc]

Schengen……. Not sure if this will be affecting your plans? If so I watched a KZbin video by Sailing Helios (season 1 episode 12) where they managed to avoid the rules by being classed as crew and not passengers. Looking forward to following this year’s episodes made by you. Safe sailing. 👍

[@sailinghjem]

We saw the same episode and all we can say is 💡💡💡 We’re really looking forward to trying this out! Thank you very much for taking the time to share.

[@50blitz50]

The swivel that you attached to the anchor should have 2 or 3 links between the anchor and the swivel. The reason is that should you spin around while at anchor the swivel will be putting a right angle load on the swivel which it is not designed for.

[@sailinghjem]

Thanks for the advice! Can you help us understand how that works? Is another shackle required to attach the anchor to the chain in that case?

[@pete9501]

@@sailinghjem Short answer yes. There is a risk that if a side load is placed on the swivel during recovery the anchor shank acts like a big lever and opens up the swivel, then good bye anchor. However, I would question the need for the swivel all together and skip it. Chain to anchor will be fine and probably come up in the same direction each time making life easier.

[@50blitz50]

My apologies. I thought you had connected directly to the anchor with the swivel. Upon further review I see you connected to a shackle. I would test to see if the swivel has comple room to turn. The problems occur when the swivel attaches to the shank and the chain pulls the swivel at a 90* angle. The swivel then pulls against the shank and can be prised open. A few links of chain alleviate the incorrect load placed on the swivel.