SCARY: Testing the Newly Installed Propane Stove - UNTIE THE LINES #15
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- Опубликовано: 5 дек 2013
- My sister arrived from Germany and we spent another week in Shelter Bay preparing to finally leave the marina. My big shipment from Baotoon arrived, jey, we had to mount a couple of things and fix a dinghi that someone had given to me so we can get to land when we are at anchor.
The boat has new fuel, the engine is running, some things still have to be stored away, but apart from that, KARL is pretty ready to leave. And I am, too!!
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Wonderful work on your video’s and story-line editing. Hitting the ‘like button’ isn’t payment enough for what we get in return. Your “Karl” is coming right along and your new found experiences are priceless. Thank you for showing the good and bad to boat ownership, it’s important to keep it real. Fresh winds and smooth sailing. Stolz von du.
You are reaching your goals, everything you have learnt about your boat and the sea will take you far.
Episode #15; I think this may be some of the best reality film making I have seen. Particularly brilliant editing.
wow it is so good to see you back in gear and working on Karl thanks for sharing and far winds and calm seas
Love your videos. Keep the faith. Every new issue you have to deal with just adds to your toolkit of knowledge. You will realize that there is nothing you can't handle on your own because you have already dealt with it before. May you have fair winds and following seas in all your journeys.
You have done so much work on Karl. It is inspirational to see the care you take with it all. Also, you do a lot of extra work to film and edit it all to share with us. That is a lot of dedication. Thanks for taking us along on your adventure.
Good Vibrations
I feel so optimistic for you Nike. The videos of your unsuccessful events really had me feeling down for all you were going through. Today's video really made me feel good for all you have done. It is so obvious that your skills have multiplied. Very impressive to see just how you have adapted Karl's needs. Your invested time and labor is a cost of the reward to come. I really believe the more you give the more you get back. That's the way it's been in my life anyway. You have given so much in time, purchases, effort, worry and emotions. Your rewards with Karl are right around the corner!
Hello from Toronto, Canada. I have been watching your trip from day one. Nike it has been a rough start but your strong spirit never lets you give up. I am so happy for you. The work you are doing to get KARL ready is hard but rewarding when you set sail. I will be sailing with you and i thank you for that gift. LOVE & PEACE
You are doing GREAT...
You are awesome! What an interesting little adventure you are having. I really hope that it all works out in the end. Thank you for sharing!
Great job, it looks good. Fair Wind to you
you are very nice. thank you for sharing
I really appreciate all the effort you put into filming and editing (in addition to you work on Karl) - very well done!
LOVE your story. Inspiring. I lived in Panama for 2 years. Wife and I are planning the same adventure. I can't wait to see your next vlog.
I admire your hard work and determination. :)
Shelter Bay will soon be history! My sister arrived this week and we finished off some more projects on KARL to finally leave the Shelter :).
great videos by the way! water under your keel and fair winds
You are an amazing young lady.
I watched all your videos tonight - they were really great...
Wow you speak German English and Spanish I'm impressed!!
nice adventure !
i'm impressed how much you are able to do yourself.
edit: best sailing blog so far...
They make a propane shut off with the switch by the stove and the solenoid hooked to the tank, with propane you should definitely have one! look on youtube at a boat blowing up, you don't want that. that's great your getting all the new stuff and your sister bringing you boat stuff WOW wish my sister did that. have a great trip.
This is great! I just came across this and i totally subscribe. Had a blast looking through your vids and now cant wait for the next one. I give you so much credit for the effort you are doing in order to follow this dream and make it happen. Its much more than i can say about others who just dream instead. Its amazing how far you have come so far and how great Karl is starting to look. Once complete, Karl will be worth so much more to you since you put it all together yourself. Keep it up and cant wait to see you finally sail away for good! :) :)
Propane is a pressure fitting, as you tighten it will stop leaking. Lubricant can help. Nice all around skills
What I normally do is look for the big leaks with soapy water. When that is good lite the stove, turn it off, close the bottle, wait 20 minutes. Don't open the bottle, but keep a match at the stove. Open the valve on the stove, and you should have small flame for a few seconds. If not, the 30 mbar pressure in the system leaked away.
Karl really is becoming your home :-)
s/y Legend
you may have figured this out already, but you can always check gas connections with soapy water. place on connections; if it bubbles that means it leaking. no bubbles-no leaks : ) .
PS just found your channel, love it so far!!
Watch out with gas, it can accumulate on the lower part of the boat and it’s quite possible it detonates after a certain amount has aggregated. Be careful!
Nice video. Well done.
She really is doing a nice job.
Don't make eye contact-look out the corner of your eye. Do you see? Karl was smiling!
Like a fire alarm I think they may make some thing that will let you know if you get a gas leak. "I think"
I am having fun watching! Great job!
I see you have a propane bottle cabin. be sure you have a vent at bottom of cabin for any fumes to escape as they go down with propane,and to check for leaks you are doing the right thing just soap and water to check works fine. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
yes, there is a little hole at the bottom at that cabin for the gas to escape. And I always close the bottle right after use...so it should be fine...but you never know...
hey there is a really cool device for checking gas leaks. its an "alde bubble tester" you fit it after the pressure regulator but before the gas pipe enters the inside of the boat. Better to be safe with gas on boats
When you were inspecting underneath your boat your anode seems to have a lot of growth on it. This can be a sign that your anodes are not working correctly. You should really have this checked out. I am really enjoying your weekly videos.
you are awesome
Changing glow plugs is always fun. They hide one or two on purpose by design.
Damn, you speak Spanish, too? =0 Also, you're quite the crafts(wo)man, aren't ya. I wish I had some of your energy and determination.
Karl is so lucky to have two beautiful women on board and retrofitting him, lucky man you are Karl
Not all jurneys register om GPS,, in fact the most important ones does not ;-)I'd say you come a long way :-) .. I am a mechanic and a biker who turned to sailing ,, and i watch you fall into the little traps of not knowing what your doing with the technical stuff like engine & electrics , it gets me every time ,, i like aaahhh , i could have told you that ,, but i see you learn so fast and get smarter every time somthing goes wrong ,, No doubt you will make it , and i hope i will meet you somwere somtime , then you probably can tech me somthing new :-)
you are the best, i love you superwoman...
All that work and you boiled water? OMG~
Where I live there is a smell put into the gas so leaks can be detected think it is sulphur smells like rotten eggs if there is a leak. Maybe there is a smell put into the stove gas you buy. Maybe test tank outside on still day. With no ignition sources around.it. Good luck hope this helps.
Now you're cooking!
herrlich! so würde ich auch gern mal leben! also wünsche immer eine steife Brise und eine hand voll wasser unter dem kiel
How much was the anchorage there?? And great job doing all your work!
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Are you missing a zink on your propeller shaft?
I would throw that raft away. The rubber just doesn't last for ever.
I hope you got an engine big enough for your dingy to pull Karl in case of emergency.
Shouldn't need more than a 10 hp Honda.
Guten appetite!!
Are you two twins??
Ehm, nope ;). Five years difference actually...
Just an odd question I don't know the answer to. When working over the side could you just use a piece of hose instead of the snorkel for breathing and staying down longer or would it require a greater volume of air than the lungs produce eventually creating excess CO2? Love the videos and the adventure.
Hi *****, you mean for cleaning the bottom of the boat e.g.? It's funny that you ask, cause I actually tried that back then in Shelter Bay one day. I took a hose and attached it to an empty water jug so it would stay above the water. But it did not work too well. I guess, it is because of the pressure under water...It was very hard to breathe...and also you are right about the fact that the used air goes out of the same hose instead of going straight into the water which is not so great for your air supply...Ahoy, Nike & Karl
WhiteSpotPirates Thanks for the reply. I sent you a message on facebook also, same picture but the name has been changed to protect the inocent, actually it is a long story. But I love what you are doing I have found an individual who is going to teach me to sail and yesterday we changed fuel filters, ended up with air in the lines and wondered how you would have fixed it, we called in some help ;) Blessings to you and Karl.
I had to bleed my lines quite a bit already...but it is qite hard when you are by urself, easier with a second person or having a second button to start the engine from below. The process is not too difficult. You open up the bolt where the fuel line goes into the injection pump, crank until all the air bubbles dissapear and you have a straight fuel flow, then close it. And then you do the same with the injectors. You gotta play around a bit. Sometimes you can open them all at once and bleed like that. Karl's engine seems to like it when you open and close them one at a time after shortly bleeding all of them...It takes some time and patience but usually works. Try it out next time :)!
Have you got a solenoid switch between your tank and your stove?
no, I always switch the tank off on the tank itself first, then, when the flame goes out, I have a valve that I close inside and then the button.
So far it's worked really fine...
Ahoy, Nike & Kar
WhiteSpotPirates
Sounds like a perfectly safe plan. I always switch off at the tank too. I just like the backup of the solenoid - four things have to happen for gas to flow - tank valve open, main switch on, breaker panel switch on, solenoid switch on - no power - no gas :-)
How did you replace the through-hull transducers while Karl was in the water?
hehe, well, I did not really replace it yet :). You will see it in the next video, I just run it off the back of my boat on a broom. When I take the boat out of the water, I will replace it properly. Unfortunately, it is a different size than the old one, so I cannot replace it when Karl is in the water...
What made you choose Garmin? I'm a big fan of their GPS units but have not used their instruments. I'm curious to hear how you like them.
Actually, they had a really good bundle price...that's what made me choose them.
I dont know if I missed it but where is demitrius, did he go back to Germany
yeah, unfortunately he had to go back home to the "real work". But I think / hope he will come back again during this adventure at one point!
Good thanks for letting me know, love your videos
Did you use PIPE DOPE or PIPE TAPE on the threads of your gas line connections? Just checking....
acutally, no. I thought that gas fittings work with those cutting rings...And when I detected the leaks with soapy water, I just tightened the fittings more and the leaks were gone, so I hope it will be fine. And I always close the bottle after using gas anyways.
WhiteSpotPirates
If ALL of your gas pipe connections have the brass/copper compression rings then you are good to go. The rings are soft enough to compress and make an excellent seal/connection without using anything on the threads. Good work. Sorry if I worried you; appears that you are ship shape.
I so enjoy your preparations, I do think you will be out there soon! Check out carsondcat on youtube, He is headed to France and having quite a trip. The best to you.
If any of that is not marine-ply then its going to just rot again.
Make sure you have a carbon monoxide detector.
Oh, darling...on board, never (yes I say NEVER, I repeat NEVER) go up stairs with something (and less, hot water) in hands. Place the pan in the floor, go up the stairs and grab the pot. SAFETY FIRST. Go ahead.
true!
"Ooh! new glow plugs for my engine!" Probably the first female ever to utter that phrase.
why do i keep getting this shit on my homepage
I guess you already discovered that repairing a zodiac in that state is pointless. Inflatables are no good for cruisers.