I must have missed when you fixed the refrigerator. I remember you pointing it out, but nothing more about it. Glad you got it fixed. Living the vida loca!
I watched a video about a man that survived, something like 72 days, in a life raft. The most important thing, was that he was able to get water, from a device he had. It was a plastic bubble, like a beach ball. He put it in the sun, and condensation would accumulate, and he could drink that.
The white stuff may well be a yeast culture from spilled beer. Barry as someone with experience with non-ferrous metals I suggest that placing aluminium beer cans in contact with a steel hull is a particularly bad idea due to galvanic action!
I really enjoy your videos Seadog. I'm still several years away from being able to go cruising. I cant wait to see you get to the South Pacific. Stay safe !!!
Well Barry I am drinking a gin and tonic while watching from my armchair lol. I use to be active by flying hang-gliders and microlights. I worked for the health service for thirty years so have not really had my freedom, but I would loved to have bought a boat and sail it wherever I could. So I am watching you live your dream. Many Thanks.
Love your work ... you're inspiring me to stop planning so much and just push-off and deal with what comes ... you're an inspiration matey !!! Brave-as !!
Oh no! I've run out of episodes!, I always dreamt of what it would be like to sail across the Atlantic, around the Caribbean, through the Panama canal etc, unless I win the lottery it will never happen, but now through your great Vlog's I have been there in spirit!, Thanks for making the videos. I can see it is a long winded process and will check if I can contribute to a few beers!, Take care mate.
A plastic tub for the beer insulates it from steel, reduces the risk of chafe and contact with sea water (especially if covered) and contains the beer in the (now unlikely) event a can does get a pin hole. I learned that the hard way too.
If you think your boat was messy you should see mine! I just got done winterizing it and I have huge piles of stuff all over the place! Plus I just painted the deck!
Hi. About the beer. If the cans are on the steel of the bilge and if there is some liquid in the bilge you will have the three magic elements for a galvanic current o corrosion. Two different metal in a solution produces a galvanic corrosion and the metal with less electric potential becomes an anode ( the aluminium) and it'll deteriorate. I am close to my retirement and i will follow your wake. Keep going and fair winds. Cheers from the Patagonia.
agreed drink faster, maybe its a reaction between the steel hull and Aluminium cans. OH and Edwards my eldest son is called Richard so he has the reverse of your name (Richard Edwards) a very cool guy.
Looks like we pulled into the marina too late, would have given you a hand with those beer cans before your bilge got to them...I hope you found a better storage option for your new cans! P.S. Ha, now I know what you were doing when I went to pay my bill. Sneaky little bugger! Man, I need to bring my camera over to White Shadow next time we meet. Can't believe we have not managed a little interview thingy, yet. NEXT TIME!!!
Berry, you still the most amazing guy. Perfect video, not to long and not to short. One of the best cuts and narrating like all times. The "empty" beer cans are caused from corrosion. It is an electrical element if you have different metals connected by an electrolyte like seawater is. So the aluminium from the cans gets oxidized. This aluminiumoxide is the white stuff you got in the bilge. It's like zinc on iron. So use a plastic box to store cans in the bilge, or better - drink it ;-)) Good luck, you are on the west side ( Pacific Side) of the tropical depression in the western Caribbean Sea. Nice to see your meeting with Nike. It was very quiet around her during summer. I know she helped her friends with there charter business. Fair winds Tom
If we had to spend any real time in a marina, I put out 1/2" 'spring' lines made by turning loops into the line about 3' apart and hooking a cheap pair of 2' bungee cords to the loops. Squeezing the hooks down with pliers kept them on the line and they kept most of the surge from yanking on the mooring lines. It was easy to add a few more cords in really blowy weather, and the whole rig only cost about $10, which included extra bungees...
Barry, aluminum beer tins are extremely thin and any salt warter or pointy object will pinhole them. You simply store them naked in the bilge without creating a mess. Years ago I bought a dix of Coors in the supermart, stored in home fridge. Can #6 was empty from just such a pinhole. Coors apologized AND sent me a nice Cross pen for it. They're all aware how thin those cans are, treat them as more delicate than glass bottles.
Maby You Should Invest In A bullet Proof Vest for your next Trip There..The Same Matereal As Those bullet Proof Hull's Are Made Of In Some Boat's'..Most'ly If you Meet up With Pirets,Bad spelling,lol..
Hi Barry. Could the leaking beer can situation be attributed to dissimilar metal contact in a corrosive environment? Aluminum against steel in your storage area. Love your adventures.
The longer you are at the dock, the harder (but more necessary) it is to untie the lines!!! There's always an exuse... like your neighbor now with a broken toilet
Follow the boat had a recent video on trying to enter there life raft. I wonder how many cruisers abandon ship deploy the life raft and parish because they can not get into raft in rough seas? Key, practice, practice, practice. Good video keep it up.
I've kept beer cans in the bilge and lost them all! Got exposed to salt water and bases corroded. Plus movement at sea, the bases holed and all drained out.Then when your and sweaty in need of a cool beer you become the butt of a most cruel joke!
Barry goes beaufort 16:33 must have been the beer , which had enough from that anchoring ... or was it hit by leaking currents electrolysis rats running in that gruesome, macabre sludge... Again a nice Barrisma performance of epic proportions, Fair Winds to the lovely Old Seadog
Galvanic reaction between very thin alu-can and steel boat leads to empty beer cans. If you really need to put beer in your bilge - try to isolate it with plastic or rubber and keep a dry enviroment around those cans😏
Suggestion for your grab bag = micro fiber towel (or a shammy) not only could you wipe up with it, maybe use it as a sponge for the lifeboat.. but you also could put under you rhat and shade your neck..
I'm in Finland and it would of been interesting to know where your neighbours were from in Finland BUT I'm guessing they're very reserved (as Finns can be)....
Hi Barry, check that solar powered phone charger you have in your grab bag, I had one exactly the same and after being in the dark for a while it did not work again! Might be worth checking occasionally. Keep up the good work though mate 👍
Bad news about the beer - even worse news - the plunging neckline of the grey tee shirt - salty nipples on the horizon. Could use old grey tee shirt to protect flimsy beer cans from imminent wastage. The alloy on those cans is paper thin and punctures easily - the motion of the boat will wear them through quicksticks. Nice one Barry - new arrivals seem very pleasant ;-)
Just another thought - if the beer can was on the steel hull you have probably got a bit of galvanic action going on. You need a barrier between the two.
Good onya mate, love your videos and you are very courageous in what you do. Mate, your grab back contents are a bit random. Yrs, you do need a water proof bag and I think you need a personal EPERB, a good flashlight, and a hand held marine radio in your grab bag or attached to your life vest.
rubber bike inner-tubes are very handy on board for springing lines when surging happens, for towing dinghy it stops it jerking around, stops the Main sheet snatching when there is little wind but big swell. Cut up into strips, makes great straps for tying down tarps, and around ones waist to hold up ones pants. happy sailing Barry.
Francis Drake, William Parker, Henry Morgan, Edward Vernon (Old Grog), all came sailing in to Panama... and now Barry Perrins. Those of yesteryear came over the old Camino de Cruces looking for a share of gold doubloons. But the Old Seadog? Well, Barry has gotten stuck in good ole Panama for something. The Pacific is waiting, Barry, and so are we. Your vids are the best!
Hey Old Timer ( from an Old Timer) Wondering Perry , because You have so many close calls due tonYour old motor Why don’t You ( and other ) Mount a transom board to put Your dingy motor on if in a pinch ?
barry, way back when, after leaving inglanda :-) you mentioned you had some kind of co2(?) emerg. electrical backup thingy-me-bob. this was before you got your solar panels. do you still have it and have you used it? i seem to remember you said it cost 5K pounds? oh and be safe going over that peaceful BIG pond. it might be a good idea to mpty your bilge etc etc etc. :-)) forgot to ask. is your new(ish) wind turbine creating shadows over your solar panels?
Hi Berry I love you TH-cam moves. Me and my wife are new sailors and I am learning so much from your adventures. Be safe and keep on sailing.
a typical seadog production. easy going...nothing fancy...plain and simple pure enjoyment.
thankyou sir.
Cheers.
I must have missed when you fixed the refrigerator. I remember you pointing it out, but nothing more about it. Glad you got it fixed. Living the vida loca!
I just love Nike and Maria. You so lucky to be able to hang with them. Live the outtakes also, and thanks for going through your throw bag!
Beer o'clock.
My favorite time of the day. Whenever it is.
What a good chat for people. This could save lives. You are awesome.
I watched a video about a man that survived, something like 72 days, in a life raft. The most important thing, was that he was able to get water, from a device he had. It was a plastic bubble, like a beach ball. He put it in the sun, and condensation would accumulate, and he could drink that.
The white stuff may well be a yeast culture from spilled beer.
Barry as someone with experience with non-ferrous metals I suggest that placing aluminium beer cans in contact with a steel hull is a particularly bad idea due to galvanic action!
I really enjoy your videos Seadog. I'm still several years away from being able to go cruising. I cant wait to see you get to the South Pacific. Stay safe !!!
Cheers
One of the biggest things I am learning watching your videos is to compartmentalise everything in plastic totes ;)
my two favourite bloggers in one place, heaven.
Love you Barry keep the videos on I watch them all
hopefully your grab bag is renewed by now, thanks for another smashing video
Well Barry I am drinking a gin and tonic while watching from my armchair lol. I use to be active by flying hang-gliders and microlights. I worked for the health service for thirty years so have not really had my freedom, but I would loved to have bought a boat and sail it wherever I could. So I am watching you live your dream. Many Thanks.
Love your work ... you're inspiring me to stop planning so much and just push-off and deal with what comes ... you're an inspiration matey !!! Brave-as !!
Oh no! I've run out of episodes!, I always dreamt of what it would be like to sail across the Atlantic, around the Caribbean, through the Panama canal etc, unless I win the lottery it will never happen, but now through your great Vlog's I have been there in spirit!, Thanks for making the videos. I can see it is a long winded process and will check if I can contribute to a few beers!, Take care mate.
A plastic tub for the beer insulates it from steel, reduces the risk of chafe and contact with sea water (especially if covered) and contains the beer in the (now unlikely) event a can does get a pin hole. I learned that the hard way too.
Damn boat has been drinking your beer!!!
If you think your boat was messy you should see mine! I just got done winterizing it and I have huge piles of stuff all over the place! Plus I just painted the deck!
The fireworks - probably a funeral..
Hi. About the beer. If the cans are on the steel of the bilge and if there is some liquid in the bilge you will have the three magic elements for a galvanic current o corrosion. Two different metal in a solution produces a galvanic corrosion and the metal with less electric potential becomes an anode ( the aluminium) and it'll deteriorate. I am close to my retirement and i will follow your wake. Keep going and fair winds. Cheers from the Patagonia.
Haha, looking back is fun.... dunno if I would ever leave.
You're not drinking your beer quick enough!! The tins are corroding and exploding. Drink man, drink! -;)
Sorry, will try harder.
agreed drink faster, maybe its a reaction between the steel hull and Aluminium cans. OH and Edwards my eldest son is called Richard so he has the reverse of your name (Richard Edwards) a very cool guy.
Ive drunk them all now!
Great news!! I trust you have replenished your cellar accordingly. By the way, looking forward to your next video.
Put them up-side-down. The top is thicker than the bottom.
Galvanic corrosion is eating up your beer cans. You need an insulator between the steel and the aluminum.
Looks like we pulled into the marina too late, would have given you a hand with those beer cans before your bilge got to them...I hope you found a better storage option for your new cans!
P.S. Ha, now I know what you were doing when I went to pay my bill. Sneaky little bugger! Man, I need to bring my camera over to White Shadow next time we meet. Can't believe we have not managed a little interview thingy, yet. NEXT TIME!!!
You are always welcome on board for a tinnie!
Just love the OUT TAKES. Another great video, thanks for sharing.
Love the storm footage.
Water for your grab bag . 👍
Nike and Maria are my favs. Too bad I am older than you, you old goat.
Berry, you still the most amazing guy. Perfect video, not to long and not to short. One of the best cuts and narrating like all times.
The "empty" beer cans are caused from corrosion. It is an electrical element if you have different metals connected by an electrolyte like seawater is. So the aluminium from the cans gets oxidized. This aluminiumoxide is the white stuff you got in the bilge. It's like zinc on iron. So use a plastic box to store cans in the bilge, or better - drink it ;-))
Good luck, you are on the west side ( Pacific Side) of the tropical depression in the western Caribbean Sea. Nice to see your meeting with Nike. It was very quiet around her during summer. I know she helped her friends with there charter business.
Fair winds
Tom
I drank them all . . . just to be safe!
It's been a few weeks Dog. I hope you're on a great passage somewhere!
If we had to spend any real time in a marina, I put out 1/2" 'spring' lines made by turning loops into the line about 3' apart and hooking a cheap pair of 2' bungee cords to the loops. Squeezing the hooks down with pliers kept them on the line and they kept most of the surge from yanking on the mooring lines. It was easy to add a few more cords in really blowy weather, and the whole rig only cost about $10, which included extra bungees...
Barry, aluminum beer tins are extremely thin and any salt warter or pointy object will pinhole them. You simply store them naked in the bilge without creating a mess. Years ago I bought a dix of Coors in the supermart, stored in home fridge. Can #6 was empty from just such a pinhole. Coors apologized AND sent me a nice Cross pen for it. They're all aware how thin those cans are, treat them as more delicate than glass bottles.
Your laugh about gunfire is cracking me up
Maby You Should Invest In A bullet Proof Vest for your next Trip There..The Same Matereal As Those bullet Proof Hull's Are Made Of In Some Boat's'..Most'ly If you Meet up With Pirets,Bad spelling,lol..
Hang in there man! Good luck.
Thanks Barry. SO serious problem with your beer, you will have to cushion it.Haha. Enjoy. :)
Fantastic old boy
Karl is a real beast of a sailboat
Yay. Finnish flag flying at 0:42. Go Finland. Nice video. Thank you ❤️ (and watched the whole video. It is s/y Iiris❤️ go finns)
Hi Barry. Could the leaking beer can situation be attributed to dissimilar metal contact in a corrosive environment? Aluminum against steel in your storage area. Love your adventures.
beer cans on steel hull=expensive anodes :(
The longer you are at the dock, the harder (but more necessary) it is to untie the lines!!! There's always an exuse... like your neighbor now with a broken toilet
Vacuum bags are good for dry clothes and food
Follow the boat had a recent video on trying to enter there life raft. I wonder how many cruisers abandon ship deploy the life raft and parish because they can not get into raft in rough seas? Key, practice, practice, practice. Good video keep it up.
Best advice I have is stay aboard until you have to step down into the liferaft! Usually from cabin top.... I pray this never happens to anyone.....
I've kept beer cans in the bilge and lost them all! Got exposed to salt water and bases corroded. Plus movement at sea, the bases holed and all drained out.Then when your and sweaty in need of a cool beer you become the butt of a most cruel joke!
Barry goes beaufort 16:33 must have been the beer , which had enough from that anchoring ... or was it hit by leaking currents electrolysis rats running in that gruesome, macabre sludge... Again a nice Barrisma performance of epic proportions, Fair Winds to the lovely Old Seadog
Cheers!
That Yamaha sure is nice. It's reliable. Better than your old motor
thanks
Galvanic reaction between very thin alu-can and steel boat leads to empty beer cans. If you really need to put beer in your bilge - try to isolate it with plastic or rubber and keep a dry enviroment around those cans😏
Insulate the aluminum cans from the steel to protect from galvanic corrosion.
recycle those old batteries don't go throw them off shore. Another old arse sailor here. great videos.
Suggestion for your grab bag = micro fiber towel (or a shammy) not only could you wipe up with it, maybe use it as a sponge for the lifeboat.. but you also could put under you rhat and shade your neck..
Good idea.
I would like to see episode one
Good grab bag. Great to connect with Nike & crew. Bet you've figured a beer solution by now.
s/v ...Waves
Drank it all!
I'm in Finland and it would of been interesting to know where your neighbours were from in Finland BUT I'm guessing they're very reserved (as Finns can be)....
They are good friends, can't remember what part of Finland they are from. Hope to meet up with them in a few months in the Pacific.
thanks for the inspirations
Great video as usual Barry :) .. The Bloopers always make me laugh LOL
Hi Barry, check that solar powered phone charger you have in your grab bag, I had one exactly the same and after being in the dark for a while it did not work again! Might be worth checking occasionally. Keep up the good work though mate 👍
Ok, thanks.
How often do you need to change the batteries in the extra AIS?
That's mold growing on your beer.
............Brewing in the bilge ?
@@mikanfarmer I like the idea! Drive your brewery all over the world, paying for your trip with PATRONS and BEER!
Felt the humidity
THE key to survival at sea is the same as on land. Beer. There. Is aid it.
Bad news about the beer - even worse news - the plunging neckline of the grey tee shirt - salty nipples on the horizon. Could use old grey tee shirt to protect flimsy beer cans from imminent wastage. The alloy on those cans is paper thin and punctures easily - the motion of the boat will wear them through quicksticks. Nice one Barry - new arrivals seem very pleasant ;-)
Just another thought - if the beer can was on the steel hull you have probably got a bit of galvanic action going on. You need a barrier between the two.
Anchor is caked in rust, sand it off.
Oh no! Not the beer stash!!
Good onya mate, love your videos and you are very courageous in what you do. Mate, your grab back contents are a bit random. Yrs, you do need a water proof bag and I think you need a personal EPERB, a good flashlight, and a hand held marine radio in your grab bag or attached to your life vest.
Thank you for sharing yours adventures !
Electrolosis of the beer can - simple solution, let me help you!
A bildge full of beer,,,, you lucky bugger
that thime you do,n like happy old Seadog?
It looks as you need help drinking bear mate... Just shout ... We´ll gladly give you a hand ... HAHAHA
Hurry up und zink di beers before the thirsty hull sucks ‘em down
Galvanic on corrosion on the botton of the cans.... Simple as that... Next time put them over a rubber or plastic mat and keep them dry.
Is there anything on a boat that does not break?
If Alum. cans set in water doesn't take long to corrode thru! Electrolyses!
rubber bike inner-tubes are very handy on board for springing lines when surging happens, for towing dinghy it stops it jerking around, stops the Main sheet snatching when there is little wind but big swell. Cut up into strips, makes great straps for tying down tarps, and around ones waist to hold up ones pants. happy sailing Barry.
An old friend back in the day called it 'Inner technology!
Francis Drake, William Parker, Henry Morgan, Edward Vernon (Old Grog), all came sailing in to Panama... and now Barry Perrins. Those of yesteryear came over the old Camino de Cruces looking for a share of gold doubloons. But the Old Seadog? Well, Barry has gotten stuck in good ole Panama for something.
The Pacific is waiting, Barry, and so are we.
Your vids are the best!
On the move soon!
Aye, nice one m8!
Hey Old Timer ( from an Old Timer) Wondering Perry , because You have so many close calls due tonYour old motor Why don’t You ( and other ) Mount a transom board to put Your dingy motor on if in a pinch ?
@7:41, that doesn't look like a cleat hitch and the rope is worn out!
it might be electrolice of the can
Chicken feed is hippie food they just change the labels!!
Anodes for beer cans?
Gonna start calling yoy the old merina deak hand if you dont get sailing soon
Only a couple of videos left then taking a break while I cross the Pacific. Cheers.
Weathers shit in lots of your videos mate. Hardly inspiring to get me out there travelling.
Love your 'clean' washing on the guardrail Barry, LOL
hahaha you funny old man cheers dude
is the bilge causing galling on the beer cans?
barry, way back when, after leaving inglanda :-) you mentioned you had some kind of co2(?) emerg. electrical backup thingy-me-bob. this was before you got your solar panels. do you still have it and have you used it? i seem to remember you said it cost 5K pounds?
oh and be safe going over that peaceful BIG pond. it might be a good idea to mpty your bilge etc etc etc.
:-))
forgot to ask. is your new(ish) wind turbine creating shadows over your solar panels?
All good with the turbine, can't remember what I said about co2?? Cheers.
almost timed this perfect for the start of Untie The Lines Season 4's start
Good rundown on the Grab bag & life raft and WHEN to use them.👍
And am Glad to see the 4 hp YammerHammer Actually DOES Work...!! 😎✅
Small arms fire is light to medium.
Thunder... Look at the weather ..ffs.
How do you dodge bad weather?
A lot of the time you can't, just hold on!!
Galvanic reaction=beer can perforation
How much noise does the wind turbine make?
A bit noisy when its blowing hard but nobody is outside then.
YEA!!!!
how much drinkingwater is in your grabbag?
None the beer exploded!
sorry l did not mean the storage l talked about the survivalbag
once again more time in marina and on land should be called old land locked dog
Are those two a couple?
WATER ! .... you need water in the grabag.....3 days without water, 2 weeks without food....