TOTAL BATTERY FAILURE! But we’re unstoppable - and we're sailing anyway! [Ep135 RED SEAS]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- We tried to leave this island in the South Pacific ocean but our engine starter battery was completely dead so we were stuck. We ordered a new one from Tahiti but had to wait a week for the supply ship to arrive before we could install and test it. Now that things are moving again we lift anchor and head straight out of the pass in super calm conditions. A massive pod of wild dolphins wave us off and we set sail into the night.
We are still struggling with some diesel bug issues but we're determined not to let that stop us travelling. The winds pick up in the morning and we get our sails up but things soon escalate into a freak storm and we start seeing failures on deck as our hardware breaks in 45 knot winds. We're left battling huge seas and we're in for an uncomfortable ride south to our next destination.
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00:00 Our boat looks after us
01:18 Our starter battery is dead
03:05 Supply ship visits remote island in the South Pacific
05:09 Installing a new engine starter battery on our boat
09:12 Setting sail but there's no wind
12:55 Sailing with wild dolphins
15:04 Diesel bug causing us engine problems
18:06 Where are we going?
20:08 Let's get the sails up
21:33 When sailing goes wrong (storm edition)
23:44 Outro
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Yall are NOT making too many videos about the problems. Yall are documenting what life is like and don’t change a thing. Also, I love the intro narratives, they are very creative.
Thank you! We are always worried that sticking to the true story of how things are going will result in some people thinking we are making it up.
We share this adventure because otherwise people wouldn’t believe us when we tell them about our journey. 😜
We are having fun with the new intro style. Let us know if you think we should change anything. We are always up for feedback.
Thank you for taking the time to watch, comment and share….we are sooo close to 10k subscribers now, it’s unreal!
Cups always half full! Well done guys!
Yes! Thank you!
Always largest gauge wire terminals first onto the battery terminals and better to use hex nuts rather than wing nuts. From a 25 year ABYC tech. Another great episode! Thanks.
Totally agree. The wire order was an oversight while filming but we have fixed it since. As for the nuts, they will have to last until we get back to civilisation where we can by replacements. For now we will have to work with what was shipped in that little care package. 😊
Bri being happy makes me get happy.
Always hope we put a smile on your face. 😊
It is always a great day when there is dolphins on the bow
It set us up to think we were going to have such a great passage! 🙈
2009! This should be an ad for that brand of battery 😂 It is wild how things can go from totally fine to things breaking so quickly, but 40 knots of wild will do that to you! Fair winds friends! Until next time!
It’s a hall of famer for sure! Yeah sailing feels like a life of extremes but zero to forty was a surprise. We asked around and everyone agrees this was a totally unforeseen storm.
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing it
This was my first time seeing the sails. I love it! 😜
No way! Indi’s main sail always bring a smile to your face
@@RedSeas That's true! 😃
The cargo ship was trying to bring you a couple fuel pumps, a couple filters and some tubing so you could make a polisher of sorts.
Wouldn’t that be nice 😊
Thank you.
Cheers!
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Wow 15yrs from a start battery is an awesome advertisement for the brand. Sux when things break, but it's good to hear about the excitement
It really is. We were pretty surprised to see that on the tags….assuming it’s true. Still, indioko is the hardest working member of the crew so we don’t mind looking after her
@@RedSeas yes she isn't going to take you anywhere if you don't give her plenty of loving
Hi. I am just in the process of doing my marine boat and PWC licence and I just did the section on avoidance. So when you were saying about the other boat passing you on your starboard and you were confused. They were correct. According to my coarse work the rule is if they are passing they can pass on either side but the onus is on them to avoid you.
I am really enjoying your videos and loving that you have the same boat the wynns use to have.
You’re bang on the money. Over taking on any side and the golden rule of “just don’t hit anything” we’re in play here. It was just funny how he kept changing course to track us for a while and then slowed down when he came along side without any obvious reason. Still, it’s those silent conversations that are so entertaining when we are out there. Good luck with your course work. Hope you are enjoying it and keeping your eyes on the reward. Thanks for taking the time to get in touch and for (hopefully) sharing this video. We are closing in on a huge goal for us of 10k subscribers and getting really close now.
Dolphins seeing you out
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Always great to see your vlogs. You guys are my fun to watch vloggers. It doesn't matter whats going wrong, you two are always smiling and fixing it. That's how we know that you are loving your lifestyle. Even when its tough, you keep going. I was also going to ask about the smooth seas and stars at night. Did it look like you were sailing in space? Lol. I dont know how you aren't at 100k plus subs.
Are you still sailng to Faka Rava? Or has that changed? Keep going guys you are my favorite sailing channel now. Peace
Man, every time you drop us a comment, you know how to put a smile on our faces. Thank you for the kind words. It’s true, we can’t help but enjoy ourselves, even when things start falling apart around us. Thanks for taking to time to watch our little adventure and (hopefully) sharing it. We are so close to 10k subscribers now. Super humbling to think that many people have chosen to follow this wild journey. Cheers!
Thanks guys 😊
Cheers mate. Another week, another challenge. Closing in on 10k subs now which is super exciting for us. Thanks for all your help getting us there
Another theory on that cargo ship is that someone on the helm was lonely and checking you out with the binoculars. :)
😜 given it was me (iain) on helm, I’m sure they would have steered well clear of us if that was the case.
Dolphin cam…. I reckon this idea will work, and will get you the best dolphin shots of any TH-cam channel. Instead of a stick try some short line from the centre of a light-line bow bridle. It will drag between bows under tramp attached to a twin torpedo shape with camera on a spar between torpedo bulbs. Fins on bulbs dive like a lure does. Will take a bit of work and experiment but you guys can do it! :)
Perfect the shape and you have a business. :)
Thanks for sharing your voyage and experiences.
Tony! Good to hear from you mate. Yeah, we will get there with the dolphins cam but I like the sound of this torpedo bridle setup. Perhaps we can get the 3d printer involved and see what we come up with. Just hope we don’t lose the camera in the testing process. It’s a long way to the bottom! 😂
@@RedSeas hehe…. maybe try it with a dummy cam first. :) But yeah, it should be possible to make a trolling lure type platform for the camera that rides level between the hulls looking forward. I’ve suggested it to folk before but no one has tried it that I know of. Maybe they weren’t loopy enough or didn’t have the printing skills. But you could also make it out of balsa with lead weights and epoxy coating…. to get the strength. I’d even consider just getting a couple of really big trolling lures and joining them with a kids 12 inch ruler. Strengthen it with glass and epoxy and fix a camera mount on the ruler. Probably the longer the torpedo shapes are the more stable it will be. Doesn’t have to be two bulbs either…. could make one big single torpedo with camera mount on top. Honestly I do think you’d get great vid from such a thingy but the initial trials will be rolling and diving until you nail the fin and weight settings. I think the catamaran diver setup is likely to be less rolly because you could have each pulled from the front (without a tail on the “bridle”). Anyway, if the sea gods ever let you get a straight run without dying motors, batteries and suchlike…. it might be a fun project. 👍🏼
@@RedSeas On fifth thought…. maybe even just a plank of wood with weighted keel in centre below. Try trolling between hulls till you get stable. Mount cam at rear end and Bob is ya uncle. 👍🏼
@@RedSeasSeventeenth thought…. maybe just a stick like you had. But longer and angled back…. So the drag holds it at a shallow angle. Then you can avoid roll and just need the mount to be streamlined and dangling below the stick a bit to keep shaft out of shot. Anyway…. won’t spam you further. Fair winds friends. I like the cut of your jib, the both of ya are lovely folk. 👍🏼😁
Great vlog ,your diesel problem is a royal pain in the erse, been through similar and ended up cutting inspections in the tank to allow access to totally clean out.
I’m sure you guys know what way it’s headed, the amount of sailors I know that now have automated polishing systems is telling of a new problem in town called bio diesel.
Spoken like a true expert. Totally agree bio diesel is a lovely concept but the idea of fuel that will go out of date and suffers from bacterial growth is a pain for off grid cruisers like us. We are going to have to work out a medium term polishing solution but really not looking forward to cutting inspection ports (if only because we need to move the fuel around and then manage the clean up to avoid aluminium shards in our filters!)
More than likely the cargo ship saw you on their radar, but not their AIS. So they got even with you and slowed down to conserve fuel. This way in case you moved sporadically they can avoid a collision but they stayed close enough to keep you on their radar.
Possible for sure. We had them on ais but happy with anyone taking sensible moves to avoid danger. Their turning to match our course was a bit odd at times but still, all happy in the end
How about a music playlist? Would be great in the car or the yacht
We are actually working on that. Our patreon chat last week had a few people asking if we had one so we have made a start on it but will try and get it done so everyone can enjoy some tunes to match their adventure.
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Yay!
Wow a battery that worked since 2009. Wild! Most automotive batteries last roughly 3 to 5 years. I haven't seen any lead acid battery last past 6 or 7 except for mine. I have a lead acid battery going on 7 or so now. I hooked a $10 solar charge controller up to my lithium battery bank as the "solar" source, and the lead acid bank as the charged battery. So in essence there is a float voltage on my lead acid batteries coming from my lithium batteries 24/7 or whenever there is enough of a charge coming in from solar or the lithium bank isn't depleted below where it will charge the lead acid. If I grind on the lead acid trying to start the motor, then the solar will charge my lead acid as well. Though the real thing is the battery bank is always topped up day or night. The float voltage isn't a lot maybe a quarter of a percent or less everyday from the lithium bank. The thing that kills the starter batteries is letting them lose capacity and having them sit at reduced capacity. It makes them go bad. All you need is a set of wires that leads from your house batteries to your starter batteries to pick up a point to hook in an ultra cheap solar controller and a fuse or two. Then you never have to worry about that starter battery after sitting for a month at an anchorage.
Nice one! Yeah that’s actually very similar to what we have done. We used a dc to dc charge controllers to act as a block between our alternators and the lithium. The starter battery is directly connected to the alternator. So when the house is charged enough, the dc to dc opens and begins topping up the starter. Every time we start the engine, the alternator kicks in and charged the starter too. It’s been working quite well but some day we would love to shake things up with an externally regulated alternator setup.
@@RedSeas Yeah the external regulated alternator is the way to go. What I am suggesting maintains your starter battery it doesn't charge the house bank. What you need to do is hook a solar charge controller in where the dc to dc setup is to send battery power from the house bank to the starter. It will work in line with the DC-DC charger seamlessly. Just use the terminals directly on the DC-DC charger. On the DC-DC charger hook the solar controller solar input to the DC-DC output and the solar controller output to the DC-DC controller input. I know it sounds crazy but it works and you'll never have to touch it again unless it corrodes or fails in the distant future. Trust me it means you won't be left in a seriously dangerous position...or at least an annoying one. If the alternator comes on then no voltage flows back from the house bank because the voltage on the starter battery would be too high to charge from the lithium bank and the solar controller would see the voltage spike. Trust me I've been running like that for like five years. Oh I just went back in my records and found out my starter batteries are 9 or 10 years old not 7 and normal duty cheapos not deep cycle.. When the DC-DC shuts down then likely the starter battery will be full, but hours or days later the solar controller starts maintaining the starter battery. It is especially useful if there are some small loads on the starter battery that slowly drain it, because lead acid starter batteries lose 1 or 2 percent of their capacity daily sometimes just sitting on a shelf. So after a week the starter battery could be somewhere around 85 percent even without anything taking power from it. You just need: two fuse holders, like 20 inches of red and blue wire, some terminal connectors to attach to the controller, fuse holders, and solar controller, and some 5 amp or whatever capacity your controller can put out fuses. I chose a 5 amp controller because it is likely the safest and cheapest. Total cost in America would be around 25 dollars. Your battery was far outside the norm for lasting that long without help.
15 years out of a battery is about as good as you can possibly get! Like the fish with the wave, you know the trick to flying is simply to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Time to get to the diving! Hopefully no screw drivers while under water.
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It’s an amazing life span for sure. We are ready for some recharging under water. Now that we are on the move again, we hope to get a bit of dive time in soon. The “wall of sharks” is getting closer every day.
thanks for the video. I'm surprised you don't have ~10x the subs but my guess is they will come.
I hope so too. Thank you for watching and (hopefully) sharing. That’s the best way for us to get to our goal of being sustainable. 🤞🏼
never connect negative terminal first. You don't want to test a 50 000 amp fuse.
Well spotted. It was something we only picked up after when editing and noticed the brain fade moment. Oops
@@RedSeas only need to see it happen once to never forget it.
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Thought you would enjoy that
I was always told boats are money pits 😂🤣
No wrong there. But it’s our home and indi works harder than we do, for sure
That container ship probably just want to see what you are?
Possibly. I mean we were both on AIS so we could see some info but guess they were on a schedule and we were in their way 😜
Fire the cannons…… where do you keep those than Bri 😂… Watch out pirates 🏴☠️
Never can be too prepared
Great video, like always.
Thanks mate. Feels like we are facing a new challenge every day at the moment.
Is it wise to give Bri a big Masheti? Ps- Iain watch your back 🥴
It was a tense moment for sure 😜
I was always told boats are money pits 😂🤣. But on the upside until battery comes you get to enjoy paradise…It’s a hard life for some…ps- talking a bout my hard lied and not your perpetual holiday… 🤪
I mean that battery had a pretty good life if you think about it
You should have cleaned the ends of the crimp lugs, also the hole in the lug is too big, wipe the lugs with a terminal cleaner then spray with a wax based product don’t put grease on the terminals. You will be redoing this job real soon.
Cheers
Great video guys!
Cheers Stephen! Hope you are doing well.
If possible, buy that brand of battery again when you need another one...15 years on a starter battery... can't do much better than that 😂❤
I know right! That’s pretty insane for a starter battery. We would expect 4-5 years of service from a starter battery normally.
When you add a story line please complete it. The cargo ship had no end or follow through all you had to say in the morning was that it developed in to nothing.
In the case of the cargo ship, there really wasn’t much to say. It was just a little excitement in an otherwise chilled out night passage. The real fun was once the sun came up. I think we are usually pretty good at holding onto the exciting stories overall.
Did you try adding water or desulfating that battery before you replaced it?
That’s the plan to see if we can make it a good back up spare. It’s had a very long life so we don’t expect it to bounce back but you never know 😊
Then you have a spare battery
Heavy spare to carry but totally agree. Perhaps when we get somewhere that stocks locally and doesn’t charge the earth tho
Y'all are making too many videos about problems.
new to sailing videos. I see.
It’s been a bumpy few months but we really hope things settle down.
Cups always half full! Well done guys!
You got that right!