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In the last episode, we showed you our new boat.
And we showed how much space it has.
But just like a house, a car or anything you buy second hand,
you need to clean, tidy up, or add things your way.
On a sailboat, it's no different.
Things to do on a boat never ends, but as soon as we get in we began to work.
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In this episode, you will accompany us in the tasks.
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Task number one: cleaning.
The new Shogun wasn't very dirty, but it was opaque and abandoned.
In addition, along with the dirt, you remove the old energy and begin to create a relationship with your new home.
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The sailboat has a life, and only those who live in one understand this.
We start with the teak, which requires great care.
Scrubbing with shampoo at 45 degrees from the wood shaft.
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We chose to wash it with our hands, from the bow to the stern, paying attention to details and showing affection.
The second step was to put a special teak oil, which moisturizes and gives more color.
We don't want to do that all the time, but for the first time, it helped a lot.
I decided to continue the task I started yesterday, I'm putting some oil so the teak is hydrated
because I think it has never seen an oil in it's life.
There are those who like it and some people don't like it, because sometimes it gets more ...
You step on it and it can stick a bit.
But I'm putting just a little bit and then yesterday I stepped there and it didn't stick at all.
I think it's so dehydrated that it's not sticking anything, it absorbs everything.
So I'm going to show you the difference.
This side I already did and this side I haven't.
You can tell a difference.
And here is what I'm doing right now.
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Then we were more aggressive. We used Cif on the white fiber.
Although it's not recommended, it had many parts yellowed by the accumulation of dirt.
Then we rubbed those parts, which turned white again.
Then wash with biodegradable shampoo to remove the Cif and leave it well clean to put the wax.
We're dead.
Me and Beto are here polishing the whole boat.
On the outside, on the inside. I mean, not inside. But the cockpit and all that part.
There are times that seems to make no difference, then suddenly a light comes at the end of the tunnel.
See if you can see the difference from side to side. I hope so.
The right side isn't polished and the left side was polished, you can see right, guys, for God's sake.
It's super bright.
And this side is not.
Or am I seeing things?
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Good Morning! Let's go on another day of hull cleaning.
Actually, we're doing it all.
We put a wax first, we polished it with a basic one.
And now we are using this one, which is making the color more beautiful, is making it more alive.
There are a lot of scratchs, we don't know what the ex-owner did, he got into a bush, we don't know...
But it's getting better, it's getting nicer, the brightness is coming back.
It used to rain and the dirt sticked there, you know? Now it's running down, it's much easier to clean.
You only have to use a cloth and it disappears.
It wasn't like that. Before you had to scrub the dirt out.
And because it's navy blue, there is no way, the dirt will appear much more than in the white.
This side here is done, is much brighter, much brighter.
We still have to make the top part, which is a bit colorless white.
From the line up it's done.
The bottom is missing. You can see that the boat shines much more at the top than at the bottom.
This side is done.
This side is not.
Can you tell the difference? Because here it seems that we can see more.
On the right side we can see a little more brightness than the left.
What do you think?
To recover it all, only when we polish.
But for the current situation, it was a nice help.
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We also cleaned the defenses, which now look new.
And I'm here with my friend Cif.
And the defenses.
Inside, the boat was well cleaned and well maintained.
A pat of damp cloth fixed it, but we also passed a cloth with vinegar in the upholstery.
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Task number 2: Fine adjustments.
Every boat has that little thing to fix.
But when you get into a new boat, you want everything tidy and the ideal thing is to do it yourself.
First because it's nice to take care and learn. Secondly because it can be too expensive.
For example.
The transparent parts of the bimini, which is something we would not be able to do alone,
It cost € 250 here, just to clean it.
The spoiler to put the solar panels in, they wanted to charge us € 1800 with a giant deadline to deliver.
The rest, we did it ourselves.
We started with the holding tank.
Here it's required to use it when you are in the marinas or near the coast.
It stores the entire discharge and you open it when you are at sea.
We're setting up the holding tank here.
Because...
The one that was here is broken, so I had to get a new water register in here.
I already put one of these plastic ones here, which is quite used.
In the nautical part, because it does not get stuck like the metal one.
And it was some hard work to install it here, because the hose is very hard.
So it's hard to move, I had to cut a piece of the hose and buy an adapter to fit right here.
Then I filled it halfway, only salt water, nothing else.
You can see the margin.
I've filled all the way up here.
Now it's closed to see if the pressure is ok, to see if there is no leakage.
And then I'll open it.
Also to see if there are no leaks, before we can debut the boat.
The shower pump was not working.
We opened to check and saw that it was disassembled because it broke the clip.
We took it out of the way, made a new clip using plastic clamps,
we put it back and it's working perfectly.
We also bought a wood glue and we fixed the door stops that were broken,
the cover of a table that was all broken ...
The table is fixed, because it was loose in here, everything was loose.
Then when you opened this little door, everything was kind of unstable.
We fixed it.
We reattached screws that were coming out.
And when it rained, we discovered some leaks by the ventilation in the windows.
We take the screws out and glued with sikaflex.
It has rained again and we are free of this problem.
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Task number 3: upgrade.
The most fun part is buying new things for the boat.
I took the trip to Dubrovnik to get Thais,
and buy solar panels, battery, controller and inverter.
Besides being cheaper than Montenegro, you take the tax back when you leave the country.
So, it's very advantageous.
We bought everything at Solar Shop, which is a big store in Croatia.
They have everything and very attractively priced.
We're here at Solar Shop.
Buying our solar panels. We'll buy two of 260 watts.
And two 120-amp batteries, gel battery, which are much better.
We're rich!
And then, when we come back, we'll buy another battery, because he did not have it at the store now,
so we're going to have three 120W batteries.
And this battery is lighter, it is only 32kg, compared to the lead one, which we are used to have in Brazil.
It is deep and marinalized.
It's a good purchase. And in addition, battery charger, real mppt.
- Inverter. - And an inverter.
And will it fit in the car?
Don't know.
With all this we spent like 8,000 Kuna, 8,400 Kuna.
In euros would be € 1100, € 1200.
That would be in Brazil, about R$ 5,000.
A mega panel, a giant panel.
Battery, inverter, it's a lot. The price is very different from Brazil in this aspect.
Then there is the discount, he gave a 5% discount on our purchase, since we are buying everything.
And 25% is tax rate.
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We bought everything, we got the car full.
That was our fear, because we could not close the trunk.
Then we stopped at the border of Croatia to Montenegro.
Beto came down to go after the tax refund.
Because ... 20 or 25% of the value we spent, that's very good.
The police are coming here.
I think it worked, they got out of here, meanwhile I'm eating, because I get nervous.
- Did it work? - It worked.
At first the guy was unsure, he asked a lot of questions ...
If the boat was Croatian ...
Where I was going after and stuff ...
But then everything worked out.
This one smiled at me, the one that passed.
- And he said how much are we going to make? - No, he didn't say anything.
He just gave the paper and now we have to change in the store, get the money in the store.
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I installed the batteries and the inverter myself.
The panels haven't been installed yet because we couldn't get manpower for the targa.
But as soon as we get to Croatia again, we'll settle this.
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Another thing we installed was the water maker
But this we will leave for the next video because it was a very interesting work
and it's worth a exclusive video just for that.
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