002 Purchase, Storm & an award for the stupidest owner ever!

Sawasdeekat

🚀 EPISODE 002: "We Bought a Catamaran… Then a Huge Storm Hit! ⚡🌊 #SailingLife Begins!" Ahoy, adventurers, foodies, and storm-chasers! ⛵🍴⚡   Welcome to the first of many videos of Sawasdeekat—your new favourite escape into the wild, wobbly, and delicious world of sailing, storms, and serendipity! 🌍✨   Meet Heath (that’s me—dreamer, captain, and chief chaos coordinator) and Pookie (MasterChef UK’s beloved runner-up, culinary wizard, and the only reason we won’t starve at sea). Together, we’ve just bought Sawasdeekat, our mighty St Francis 48 Catamaran, and—because the universe has a sense of humor—immediately had to drive her for the first time with only Non English speaking dock hands for help and into a dock that was only half a metre each side bigger than my as yet uninsured boat. Then, once magically that happened without a hitch, a monster storm that knocked down trees like matchsticks comes through! 🌪️🌴   👇 HERE’S WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH 👇 ✅ Boat Buying 101: From handshakes to heart attacks—how we got our floating home.   ✅ Storm Survival: Wind, waves, and what were we thinking?!   ✅ Pookie’s Kitchen at Sea: Spoiler—gourmet meals taste better when you might capsize. 🍲🌊   ✅ Real Talk: We’re total newbies. Mistakes will be made. Laughter will be had.   🔥 HOT HASHTAGS:   #Sawasdeekat #MasterChefUK #CatamaranLife #StormSailing #WeBoughtABoat    🚨 SUBSCRIBE NOW!   This is just Episode 2—we’ve got global sails, hidden beaches, and Pookie’s seaside feasts coming your way. Hit that subscribe button before the algorithm forgets we exist! ⚓❤️    💬 COMMENT BELOW:   “Would you brave a storm for adventure?” 🌪️🍳   🌐 Anchors aweigh—let’s get lost!

Transcript

00:00Hi guys, welcome to SoReadyCat. This is video number three and this video shows us basically

00:21going from flying in September 2021 into Murcia to take a look and do a boat survey of the boat

00:30we'd seen and we'd put an offering on in Ibiza. So we landed, we took a drive down to Cartagena

00:37to do the boat survey. Now, Cartagena is a lovely place. We can't recommend it enough. It's a

00:46beautiful sort of city. It's got lots of Roman, I don't know what you call them, amphitheaters,

00:52etc. But we weren't there for all that. We were there to see our boat SoReadyCat and do

00:58the boat survey. After that, we basically put our offer in, our revised offer and we went

01:05back to Murcia to have a look round, to do a bit of sightseeing while the owners considered

01:15our revised offer. Where are we going? We are going to look for the old post office. That

01:28turned to be the like sort of the kind of the mixed market restaurant. Well, I heard from

01:36someone in the area. So we're going to check it out. Wow, look at that, Cartagena. Oh my God. I didn't expect to see that.

01:43Turn the corner. Turn the corner. Turn the corner. Turn the corner and you look like, wow. Oh my God. Oh my God. I didn't expect to see that.

02:02I didn't expect to see that, just like, turn the corner and it was like, wow.

02:11Oh look at the architectural, the statue that they carved.

02:18So while we walked around Murphia and had a bit of sightseeing, the people got back on the phone and then they asked us back because the deal was done.

02:28We signed for the boat and then immediately got back in the car, drove all the way back, scenic route this time, back to Murphia to get a load of stuff because the boat was sold with nothing in it whatsoever.

02:41OK, we've been shopping, bought just a bit of stuff for our boat. It's absolutely chock-a-block full.

02:50And now we're going to drop it all off in the boat and see how we get on.

02:56But then it was all changed because Masterchef got in touch with Pookie, told her she was in the show, so she had to fly home and start filming.

03:03And I was left to move in on my own.

03:05I reckon somebody's heard that we bought a boat and they're helping us celebrate.

03:11I start recording and then they stop. Isn't that bloody typical?

03:27That's apparently a laugh at that minute that is.

03:30Well, literally, the next day, my sister's ex-husband turned up with his new partner and at the same time,

03:59the owner of the repair dock rang me and said there was some weather coming in so we must get the boat out of its marina spot and up into the yard.

04:09And so we just about managed to do that with a few millimetres spare and we had a lovely spot overlooking the rest of the harbour.

04:18But not for long.

04:24Guys, it is absolutely burning out here.

04:28And I've got alarms going off now but I don't know what they are.

04:32What the hell is that?

04:33Oh, the bilge.

04:35You reckon?

04:36You reckon?

04:37You reckon?

04:38You reckon?

04:39I told you I'm going off because there's a lightning storm.

04:53Flashing like mad.

04:55Have a look.

04:57Try and put some lights on.

04:59some light, son.

05:04First week of owning it, all of a sudden...

05:11Holy hell.

05:15This is...oh my...oh god.

05:21Literally...oh my god, you can't even see

05:27out the back window.

05:31Five minutes a day, you can see across that bay.

05:33Now, it's glowing.

05:36An absolute holly.

05:51It's glowing, an absolute hooligan.

05:53The alarms are going off in the bilge.

05:55You can probably see the rain there.

05:58It is horrendous.

06:01I'm on blocks in the middle of a yard.

06:06And I'll be honest, I've got no water in the boat at all.

06:10And the boat is probably not the most secure thing on some lumps of wood.

06:20I used to be able to see, only five minutes ago, I could see across there.

06:31I could see all the lights, I could see all the boats.

06:34Now I can't see anything.

06:35I can't even see the next...

06:37I can't even see the next...

06:38I can't even see the next boat there.

06:40That is er...

06:42That's only 30 foot away.

06:44My laptop doesn't fit in the oven.

06:49So er...

06:50I'm not sure that's going to work if I get hit by lightning.

06:52And I don't know what the light of it is because...

06:53Over there you can probably make out...

06:55Erm...

06:56The lights in a huge crane facility.

06:57Erm...

06:58Wow...

06:59This is...

07:00One heck of a storm.

07:01If I can see across the other side.

07:04Wow, this is the boat yard.

07:07I can just about make out that trawler.

07:09That's a big one.

07:10I don't know what the light of it is because...

07:12I don't know what the light of it is because...

07:13Over there you can probably make out...

07:14Erm...

07:15The lights in a huge crane facility.

07:17Erm...

07:18Wow...

07:19This is one heck of a storm.

07:20If I can see across the other side.

07:22Wow, this is the boat yard.

07:24I can just about make out that trawler.

07:27That's not like...

07:31Years...

07:33Next to us.

07:38Now it's hailstoning.

07:43I mean...

07:44Fuck a hailstoning.

07:45I don't know what to do about this alarm in the bilge.

07:57I made sure the bilge lights are on.

08:00And I think I've got an automatic bilge pump.

08:03Let me have a look.

08:05Searchlight.

08:06There, there, there, there.

08:07Autopilot.

08:08Water, starboard.

08:09Water.

08:10Water.

08:15Whoa.

08:16Okay.

08:17Front, port, starboard.

08:23Night lights.

08:24Night lights?

08:25What the heck's the night lights?

08:26I don't even know what a night light is.

08:27I'm going to almost shout.

08:28This is getting ridiculous.

08:29Whoa.

08:30What the hell is this?

08:31Uh, bilge port and bilge starboard are on.

08:33Um.

08:34I'm still getting this alarm.

08:36I'm going to run down here.

08:39I don't know why the bilge should be filling up with water.

08:43Just because it's raining.

08:44Alright.

08:45Alright.

08:46Alright.

08:47Alright.

08:48Alright.

08:49Alright.

08:50I'm still getting this alarm going on down here I don't know why the bilge

08:59should be filling up with water just because it's raining

09:02alright alright

09:10I must know a bilge pump in summer yeah that's a bloody bilge pump

09:20is it outside? it's outside I'm just going to get soaked to try to do this

09:27I'm going to get a towel, I don't think there's a bilge pump button inside

09:43that did not take long to get in there

09:46what's that little switch?

09:49what's that little switch?

09:54ok, that's not helping

09:58why the fuck am I just walking from this?

10:04ah, what?

10:08oh, well that's

10:10the wrong window I didn't fucking check

10:12let's check

10:16that's quite tall now

10:21alright, there's no bilge switch in here

10:23no, there's no

10:25so that's why that's running down to there

10:30alright, alright, alright

10:31alright, alright, alright

10:33I don't really want to go out in this bloody weather

10:36in your t-shirt and pants

10:40flip a bilge switch that I don't actually think is going to bloody well work

10:44alright, let's go

10:47oh, shit it's freezing

10:48oh, shit it's freezing

10:51ah, ah, ah, ah

10:57yeah, what do you want so?

11:03pulled both the bloody bilge switches and did absolutely sorrow

11:06and I'm soaked to the skin

11:11um

11:13oh, come on

11:15that'd be easier than this

11:16where's the manual?

11:19oh, everyone

11:22I was out there for 30 milliseconds

11:24what happens

11:42well

11:44it's fun, isn't it?

11:45there's not really a lot in there

11:47if you go out

11:49tell you what

11:51I do not like being

11:54on some lumps of wood

11:58in a very light boat

12:01in this wind

12:03it looks like it's easing back at the minute

12:06I'm going to have to turn that off, aren't I?

12:09I'm going to get wet again

12:11right, back in a minute

12:13oh, shit it's freezing again

12:18oh, I have to get a windscreen marker there

12:21that is terrible

12:23that is terrible

12:25that is terrible

12:29Jesus

12:31well, folks

12:33I've been up since 4

12:35because

12:37I got rudely awoken by

12:40mosquitoes

12:41and

12:44about a hectic time

12:46we got the boat

12:48he didn't give us a key to fill the water up

12:50so we ran out of water

12:51so we got no water in the boat

12:53he didn't tell me how to start the engines

12:55eventually I got power to the engines

12:58as soon as I got power to the engines

13:00about 8 hours later

13:01I was asked to move the boat

13:04out of a really tight space

13:06in the marina

13:09and over towards an even tighter space

13:12in the dock

13:14so that I can have the new copper coat

13:17oh, it's now

13:19it's still flashing with lightning outside

13:21but it's getting quieter

13:23I don't feel like I have to shout

13:25that was horrendous

13:27and

13:29this is my first night

13:31on the hard

13:33my third night

13:35on the boat

13:37as an owner

13:39oh, it's quarter to seven

13:41excellent

13:43right, okay

13:44I will see you guys later

13:45because I've got a lot of mopping up soon

13:47the devastation next day

13:49was clear to see

13:50with loads of trees in the area being brought down

13:52the ladder they had given me

13:54actually got blew into the water

13:55yesterday they brought me another one

13:57I've had the boat a week now

13:59and

14:01another day

14:03what have been up

14:04I've been up since

14:064 o'clock again

14:08as it was

14:10trying to make sure that the midges

14:12didn't eat me to death

14:14so, I went online

14:16and I bought myself a big muslin

14:19sheet

14:21that I'm going to put at the bottom of the bed

14:23and then

14:25when I've got that hung up

14:27I'm going to kill everything in the area

14:29and then hopefully I'll get a night's sleep

14:31so I've been shopping today

14:33bought myself a new pair of flip-flops

14:35because the last flip-flops cleared off

14:37with the ladder

14:39when we had the storm

14:41so the flip-flops that I wore three times

14:43disappeared completely

14:45together with the doormat that we bought

14:47for the boat

14:49that all went over into the ocean

14:51during those storms

14:53so, then what have I done?

14:55I've had

14:57I've been WD-40ing these

14:59little turn knobs

15:01that

15:03I'll put a picture up in the corner to show you what I mean

15:05I don't know what they're called

15:07but anyway, the locker knob things

15:09I've been WD-ing them to try and make sure

15:13but the main one really though

15:17is

15:19I didn't know how to divert

15:22the toilet doings

15:25from going down below the boat

15:28instead of into the black water tank

15:31I'm pretty sure that the previous owner told me

15:34that red to red was danger

15:37but that didn't really make much of a difference to me

15:40I couldn't work out what danger meant

15:43and I suppose danger really means

15:45it goes over the side

15:47so yeah, he'd left them all going over to the side

15:51and

15:53well

15:59I don't think I'm able

16:01as much as I'd like to

16:03I don't think I'm able to disconnect the sink

16:05from pouring all the water out on the poor blokes below

16:07so

16:09what I'm going to try and do in future is to

16:11only use the sink when I know they're not under it

16:14because

16:16I know it's only washing up water

16:18and I know they're used to working in dirty conditions

16:20because it's filthy out there

16:22yeah, but they still don't need that do they?

16:24so I've bought a lot of knives, forks and spoons today

16:27lovely lovely lovely

16:29so we're going to have guests

16:31and some sharp knives

16:33and a few of the bits and bobs

16:34and I'm all kitted out

16:36so this is the first week that was

16:38see you in a bit

16:40bye

16:42well, here is another waste of money

16:44I went out and bought myself a flag

16:46turns out it's the wrong one

16:48I've got to buy a British Enzyme one

16:50which is a

16:52a union jack with a

16:54in the corner and the rest of it's red

16:56apparently

16:58that's what woke me up this morning

17:00hi guys

17:01yeah

17:03it's half five and I'm back awake

17:05and

17:07been up about half an hour

17:09because the fridge was bugging me

17:12I don't know where to put it basically

17:16and it's annoying me that I'm sat at the dining table

17:19with the laptop

17:21because I have to use the laptop quite often

17:24and really I should be sat over there

17:26the fridge is in the way

17:28you see what the previous owner did

17:31was

17:33they took

17:36the cupboard in the corner there next to the cooker

17:39and

17:41they took out the fridge

17:43that was there

17:44and turned it into a cupboard

17:46which on the face of it is probably not a bad idea

17:48because they obviously thought it wasn't big enough for the two of them

17:50now

17:52what they did do though

17:54is to turn

17:55you can't really see it it's out there

17:57what they did do though is turn the outside locker

18:00into like a

18:02I guess you'd call it a drinks fridge

18:04although to be fair

18:06it really works well

18:07it holds around six degrees almost all the time

18:09so

18:11down in one of the holes we've got a big chest freezer

18:14that's also being used as a fridge

18:16where we put all our food

18:17which

18:19because of Pook's cooking

18:21I think that's probably not a bad thing

18:22because she does like to have a lot of food on board

18:25well I don't actually know that

18:27because she's never been on board

18:30yet

18:32but I imagine she would like a lot of food

18:34so the outside for drinks

18:36good

18:38the inside one big chest freezer

18:40good sorry big chest fridge

18:42good

18:44freezer

18:45freezer

18:46but where I'm even going to put it

18:49I'm really not sure

18:51but it really can't stay where it is

18:53because it's getting right on my nerves

18:55I don't like sitting at a dining table working

18:59I still have to work

19:01so I'd much prefer to be sat over there

19:05at a proper desk

19:07so that's been playing on my mind

19:10also I did notice that the last

19:13people had dehumidifiers

19:16there are two of them

19:18only little things

19:20but eye cabinet at the moment

19:22feels damp

19:26I've had the fan going all night

19:28I've had the extractor fan going through the

19:30I don't know what you call a ceiling window

19:33is it

19:35hatch

19:37that's the word

19:39Christ

19:41ok

19:43I've got a fan in the hatch window

19:45so that's been going all night and trying to suck the air out

19:48that's really not going to work

19:50long term

19:51I'll have to either get bitten

19:52or find another way of controlling the midges

19:55what do you call them

19:57these whatever you call them

19:59they're all stiff

20:02right

20:04ok

20:06the boat is an absolute mess

20:08because of

20:10I guess seagulls

20:12and because my bottom's being painted

20:15I don't think

20:17I'm allowed to actually wash this down

20:19let's have a look

20:20see how they're getting on

20:22I think we're a bit disturbed

20:24by the fact that my kitchen sink

20:26doesn't have the option of going into black water for some reason

20:30or if it has I can't find it

20:32so I think they get a bit worried in the morning

20:34when they see a lot of water on the floor

20:37ok

20:39so

20:40this is rubbed back

20:44lots of little speckles that

20:46were not apparent

20:47it's all very smooth

20:49but look

20:51see there's water coming out of that hole there for some reason

20:53I don't know what that's all about

20:57you know folding props

20:58they seem to be working well

20:59although they don't look the nice colour that they were a week ago

21:02I'm going to try and get them to paint this bit as well

21:04I've heard that's a good idea

21:07but this is all very smooth now

21:12it was on the other side where we had

21:14in fact

21:15no it wasn't

21:16it was here

21:18it was here where some of the

21:20some of these here were like little lumps

21:22but

21:24there's actually more lumps elsewhere

21:26than er

21:28well than there are

21:30where I thought the lumps were

21:31but er

21:32it all looks er

21:36it all looks fairly well prepped

21:38I'm hoping

21:40erm

21:42looking down from

21:44you know

21:46can't see any bulges and

21:48whatever

21:50and actually I found in the spare parts bin

21:53a replacement one of them

21:54so

21:56when that er

21:58when that finally gives up the ghost

22:00I've got something to replace it with

22:01so that's quite good

22:03right

22:04let's see how we get on

22:06right

22:07erm

22:08another problem

22:10I've got this erm

22:11Victron

22:12digital multi-control

22:14is that for me?

22:19maybe not

22:21ok

22:23I've got this erm

22:25Victron digital multi-control

22:28and he said

22:30it's automatic you don't need to worry about a thing

22:32so I've left it on on

22:34and the inverter's been on

22:36the problem is now I'm on the hard

22:38erm

22:39we decided to plug into the mains

22:41the minute we plug into the mains

22:43erm

22:44these lights came on

22:45first of all

22:46the mains light came on

22:47and so did the bulk

22:49now I didn't know what the bulk meant

22:51so I just left it

22:53and then when this got to 100%

22:57suddenly this started to come on as well

22:58float

22:59I've got no clue what float means

23:01I've got no clue what absorption means

23:03and no clue what bulk means

23:05so I went on the internet

23:07and I found error indications

23:09and I couldn't find anything that said

23:10mains bulk and float

23:12all lit up

23:14so I turned it to off

23:16and it all shut down

23:17this went down to nothing

23:19and everything went down

23:21so then I turned it back on

23:22because I thought that obviously isn't the right thing to do

23:24so then the mains light came on

23:26and the bulk light came on

23:28so I turned this down to

23:31around 8

23:33as is now

23:34and then the absorption light came on

23:36so I've got

23:38no clue what's happening with this

23:39at all

23:41well they don't mean a lot

23:43so erm

23:45that's today's erm

23:47little challenge

23:53okay

23:55well I'm on the almost daily commute now

23:58to the shops

24:00had quite a stressful time

24:02trying to find my key

24:04I actually thought I'd left my key in the

24:07in the boat

24:09I nearly said motorhome

24:11erm

24:13spent over half an hour searching high and low

24:16and eventually found it

24:18right next to the Buddha

24:20right where I was sat originally

24:22I was

24:24a bit annoyed at myself

24:25for being so stupid

24:27but never mind

24:28especially his life

24:31so this is Garda Heiner anyway

24:35well today's job was taking down the TV

24:39it was on a

24:41tiny little

24:43bracket

24:44but it must have some reinforcing behind here

24:46because I can't see that

24:48sitting on a foam cord

24:49hole

24:52and actually er

24:53staying there very long

24:54so we took down the old TV

24:56and I bought this new TV

24:58and I thought

24:59well give myself a bracket

25:01put it on the wall over here

25:03I can maybe turn it

25:04towards the kitchen

25:06I don't think it will turn all the way to face out the back

25:08but you know

25:10whatever

25:11and I thought I'm going to put the bracket just here

25:14and when I looked I thought

25:15I'll double check

25:16so when I looked I thought

25:17yep

25:18there's a gap there

25:19not a problem at all

25:21but the guy's just come and he said

25:22yeah but the problem is

25:23is when the door closes

25:25yeah the rest of the frame comes past

25:28and then you're down to about

25:32I don't know

25:33half a centimetre

25:34not even quite

25:35not even a fingers thickness

25:37in fact it's probably even less there

25:40so we umdenaad

25:42but

25:43he came up with a brainwave

25:44what he's going to do

25:45is he's going to make a plate

25:46for the back here

25:47to support the wall

25:49and he's going to weld on some bolts

25:51and put the bolts through the wall

25:52and because it's welded on

25:53it'll be on this side

25:55I won't have anything

25:56I'll only have like about a 3mm bit of plate

25:58on the back of that

26:00and the bracket

26:04really then

26:06should just um

26:07bolt onto that

26:09result

26:10so uh

26:11yeah

26:12these people in Cartagena

26:13they're doing me

26:14uh

26:15doing me proud so far

26:16they've done quite well

26:20what else?

26:21well

26:22I need a shade

26:23but apart from that

26:25um

26:26I've owned the boat now

26:27for

26:28nine days

26:30um

26:31and

26:32I found this

26:33I couldn't work out what it was

26:34but I think it's just a

26:35it's like a velour

26:38um

26:39mattress cover

26:40bizarre

26:41I've only got it on my bed

26:42and then I found a really long bit of this

26:43and I didn't have a clue

26:44what it was for

26:45and then I thought

26:46ah

26:47it might be used

26:48I can maybe use it

26:49as a

26:50sock

26:51for

26:52um

26:54my

26:55Genoa

26:56which I can't seem to get in the cupboard

26:57in the locker

26:59and

27:00when I measured it out

27:01there was no chance it was going over that

27:02because I thought it might protect it

27:03so in the end

27:05what I did

27:07is

27:12I made it as socks

27:17to my fenders

27:19and they're not very professional

27:20I've just sort of wrapped them over the top

27:22and they seem to be okay

27:25but they seem to do the job

27:26so hopefully

27:27let's see what we get on with

27:29it's the first day of er

27:31getting the hole painted

27:33in the

27:34copper coat

27:35I think they're actually doing this second coat

27:37in the same day

27:38I don't know if that's how you're supposed to do it

27:40but

27:41certainly seems that's the way they're going about it

27:47yeah it's covering that bit though

27:49definitely covered that bit better

27:50this is called Rosita

27:55this is next door to me

27:59it's having er

28:01all its propellers replaced

28:03because they apparently broke

28:05or something

28:07cost several thousands of pounds

28:09they've been stuck here for a few weeks

28:11and that's the tender

28:13that's the tender for the big ship

28:15would you believe

28:16that's just a small ship dinghy

28:17anyway

28:20back onto ours

28:22and you can see it's had the first coat

28:25it's definitely covered better the second time round

28:27although it's still a bit

28:29still a bit

28:31Hi guys

28:32well thanks for staying with us

28:33till the end of the video

28:35please subscribe

28:36and no doubt you'll see us

28:37not only do more work on Saratikat

28:39and get her into the water

28:41but maybe even er

28:42get to see us having a fire on board

28:44and on our first sail

28:46ripping the sails

28:48subscribe

28:49and we'll see you soon

28:50take care

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