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Sailing South, No Cold For Us, But Let's Have Fun On The Way! #svaguaazul #sailboat #boatlife
Nov 30, 2024
We are heading south to stage for the Bahamas! We aren't going to just speed there, we are stopping along the way. First stop I pooped on by birds. Next stop we hide from some really cold windy weather. Of course I have to fix things, this problem I caused.
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[Music] okay so dogs got shots uh we got everything done that
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we're going to do here in Coco we're heading to Dragon point we're going down this is our trip down to Vero but yeah
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got to get out of here bab's doing dishes I'm going to get the uh uh Bridal
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off on the front and get this engine started let's get home and this is what it looks like when
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you have a good holding anchor it's straight up and down and still not coming
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[Music] up or or we're really hung on [Music]
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something guy up covered in markles
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though there we go I got to get this tied up cuz we're drifting now and here
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we go we're ready to get on out of here I'm going pop this sucker in forward remember we're going that one yeah we're
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going to tville she I keep on saying tville and she's like no we're not going back there so we're going south and uh
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I'll probably go throw up the head a little bit guess uh maybe save a little gas we are
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moving at uh the speed of smell right now so yeah I think we're going to have
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a lot of sloughing in that head sale yeah so beautiful Dolphins over there though though so yeah we'll car you
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along for the ride let's get uh moving Captain Danielle out here at the helm
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see how she did yeah look what I did well because we started going that way
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she can't color in the lines I was trying you just poin towards the bridge babe I'm trying to but I can't see that
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and the snap okay we're going off bridge we're going off we're going off again okay you take
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over okay we're back on track [Music]
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cont I'm I'm not very good I've got there's something wrong with our AO pilot I got to look at that so normally
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this would be no big deal but you know if I leave the hel she just wants to drive all over the road I was watching
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the deps yeah I said just point towards the bridge the center of the
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bridge and then it started drifting and I was like okay what how how much
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correction do I need and it wasn't nothing was
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turning so but she'll get better so first ba Danielle right there
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I don't really like see I never really even drive in a car either I know how to drive have my driver's license but he
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always drives so it's his fault it is my fault but we're about halfway there and
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uh only a few boats passed us they've all called really nice so been a good
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good trip I think she was uh aiming for that
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green buoy up there she wanted to uh refresh our uh our uh jail cat well it's
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not just a straight shot to that bridge it's like the icw is curvy it's straight
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enough not really but yep so okay keep on keep it
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on so we got about 35 minutes until we reach anre the whole way here are the
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wind has been very slow but directly on our B so no selling for us
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but it's uh still you know it was a nice trip and uh I tried to calibrate the uh
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autopilot but that failed so I going to have to chase down Mars fun
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but yeah we once we get there I'll show you a little bit of Danielle dropping
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the anchor that's her favorite job I do have the uh there there she is
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right there but I do have the uh um the anchor tied in there to the uh cleat so
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she'll have to untie that
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from Coco I didn't get her putting down the anchor chain but baby got played in
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the mud a bit that thing is hard to get down I don't like the roller uh the
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Roller's rolling fine it's just the anchor is oversized and so it's hitting that so you had to push it to the side
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you never did that before I know I I I'm going to work on it more things to work
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on you want to use the water out here SMS like yeah but I have it on oh okay I'll try on
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well that's an interesting
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sound yeah burrow we had to pick up some water it's a beautiful morning we woke
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up this uh morning and we're getting out of here somebody's listening to their
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podcast going out fishing but yeah just going to pull up anchor get back on we're heading out to these little spoil
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Islands just down the Waterway here here we go again on our own my wife's look at
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crab pods out here yeah we got to fix that that's looks horrible it's a
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sunroof it's big but yeah we're gone and uh there's my baby she's on
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crackpipe Lookout and here we go my baby's out there looking for them
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crack pipes crab pods there's one right there that's a
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coconut or coconuts we're looking for coconuts or Crap
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pots my wife says I'm not doing a good job lying up on the hole under the
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bridge yeah but she's sitting on the side shees she she's seeing that side she still on this other side you'd see
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the hole a little better but there's the hole from my
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perspective so we're going through we're just staying on the starboard side of
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the hole now if you can see Navionics it wanted me to go on the other side of
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this that's probably not ideal for a sailboat you probably get by with that with a pontoon or motorboat but not a
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sailboat see it right there okay my babe's up there she's going to get the anchor down we're just
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across just across from the islands over here got the ice maker going maybe a
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little island time let's see here let's go on this side there she
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is we're in about 9 ft of water right
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now so bunge CED the door open and we're
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going to get the anchor down so my arm trying to do that my baby's uh the anchor gets stuck and it's
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a little hard to get off yeah I never I used to do that before we're we're ruing
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this side of our thing uh I'll work on that baby but there's the
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island guess we yeah there's our anchor I'm going to
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throw a little bit more scope and uh we'll sell in for the night tomorrow is supposed to be a little bit more
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windy you okay babe thing I did
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yesterday got the snow on I'm going to put some revs on it make sure we stay
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put there we're in Reverse we let slow lanch back
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straighten out and slowly apply some
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pressure n f w we should stir up the bottom pretty good blue boat coming down
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the icw do you want a port side or starboard side pass [Music]
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over didn't move so we can shut this engine off we're
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done now my bab's in here cooking up we had hamburgers last night and that's what we're having for
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lunch starving cheeseburgers right
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there yeah she's uh going to eat
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because I I don't know I didn't feel like doing this it was a short trip
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Bella's right there she made it through so we're all good now I just got to turn everything
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off okay guys so we need some diesel I'm using one of these uh
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Shake uh things and these are pretty easy these if you uh have a boat
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definitely get one of these but just Pump It Up
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keep and then let it drain and it'll fill up your tank quite
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fast and uh I'm might to get some toilet paper it's hard to do with one hand okay
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guys so I had uh this is 10 20 20 gallons of diesel that gave me a a half
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a tank and because we're almost we're almost on E so don't need to run it down
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that low but there's the the Carnage yeah so get you one of them Shake hoses
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if you want to uh easily fill up something without making a big mess so
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this a new destination we have really quiet really unprotected so we are
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surrounded by water we're off the icw but uh hopefully we don't get any
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hectic winds cuz that probably make some hectic waves so now that we're in
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Melborne we're going to have a little island time cuz uh my wife likes this island is that where we're at Mporn yeah
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this is a b36 SPO Island so there is they have no name for it not
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like horseshoe crab Island where we were but uh dog excited to go there's there
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she is right there yeah so we're going to get and uh well we've been to this
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island before but nice little yesth of July Fourth of July here and saw fireworks all the way around yeah it was
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awesome but got the dingy down and we're ready to go well I thought we were going to get
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all into ourselves but we we have guests so we're going to stay over here on this
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little area cuz our dog she gets Sparky
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yeah I wish the sun was out and there's our little
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puppy oh I got pee everywhere got pee
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everywhere okay guys I just got crapped on yep I got crapped on go away fly all
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overhead so this is happened to Danielle last
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time at this island okay we had a huge just flock of birds just flying around
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here and they crapped all over me last time here they crapped over
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Danielle Bella you're a bird dog right Danielle's up under here hiding
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under the trees well hopefully the tree we catch the poop I've been pooped on
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three times in my life my first time I am not getting a fourth one it won't go away and Bella is just
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barking at him no she's barking at us now barking it us cuz she doesn't know what we're
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doing yeah we're overreacting I don't like getting pooped on it's gross
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yeah away I'll go sit back down there they are they're they're looking for us up there
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Yep they're up there trying to
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guess I like Beach fires but my babe is like you didn't have to waste your time
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for that well I can't feel any of it his legs are blocking it all I'm already
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chilly but yeah making me stay out on the keeps the bugs away there was no
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bugs no bugs so my babe's ready to get off the island bird crap and bees and there's a bee and
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there's a huge ant that was calling my leg and it's getting
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chilly yeah but our it's kind of getting darker and we need to find our boat over
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there so but the fire is out and we're good so we're going to go I poured water
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all over it and where you yeah
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what are you doing trying to get the the engine a
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little higher so I can start it getting off these rocks we're on
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rocks right now I know no we're not on rocks
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[Music] okay I'm coming in here I go let's turn
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this way we made it off the beach my wife
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wanted to come to the windy side come this way I wanted to go over there so I blow her get off the boat there was a
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bunch of boats over there earlier and then we just didn't move so let's go see if our boat's still there it better be
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and here we [Music]
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go it's going to be me I'm on this side our boat still
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there yeah it's way out there but yeah it's still there
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you got you got to look for uncoming uh
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traffic I will see any done this
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way oh no there's
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nothing say byebye to the island got to go to a new island
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tomorrow yeah would you have
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fun came out why are they so
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out a big old carpan crawling on the leg and a bird
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CRA on bridge yeah and I was like you know what we open the saor
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welcome and and yep look at them
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Birds I would have got C do you know how hard it is to was my hair on
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board I only have one more one and a half more tanks of water right
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now my hair is down to here and it takes a lot of water and some people asked uh how do
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you uh store your Dy down low and keep it from subject to following ceas so
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here's how I do it so the angle of my dangle here is pretty slanted
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and uh I tie it to these uh two handles right here but this
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up here is probably about 4T off the water on the uh back side of the de or
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the port side no that's starboard side of course you want to make sure that
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your uh your fuel thing is closed because or else that will leak Fuel and
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you're dinging and you don't want that I've never done that but that would be a chance right now we're almost run on E
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so I'm going to have to add some more fuel before the next Island okay so we have a little island
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adventure last night and now we got to go cuz uh tomorrow is going to be cold
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cold cold and we want to get down more towards a Vero
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Beach so I just got to get the anchor up and you back here at the
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helm so we're moving and uh our dep shows 8T our draft is
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6'4 so yeah I'm going out a different
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direction if I would have followed my path I probably would have been better off cuz it would have been 9 ft to 10
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foot but the maps the charts say we're good here I'm using
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Navionics and uh Argo but uh
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yeah yeah it looks it's holding stay we're almost back in NY de we're about to come up to the the little channel
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marker here and we'll be set what do you think
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babe I'm not used to moving this much you every day you still have the
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sunroof over your head babe
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yeah okay so it's just me and the dog my
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wife went downstairs to tidy the house a bit cuz she lives with two filthy
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animals but uh yeah I'm I'm about to bump up the knots right now we're doing
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about 4.2 knots and uh hopefully uh I think during
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this cold front I'm going to look for that uh my uh oh what's that oh what's that
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that gambling U oh picks up the satellites but yeah for my navigation
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because not having autopilot sucks but I'm going to get that
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fixed on a higher note though this marks the furthest south we've been on this
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boat that island is the furthest we've gone down the icw in this boat now on
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the dinghy we did go to this other Island so let me turn you around here so we have that island and we went to that
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Island as well I like that Island
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better well it's getting a lot more narrow on sides to
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side and uh yeah got town over there but
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let me show you around here got this town right over there
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some islands over there and let's not steer into the shallow and there's our marker up there
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we're heading to the yeah I this is the smallest area I've been in
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on the icw so car good thing is our wind calmed down a
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little bit we were gusting upwards of 26 27 knots and now we're
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hitting well I guess it's getting back up there but it was down to 16 just a
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second ago so yep that would be a dice little beach if
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we could anchor over here but we
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can't and our dog is over here having herself her best
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life that would be a nice Beach day it wasn't so close to the icw
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they're like right at the very edge and then it gets really shallow really
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quick so how you liking the Jour Journey so far babe I haven't been up
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here cleaning the house yes was
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dirty so we're cruising along about 5
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knots about 2,000 rpms you get or not
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but this is what we're looking like around here now and Danielle does not like driving
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without the autopilot no it's the wheels too
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tight so when the wind tries to take me it's hard for me to get back on
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course oh yeah I won't be able to see them they're they're [Music]
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May oh well that's our dolphin cam okay that bridge right there goes
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out that way and we're healing a bit from this wind we can't get through that uh Bridge
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cuz it's only 27t I
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believe keep really close to these outs on the
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icw there we are uh yeah traffic's been a little
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wild this is a smaller boat than usual though getting our asses rocked pretty
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regular okay we are here we got got to go under our first new bridge it's far
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south as we are and we're heading off to Pine Island should be a nice sanage but uh
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we've got 42 minutes till we get there and uh yeah new experiences right now
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it's a little chwy Yeah tomorrow's supposed to be cold tomorrow's supposed to be really cold I
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got to figure out which hole I go through under this bridge [Music]
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so the fun okay that's our
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bridge and boy F in the
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hole so we just crossed that bridge and said it was 62t scared scared Danielle yeah that's a
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there's an Anchorage right here so this is what I was actually looking at for
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the first Anchorage it looks a little close to the icw though
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yeah and it looks like some permanent residents have live
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here so what do you think of this little area I like I'm going down river yeah
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it's really sheltered in here
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so didn't that there oh no oh he's just parked there
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oh fun look how close we are to the land
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land looks like it may rain so my baby's sitting there closing up the
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windows uh yeah and this boat handles like it's on Rails look at can take
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these turns no problem but yeah this
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is interesting we have haven't driven this boat in anything like this
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before hopefully our Anchorage has got plenty of room that I
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picked what do you think of this babe very
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strange we've been on the ice G here for a long time and it's always very very
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wide very wide this is this is like camping in a river that's yeah condos on
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one side nothing but trees on the other just hope it sound buggy though yeah M
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with the cold front coming in it shouldn't be too buggy but yeah it's going to be uh kind of feel like
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something's nipping at me but I can't find anything it's nerves nerves would nip in there it's probably
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nerves but yeah it's just you get out of this channel it goes shallow real quick
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here so right now we're 11 ft my wife says I'm skating The
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[Music] Edge the Anchorage is it's deep enough
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yes it's deep enough Okay so we've dropped anchor and
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uh yeah it's this is a Pine Island Anchorage I'm guessing one of these
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islands around here is Pine Island maybe that one but uh I don't see any pine trees on
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it in the middle of the woods yes I I thought it seemed to have a lot of
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reviews on the srage so I thought it'd be more busy but there's uh one other
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boat way over there and that's hole in the wall Anchorage so yeah I guess we are in a close to a
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hole in the wall my husband said there was a town I might have to look that I don't see
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one so I guess uh bo stuck on boot yeah and plus it's going to be cold and so
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going to the islands might not even be an option while we're here so and our dog wants dog food cuz okay just a
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minute so we got to take care of that but let me show you what Bella is all about here what do you want you want
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food you want food oh oh Mom stuck the cup in your bowl you there was some moris was in
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there you got them all you couldn't have moved
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it okay guys so I'm tired of no autopilot so got drill in hand I'm going to find this uh GPS d Le so I can uh
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hopefully not hand steer anymore so the first place I'm going to look is I'm in my bedroom my wife said
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put a plastic bag down I think I just throw the bed up and uh it's under here
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and uh got to take that little cover off okay so there's a few screws around
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it I think there's three uh on each side two in the middle
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but go under here and start taking these
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[Music] out okay I got everything out now let's
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take this down hopefully there's no dead rats in here nope no dead
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rats okay so I believe these right here are coming from like the instruments and
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stuff and it's running back there through a little
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hole so I got to go back there and see what I can
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find okay guys so I found that darn radar
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dongle Gizmo thing I've traced all through the Lazarus back there under the
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bed coming from the our Helm and through the
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floor and ending up all the way back here so this is where it
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is and uh I hope my speaker is not affecting it
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cuz if so I have to move that if that's what caused this it was my own doing but there's my
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speaker okay so I've moved the speaker i' right there is my right uh my
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GPS dongle and I've got this
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[Music] on and my
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uh there's my compass so all this heartache and
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headache was caused by me and my need for base so I'm going to have to put my
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need for base somewhere else because that's not working for us so I have my auto pilot on we're
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swinging and it's trying to do the course
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correction of course we're not moving so it's not going to correct much so my
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babe was like I don't want to buy more parts and leave it to me to screw up
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something well first off I didn't know where the GPS dongle was cuz magnets will affect your your GPS because it
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works off electrom magnetics to figure out where you are on the earth so we
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totally screwed that one up or I did yeah I didn't do that no but now cuz she
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doesn't like driving the boat but with autopilot she can pretty much keep it on
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course and you know it's not as nerve-wracking for her so that's a good thing to have
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right [Music]
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