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Sailing Through Florida: A Journey to Remember | Ep 47 #svaguaazul #sailboat #boatlife
Dec 28, 2024
Join us as we navigate the beautiful waters of Florida, facing challenges and celebrating moments on our sailing adventure from Fort Pierce to West Palm Beach.
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well we're leaving Fort Pierce got our
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groceries yesterday and now we're out
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it's a a nice little place uh right now
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we're fighting uh tide I should left a
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little bit earlier but uh
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yeah it's a it's a nice Town actually at
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the grocery store we had a guy offer to
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give us a ride uh back to our boat I
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guess we look that ped yeah but uh no we
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have our way again we're good but now
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we're off and uh yeah we're doing
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see in Florida and there's breath coming
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out it's it's it's only 60° it's
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cold but yeah we're heading out this we
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got I'm guessing
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uh about 40 more minutes of this uh this
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canal at this speed wow
1:00
and then uh we'll be in the Atlantic for
1:03
the first time on this boat with
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us it's going to be pretty awesome
1:10
guys look at that water coming through
1:14
here yeah this is what we're trying to
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go
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through and I'm I'm hand steering it
1:20
right
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now but
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yeah this title is not fun it'll turn
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your front end around real quick
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look at look at that tide back there oh
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my
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[Music]
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gosh
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yeah no we're going we're at 3.4 knots
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right now we're really
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sucking that's the ocean baby right
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there we're almost out of
1:53
this getting up to it's almost hitting
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four
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knots flying
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look at
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that oh yeah
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3.8 going at the speed of smell baby
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getting out of
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here oh I wish it was to the Bahamas but
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not yet no not
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yet okay this is where the funnel starts
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look at that turbulent wire right
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there oh my gosh
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you could tube this oh wow it's turning
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the whole
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boat here we go we're getting through
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it
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yeah yeah that's wild right there you
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guys I'm doing this with one
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hand and uh yeah it's a lot of fun look
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at that look how rough that is oh my
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gosh that eaty to lunch and now our
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speed starting to pick up with
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4.3 oh yeah feel the speed
3:17
baby trying to this is kind of my
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stomach like this I don't seed yeah I'm
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going to need some more coffee after
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this I think I need to slow down on
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my it's a little uny right now it is a
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little bouny out
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here but we are
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out or almost out we still got current
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affecting us but not as bad the boat
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that passed us they've already turned so
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they're heading they're
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heading so we're out here on the big
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blue and my baby's not loving it there's
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my baby right there that's because it's
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been rolling it's been a little rolling
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a little shouting our boat like
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this yeah you can't see it but yeah
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there are some rollers out there but
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they're uh they're coming us uh kind of
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uh on our um Port aft and uh make it a
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little uncomfortable but we're doing
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about
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about 5.6 6 to 6 knots and we're making
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good time and we should be uh in Palm uh
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Palm Beach by around four West Palm West
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Palm
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Beach so God speed and heading forward
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oh godp speed is right there behind us
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too
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so but uh quink quinky dink I think
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not kind that's mood right now
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okay guys we put up our head sell and uh
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now we're rolling upwards of 7.5
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knots I've got the autopilot on and I'm
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using
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the wind direction to tram the or turn
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the aut direct the
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autopilot and it's uh increased our
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speed we dropped to
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RPM actually going faster and uh cuz it
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is kind of windy out here but let me
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show what we're looking at
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here so we got
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about 12 knots of
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wind just with the head
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cell and the engine's still running but
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yeah it was up to 7 knots now it's not
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my wife wasn't happy cuz we were healing
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a little
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bit okay so we are moving a little bit
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closer into Shore the Gulf stream out
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there is robbing us of about a knot of
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speed and we don't want
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that so we're just now getting back up
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into 5 six knots where we were in four
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five
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knots but I'm not going to get too close
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to
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shore but uh that's our sail flapping a
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little bit cuz I'm we're at uh like
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25° which is a little bit for our head
6:30
cell but we're making it and there's my
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baby she's been watching Christmas
6:35
movies on the trip
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try but the uh seas are not as wavy so
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she's a lot more comfortable that she
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was this
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morning yeah that was that was not
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fun that was a her first time being out
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on Ocean now I didn't like that
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so we've got
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about 3 hours until we hit
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uh uh West Palm so I'm going have to
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come over a little bit or tighten myself
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something I have to do
7:14
something that guy is
7:17
flying he just came right on
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there right close to us getting closer
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to Miami I guess that's what we get
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[Music]
7:30
okay guys so we took down the head cell
7:33
the uh wind is actually on our bow right
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now and my babe's over here we're almost
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there she's
7:43
happier not really we're not really
7:46
actually there almost there yeah we are
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we got like 2 hours uh yeah
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about it's almost there in boat talk
7:56
well before our longest passages were
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4 hours uh six we never had a six hour
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never to
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[Music]
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tville that was about 5 hours that's cuz
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we were beaten against wind yeah so yeah
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this is our hurricane no this has been 8
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hours so this is our
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longest yeah he woke me up and then and
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then like started the
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Murs P pulled up the anchor I told them
8:27
just waking up at 6:00 a.m. so that I
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can wake my brain I'm not a good morning
8:32
person and he didn't and I was
8:35
disoriented for the longest
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time but she got orientated and uh the
8:41
anchor was uh stuck in some mud so had
8:45
to motor that off but we're here it up
8:49
what I also could I It came it came all
8:53
the way up and then it wouldn't pull the
8:54
anchor up so what happened
8:57
there I told you about it and he went up
9:00
there and did some I just put it back
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down for up again yeah I was afraid to
9:04
put it back down cuz last time I did
9:05
that it went all the way down the bottom
9:08
yeah the clutch uh was loose and so I
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tighten out I tried I was I was like
9:15
okay this what he did last time and it
9:16
still wasn't working so so yep but not a
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good uh boat person she's a great boat
9:25
person I don't know much about it
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well we have uh about less than an hour
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until we uh enter Palm Beach port and uh
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you see back there know if you can see
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it there's Palm Beach right there
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there's all the
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buildings uh we're
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making decent time and uh yeah we're
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over uh really close to the shore here
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was spinning around here because uh that
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Gulf Stream out there is wicked so it's
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it'll rob you of a a n or two of
10:06
speed so what do you
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think got the buildings right
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there yeah we're get in the territory
10:16
that I would never want
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to
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yeah to uh to
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City yeah this where people go to
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Vacation like that
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[Music]
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wouldn't even want to know how much one
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of those condos cost no
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yeah would even tell me it's a million
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dollar or more for a little tiny
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condo that's just
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dumb
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dumb I just love how clear that water is
10:52
getting though out
10:54
here but that's another thing about the
10:56
condos over there that really loud
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whatever they're working
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on sounds like a
11:04
jackhammer okay guys here's a port we
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got about one knot current coming
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in and uh that's not near what we had
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coming out of the other one so shouldn't
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be as uh
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fun okay guys so we made it to Palm
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Springs uh West Palm West Palm sorry not
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pal spring no and uh yeah uh that was
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exhausting long trip but uh and I'm not
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even in
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Bahamas but uh this is very busy here
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very busy but the dog finally got to go
11:36
to the deck oh it was cool in the world
11:39
I kept trying to walk her up there but
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she didn't she was have no part in it it
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was a little she hel her be the entire
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time and this is the first time this
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girl was ever on the ATAC and so well so
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do you me too yes but uh yeah I've been
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on the Atlantic L well I'm talking in
11:56
our own boat small boat oh well we went
12:01
um uh what's that that Sky thingy you
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know where the boat takes you out and
12:06
then you're parachuting we did that on
12:09
the Atlantic in Fort Lauderdale yeah so
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I've been on the Atlantic I just haven't
12:13
been on it on this boat and she had to
12:14
go out there on a jet ski which she
12:16
didn't enjoy that was Cancun oh Cancun
12:19
getting everything mixed up but uh yeah
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we're here we're settling in and our
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life is
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good I'm ready to rest for a couple days
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that was hard yeah that was that was
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that's I guess preparing me for Bahamas
12:37
Crossing and uh maybe uh while we're
12:41
here Trump May invite us to morgo for
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apparently it's no right yeah some po
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ass Margo Largo's down
12:53
there yeah but our dingy is too slow
12:56
else we get on the dingy and go like
12:58
wave at him and
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arrested wait just going
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past but
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yeah okay we're over here in
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uh West pal Beach and uh they're having
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a little SBO race wife's getting some
13:16
marit out
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here but uh yeah we've been here a
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little bit and
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uh few days yeah if you if you come in
13:28
here uh don't speed don't wake I mean
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cuz uh they do enforce that heavily my
13:35
wife has been
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watching yeah she said they've been
13:38
pulling over denies and everything
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denies that barely even do
13:43
anything but uh yeah it's a very calm
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Anchorage because the wakes are
13:50
controlled but
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uh I think I don't think we can make a
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wake with our boat and our
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dingy I don't think so
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but we're going to be getting out of
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here tomorrow uh going to get diesel
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water and uh yeah go ah heading down to
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uh well we're going to make a stop
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halfway in between Fort Lauderdale and
14:12
then uh we're thinking about maybe
14:15
anchoring in Lake syvia if there's room
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so it's a little ways down there but
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it's uh supposedly a good Anchorage and
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little tight again too but I think we
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can squeeze in
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okay we're getting out West Palm Beach
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and uh heading to the halfway point on
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Fort lale bab's right there she got the
14:38
anchor up and uh hopefully the bridges
14:41
can hear us it's like our radio hasn't
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been uh broadcasting that far I had to
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look into that cuz uh we had some
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problems coming down here too with the
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other boats hearing us but then some
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boats heard us just fine and we were
14:55
able to talk back and forth kind of
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weird but uh look into that and uh here
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we
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go okay guys these uh draw Bridges can
15:06
become a pain in the butt the baby right
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there she's uh yeah she's sitting over
15:13
here in a basically idle waiting for the
15:17
dang bridge to
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open and uh we almost made it but uh
15:23
they they probably a minute shot they
15:25
didn't feel like open the game so
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is what
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is there's our puppy right
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there so we've been going through
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Bridges all day and that is very
15:43
interesting it's our seven straw Bridge
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yeah but uh we're going I think we have
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uh maybe a couple more and I can't wait
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to be done with this day all right
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Evergreen is clear thanks for the list
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have a great day me too
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thank you Captain enjoy your day as well
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tuing barge at wbr Captain can you give
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me some numbers
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[Music]
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please is 80 high 30 thanks for the
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opening radio is a little loud but yeah
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we are
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uh got should be pulling in about
16:21
3:33 and uh right now it is
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1:45 so making a good time
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and we'll be in Anchorage before the
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sunset yeah well
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deserved beer 30 is that way
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W my baby and Bella are just got down
16:44
there
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chilling got the view in the
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background and uh yeah
16:59
but uh yeah it's not a bad day for I
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guess a motor we ain't
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selling clear in another Bridge we have
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done so many bridges
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today eight or
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nine I don't
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know we're just cruising here got us uh
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34 minutes to the next Bridge it opens
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on the hour and half hour so so may have
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to slow down a little bit
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more but
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uh yeah it's been my wife says I like
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fix
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Bridges so what do you think
17:44
babe I got to get kind of over
17:48
today these Bridges they kick your ass
17:51
man
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yeah they're just so many of them and
17:56
you got to wait on them and
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yeah so half our time we've been
18:02
spinning around in
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circles yeah which do you like better
18:08
the alac with the the the waves or
18:11
here well I mean this is more calmer mhm
18:15
minus the the big boats like there's one
18:18
that's
18:19
coming yeah we already had one that was
18:22
he was he literally did it and woke us
18:26
and the boat behind us
18:29
stopped behind the last sailboat turned
18:32
around and did it
18:35
again like they just thought their cop
18:37
doesn't stink or something yeah I mean
18:40
and they literally looked at us with a
18:43
smirk I mean I don't know what's wrong
18:46
with some of the South here in Florida
18:49
but you all need to get over yourself
18:50
now get over
18:55
yourself some of us don't want
18:57
multi-million dollar houses we have to
18:59
keep up with nope it doesn't make you
19:02
better than anybody let me I'm about to
19:04
turn this guy's wake right
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[Music]
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[Music]
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here he was moving
19:30
no he wasn't as bad as that one though
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no not near as
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bad is a house right here deep enough if
19:39
we could actually bring our bow in
19:41
there we don't know if we can afford the
19:44
houses in
19:46
there is the season to be jolly Merry
19:51
Christmas from
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Florida okay guys so we made it to Lake
19:57
boka m boka Rotan Rotan and uh yeah very
20:03
tight place to get in this is a very
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little Anchorage probably one of the
20:08
smallest we've ever been in with this
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many boats yeah with this many boats
20:12
we've been in smaller but but not with
20:14
this many boats yeah cuz you look you
20:16
look back here just full of
20:21
boats so we don't we didn't put out as
20:23
much chain as we are comfortable with
20:26
putting out but it should be fine yeah
20:30
we're not going to stay here that long
20:32
so yeah yeah but those
20:36
bridges oh and there's one right there
20:40
yep oh my God I don't even have a chance
20:43
to get out of here before there's
20:44
another freaking Bridge so oh these are
20:48
yeah but we're going to keep going south
20:50
cuz we have to get more chain and uh
20:53
water
20:54
maker and uh spend all that money that
20:57
Daniel likes to spend I'm not happy
20:59
about spinning that we just got done
21:01
spending
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money yeah this year's been terrible it
21:05
better be a better
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year money money money no mm- done done
21:11
I'm going to have to go get a
21:14
job she start slinging
21:17
drinks looking for something
21:28
a
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