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Ep 6 Sailboat Living: Wet Nightmare's Aboard
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Dec 22, 2023
Ignoring the fact we have the blue tarp to keep rain out of our sailboat helm, the wind was not nice to sleep to, life is good. Yet is seems that every time you open something, there is a system that wants to sink your boat. They do say the a boat is always slowly sinking, but our boats seems to want to go faster. In this video we have a few sleepless nights cause by a freak wind and rain storm in Florida. Surviving the 4 days of hell we reward ourselves with with some great food from Murdock's Bistro & Char Bar, Recommend! Then we jump right back into boat projects finding a problem that could quickly sink our yacht. ๐ข Our Website: https://www.chrisdoeswhat.com/ ๐ข See Our Recipes: https://www.dininginwithdanielle.com Tools In The Garage: ๐ Milwaukee 18-Volt Drill and Impact Driver Kit https://amzn.to/366BwxM ๐ Husky Mechanics Tool Set https://amzn.to/3kuGUzD ๐ Angle Grinder https://amzn.to/36FaC09 ๐ Forney Easy Weld Welder https://amzn.to/3romDR1 ๐ Welding Helmet https://amzn.to/3wOq58z What We Us In The Kitchen: ๐ฝ KitchenAid https://amzn.to/3x0T8JY ๐ฝ Roasting Pans https://amzn.to/3jahTLq ๐ฝ Cooking Sheet https://amzn.to/3JcEa5O ๐ฝ Kitchen Utensils Set https://amzn.to/3Kg9xOg
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Okay guys, so this week on Chris does what with Danielle on Aqua Azul
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That's a really long name. Well, it's Chris does what? we There's some water running somewhere
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But we go to a restaurant really good restaurant we needed that after that windstorm because my gosh, it was blowing hard we put up our ghetto tarp and
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We were all hunkered down, you know trying to stay out of the rain and wind Yeah, so
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But was cleaned that is a plus and then we went and put in a bilge alarm
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gotta have a bilge alarm because uh Unless it falls off and freaks us out in the middle of the night. It's gonna be a good thing
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It doesn't go off when we go see our boys, yes We're doing turkey dinner our boys for Christmas. So that's gonna be fun. And then
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Yeah, and it's supposed to be Windy again. Oh, yeah, I was just out adjusting we hunker down our boat before we leave
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I was just in lines and and Fenders and things like that. So the life of boat
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The life of boat life But then we print a One-way valve you'll see my failure with that. That's a interesting and
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Our AC the hose on it was cracked and who knows when that would have failed and fled our bilge
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so Y'all stay tuned and we'll get right into this So Where's the warm weather you may say well they had a freak storm come up and
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It's warm, but it's raining dripping on me and Yeah, we're the ghetto sellers
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so but the what the Rain X my wife on the window looking great and cruise ships are still running. So
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Y'all out there getting cruises. This is what y'all getting for But it's a lot of fun and Bella's our dog she's like I did not sign up for this
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Okay We made it through the night last night was hell I got three hours of sleep dog needs to go out trash needs to go out
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It was a lot of wind last night Okay, we're after that
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Huge winds and all that stuff. We're gonna leave Cape Marina for a while and go explore for a few hours and go explore
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Cocoa village, so I'm excited. She tells me where I go we go there
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Okay, we are in historic Cocoa Beach see right there Cocoa village
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Yeah, so we gotta go see the pier in Cocoa Beach, but right now Cocoa village and this is what we're looking at
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so beautiful place So back there there's a That's a pirate museum we don't tour much here so
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that's a Got to see it from the outside though. Cool Good guys, we just a Murdoch's little bistro right back there. Oh my gosh. Oh the bombs gourmet. Oh
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The green fried tomatoes with that sauce and the wraps. Oh, yeah
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Brad anything like that? I was very gourmet. I'm a simple cook. Yes. It was very gourmet gourmet prices
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Wasn't too bad if you're too bad if you're down here in a
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Cocoa village check it out. It's right back there. Oh is delicious now
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We're gonna head back to the boat got some projects to do okay, so
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Get back had a nice meal and It is time to address the bilge issue
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So for one we need an alarm on there and I found this on Amazon leave a link down below
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But it's a pretty inexpensive. I saw others that were like $60
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$80 I'm like this one Is about six or eight dollars and it beeps. So when you take care of the box
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comes with this just mount on the on the side in the bilge there and that has this bottom thing that comes out right here and
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To test to make sure it works. It does come with the battery You just put your finger across it and that contacts
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When it's water it's going to of course complete the circuit and
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Sound the alarm in the instructions. It does come with a mounting template so you can
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Easily mount it with the two screw points and the directions are basically for a battery in it and it works
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So let's get this installed So what guys is velcro and you may have seen some of this from where Danielle was trying to scrape this off the walls
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This stuff sticks so I'm gonna give me a little bit of degreaser and scrub the wall real good and
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Get this installed on the back. I'll show you what looks like And as I'm doing this
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Woman's uh, get the dishes getting clean What clean this up down here so I have a good surface
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To stick my velcro on This is just degreaser biodegradable
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But on here I put a piece of velcro right here Piece of velcro right here and then I have this screw hook right here. So we'll mount the top
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And The horrible thing is if this velcro fails, especially on this
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The only thing it's going to do is really freak us out because it's not falling to any water that's down there
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And make that sound which our dog hates sticking on top of the bilge pump
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secure enough and then I'm taking a wind up this wire, which I had brown tie wraps because if this mouth that means
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Shit in my pants, but instead just sick Okay, so there we go just cut this off
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Without cutting the wire And It works so what's trying to put one of these on
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but here's the results, this is a One-way valve. I was trying to get my bilge dry. It looked like it was working, but
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The results were less than desirable So y'all can I'll take you all along on my failure. So if you see down here our bilge
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We have a little water now. Our shower is draining in here. So that's another thing I have to fix
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but if I turn on the bilge pump You'll see it all suck out
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But soon as I turn it off It does that again it all runs back out so we want to get that where it sucks most the water out of it
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And you see all that water mess down there And drop this guy down here
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Let's go see what's going on out there and our disturbance. Yeah, this is what we got for our Christmas gift and it's from
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West wind Witches Shelby's owner she makes she hand makes these so we got some lures. So now we just have to learn how to fish
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But thank you and we're gonna have to visit that because maybe they know how to fish and can
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Yes, we do need gear now we're gonna test out the bilge see if this works
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I Didn't come back in. Yeah Okay guys, so it worked for the first go
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It doesn't continue to work The problem is the pump isn't strong enough to push against the back pressure on it
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so I don't know if a new pump would fix that but I'm gonna go ahead and remove this and just put it back on the
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bilge pump with the back flow So as you can see, I still have water come out of the other other side of the bilge over here
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But it won't suck the rest of the sap now if I
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Pull this apart Pull this off And if you see right here
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There's a back pressure I Gotta relieve
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That back pressure. The only way to do that is to take this off and put it directly
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Back on it I'm just down here. Look at my front AC and you see on this pump
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That's no bueno, I've got to fix that I Don't know what they were doing here
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But that could definitely cause a leak of course the it's closed off
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Because I have the strainer out. Let's clean that We don't really use a see but I also had to figure out why our shower is not draining back here
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Which is a problem That goes out to the ocean which that's rusty as heck
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I'm wondering what's up here What is that? Oh, that's tape Okay, so yeah gotta fix that hose So
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I'm gonna simply take this guy off which almost seems like it's off
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Yeah, this one's no good a Little honky customizing our boat and that broke off
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And this hose clamp fell apart Gets to give myself more working room just cut this off that cutting myself
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I See if these other hose clamps are as far gone
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Because maybe I can take and move it Over here and then run a new hose over here from this side once I get that off
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I Know that one works
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That one works I Got that off so I can take this higher. Okay, so I did get that that clamp off
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I'd use a grinder will But I have some spare hose here
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I'm gonna put this on in the in the interim But I think I'm gonna move that pump from where it is
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Back over close to the seacock in the future just right now. I'm just gonna get up and running
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I'm gonna put one on cuz I'm gonna redo this cuz this ain't right. This has to be fixed correctly
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You know, but whoever installed this the shower was the last priority and they put this pump down there and they broke off the
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shower plumbing So AC was very important to them And It's beer 30, so I gotta hurry up
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What oh, yeah still had to go to the store Okay And there hose clamp
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Turn this over And
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Yeah, I know I should double these up they weren't doubled up before and
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Like I said, I want to move that pump to a different location
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And get this cleaned up, right So I
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Did clean this See what leaks
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I Do like to prime there of it
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I don't see anything leaking I Turn the AC see how it works
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Nothing seems to be leaking see if it's pissing see right there
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Okay, so hopefully you enjoyed this and you Learned from my failures and hopefully I did inspire
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Some sense of how great is to be on a boat? We are rocking no, we're rocking it's the wind I feel like we're going back and forth but
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We we are No, I didn't just the lines I just the fenders
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so We're rocking side to side it's trouble holding the camera right now, but
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yeah, hopefully this uh has inspired you to want to live the life on the water and
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Also check out this girl's recipes right now she's cooking a crockpot mill
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delish but she has many recipes crockpot and slow cooker and Just home cooking so y'all check that out links down below
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