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Boat Maintenance & Island Fun Before Bahamas 400-Mile Passage | Ep 72
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Jun 6, 2025
Join us as we prepare to leave Georgetown, Bahamas, for a 400-mile sailing adventure to the Dominican Republic! Watch as we change the oil in our diesel engine, generator, and water maker, explore island life at local spots like the Snappy Turtle, and battle rough seas on our journey. Expect honest moments and plenty of nautical tips along the way. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction and engine warm-up 2:15 Diesel engine oil change process 5:30 Water maker oil change 7:00 Dropping off trash and errands in Georgetown 10:00 Visiting the Snappy Turtle bar 13:45 Planning for Dominican Republic travel 15:30 Saying farewells and preparing to sail 18:00 Rough seas and sailing speed updates 21:30 Arrival at Long Island anchorage and swell conditions Blog Post Draft (Detailed Outline / Draft Concept): Preparing for a Long Sailing Passage: Engine Care, Island Life & Rough Seas Preparing for a long journey by sea involves careful maintenance and planning. Leaving Georgetown, Bahamas, with about 400 miles ahead to the Dominican Republic, the first step is making sure the boat’s diesel engine and generator are ready. After about 100 hours, it’s time to change the engine oil to maintain performance. The process starts by warming the engine, then pumping out the old oil using a specialized pump. Proper disposal is important, so the old oil is transferred to a jug for recycling once in port. The water maker’s oil is also changed, using full synthetic oil per manufacturer’s recommendation. Though the water maker holds only a small amount, regular oil changes are essential for keeping it running smoothly.
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okay guys so we're getting ready to
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leave uh georgetown and eventually the
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bahamas but to do this i have to change
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the oil because our diesel engine for
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our boat we're about yeah we're about
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100 hours in so it's time to change that
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oil and i'm also going to change the oil
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in our generator and our water maker so
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get that all out of the way so when we
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get to uh eventually the dr we have
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about 400 miles to
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go be all set in and that would
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be that's about uh yeah that's a good
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long ways
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that's at five knots 5 and a half knots
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yeah good long ways but yeah so right
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now i'm just warming up the diesel
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engine so i can pump the oil out so i
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think that's good enough i'll shut this
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engine
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off and uh much quieter and then i have
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my uh my pumpy dilly that i'm gonna pump
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the oil out with and uh yeah with the
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our diesel engine almost fills this all
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the way up but hopefully uh yeah i
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should be able to pour it back in the
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jug so i can uh recycle this hole back
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in
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town then you have to find the pipe that
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is just the right size for your engine
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which is in the kitchen and having your
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engine in the kitchen is very convenient
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for refreshments as you're doing oil
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it's
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great so i got the engine oil all
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changed and that's the
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mess easy clean up i've already dumped
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the oil out of the big container into a
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little jug and so it's good there and
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now we're going to change the uh our
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wire maker
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hole now the wire maker oil plug is
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right there and on the very side that's
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where you can see the level so it
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doesn't hold very much i'm just going to
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pump out with the same pump i used for
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the engine oil and uh cuz it tanks uh
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engine oil they prefer for cr pro uh
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synthetic full synthetic so that's what
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i'm going to dump into it okay they
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prefer you to change this after 10 hours
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when you first get it and then every 100
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hours this is our 100 hour change it's
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actually it's actually well before a
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$100 change but uh yeah we're going to
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get the oil pumped out and get some new
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oil in
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there okay oil changed i'm about at the
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bubble and uh yeah just put the breather
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tube back into it and we're done okay
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got all the engine oil changed and
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everything prepped now we got to run to
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town and drop this off and drop off
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trash and pick up some little odds and
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ends and we'll be ready to leave so well
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this may be our last trip to
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georgetown and
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uh got the trash oil cans that we just
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changed and uh yeah just a few last
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minute things
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and then a lot of passages couple more
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nights of partying with our friends and
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then we're leaving something yeah a lot
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more passages no not
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the dog is trying to jump out of the
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boat she says there's land right
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there i wouldn't have pulled her back
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like we talked about there's land right
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there
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she hasn't been off the boat in a while
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[Music]
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i don't know couple days
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[Music]
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yeah so she's like i want some land
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so if you ever come in here right uh
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right you take a right on the dock you
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come down here and here's a liquor store
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really good prices really good to us so
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yeah you can get your your party uh
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supplies here i'm in drug your adult
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party supplies
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and that's our puppy right there
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does it say
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let's see what does it say
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uh chat and chill must be on a leash oh
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good okay so we're at the chat and chill
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guys and
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uh yeah we're going to experience a
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little caribbean life here so chat and
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chill we have to go at turtle cuz uh
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it's where drinks are it's where happy
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hour is happy hour so we're getting the
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turtle but uh i don't know where it's at
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though it's just down here it's just
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right down over there
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no we have to we have to take the dingy
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cuz we can't get there we have to go
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across the water oh we do
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okay guys there's the snappy
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[Music]
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turtle and we are heading there doesn't
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it look like it's uh it's stopping us uh
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where we were
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uh it's friday it is
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friday yeah it says
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open see open right there it says
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open so we hit the snappy turtle here in
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georgetown we don't know if dogs are
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allowed though doesn't look like it do
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you have to go inside i don't think dogs
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are allowed
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inside it's annoying having a dog you
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can avoid it avoid it the uh we're at
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the end of georgetown we're at
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georgetown in the exumas this is pretty
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much the end of the exumas down here so
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running out of exumas to play
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in okay guys we're in the snappy turtle
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and look at this view
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my baby guard rink oh look at that and
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she said the it's like
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um it actually tastes like an apple
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tendon yeah the floater on top i used to
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um drink all the time back in the day
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i normally don't drink fruity chewy
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drinks but since one why not this is our
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server and she is wonderful and i've
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ordered the the hot and spicy wings and
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uh colette and we have her dog down here
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too but uh this is a dog friendly joint
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if y'all sailers are out there you can
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bring your obedient dog yes mild dogs
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not wild
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dogs leaving the snappy turtle had the
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wings my wings were oh i can't eat them
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wings i had to order the barbecue ones i
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had the house wings and oh they were she
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said they were spicy they they i i i was
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coughing
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but yeah great place i just uh when you
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go in there recommend that they play
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more island
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music we just passed sailing oceans boat
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sail ocean sail ocean they're um i don't
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know if anybody watches them but we've
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watched them they own a triaran and
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they're from poland
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so um never met them but i did talk to
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her on facebook for a second and yeah
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they're in uh i'm not going to say
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but yeah now we're heading back to the
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boat we just left uh snapping turtle now
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i can't do it cuz you got me on camera
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yeah that way you have to do it so when
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you don't do it question danielle is
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what are you planning to do what's the
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plan when you get there
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to the yeah going to dominican republic
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what what's your plans in dominican what
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are you going to do in there we're going
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to park our boat in lupron
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stay on it and see how good is it you
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know and and then we're going to start
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traveling around to where i don't know
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what it's called the mountains the
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beaches
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the cities santiago is a good one that
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they say to go to uh pa paana paana
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uhhuh
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and
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where else i don't know just a lot of
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places we're going to spend about eight
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months there wait are you renting a car
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i overheard you say rent a car when we
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want to go somewhere we're going to rent
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a car
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are you going to costco
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is there a costco i don't recall i don't
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think there's a costco there
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okay what are you doing i have no clue
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you look like a movie oh yeah
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good i don't know he's the next youtuber
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i'll post this on tik tok
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okay we're heading out yorktown going to
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kyle bash
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uh yeah that's our friends hold on guys
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our friends right
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there okay guys we had to put in our
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farewells uh great some great friends we
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met here just had our farewell dinner
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last night with them but uh yeah we're
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in ratta turks and ca coast and uh but
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we have a long passage through the um
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the today is not the turks no no we have
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a long passage through the rest of the
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bahamas and then turks and ca co and
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then dr we want we have a month left on
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our visa and plus we want to kind of
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stop and see some of the um more remote
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islands out there that there's nothing
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on you know just kind of hang out for a
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few days cuz we've been kind of in town
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for like two weeks it's been great but
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yeah my pocketbook says no you got to go
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yeah time to leave but yeah y'all follow
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along we'll get out there and uh get
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into the big blue hopefully i can get
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some sailing in today if the wind
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cooperates but i got tired cuz we got
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head okay okay guys when you're leaving
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this um anchorage in georgetown there's
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your marker so and there's another one
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over
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there i can't even see it the tide's
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going out it's a floating marker
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oh
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but yeah it's pretty shallow on either
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side of here
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i get back to driving okay marty you
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said uh danielle to sit down there on
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the floor and we're sitting at 10 20°
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and that's where her and the pup
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are no
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that these seas are way rougher than we
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thought
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i'm not sitting down here because of the
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how far we're leaning i'm sitting down
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in here because you keep
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almost doing a washing machine or
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something yeah we're going from 10 to
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25 oh wow that was yeah 25
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but yeah we're uh making our way out
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here on the lean got the
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uh head sail and the main cell out we're
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doing six seven knots i still have the
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engine running
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because uh we want to make decent time
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i'm not doing doing about 1500
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rpms but yeah and uh so i just want to
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get off these seas as quickly as i can
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and we have an eta
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of 2 and 1 half 3
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hours so i'm going to get off this
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because
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uh it's a workout to hold the camera
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sustain myself and uh stare at things
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okay guys my babe said that wasn't the
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greatest place to sit down
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there we're getting ready to lose our
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lunch
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know what it is fill everything up
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[Music]
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yeah yeah but we got about 2 and 1/2
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hours to go we're averaging uh about 6
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knots and uh making some good time but
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it is rough really rough out here and uh
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and also we're average
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between
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10 and that was almost 25 right there so
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good good time healing
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just look at that beautiful catamaran
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passing
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us this is what the waves look like out
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here so he's got full man and head up
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and we got the reef we're double reef
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everything and he's flying he's almost
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bringing a white side out water
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there okay so we're moving across doing
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uh pretty good
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speed and uh yeah it sucks right here
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okay guys so for the first time ever i
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puked on the boat i was downstairs
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trying to work on something and uh yeah
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that was uh maybe it was the beans and
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rice i had right before i uh started
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this but uh or the three cups of coffee
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but yeah that was uh that was not fun
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and there's my babe she she didn't get
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sick at all
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no i got really nauseated i just don't i
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just pulled it in
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i just sat there and looked at the
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horizon and
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yeah yeah this this is probably the
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worst i mean we've been on some rough
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passages but this one has just been
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very rolly and i don't know i don't know
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what it is
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i maybe it's cuz we sat for two two
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weeks i don't know
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but yeah we're uh we're we're sailing
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we're going about
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four or five knots and uh about to kick
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on the engine here and get us there a
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little bit faster but uh the faster we
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go it seems like the rougher it
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gets my babe is tired of yelling at 10
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20° all she sees is water and sky
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over here that's how high that is over
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there so yeah it's got a great view of
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just water
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[Music]
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okay this is the north side of long
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island
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gabos and we are almost
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there okay zoom out here a little bit on
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this and so that's where we are and
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we're going to pull up into
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it and i think this has been our
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most destroy the house sale
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ever really
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i don't even know how that one covered
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everywhere everything is everywhere
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my gosh
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[Music]
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okay guys this is the aftermath of our
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sale looks like a tornado hitting here
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and then look at and when you get to an
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anchorage you think it's going to be
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nice no this is very swell right now
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yeah this anchorage sucks we're moving
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like this yep this one sucks
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the whole day sucked yeah the whole day
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sucked
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everything my house is a disaster it is
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everything fell out of
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everywhere i'm hopefully that didn't
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bust any aerosols back there no he
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didn't everything is just a mess
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yep oh my
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gosh gimble don't say g this is how much
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we're we're moving
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we're on anchorage
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yeah look how nasty that is mhm
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okay guys so we made it to the north
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side of long island and this
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anchorage is rolly right now uh well we
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had a um north wind and uh right now
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we're still getting the wraparound swell
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but i did put an anchor to the side
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that's
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helping but yeah or else oh god that
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boat over there i'll show you what that
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boat's doing it's wet but wait
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let me uh show you what this boat's
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doing over
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here well over there you see that boat
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that's not as bad as it's
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been but
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uh you can see that boat over
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there it's just
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rocking
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so and i have an
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anchor off to the side here like this
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yeah so i have an anchor off to the side
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pulling up just on my
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wench but the swell i you can't see it
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but it is horrible look at that boat
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over
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[Music]
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there both of them there's another
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one not fun
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[Music]