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Sailing Life Adventures: Fixing Leaks, Snorkeling, and Generator Troubles | Ep 68 #svaguaazul #boat
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May 2, 2025
Join us on our sailboat journey as we tackle a hot water leak, enjoy snorkeling and fishing, explore hidden beaches, and fix our power generator—all in a day on the water. Blog Post: https://www.chrisdoeswhat.com/sailing-life-adventures-fixing-leaks-snorkeling-generator-troubles/ Get content early by becoming our YouTube member https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOZBmn0CZW578hpt4ImB3CRA Follow our boat on NOFOREIGNLAND: https://www.noforeignland.com/boat/5694391589011456 📢 Our Website: https://www.chrisdoeswhat.com/ 📢 See Our Recipes: https://www.dininginwithdanielle.com 💲 Support us by shopping through our affiliate links! Amazon: https://amzn.to/351krTR 🎈 You Can Also Follow Us On: https://www.facebook.com/ChrisDoesWhat/ https://www.instagram.com/chrisdoeswhat/ https://www.instagram.com/dininginwithdanielle/
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0:01
okay So after our day of uh fun
0:05
yesterday uh we came back and we were
0:08
leaking water on our boat And I've got
0:11
it sourced out to where I it's the hot
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wire side So I basically I disconnected
0:18
one whole side of our system the hot
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wire side and I just routed So we have
0:22
cold water on the boat but no hot water
0:25
which I don't have the tank on anyway
0:27
But right now it's completely draining
0:28
10 gallons just dumped overboard from my
0:32
hot water tank Let me show you what
0:33
we're looking at here So here is our our
0:38
hot water tank right there And you see
0:41
that that's our hot wire side So I've
0:43
disconnected all the way from the hot
0:45
water tank cuz we only have one pressure
0:47
line in right here This goes from our
0:49
pump and only our pump So this is where
0:53
I started So and then I just pressurized
0:57
this which is our
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uh uh this all is our freshwater wire
1:04
side and this goes to our hot wire sink
1:07
and this goes to the hot wire on the
1:09
rest of the boat So I can start
1:12
narrowing it
1:13
down but I don't feel like it right now
1:15
cuz we got it fixed and we have water So
1:18
it could be a hot water
1:20
tank and a number of fittings all the
1:24
way through the hot water system I know
1:26
that our outdoor shower also has a looks
1:29
like a hot water leak So that's no
1:31
longer an issue So our shower on the
1:35
outside our outdoor shower but now we at
1:38
least have cold water And uh we're in
1:41
the tropics It's not that cold The wire
1:43
is about 70 degrees in here but it's
1:47
still you know it gets a little
1:50
chilly And this is what my wife talks
1:52
about Every time I do a
1:55
project the house is tore
1:58
up And uh so there it is So my wife is
2:03
out here doing bills while I'm tearing
2:04
up the house inside But what do you
2:07
think of having just no hot wire
2:10
that kind of sucks cuz when the the
2:13
greasy stuff on the dishes now it's
2:15
going to be harder to get off
2:17
So uh yeah I might have to eventually
2:20
narrow that down but uh I've already
2:23
spent hours narrowing this down
2:26
So I am uh cuz I was trying to trace it
2:29
out to find the leak and I knew it was
2:32
in the salon area because that's where
2:33
the wire was leaking down at but it's
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just I think it may be the the tank
2:39
itself is uh ruptured and uh may have to
2:44
replace the tank So maybe go with one of
2:47
them uh small tankless hot water heater
2:50
setups and when we need hot water just
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turn it on and off Make sure it's really
2:55
small Also it doesn't consume that much
2:57
power
3:00
Really yeah We'd still have hot water It
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just wouldn't be scalding hot We weren't
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supposed to be doing any expensive
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projects this year
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I know And uh I I would hope that
3:11
wouldn't be too expensive but uh we'll
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see I don't even know if it's the uh the
3:16
tank itself or not I'll probably
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pressure up the tank and and cut off
3:21
some of the hot water side and see if
3:23
that fixes it But first I need to get
3:26
somewhere where I can get some more
3:28
plumbing fittings because I don't have
3:29
anything that I can cap off and in which
3:32
would be very useful right
3:35
now Okay we're going to try our first
3:38
day of
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fishing Babe snorkeling Snorkeling
3:45
Fishing And uh got
3:48
my spear and my lion fish uh thingy
3:52
So I don't have a clue what I'm doing
3:56
but uh should be fun I'm just going to
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float Maybe stick my head under water
4:05
So we went snorkeling and my babe went
4:08
snorkeling She couldn't get her mouth
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4:12
still Now now she's cold
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Yep There's our friends They're coming
4:19
right there We're slow So we took the uh
4:22
short shorter way They went around
4:25
looked at the uh waves on the
4:28
Atlantic
4:29
But yeah now we're going to go through
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this C over here Supposedly has a ton of
4:37
current And yeah it's uh it's about 70
4:41
something degrees out here
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So not
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uh not ideal swimming weather
4:55
So guys we didn't catch any uh lion fish
4:59
or anything like
5:00
that So we're just going to the beach
5:04
with our baby right there
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Stuck bird
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She actually snorkeled
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Yeah I don't like snorkeling that much
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But yeah our uh friends they realize our
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dingy is slow as He's like "You
5:25
need a new outboard." I'm like "You're
5:28
probably right."
5:30
But this one's working I think this has
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the tree with all the silly names on it
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and
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But
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yeah zoom in here
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Oh yeah there is a cave right here Yeah
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I think this has all the placards of all
5:52
the sellers that have come here
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On a YouTube channel
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Yeah Co 2020
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Co was here
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Oh look There's a little You done
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cooking oh yeah A barbecue pit
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This is sweet
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Tiki Tort
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and Yeah this is
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awesome Did y'all find another ball
6:29
this is from
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um He had three balls left Three balls
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left
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Okay guys So we just playing out some
6:39
cornhole out here and we sucking butt
6:43
cuz we haven't made one Let's see Oh
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Oh that was so close
7:03
And then the girls are out there playing
7:05
with the
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dogs That dog Can't pet that
7:09
dog So we had a good time at the beach
7:13
Dave and I and our neighbors over here
7:16
are going to go check out these uh this
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little tunnel cave thing So
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yeah it's it's a little further down
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Yeah Yeah I don't think we're going to
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go get in that
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one That's kind of
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small Yeah Not a cave
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I wonder if there's a lobster lion fish
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in
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there Yeah that's what I'm
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wondering There is really no caves out
8:03
here Just kind of
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crevices that you can crawl into
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Like that one right
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there What is
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that that looks
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uh creepy Oh that's a bat
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cave Holy We found the
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Batcave Oh yeah that's a big
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hole Look at that shelf guys I'm sure
8:39
there's some hiding under there
8:42
Right there babe Right in front of us
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It's so like abrasive that you're going
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to hit your head Uhhuh
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Yeah that's uh What the hell is that
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that's going to fall off
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[Music]
9:03
He's skating
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But yeah that is
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uh you can buy a few of those
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Uhhuh Look at all these bait fish coming
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up My gosh Oh look the predator fish
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down there below them Can you see him
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that's a shark There's a shark below
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them There's sharks down there
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Marty Guys these bait fish are all over
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the
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place And I I was I saw a few sharks
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down below
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them Holy crap Look at that guys There's
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a freaking huge Nerf shark over here Oh
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wow Here he is He's right here Wow Holy
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crap Look at him
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It's a nerf shark He's huge
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You see him
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okay The joys of living in a highly
10:17
corrosive environment Our power smart
10:20
generator Today it decided it wasn't
10:23
going to work It was uh it was just high
10:25
revving And what I found here is the
10:28
butterfly was stuck open and basically
10:32
had seized So this is something I'm
10:35
probably gonna have to lube more often
10:37
is this butterfly because so this stays
10:41
moving But now it's opening We hadn't
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ran this in like two weeks Been getting
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that much sun but I wanted to crank it
10:48
up last night cuz we made water and
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cooked in the oven and we're a little
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bit low but we made it through the night
10:54
with uh our 30% battery but I wanted to
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top it off a little higher but couldn't
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do that So got this fixed So I'm going
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to put it back together Basically this
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is electronically uh controlled through
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this guy over here And it just has a
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little uh lever that fits up in here Let
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me get this back together and get uh
11:17
this generator cranked up So now I have
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the little black thing in there And you
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see that little spring basically it just
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loops down and and kind of holds it in
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place But this is so it's not as rigid
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when the throttle is working because
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it's it's probably of course made in
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China So probably not too
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rigid Okay So I got this mod in there's
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a little slot in that plastic dilly and
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this is where the electronic throttle
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works And uh then I
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have this guy right here It's got
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beveled in It just goes down into this
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hole and goes over And then I have just
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two bolts that hold these on these studs
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right there Pretty simple assembly
12:01
Pretty easy to take apart and uh
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troubleshoot Also if you're getting uh
12:06
water in your fuel bowl this is a great
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place to dump it You can dump out your
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entire fuel bowl contents into this
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little hose right here And uh yeah re
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real easy way to clean up the
12:19
carburetor for bad fuel
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Now I think the hardest thing about this
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whole project was getting this little
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rubber tube here back in that hole So it
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took me a bit of work to get that end
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but now I can put the bolts back on the
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studs get the pipes all connected or
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this this is one hose and uh yeah get
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this cranked
12:41
up Okay got the carburetor on It's still
12:46
in pieces right here but see if I can
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get this started
12:50
We set
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this good Everything started Now let's
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see if our electronic throttle
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works
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Yeah everything's working Yay we have a
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generator again Now put this thing back
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together Okay so good news I don't think
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the hot wire here is the culprit here
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cuz I bypassed it I have it plugged
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into just our uh hot wire side and it is
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leaking like a sift So I'm going to put
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a hot wire back in place and then I'm
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going to start narrowing down these
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connections on the hot wire side and uh
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see if I can alleviate which line is
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leaking and we just won't have hot wire
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going to that line and we'll still have
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hot wire
13:47
Okay
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guys Look at that Look at that bread
13:51
right there That's what my wife is
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making Mhm Oh that looks
13:58
good So we heat Yep And then we'll stick
14:03
it in French bread Oh yeah We haven't
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had bread on board and um it's too
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expensive in the Caribbean to buy bread
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So I was like you know what all right
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I'm I'm going to make some bread Yeah I
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have yeast I have flour No
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I don't have bread pans No we don't
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But uh French bread you don't need bread
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pans You just need a pan
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No but I have a feeling they're going to
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they're going to it's going to wind up
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bleeding into each other That's fine
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We're going to eat it Just cut in half
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Okay So it's going in our dirty oven
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Yeah Trying to figure out this one or a
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little mini oven
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I'm not used to baking Mhm So I'm really
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I didn't know what level to put it on
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Okay 30
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minutes And I'll put on 28 cuz I don't
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want to overcook it Mhm So it looks like
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the hot bar leak is at the front of the
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boat So I'm going to bypass the front of
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the boat for now And uh yeah we'll have
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hot wire uh from the sink shower back
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here and the shower on the back of the
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boat And uh also with these uh I was
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thinking about doing a tankless hot
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water here on this boat but that pump
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would not agree with that you'd have to
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put some kind of pressure mitigator so
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you could actually the pump wouldn't uh
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just cycle really fast and uh flip the
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breaker So learn that
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too But this is what we're looking at
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This is why I have to I have to get a
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little bit longer pipe for that cuz
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that's too tight But my baby she's
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cooking her French bread and uh excited
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to have hot water at least on half of
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the boat
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I normally don't use it up there Yeah
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but uh I do have to work on her sink cuz
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the cold water side is trickling Mhm
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Okay so my babes got her bread Yeah it's
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done It's done So Oh look at them loaves
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guys Probably rose them a little too
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long but who cares oh that's that's
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sandwich making right there Mhm
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We haven't had a sandwich in a while
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Well not fresh homemade bread No
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actually I don't have We don't have any
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sandwich stuff Oh I have tuna And we
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have cheese I have eggs Yeah we have
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sandwich stuff Okay Yeah we have cheese
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and tuna
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So everything's fixed Now we need to go
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check out the James Bond Gate or
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whatever Some tunnels over here I think
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that's how you say it
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No but uh yeah and hopefully we get a
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little bit more sun so we get a little
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bit more
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solar I'm going to see the gate tomorrow
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James Bond whatever And today we're
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going to have bread Well deserved after
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fixing the uh the water system It's nice
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and hot Oh yeah Oh it smells delicious
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guys Love the smell of fresh bread
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Okay guys Today I'm in my wife's
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bathroom and uh her sink ain't working
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cuz uh the hot water of course you saw
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is not working on this boat on this side
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of the boat the front side of the boat
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towards the bow So I got to fix the cold
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water side because it's not draining out
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And I'll show you how I fix it on these
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u this is a Hunter 410 I think they use
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these sinks in quite a few boats but
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I'll show you how I fix this So this is
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what the faucet looks like It's just a
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basic faucet And to access these knobs
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this is the cold water side You can just
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pull that And there's a screw right
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there Let me get my tools So the tools
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needed are I have a big adjustable
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wrench cuz my small one doesn't fit And
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uh I use this cuz I just need a shorty
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to get in here Also I put a plug in the
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drain so that you don't lose any parts
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cuz that would suck if you're taking
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stuff off and it falls down the drain
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That drain goes to Davey's
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locker So there that's
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off And then you just take your wrench
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adjust it and uh righty tighty lefty
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loosey Let's take this off So before you
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take these off which I've already broke
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this loose turn off your water or you
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will have water go everywhere But when
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you take this out you clearly see what
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the problem is It's these seals right
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here Let me get They get stuck And so
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you just have to free this up See all
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this uh buildup on it i got to clean
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this off So the first thing I'll do is
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I'll take this pin off right here And
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then I'll just This whole assembly just
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pushes out It's really stuck right now
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So once you get it out it's just a
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simple plunger and it's just got these
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O-ring gaskets I have some of these on
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board so I can replace these if I need
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to And then this big plunger And so get
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this cleaned up and uh put it back
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together and have water again in here So
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once you get it semi cleaned up just pop
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it back in and just make sure it moves
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And this one moves again So and it's
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going to be a little tight because of
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the rubber but uh that's uh you want
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that versus leaking So and then I'll
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just put the pin on the top and screw it
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back in that hole and we'll have water
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again Now all I have to do is turn back
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the water on and see if it blows water
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everywhere Okay the wire's back on Let's
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pull this plug
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out Don't need that
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anymore And let's see if it works
20:10
Oh yeah look at that
20:13
water Now my wife can wash her hands and
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it's not leaking good Okay guys we're
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going to
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explore Gacho the James Bond movie
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Caves So see what they're like And uh
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have some friends coming with us They're
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going to show us uh yeah how I do it cuz
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you know I I still learn how to swim But
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uh yeah Wow We we don't really snorkel
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We all snorkel a lot But uh it's going
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to be fun And uh I don't have an onir
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camera so we're not going cave diving
20:51
but I'll just show you what they look
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like and where they are And the water's
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cold And the water's cold
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So these are the islands right here I
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don't know which one
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is but we're going to find it
21:09
Okay these are the Gateau
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caves and not as dramatic as the movie
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made them look James Bond
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movie but yeah you got a little rope
21:21
here and that's how you get down
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there Our friends are dropping the hook
21:27
over
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there and the current swimming This is
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the current's starting to move and it's
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cold
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I think we're I think we're hung on our
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anchor I think it's hanging now Yeah
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Maybe Okay guys We got pretty damn cool
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It's a big tunnel and uh big hollow area
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And I know a lot of people are choking
21:57
in the hole So we just go inside We got
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pretty damn cool We're going to go look
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We're going to go look for tomorrow too
22:06
Uh she wants lobster I don't know if I'm
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good enough to see a lobster
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Okay so we're here on the hunt for fish
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and this water is insane There's no fish
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out here Looking for a cru head but uh
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checked back now I didn't get to see
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anything really Maybe it's just level of
22:29
view though
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Look at this It's insane
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So yeah we'll continue on the search
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Hopefully my uh hands doesn't look dirty
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so hopefully it's not
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Okay guys look at that There's a a boat
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right under the water there Is it a
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speedboat looks like a sailboat
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Think it's a pontoon
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no it's a motorboat
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Yeah Here's the back end of the boat
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Are there fish down oh yeah A lot of
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black ones And black ones I don't think
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you ate
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them Yeah I don't think you ate the
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black ones
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Look at the size of that stingray Watch
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Watch Wow I put my foot in the water
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You're not close enough Yeah that's a
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big ass stingray Yeah that is a big Holy
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crap
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He's moving Uh-huh Yeah cuz it's This
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deters stingrays
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Sharks She's got her shark bracelet on
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over there No sharks or stingrays Wait
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what's is this the boat right here yeah
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it's right over here babe Here's the
23:58
boat Yeah he's over there Here's the
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boat right there
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That's That's eerie That is creepy as
24:06
hell
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