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Boat Life Challenges: Repairs, Food, and Fishing Boat Fires | Ep 77 #svaguaazul #dominicanrepublic
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Jun 21, 2025
Join us as we celebrate Mother’s Day and a birthday at a cruisers’ pool bar, fix a broken water maker pump, and witness a fishing boat fire near the docks in Luperon, Dominican Republic. Life on the water means balancing celebrations, quick fixes, and unexpected events. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction & Celebrations 2:00 Poolside Bar in Luperon 4:10 Water Maker Pump Failure & Temporary Fix 7:00 New Pump Installation 10:30 Fishing Boat Fire Emergency 14:00 Quick Boat Cooking 16:30 Exploring Luperon and Errands Blog Post: https://www.chrisdoeswhat.com/boat-repairs-luperon-adventure/ 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/
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0:01
well it's Mother's Day and my birthday
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and we got to go to uh We look all we
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look all dressed up Oh she looks dressed
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up I look like me
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Your shirt your your pants are nicer
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than her clothes or Oh yeah I got some
0:16
new shorts uh the other day That was
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pretty cool Yeah We're going to go in
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and uh there's this little uh pool and
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they serve pizza and IPAs
0:27
I don't remember the name of it but a
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lot of cruisers go so
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and uh they open at 12 and we're going
0:33
to go check out on my bday and mom's day
0:37
Yep We left the dog Yeah Didn't need to
0:40
bring the kid along
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But now coming down here this road won't
0:47
look like much Dirt road Break your
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ankles Almost kind of like you're
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sneaking up onto somebody's private
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party cuz I hear the music Yeah it's
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like um are we crashing I
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Yeah where we're walking up to right
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here
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Yeah And you come in Okay guys Y'all get
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in this bar
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And this is what it looks like That pool
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you can use that And the bananas Yeah
1:18
They they they don't stay there but we
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just found them So picked them on up our
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uh low pressure pump on our water maker
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just went out and uh I had to figure out
1:29
solutions because uh I think water is
1:32
more important than AC cuz I had to take
1:35
one of our AC pumps to use that to get
1:39
the low pressure side working in Maybe
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not I'm sweating my tail off I just got
1:44
done with this But let me just show you
1:47
what I did here
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Okay So as you see here this is my uh
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original pump And that's the line going
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to the uh water maker the low pressure
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side And this is one of my AC pumps This
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is from my back AC And uh I have it
2:03
plumbed in to there because I don't have
2:07
a fitting there So but this this pump
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allows the pass through of uh water So
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that's good And it's just going from my
2:15
sea strainer over here And the secock is
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back over there
2:20
But here is my low pressure gauge It
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still shows pressure I can bleed that
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off real quick
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Let me
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there I've bled that pressure off
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And let me pressure this up Basically
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just plug in my water pump
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And now I'm getting my 10 lbs of
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pressure
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And so I can now make water
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That's a good thing
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Well they're having trouble getting this
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these fishing boats out of here
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cuz the Dominican
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Navy wants these fishing boats out of
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Luperon
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And I'm guessing they're having steerage
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issues with this one
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So that's not good
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cuz that one uh almost pegged that boat
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right there
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If they were out there they would have
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been
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would have probably helped
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Okay now they got some uh some little
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fishing boats out there getting that
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thing turned around Looks like they lost
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steering on it They didn't have any
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steering
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Well they got the boat steering so
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they're leaving now
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And uh yeah
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sly threw some like tires out or some
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black [ __ ] out back there but
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I'm sorry I got the bad flu
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So my babe is making us a quick lunch
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It's not quick It's not quick Just made
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the rice
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She's dicing up garlic
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Always got to have onion Look at the
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size of that pepper over there guys
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Oh that's smelling so good
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Every time you come in here you bring a
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fly in here What's wrong with you
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Guess I need a shower
4:55
All five eggs
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No we're not
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They're only three bucks for 30 of them
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[Music]
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Eggs are almost done Eggs rice
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Well I haven't put rice in yet Yep And
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then a wrap So I wanted to kind of get
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scrambling if I put the rice in Or else
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it just starts mushing up Not going to
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use all the rice Like I made too much
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I'll save some for
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later
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Okay
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And there we go
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Actually you could eat it just like this
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Mhm
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This American cheese does not freeze
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very well
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It was our last one And it's just Look
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at that
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The cheese that we got in the Bahamas it
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froze very well
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More cheese
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oil in the pan too
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Oh yeah
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that looks good
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Yeah that looks really good babe
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Oh yeah
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And then you can come uh long ways or
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you can eat them like a burrito or
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whatever But they have to cool down a
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bit They are hot
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Dave's up here cleaning this uh
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stainless steel It's looking really good
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though
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And uh yeah I have uh
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this uh turnbuckle right here needs to
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be replaced You see the top blew out of
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it My wife noticed that Not me
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She's uh ever observant
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Yeah And we need to replace a carter
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wound out here Yeah Very tiny little
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rust but
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I don't find that very safe
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Scared me I thought I was going to go on
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board
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And uh we're making water Our puppy got
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shaved And uh the center console's
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clean What are you doing So you know
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it's a day of boat maintenance
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Yeah I wish I I don't know Feel like we
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need to go to the marina for like a few
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days to just wash the boat It's just
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around the corner
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Yeah Probably cost an arm and a leg
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probably But yeah that's uh stainless
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steel is looking really good babe
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It was pretty rusty out in the Bahamas
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Oh yeah A lot of salt there Yep It
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doesn't feel so salty here though It
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feels more um like uh icy on Yeah it
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does Not salty Not near as splashy here
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My babe is getting all sunburnt Sorry
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about the generator
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I forgot
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I forgot
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No I was going to continue but I forgot
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that I'm not covered
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So now I'm going to burn
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But yeah our center cockpit
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all white again
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No hair
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Yeah it it was pretty nasty Our boat got
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really bad in the Bahamas Yeah
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just it just got rusty dirty as crap I
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don't know where it was coming from
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but now it's looking all better again
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Mine is my Well they say we have the
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Sahara dust coming now turning red
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Not
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so we got sweet potatoes in DR
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That's a sweet potato
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It's white
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and it oxidizes very fast as soon as you
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peel it
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I don't know
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It is sweet This is what these look like
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And this is our first I'm trying to cut
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them up as fast as I can because they're
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oxidizing like crazy
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Okay guys this is Looperon and that's
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the dock over there And it looks like we
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have a fishing boat on fire The problem
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is there's all these fishing boats tied
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together over there
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And that is Oh they're pushing it out Oh
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yeah They're pushing them off Is that
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the one that's on fire though No I don't
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think so
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Oh wow
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So yeah
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that's pretty bad
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I just looked out here I thought there
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was fog I thought it was that um that uh
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dust that dust stuff that was coming
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Yeah I was like "Wow that's pretty bad."
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Oh they got they got the other bow off
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Okay good Is that the one that's on fire
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No it looks like it's the fishing boat
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that came in that was unloading the
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whole time
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So yeah all these these boats go off the
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dock My wife says this one's getting a
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little close A little too close for that
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That thing will smash up our boat in no
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time But yeah they're making a run for
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it
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But guys it looks like they're getting
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the fire out There's people on the deck
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of the boat There a lot of people over
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there I hope they save that boat cuz
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that's uh you know the transport boat
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fishing boat That's a livelihood around
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here But uh and we just out here chillax
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in the heat It's so free And this isn't
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even this is even They did say it's hot
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It's hot
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Oh yeah this definitely is Yeah I hope I
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hope they uh they save that boat and
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Yeah because
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it's quite cloudy today It is It is
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quite cloudy Uh we're not using much
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power so we're Our power's doing good
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But yeah it's No it's starting back up
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again It is Oh yeah What boats are these
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Is it all the little fishing No that's
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that's that one they were unloading
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Remember they had it on the whole time
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It was kicking out water out the side
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You thought that it was flooding
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That's what that was
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Well I thought they were saving it but
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it looks like it's listing now So
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yeah it's going down
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It looks like the fire has melted the
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sea cos
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Okay guys That boat is about to It's
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about to list all the way over
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Yeah it's it's not good under control
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Uh no I'm seeing flames
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Yeah I'm hoping nobody gets hurt
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So guys that boat that sucked yesterday
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were on fire
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Yeah Really sad They had uh thousands of
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gallons of fuel on board and uh I I
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don't see any fuel in the water but yeah
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it's you know that's people's
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livelihoods right there going up and uh
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it's just it started in the um the uh
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engine room where they were welding Yep
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So I don't know how I got out of control
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but uh yeah it's just just sad sad thing
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happened
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Okay guys There is a ton of fuel in the
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water I can smell it and you can see it
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So
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yeah it's just
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Oh man
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Water you know
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I don't know A lot of fuel
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Okay guys So on our water maker our pump
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went out our low pressure pump this
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little thing right here And um Seawir
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Pro I I contact him and under warranty
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they sent me a new pump and this is the
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new low pressure pump So it's
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drastically bigger I don't know if
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they've had problems with this uh
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smaller one or what I also had a friend
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had to get their pump replaced but this
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is pretty dang beefy right here It's uh
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35 PSI So I'm gonna get this installed I
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actually got a new location for our pump
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too cuz um I want a uh a seatcock that
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was further in the back of the boat
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Hopefully deeper water all that good
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stuff Hopefully that's better because uh
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the front one when we're on passage I'd
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have to prime it because it would lose
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water pressure when the boat front came
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out of the water and uh empty that sec
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So one great thing about this new pump I
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like is that this the control box
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disconnects from the wire making this
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easier to uh run the wire cuz uh I don't
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know if you've read wires in a boat but
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it can get interesting So with this it
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says right here brown positive blue
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negative So I dropped my pliers right
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here but I'm going to cut the end off
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You can get the AC uh adapter for this
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but you also run u
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uh 12vt DC 12 to
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what does it go to
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Something it says on the pump 12 to 29
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volts So if you have uh 12 volt uh to
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24volt batteries you'll be good with
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this
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Okay I've got this all heat shrked up
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good to go This right here I can run
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under here I can bolt it under this in
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this compartment right here And then
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that's uh the back where the back seat
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[ __ ] is to get in here And right now I'm
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using my AC pump to make water with I'm
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going to move my AC pump back to the AC
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position and we will just make water So
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that would be better
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Okay So I got the new pump in I got it
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running It's pressurized Of course I'm
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going have to run the wire My wife
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wouldn't like the wire around like that
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But uh yeah we get over here and we are
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making
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a lot more pressure than we ever made So
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before we were just getting 10
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So I'm really happy with that
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Okay looks like they're uh I finally got
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a crane out here
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try to recover that boat
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and uh get that off the dogs here cuz
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I'm sure it's uh cramping the style of
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these fishermen out here But yeah that's
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uh you know I hope they can uh probably
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restore that boat They they tend to you
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know do a lot of work on these boats So
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restore that boat and get it back up to
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fishing readiness
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And uh these other fishermen have more
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dock space to unload their boats because
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the dock over there is it's pretty
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crowded right now with just that one
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boat It's uh pretty shallow um around
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that dock So you know there's only
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really a small portion that they can use
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So they've rescued that boat
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It's been uh about a week
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and it's out of the water
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Really light It's Yeah they really they
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basically unloaded everything off of it
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I don't know what's going to happen to
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it but yeah A lot of burn damage Yep
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That's a metal boat My gosh
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It could be Yeah
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the lo lot lot the interior is
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completely gutted
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[Music]
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you making there babe
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meat pasta
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running out of food we're going to the
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grocery store tomorrow
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and some this is what happens when we
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run out of food so I have to resort to a
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can of Yeah it's this is the bottom of
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the barrel mill Yeah but this is cuz
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we're uh
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we're trying to eat on the boat
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cuz we've been eating out too much It's
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easy to do Yeah in the DR you go into
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town and it's like ah it's only 10 bucks
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Yeah it's Penny pitching us away
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But
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lunch This is a lunch and dinner
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actually Yeah And we're eat the pasta
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and Yeah it's
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But yeah and uh
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not really a recipe No I'm not going to
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make a recipe on it but I can
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just tell you what I did
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Um it's kind of self-explanatory meat
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onions garlic salt pepper a can of cream
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of chicken or cream of mushroom I
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usually use cream of mushroom but I
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couldn't find it
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Pasta Yeah And just put that over pasta
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Yum
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Got to check for bugs We found two bags
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that had bugs in them
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[Music]
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Okay so everything's done Now we just
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have to mix it together
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So my job is to splatter
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[Laughter]
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I always
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wish I had smellvision That smells
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really good for a quick meal
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Not that quick
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I've been in here for a while now
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Okay it's sat around for a while and it
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is sat around for about seven minutes
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Yeah it's absorbing stuff It's time to
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eat Yes ma'am
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Going to load me up a bowl there
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Mhm
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Fat boy's got to eat
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That's dinner too So Mhm Wow It's going
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to be our second dinner Oh yeah That
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looks good You want more Okay Dinner was
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I mean lunch was great This is going to
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be dinner tonight But uh yeah really
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good And now we're heading to Box Pack
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in Luperon to pick up our Star Starlink
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I know uh Deco you've been saying "Yeah
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I needed Starlink." And I guess I did
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cuz uh T-Mobile's about to shut us down
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Yeah they don't like us using that many
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goods
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on roaming But uh if you're in Luperon
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and you need to get mail quickly box
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pack works really good I'm talking maybe
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a day or two from the US to here is what
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we've been seeing So actually it took
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longer to get it to our son's house Then
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our son sent it Monday evening and it
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got here yesterday Tuesday So really
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quick Yeah
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And here is Box Pack It's not that far a
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walk from the docks So
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okay guys it wasn't there I misread it
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cuz my Spanish sucks
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Okay So we're going to take the long
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walk back to the boat And uh yeah
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my bad Yeah I knew it was too good to be
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true Oh he just sent it Monday Mhm Yeah
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Yep I'm glad to get off It's It's a
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little busy out here Okay guys We're
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going to town Going to get us some
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dinner on
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that Yeah there's lots of events here
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Yeah but this is somebody we know One of
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the most important Yeah Look at my my
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wife That beautiful dress I know I'm
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starting to wear my dresses again I
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found my big bag of dresses
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We're doing a pushup contest and uh yeah
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Scott
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I think you passed your PT test
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Further down
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and 12 He passed the
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14
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He is blowing it out there
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Okay guys This is the arm wrestling
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champion
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He beat my ass All right let's do it
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No he didn't think that
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I thought so Just a fraction of
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a fraction of a second I got you He
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thinks he's so smart All right Y'all let
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me know when y'all are ready All right
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You ready Oh it's Scott and Scott Okay
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Ready I'm ready Go Come on Wherever you
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want to go
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Oh there it goes
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Come on H
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yeah
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