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Explore the Thrills of Sailing in Fort Lauderdale | Ep 48 #svaguaazul #sailboat #boatlife
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Jan 7, 2025
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okay guys we are moving we are going to
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Fort lale going to syvia syvia Lake I
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think that's what you call it and uh
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right now we're fighting the tide but
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we're timing the bridges well where we
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only have to hang out for a few minutes
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working out pretty
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good what's my babe think of this
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trip it's been
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long ready to sit back and relax for a
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minute yeah we got got chillax in Fort
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lale for a bit hopefully we can find an
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Anchorage
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there that spot sometimes they say is
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pretty
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[Music]
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crowded I think one of the hardest
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things you can do is sit here and try a
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hold in the
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sailboat cuz the current and the wind
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just push you all over this
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canal it sucks out here for this that's
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why the probably AAC is the easier
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route but you can see over there we're
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being pushed into the mangroves there's
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my baby right
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there and uh we aren't moving right now
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and we got like 1 minute for the bridge
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opens what do you think
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[Music]
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babe
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hopefully we're made to Fort
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lardell we're moving baby that's what
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that bridge say yeah yeah but we're
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still not on our Anchorage though no we
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still have five naral miles to
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go but uh seems like a lifetime yeah
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we're we're running so we can make all
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these bridge openings without having to
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wait it's a pain in the ass but we're
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getting
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there the holiday spirit is strong with
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this house look at that Christmas tree
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that looks
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awesome my baby is
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missing big Christmas trees I'm jealous
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jealous of that tree and her little tree
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on the
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boat watching
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D Las caros I mean not Los caros for
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lale what an
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adventure uh we got passed by a big
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motor yacht that then pulled over in
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front of us and stopped and didn't want
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to go through the bridge so
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uh almost cost us uh shoot 30 minutes if
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we had to St out there again but we are
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almost to our Anchorage and I look a
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little red so thank God two days of I
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lost count of bridges um we're probably
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up into like 16 17 or whatever yeah yeah
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but uh yeah where you are every already
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said why don't you why don't you go
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around like when we did coming to Fort
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Paris we thought about it but then we
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kind of thought maybe it would just kind
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of chill and go down the icw it wasn't
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chill it wasn't
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chill no the the stress of getting to
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the next one before you have to wait 30
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minutes of just circling around in the
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icw so yeah yeah today we were pushing
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it pretty hard to make it to each
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opening and uh well missed one and so we
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we basically idled in the current cuz
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the the current's come in and that was
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Hing our speed a little bit hampering
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our speed but uh we're through and we're
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going to get to this Anchorage and uh
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show you what it looks
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like
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yeah but as we're cruising through here
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you see us on our little peasant Boat
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Boat and all these Yachts around
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us all of them that's a big one right
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there call him big
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blue but yeah
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but we are in a uh I guess our peasant
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boat and we are on the same Ocean or icw
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with
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them my wife's just looking at these
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houses around here my gosh they're
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huge yeah it would be a lot but we are
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almost to our Anchorage we're getting
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getting off this icw right here so we
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made to Lake Sylvia here in Fort larda
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and this place is crowded we got boats
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over there we got no boats over here
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this way but there's some red markers
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over there but yeah this is tight pretty
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tight in here it's kind of a little
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unnerving but yeah you know maybe we'll
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just play bumper cars with a few boats I
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don't know well we got one derel boat
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sitting right next to us their sail bags
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all ripped up and I don't know how long
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they've been here
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but yeah and I'm surprised it made it
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through the hurricane yeah maybe that's
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what they were hoping that noten doing
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but see then then if boats sink in here
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that's not good for us people don't know
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that they're there no not at all so
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hopefully we don't play buper boats in
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here don't want to do that but yeah I
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think uh we'll head probably that way
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and there's the raw raw bar and uh
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yeah we can get off the boat do some
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grocery shopping today not today I'm
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like too tired for that yeah but later
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on and we have to pick up our chain and
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uh still don't know how we're going to
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do
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that it's going to be a lot of
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fun okay guys so we just
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experienced come here get down come here
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come here here get
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down okay guys we we just experienced
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influencers in the wild that boat right
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back there oh goodness yeah they they
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the the first thing they did is come out
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in bikinis on the front of the boat
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doing all their duck faces
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uh but duck face is pretty good right
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babe yeah I got a good duck face but
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yeah it was funny it's so
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barf but
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good job we're in Fort lardell I guess
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uh it's gross we're seeing more of this
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and more of this out here but uh I I
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think I like
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Mid Florida yeah we're a little bit more
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humble there we're not going down to
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Miami Miami would be oh gosh no no I
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would not even want to step foot in
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Miami I've been
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there no
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no I mean we already have had some
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experiences here with the boers and um
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they're not really nice no we saw we
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actually saw a uh kind of a boat
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argument in the Anchorage too today oh I
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know that was weird yeah so you're like
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bickering at each other like aren't we
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all supposed to be friends yes we're
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we're here at the same time I mean not
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argue with each other we're getting a
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lot more experiences the further uh
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South we go this is as far south we're
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going in Florida right now so hopefully
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we go to more humble areas in the
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Caribbean from here we'll hoping to the
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Bahamas and and going more humble people
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hopefully hopefully more humble people
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cuz I don't know I'm not a we' visited
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Fort Lauderdale on a vacation but we
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were on vacation so I didn't notice
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anything um but when you're out on the
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water in Fort Lauderdale you'll notice
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it m and the people here are very stuck
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up oh yeah very you know got a flex and
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it's just like yeah why you got a flex I
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don't even care what you have
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I house I don't want your house cuz I
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don't want the taxes on it so yeah it's
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a boat Flex we we be ghetto floater uh
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floaters out here so I like my
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boat I got to give it a nice uh little
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vacuum tomorrow but I like my boat and
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uh I don't think it's good G I just
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think that we're in a territory where
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other like that right there people think
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it's ghetto it's like yeah
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you're you're one of
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them I don't jive with those kind of
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people I I just don't I mean it's
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just I'm a humble person so you
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know okay guys we're out here and uh the
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wind's changing directions I know if you
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can see this boat they should mve it
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away a bit but we were almost 10t away
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from
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that and uh yeah we're getting snuggly
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with that little boat over
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there leaving uh the boat going to the
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Raw Bar and boy that's tight through
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there oh God that got any higher we're
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going to be like
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they tide out right now or in I don't
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know it looks like the tide it may be
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coming back through the other
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way Bella you like getting off the boat
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got to go touch some
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grass been on the boat for a while these
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winds are kicking our tail out
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here sleep all night mhm
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yeah a lot of big boats going through
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here
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though a lot of big
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[Music]
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boats yeah this is a uh I was talking to
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this dock
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about you know I think it's yeah right
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here not coming in and getting a slip
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just to stay for a minute to do our
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chain
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I don't think I need to but
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yeah it's part of that Hilton over
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[Music]
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there now we got to make it across the
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icw without getting
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hit Yep this is where we're going across
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you see the marker the CH marker there
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got to make sure there's no traffic
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and then race as fast as our little
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engine can
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go we spin it up now we're moving that's
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the bridge we're going to go out when we
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go to the Bahamas right
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there
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yeah what do you think about one of
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these condos on the water baby
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[Music]
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that's the
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police that right there is a boat garage
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they pull in and then they stack
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them and now we're getting to the raw
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bar right down there that's where we're
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going tie up $10 a day and if you uh buy
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some food or something it goes towards
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your
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tab okay guys the Raw Bar worked out
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really good for us got all our stuff and
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we're ready to go it's
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wind yeah there's a lot of wind think
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our boat's got to be there
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well it waed through last
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night just that we can't put much anchor
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out because of the anchor we in Y when
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you can't put much anchor out or
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chain it's uh what's turn on I got to
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give it so I got Pump It Up that was
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interesting got frying the
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bubble
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and right out of gas okay guys Babe's
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making some uh some
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JoJo's as we're
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being
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everything I'm making it with my I have
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a recipe
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yes it's my uh I call them Ranch
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flavored
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yep and uh we got our but I'm going to
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use uh powdered garlic in this
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tonight we got our mini hamburgers from
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the Raw
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Bar they're not that many
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I need more oil bab oh yeah I I'll get
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some more oil but I'm going to turn this
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off cuz I'm going to get more oil cuz I
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want some french
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fries okay so it's been uh quite a few
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days of Just
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Wind and my babye is tired of
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wind so well it's I haven't slept yeah
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it's uh really rocking us and uh then
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this morning I had to replace U duct
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valves in the vacuum toilet that's
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always
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fun and uh now I'm going to go out there
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and clean the deck with salt water cuz
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it's supposed to rain and my babe just
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sitting here taking care of the dishes
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for us this we but you could you can
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feel this this wind it's just blowing
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you can hear it it
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sucks and uh yeah we have a other
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sellers that just they're they're like
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questioning boat life after all
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this I went my bucket yep that's my
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bucket so I'm going to get up catch my
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bucket and go clean the
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deck so I'm out here on the front deck
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getting a little crowded out here a lot
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of people trying to hide out in this
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wind or from this wind in this uh Lake
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silia which is a
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pretty calm Anchorage for the wind we're
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getting let me show you what we look
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like out here in Our Deck so I don't
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know if you can see but you can see the
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the wind blowing across the water there
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making Ripples and this is why I got
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clean our deck I don't know if you can
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see that but yeah Bella has uh this is
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her uh backyard and it's nasty just
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going to need us one of them uh
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freshwater rent Rines from the Lord
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hopefully it rains get this uh salt
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water off here
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our influencer boat is back and my wife
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said they were doing their like girls
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all over the front bikinis it's cold out
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here uh one got in the water yeah okay
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nobody in Florida is in water no it's
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cold it is I'm flannels I'm wearing
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sweats but uh my wife had the uh moves
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the other day she was showed me how
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they're posing I'm like oh that is so
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funny
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but uh yeah now they're right over
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there looks like our friend's G us
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there's a breezy
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baby the cab ran over
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there just dropping their
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anchor it's tight
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here now I can't hold the camera
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straight
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well here comes Breezy baby or Ben with
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Breezy baby you're going to help me uh
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get the chain in the water maker
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today and my babe's going to sit over
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here and guard the boat and clean and
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clean
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hey this is the first time I've ever
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been on a dingy in well in a year that I
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haven't drove it she will and uh Ben we
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got Captain Ben here let me uh
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so and he's got this n n on this thing
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and it's enough to make it fly I don't
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know if he'll he'll get up with me on
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here bet it
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might I had it playing with me and the
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wife and all three dogs yesterday let me
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see I get up
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here technically this is no wake though
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right here yeah we ain't making a wake
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not bad yeah not bad at
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all okay guys we finally made it to se
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Pro it's right there and took a minute
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Enterprise was a freaking nightmare so
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it took him two hours to actually pick
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our asses up but we're here now we're
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going to go spend we're going to spend a
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lot of money yes
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sir look at there that's all the systems
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right there
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yeah got get some of them 40in tubes
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right there figure out where to stick
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them oh yeah so this is our setup this
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uh we're getting the one with the two
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switches here so you just flip these
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suckers on start pumping good to go you
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have uh your pre-wire filters it has a
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charcoal filter for your back wash and
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guys when this makes water it actually
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uh filters at 150 microns so you can
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actually drink this water and it still
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has minerals in
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it I can put you on there if you want
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Anthony for a second okay
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okay in the videos too that's all mik
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okay okay guys so we're here at uh seir
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Pro and we just got our system we got
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that one right there I think so it may
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have a different motor on it but we're
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ready to go I'm going to get a shower
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this month it's going to be awesome and
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uh stinking your wife out of house
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and uh yeah we'll get this installed
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okay guys they took us back in the back
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we're looking at where the magic happens
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back here so this is the mess that uh
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they expect me install and uh yeah so
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I'm I'm going to figure this out and uh
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I may have to pick up some more 20
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Micron filters cuz I don't have them but
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they said they said they're really going
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to work with me on the phone any
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problems I have you want to be in the
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video or no sir all I know okay I'm fine
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with it okay so this is the engineer
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behind the magic here he was just
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stepping me through all this mess and I
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should have been recording cuz it was
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awesome and uh but uh hopefully I can
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remember this you know I don't know how
19:43
the boat Kevin Kevin's going to show us
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how this system works and so I can
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figure out when we get on the boat so
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he's we're going to start when we're
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coming in from our Seacock this is the
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Seacock simulation of seawater goes in
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here uh you need to keep this as large
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as you can 3/4 in yes sir and then this
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is the booster pump okay it gives you
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the 30 PSI runs through your uh five and
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your 20 Micron filters it goes through
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here there's a check valve keeps it from
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going backwards okay and then uh this
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blue hose goes over to the uh high
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pressure pump the inlet on the high
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pressure pump and then the high pressure
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comes up the black hose over there to
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the is regulated at the ends yes sir
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and you want to regulate it to the Grain
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and then this is um the brine that goes
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out over the side of the boat okay and
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then the fresh water comes through here
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in the centers okay um sometimes you
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know it'll have another loop there and
20:45
then just one output but this is it and
20:49
so this happens to be a motorized valve
20:51
you can get diverter valve um you can do
20:54
your sample of your water out of here
20:56
first for 2 minutes
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and um then this goes to the made water
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and back to your tank tank okay yeah
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very nice and then for your back flush
21:08
and then this is just simulating your
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water system on your boat sure um with
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a water hammer rester and then this goes
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through here uh where we look at the
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pressure to make sure you have enough
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pressure to do a flush okay and then
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here's a motorized ball valve with a
21:27
flow meter and then this back flushes
21:31
here okay through the system and it just
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goes all the way through yeah it comes
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out the the through hole in the boat
21:38
side okay right there so it doesn't go
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back through these
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your yeah it does go back through okay
21:46
that's where you're cleaning out okay
21:48
doing both these
21:50
filters and the oh sure okay okay I see
21:53
it it goes back through your high
21:55
pressure The Hammer arrer For on the how
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well this is pulsation from the this
22:02
pumps the diaphragm pump okay and so
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without it it would be shaking these mes
22:07
oh sure okay so I've only ever used them
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in stalling washing machines do you do
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you have to have this Hammer arrester uh
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uh no it's just that most Yachts will
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have like a well xraw sure to absorb
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that yeah sure but in here with this one
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with the closed and the valve um this
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thing will just be going jumping up and
22:29
down okay yeah and then what's your
22:32
gallons per uh what's what gallon pump
22:35
do you need to meet that oh this is um I
22:40
don't know it's just a regular standard
22:42
one just like a okay that that's a lot
22:44
smaller than the pump we have on our
22:45
boat so we should be
22:48
fine okay I don't know what that is you
22:50
know $20 pump
22:53
proper and uh so the water when it comes
22:56
out it has enough minerals and stuff you
22:58
don't have to add minerals back to the
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system well it's going to come out as
23:02
distilled water okay distilled water
23:04
yeah the TDS will be the equivalent of
23:08
distilled water okay so it's not going
23:09
to be zero water like the Zero Water
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Filter sure with the ion exchange R yeah
23:15
but do you need to add minerals back to
23:16
your water when you're drinking it no no
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I mean that's a myth okay okay you know
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in other words it's mixed with so much
23:25
other stuff you know food or whatever
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that just use salt guys you got to be on
23:30
those salts bro you got to be on the
23:31
salts man okay and uh but if you were to
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drink a gall and distilled water you may
23:37
have some issues yeah it ref flush all
23:39
your minerals and
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Sh all right so this is the future okay
23:46
we're going to introduce oh wow we're
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looking at the future here
23:50
yeah so I'm running this off my cell
23:53
phone right now oh cool so I'm going to
23:57
start up the the
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be okay so you I hear it though I hear
24:05
it I feel it PSI over here 30 PSI
24:09
okay and then I don't know if he left
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the
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uh pressure off it but
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uh and there we go we come over here
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this is all from an app guysle
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[Applause]
24:45
oh yeah man that thing's making some
24:47
serious water oh wow guys no salt in
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there oh sure
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okay so then if I want to okay I don't
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think the diverter and this is all nmea
25:05
2000 that you're running this with huh
25:07
yeah cool and you can run it from your
25:10
chart platters sure yeah multi-function
25:12
display and all that okay that's very
25:14
cool and then if I here I'll do a fles
25:20
cycle okay so you just saw the fresh
25:22
water coming up mhm I see it all right
25:25
and then this guy
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so that's our
25:32
pump which is going to cycle through and
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it's going to back flush the system
25:36
these filters all down here you have a
25:38
charcoal filter here that's for if
25:41
there's a chlorine in the system cuz
25:43
chlorine will kill these uh membranes
25:46
right here and then you'll see the water
25:48
coming back here which you wouldn't back
25:51
flush here it would black flush to a
25:54
diverter valve which is right here yeah
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so if you back off the pressure
25:59
regulator they'll be more
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flow okay I'm not sure which regulator
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that one is
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okay it reads your water tank
26:09
level yeah that's awesome so when you uh
26:12
when this new system comes out you'll be
26:13
able to record everything that's
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happening with that system on the Fly
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and I won't have that and I'll be
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jealous of all y'all who do get that it
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does everything for you you have to mess
26:24
with the right you can sit there at the
26:26
helm and do it on your Char PL or you
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can do it from your
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phone so we're uh we're going to get and
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uh here's our system right here and we
26:37
got to get back on the boat we got like
26:40
get the car back at 600 and we're
26:41
running out of time I gu still got to
26:42
get
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chained okay guys so we got our
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chain our water maker up there bucket
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right
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there and then we're going to pull the
26:53
dink up to the boat ramp right
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here so should be
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fun and here comes
27:02
Ben go offload that in here in that
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dingy that
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dink hopefully it doesn't overweight it
27:12
400 lb of gear yeah all day yeah we got
27:17
that chain in there that's 400 lb of
27:20
chain water maker 100 pounds of water
27:22
maker at
27:24
least and uh he's going to run that back
27:26
to the the boats I'm going to run it
27:29
back and I'll get the membranes on the
27:30
boat I'll get the pumps on the boat and
27:32
all that stuff and I may just pull the
27:35
chain up for you too no I I'll get cuz
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uh I'm going to cut the other chain off
27:41
and pull it through the windless oh okay
27:43
all right all right well I'm at least
27:45
going to get all this other stuff oh
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wait no I'm not cuz I got to pull the
27:49
other chain up with the anchor on one
27:51
power roller or two I got two but I have
27:53
the roller in there I have to put it on
27:56
holy crap Ben you plowing how to sink a
27:58
dual floor 10f
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footer you plowing
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man my ride has arrived we got
28:09
everything
28:10
done on my tablet with uh Breezy baby
28:14
there's
28:15
Camala
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28:22
calaa
28:24
Camille and Ben and my babes right over
28:27
here
28:28
Mr French don't forget Mr French got
28:31
little French right there and we're I'm
28:33
recording on my tablet so it sucks but
28:36
we're on their super we're on their
28:38
super yach here and super yach and you
28:42
know just chilling drinking them Florida
28:44
boys yeah he he made some Florida boys
28:46
and we we getting into it you know
29:04
right
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