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Sail from Eleuthera to Discover the Beauty of the Exumas | Ep 66 #svaguaazul #sailboat #boatlife
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Apr 10, 2025
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okay guys so we're leaving uh Pineapple K going to auth Luthra Marina and we're
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going to anchor outside of it to get some fuel cuz we're going to the Exumas
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so and uh my wife was just commenting on how it how it looked how the ocean
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connects with the sky let me show you this same color right now floating up in the air yeah so if you
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see that it looks like that boat is out there floating well of course it's floating but it looks like it's in the
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air no yeah in the sky yeah there's that is that is
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[Laughter] wicked and you can tell there's you can
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start seeing the sea line but yeah it's just we're not going to get much sailing done today well I
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just pulled up our anchor in Pineapple K and uh it seems like it was uh hung on
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nothingness down there dragging on rocks or just a really hard
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bottom but uh yeah so we didn't there was no wind last
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night so yeah we weren't going anywhere but it makes me uh uns unsure about this
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spot they said was Sandy on the charts here yeah cuz we even we even pulled down
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yeah we pulled down we put 2500 revs on it weren't moving so but we did completely turn all the way around yep
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but hopefully we can find sand in this next
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anchorage okay guys so we're trying to sell and uh our angle of wind we're
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bumping on 30° 25° really close pinching here and uh
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hopefully we can get to uh a a Lutherra
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uh marina fairly reasonable time right now it says we got about 5 hours but the
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wind seems to be picking up but the angle seems to be correcting a little bit more hopefully we pinch a little bit more time off that we're doing about
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four knots right now and uh yeah if you can see here I got most of the heads out
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i left enough so I can see uh uh crab pods and uh I've got about uh got a reef
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in my uh main cell cuz my wife uh well we not just my wife we don't like
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killing so it's more comfortable if the boat is all level and stuff and you know
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four or five knots that's that's comfortable speed but let me get back to this cuz autopilot said we're going to
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screw you up now okay so I'm back yeah I put my autopilot on wind angle versus uh just
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degree and uh we seem to be doing a little bit better there uh we're not going exactly in the right direction
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we're about 5° off but uh we're still
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doing uh pinch at about 30° here and uh doing pretty good and we picked up a
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little speed doing wind direction versus degree thought we had the wind angle just to do degree and run straight there
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but we don't okay so I had to pull the heads in we're basically in irons well actually
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no wind i left the the main cell out and uh whichever way it's right here in the
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center pulled up tight so whichever way the wind decides to blow maybe it'll give us a hand moving uh forward but
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yeah today is uh a little calmer than yesterday it wasn't supposed to be but it is and uh
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what you going to do but uh just do with the best you can look at that guys look what my wife
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has made me oh yeah have a thing around here oh yeah these these big flour
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tortillas wrapped with leftovers the bomb i know i know i'm not going to be able to find this
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and let's see what my babe has for herself probably something more
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healthy and there's what my babe got for herself looks looks like it's healthier than
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mine a lot of rice and I didn't feel like a flower tortillas so I just put some rice cheese and tomatoes in there
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oh that looks good now them are the fresh grown tomatoes here in the Bahamas
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yeah they're pretty good yeah they are okay guys
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so we have uh absolutely no wind out here
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looks like a lake out there it does you can't even see where the Yeah you can't
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see where the sky begins and the uh water uh ends
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we're about to fall off here
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okay guys so uh we're heading we're about to head through Davis Channel
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dropped ourselves um the wind was a little bit more favorable towards the
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end but I don't want to chance it with uh this narrow channel and 3T long water
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on each side that would make uh for uh too much excitement for me and uh don't
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want that but my babe she's out here looking at bombies i don't really care that
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I don't see anything listed on the chart like uh oh and we are in 18 ft of
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water but yeah there's perfect looking for mommies
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cuz if I saw one we already lost Yeah but the Bahamas is known for its uh
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mommies you see that dark spot right there yeah
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so I can't get high enough back here to see them so when you're going to the Exumas
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from uh Luthra Davis Channel is pretty much the only safe route here at the
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bottom of Alra and uh it's about 9 and 1/2t is what the charts say
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uh so and that would be at low tide but uh and the tide change is about 2 3T but
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our draft is 6.5 so we're we're more than safe but uh you just have to be
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aware of these things and check your charts before uh going out there on that big adventure and uh always bring your bay
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with you got to have your bay okay we're in Davis uh channel and
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we're getting a five six knot boost from the current
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so and I'm showing right now 11T and I'm showing about 11 12T on charts
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so no I'm showing 14T and 11 12T on charts
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so I'm guessing the tide is uh going out and that's why we are going faster
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okay guys we opted not to try anchor out here on uh by this marina one side is uh rock
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and coral and the other side is rock and coral and
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shallow and uh so we're going to the Exumas what are you thinking
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babe another 4 hours got my friends popcorn
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yep guess we're we're doing it we didn't plan on doing it but it's
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just it's only 113 yep i'm going to call the sailboat and
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tell him I'm going to pass him on his uh looks like a starboard okay guys we're about halfway
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there and we're doing about six we're peing at 7 knots but
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holding about 6.5 steady so this is pretty good
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speed what are you thinking baby [Music]
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yes [Music] yeah you can't even see lamb behind me
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anymore so we're about halfway there and uh we we should be getting in before
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dark says 5:45 okay guys we're moving pretty good we're
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at a 10 degree but uh yeah we're still motoring because
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uh no night passages my babe doesn't want night passages i don't think I want
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it seems scary it gets dark but uh yeah
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it's always supposed to be a 4h hour why would this be a night no well it's 8 hours total but we extended from where
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we went but so stepping on the gas and got the
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sails up and we are cranking out about six to seven knots
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here so
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[Music] Yeah we're getting uh 10 to
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15° so inside
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yeah but we're moving we got my babe over there
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chillaxing at six to seven knots
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yeah he is he is kind of leaning you got that and then over there you got that
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so leaning this is what the dog is all digging up
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see you a boat dog Bella yes you
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are yeah we were getting it we got uh about 2 hours left and uh we'll be to H
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Highborn is it H Highborn K yeah Highorn K so can't wait that's the
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first island of the Exumus for us man
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chip fly out my ear okay guys we can see the island so let's see can't see it on here
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but yeah we're we're almost there doesn't look like it look like um it's not going to
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be very big i don't got about
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uh 7 miles to get there eight to get in to her anchorage and uh yeah this
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passage will be done and yeah she's uh she's leaning out here guys i know we're
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still mugging
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okay guys i'm so done with the day but there's uh rocks behind us here see if I
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can see some oh can't see any yeah they're over there and stuff but uh yeah
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we are in the Exumas and uh we're
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we're still at 3,000 ft in water but we only got like two vials to go
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yeah I don't see that so deep it's too blue out here right now
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i see them right there it's the mountains over there but uh
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yeah I'll spin you around and we'll show you what we're looking at here so
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there's a sail tower and that mountainous thing it looks like there's white sand beaches on this
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side but we're going to squeeze in right through there and go hide behind the
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mountains okay guys look at that there's a beach right there we're going to turn in about right here and there's my baby
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we got to make it through this cut right there
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okay guys look out there getting pretty close to these dang rocks okay my babe
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still watching her friends and I'm watching rocks okay guys I don't know if you can
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see that but there's some current right there rocks there rocks there and we are almost through here
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it's right there now you can see that current
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ripping around them uh rocks and uh for some odd reason it's
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going with us so it's making us go fast we're at uh 7 knots right now we're
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just moving okay so we dropped our anchor
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chain and it's right there I believe or
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no it's back there it is it's back there bella shut up it's back there that's our anchor and uh the wind's going to take
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us this way so good job baby how much uh did you put out i don't know i almost
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got to the fourth one fourth one almost okay that should be more than enough in
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this depth yeah it's this is uh the sun's not in the
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optimal position but yeah it's clear water okay after every
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passage it's picking up stuff huh
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falls every time oh I put it down cuz it was about to fall when I was healing
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but yeah our house is in a new new place and it's
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dirty it's dirty yeah it's been moving so much I haven't
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gotten to clean it yes and my babe wants to chillax just a
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bit i don't know if it's going to be here if it's going to be all bouncy and
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pretty damn bouncy
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today is Thursday and that uh sucker is going to be a blood moon
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tonight we got to catch the blood moon babe
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the snoring moss this guy right here he he passes out around 8:00 we didn't even
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make it to New Year's we were watching all the fireworks okay guys so we are leaving
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Highborn High K and uh little rolly here
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um it's uh plenty deep but uh just the
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roll kind of sucks so we're going to get on out of here and uh get uh make it a
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little bit uh further south and meet up with some friends over there got some
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big rolls coming in right there and uh no boats making these just
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I guess current against wind here we go bounce but look at that water that is
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beautiful i can see my chain all that i saw a Nerf shark
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yesterday didn't get on camera but back at someone yeah so me and my babe we're heading to Norms norm on Cheers but
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going to get uh hopefully a a better more secure anchor a little bit less
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rock and roll and uh maybe
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a good time there's a supposedly a a sunken plane over there i know my babe
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wants to check that out that's whereas there's one over there i don't know which one that is that's a drug one it
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said drug plane but uh cuz that used to be a drug airport over there but uh and then there's a sunken
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boat that that's just too mobid i don't check out things like that
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but yeah we should be over there in uh about at this speed uh about 2 hours i'm
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going bump it up here once I get off the camera military ship does it look like one
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yeah it looks like a No it's a helilopad ship i'll show you
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what my wife is looking at here yeah my wife's saying that i don't
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know what that is it looks like just a helilo ship but uh could be a military
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coast guard something like that but yeah we'll uh see you when we get there and
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uh yeah it's it's too early too early so tired from yesterday
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8 hour passage that she says slow down oh we will
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see you there so we got about uh 30 minutes to get to Norms and uh yeah the
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reason we're going so early is cuz it's high tide it's much safer to get in there high tide with our draft than it
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is to you know go on a low tide uh because we are
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6.4 and some of the uh charts say it's sketchy now you read the reviews they
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say no it's good all the way through you can just get there anytime you want but we're going to do a high tide just play
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it safe okay so where we're crossing it says it should be uh 76 ft and we are
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seeing 15T so we're just cruising slowly cuz we don't want to you know ram the
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ground hard but it looks like we have no ground to ram so we've only got about
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500 more feet of this and then we're going to turn and go to Norman's uh K
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which is our anchorage it's not norm not like cheers but
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Norman's what are you thinking babe
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nothing it's too early i'm hungry i want breakfast
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how about you Bella yeah this is what happened
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okay guys we're in Norman's cave my baby's just dropped the anchor has it looked sandy down there oh we're
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completely on top of it oh man it's rubbing on our Kate oh he is
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okay I'll put it in reverse okay guys we just dropped anchor in
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Norm's K norman's K and yeah our anchor is down there but uh
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yeah I think we have enough chain out babe how many feet do we have uh I put three
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out three out that's We're in 10t water that is 60 foot there's our ch
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There's our anchor [Music]
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no it hasn't you're in reverse but uh yeah you see maybe see a
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little smoke over there they burn the trash here and some people have complained about that but
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uh this is beautiful should be pulling that thing
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around here soon see what
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the Watching Chain try to set it did uh two
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skips looks like it grabbed you sure yeah it's not
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moving so this looks like sand yeah they say it's supposed to
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be sand here that does look really clear
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though now that we're in Norman's Key we're going to go explore see what's around here
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and uh I think the there's the the drug plane my wife says she's going to dive down there and look at that yeah
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probably and then there's a maybe a little we can go around the uh inside of the island
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over there and also there's a love bench that we may take a a gander at
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so you'll follow along we're going long way from
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there all the way around
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there what no it's too shallow up here look at that bomb right
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there oh wow guys all right [Music]
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maybe it was a
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This is so cool
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oh wow yeah this is where all the boats go
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[Music]
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wow so when you come over here this is where you can anchor your million-doll lot
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yacht and uh I go up i'm just
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Yeah no we're doing that on the cheap with
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our 6.5 and this is where the big boats come
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into this arena marina not where we came
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in this is Lover's Island right here
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got chair up there and
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everything got to go uh tie off in this sand bar over here so
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this was uh dedicated to by Helen and
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Mike and uh for all lovers and yeah now we have to come way
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out here and sit on it and it's not bolted down so uh it does move i don't
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know how they keep it here but or it stays or maybe they don't get a lot of
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hurricanes over here yeah it seems like it blow away during the hurricane but
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it's a great view from here yeah just look at that view from this this this
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bench we can't see our dog dog is gone there's our dingy well she
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wants to start swimming she can't really get off the island you found her p adventuring man
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are you trying to get off the island she's like I never get to do this she's
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always on a leash yep since there's nobody here we let her roam around and
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she can't escape nope no escape from here unless she tries to swim which that
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would be dumb woo this water's still chilly it is what is it march
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yeah still chilly and very sinky oh the water is what is it like 80° today oh
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yeah it's nice and warm we got another cold coming in are you coming in too no
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don't come in don't come in she's like "Oh yeah oh yeah
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i have to give her a bath found my wife a little shell looks
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perfect see if I if I start collecting things I have to put it in a baggie and then name it of where it came from you
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can do a Sharpie on it or else when somebody asked me "Oh where you got that?" I'm like "Uh I don't
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know." And by the time we got done with this trip we our boat would be 1,000 lbs heavier
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okay guys we're exploring this massive island okay we're that big okay we're
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[Laughter] done this
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is beautiful though so the airplane is somewhere out
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there where is it at he's somewhere out there i don't know somewhere out here
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somewhere out out near somewhere i think it may be up there a
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ways cuz it was supposedly before this island but I don't care to see it so
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this is a private
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marina welcome to uh Norman's K right here
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also there's a restaurant not far from where we right here doesn't look like a restaurant sure
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does smell like one how much money you have to have to fly out
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okay guys we are going to the other side of Norman K uh we had some friends tell us it was a dream over there and we're
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looking for them dreamy moments cuz uh they have uh gil over here and uh this
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fine young gentleman right here and they're going to help guys through because the uh the cut looks a little
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narrow for us a little shallow for us but he says it's great so we're going to
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see if we uh don't rock the bottom too much okay guys we are cutting through
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this i'm sorry I missed the good ones but we were slamming oh there we go we're slamming yeah baby baby are you
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okay down there what are you okay
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i saw the thing flying it's fine i have a little water that's all
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there's no danger it's a little fun everyone's having a good time
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no this is this is fine yeah okay guys we're pretty much through
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it uh two more seconds yeah this is this is the nothing seconds so just a little
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spray on me but uh look at how blue that is out there my gosh this is Oh my I'm
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going to have to rewash my laundry are you scared yeah she hates it
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oh good thing I Yeah
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[Music] okay so we're through it we're We're through and uh the ladies are on board
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or Yeah not enjoying this but uh we're getting through it
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it will be okay
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guys our friends are trying to kill us you remember a hatchet uh bay well this
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is looks smaller than Hatchet Bay and we're going to try to thread the needle through here and not scrape our
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barnacles off on the rocks so be on camera and my wife says "I need to
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put the camera down." She said "You all agreed." All agree everybody says I need to put the camera down so it's going
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down but guys we're going back to our anchorage in defeat we couldn't get through that cut it was just way too
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shallow and uh Bab's like "This was supposed to be a relaxed day."
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This is what happens when we don't plan things out yeah we didn't plan out it was a spur moment the tide was going
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down i shouldn't have did it i did it and uh ran around three times ran around
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three times and uh I you know paying for it i you know I could blow ourselves off we weren't coming in you know hot and
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heavy but yeah it it did suck and
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uh I guess I don't have to clean the bottom of the kill anymore
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