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Rough Sail, North Bahamas from West End, Sale Cay & Fox Town | Ep 57 #svaguaazul #bahamas #sailing
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Feb 28, 2025
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[Applause]
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but this is what it looks
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like yeah Jensen M pretty nice place to
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Anchor and that boat just he's like I'm
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going to stay out
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here I get why there was plenty of room
0:19
back here I know there's plenty of room
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up here there's a hole over there you
0:24
can go we did go to the beach but we
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didn't film it but there's a hole you
0:28
can go through back over here if you
0:30
have a small boat you could hide up in
0:32
there and then the beaches have tons of
0:35
shells so what are you thinking of this
0:38
baby well it's not the most ideal
0:41
situation but we have to make that
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window tomorrow yeah and that's another
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8
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hours cuz if we don't make that window
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we're going to be stuck here during the
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storm yeah cuz so I guess we're probably
0:55
going to be doing a lot of hobby horsing
0:58
for 5 hours yeah cuz we're we plan on
1:00
going to s k
1:02
tomorrow so and I'm hoping it's not too
1:07
bad out there I don't think we're going
1:09
to be doing a lot of
1:10
sailing oh no cuz the wind's uh in a
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poor
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[Music]
1:17
Direction This is just wild out
1:23
here look at these these waves oh my
1:28
goodness
1:32
almost
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surfable
1:43
yeah GRE 23 full
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water and
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wow that looks
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[Music]
1:55
amazing definitely slamming up there
2:05
yeah are you are you okay
2:14
babe oh yeah wow I know feels really
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SL
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W wo
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yeah we got get yeah we're working on
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it
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wow okay almost
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out
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there's almost in the blue
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yeah we're in the blue
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whoa and is this going to be a washing
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machine out
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here let's see I'm going to put the
3:18
camera down for a bit okay guys we're
3:21
out here again today and this is nothing
3:23
like
3:24
yesterday it is just flat or it kind
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little Rocky but it's not I had one guy
3:32
said uh you ain't going to be doing uh
3:35
what's that um oh shoot who was that
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captain on the forest
3:41
gum Dan you ain't doing the Dan out
3:44
there Captain Dan so no we ain't doing a
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Captain Dan but we're about to get
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turned and get on course here and uh
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yeah we'll take care of yall along
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ran through a patch of
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sasm and right now we're running
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alongside of
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it it's actually just goes on
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forever just don't want to get that
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clogged up into our uh cooling
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system what are you thinking babe
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[Music]
4:30
okay right now we're going through a a
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tricky pass and this is uh we're going
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to sell key but we're in uh 11t wi the
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charts show eight so we're coming
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through on high tide I did this on
4:47
purpose and we're doing uh about five
4:52
and a half
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dots so we're on a uh
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um I looks like maybe an outgoing tide
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cuz it's uh giv us a little Boos in
5:05
speed but let me show you what we're
5:07
look at here okay so you can see there
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the water is very
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blue it's my babe right there and it
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looks deceptively
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shallow really
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shallow
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rocks and there are a few bomes in here
5:27
looking uh with the the breaking water
5:30
looking for anything that's uh like
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crashing so anything that's crashing
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stay away from
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that but I'm going to get back to
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staring at the GPS and making sure we're
5:43
staying on
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track well I'm glad we went through that
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cut our friends are that we anchored
5:51
with they didn't want to come this way
5:53
they they're afraid of the death but so
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far I haven't seen anything below 11 ft
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and there's my baby right there she's
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feeling
6:05
better yeah the rollways for getting
6:08
Le so I guess I do get S
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soon
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yeah but uh yeah it is blue
6:20
clear and we're looking at 12T right now
6:24
we did uh go through the uh the bomy uh
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the bomy minefield coming in here but
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after that smooth
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[Music]
6:35
selling okay guys so we're doing motor
6:38
selling we have
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about say about 10 knots of wind uh
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coming uh on our uh beam we're kind of
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in a close Hall and uh yeah we're doing
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uh about six and a half
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dots going to get there in a quick we're
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going to continue motoring because want
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to get there before the sun goes down
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get that right baby that would be
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IDE leaving it
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morning and then not getting
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there yeah I was supposed to leave
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earlier this morning but I was also uh
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playing that tide and uh I didn't want
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to I wanted to be through here on high
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tide so and now
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we're hopefully smooth sailing from this
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point on to cell
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Cape okay guys I'm going to take you
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downstairs show you what it looks like
7:37
down here also show off my
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oven of course I a't finished I'm going
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to frame it in and do some stuff but
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that's all electric oven gim
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bling so that looks good and that shows
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you how what it's looks like out here so
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it's not as smooth as it looks like on
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camera
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okay I think that's all the selling we
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can do starting to fog the uh wind was
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supposed to basically go over to our
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nose on this passage so we got
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about I'd say about halfway a little
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less than
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halfway and we going to pull this in so
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what are you thinking
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bab I hate
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passages I just get
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bored there's always so much fr you can
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watch oh now I I'm taking breaks cuz I
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don't have any
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friends so yeah look at that water
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guys yeah looks I just want to get
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somewhere actually start enjoying
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Bahamas
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cuz West End is not I wouldn't say that
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was anything enjoyable about that yeah
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that Anchorage was that Anchorage was
8:58
really calm but yeah that that's just it
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it's there's nothing there I mean it was
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pretty and everything but you get bored
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there there's no beaches to go to and
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let go out outside of it yeah that's
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conch Beach there was so many conch
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shells on that
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beach just waiting to get some more
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pretty how about you Billy you waiting
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you get some more fruity
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[Music]
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now passing mangra a
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mangrove and uh I don't know if people
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anchor there but it doesn't look like
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there's much
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there but we're going to go a little
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further out and we have the Cs back up
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and uh all he says we're healing a bit
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but once we turn we should be able to
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get more power and uh well but we're on
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track we're the direction we want to go
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everything's right in the world
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and uh yeah we're
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good my babe is trying to go around the
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house it's not thatat bad you're
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exaggerating look at
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[Music]
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this how far are we leaning uh like
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12Ā° I don't like
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12Ā° I'm trying to go
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uhhuh what you think of it
10:31
babe I have the camera
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straight camera straight yeah am I
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straight
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no it's a dick with dick Explorer
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Adventure I know you were here we
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weren't sing like this but we aren't
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dipping the rail Danielle won't let
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me no diping the rail
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[Music]
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I don't get di in the
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rail this is quite uncomforable yeah
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we're motoring uh we're
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getting 6 and 1 12 sometimes 7even we'
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been H up to
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eight but uh it's the angle so if you
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look at our
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degrees we're uh at
11:25
30 okay guys so we got uh five knal
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miles until we reach s okay and uh yeah
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that's we can actually see it we just
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can't
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uh really see what's there what do you
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think baby I don't know if I'm looking
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that sailboat Mass over there or
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buildings but I know this place doesn't
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have
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buildings so I'm thinking it's sailboats
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yeah so but can't wait to drop the hook
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and uh chillax a bit clean up our house
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it's a mess yeah I I actually healed
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over about
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20Ā° she wasn't happy about that she said
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you did a tone down the sails so
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everything that was on this side is now
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on that
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side I got a big mess to yeah cursy of
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Me Okay so the island we've been staring
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up for
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an hour or so it's finally coming into
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view and uh
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yeah dog can't wait to get off I'm I'm
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for sure on that and so ke my baby right
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there she probably wants to get
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off now she has uh internet texting and
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all that stuff all these taxes are
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coming
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in okay guys we got our anchor
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dropped and we're at CCO uh
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C this is what it looks
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like
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and
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what
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oh it it'll it will go black
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back but uh yeah this looks like a
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pretty protected spot right here
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uh we're in the uh believe this is the
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Northwest
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Harbor of safe
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uh safe cave I it's been a long day so
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but uh yeah let me get this this boat
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sell
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in so we are now in C
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K and it's Valen 's day which we did not
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know we forgot and this is our reminded
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me yes yeah and this is our
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dinner it's good it's a sausage well
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it's not cooked yet it's not cooked it's
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sausage broccoli crew mushroom soup kind
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of
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be and over rice it's going to be easy
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we're just making something up right now
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because um we really didn't take out
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anything for dinner it was a long day
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very long
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day that goes on
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let's see what Bella's doing where's
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Bella Bella oh she made the crossing
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too so after thoughts of the sale I had
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to change and move this Reef around
14:44
because I was shaking out reefs and this
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was binding really bad and I noticed
14:49
that this pulley was it was going this
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way through it and that was causing
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issues on this other
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side our reef
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is
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correct wait is it
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correct doesn't look
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correct so I'm going to pull up this out
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a little bit and see what's up there but
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uh I'm also going to uh see if I can fix
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my sail bag and my lazy Jack system is
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uh being a little lazy so let see if I
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can straighten that up
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but other than that it was a great sell
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and look at where we are it's all ocean
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over there that's murf they uh went the
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Long Way left two hours before us and we
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got here at the same time and there's
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one other boat there's a few other boats
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out here this morning but they took off
15:46
it was pretty windy last night but as
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you notice we the wind's coming from
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this way and we uh have great protection
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right
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now okay guys
15:57
so top everything off got diesel in
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there uh uh adjusted my
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uh my cell
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uh
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rigging for
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uh oh my
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gosh my reefs so I've justed my reefs
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that took me a bit to go out and uh they
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say there's a a dingy dock over there
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it's probably like the last place it's
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dingy Rock cuz uh in there it said tie
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off to mangroves I don't think my babe
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wants to do that but uh there's supposed
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to be a nass uh satellite thingy over
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there and uh it's abandoned and probably
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in disarray and looks like garbage but
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we're not going to see that we're just
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going to head off to
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Foxtrot or not Fox Town military for Fox
16:53
Trot but uh yeah and go check that out
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plus we don't have any internet here cuz
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we don't have starlink we we pull s this
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unlike some of these uh people out here
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all all up in here champagne
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cruising so babe how you like roughing
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it out here and
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the no
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internet no
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nothing I don't like not having uh able
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DET Texs or anything like that I mean
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internet I can I can be fine with we
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have a little bit I downloaded our
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weather and it took me an hour so yeah
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but my phone is not wanting to like I
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was able to text yesterday and then
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today nothing like I can can't even
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get I'm like okay I hope my kids aren't
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trying to get a hold of me yeah but I
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think we're uh moving to Fox town here
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soon a great little Anchorage uh safe uh
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great safe uh K it's nice little
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Anchorage get out of the weather and uh
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tomorrow tomorrow looks like our pretty
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much last opportunity to get to Fox Fox
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town tomorrow or Monday Monday Yeah
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tomorrow's supposed to be really
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rainy from what we're seeing so I don't
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know Monday's supposed to be
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better yeah so so tomorrow or Monday
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I'll look at the weather
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again have 5 hour right yeah 5 Hour you
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told me this Hop was 8 and it was 10
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well coming from the Gulf Street uh from
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Fort lale to West End to here we used
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about 20 gallons of
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fuel so and that
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was a lot of Motoring we motored the
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whole way so and sail but motor sail we
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motor sailed but we're going to get off
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and uh tick tick back when we're leaving
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okay guys so we are now
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leaving uh great sale
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key and uh yeah we made a a little bit
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too long this is not the best window but
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uh we're we're getting it and it's not
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side to side rocking cuz the man of the
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W coming in the same direction yeah I'm
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getting the shower what do you think of
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this
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babe I'm tired
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yes so we're about to
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turn this is how we look right
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now yeah it's a little
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rough and we get occasional splashes
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over the side
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there and uh you see the windows covered
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the salt hopefully we get rain here soon
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now we're in the following Seas a lot
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calmer so little bit little bit of a
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annoying Rock here but we're we're going
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to turn a little bit more here soon
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so and uh then it we even be
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better what do you think of this
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babe I like get
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me
20:31
too and look at our puppy we moved to
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this side she's getting splashed over on
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the other
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side and now there's no more
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splashing okay guys so we have just
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a about I'd say
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about
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quarter 1/3 of our head sell out and
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we're getting about 6.4 overround we're
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still motor selling we want to make it
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there in good time once we get into
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shorter smaller hops will of course do
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some more
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selling okay guys we're out
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here St now it's a
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wind steady I don't know what the gust
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are i h the button just but yeah I've
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got a slipper of head sale up right
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there
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is not loving life out
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here feeling it's just killing my
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back when you're just like this the
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entire time it's just killing my
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b no I'm not a passage
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person yeah we're heading to Fox Town
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got get some CL chip when we get there
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but we just got to make it for
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this it's been flashing over our side
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here
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right there our whole wind screen's
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covered the salt
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wire and we're doing about 8Ā° uh
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heill babe went downstairs she says
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everything's on
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Lane that's how you get in
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shap yeah got a little island over there
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you see on the charts right there we got
22:27
to make sure we don't hit with
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that but
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yeah this is getting
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fun and our puppy is not liking it bomes
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out there no there's no bomes there's
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just an
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island that's
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nothing that's a cloud
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Ah that's freaking scary when you're out
23:02
here sailing there's a freaking Rock
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right in the middle of
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nothing but uh I'm going to get this
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sail
23:10
tight I got the wind pilot on and uh
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it's keeping us square with the
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wind and here's what we're looking
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like and I want to get through this as
23:23
quickly as I can cuz I want my baby to
23:26
get comfortable I shouldn't went the
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other
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way and uh I
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didn't now I'm paying for hopefully you
23:34
can hear this with all the
23:40
wind know if you can see the waves out
23:42
there but it's pretty
23:45
rough here's the the front
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view it's not like when we were
23:52
coming uh our first attempt to come here
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but yeah it's pretty rough
24:43
wa okay we're making good time we've got
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11 naral miles left to go and uh in this
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hellacious
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passage but uh our buddy boat there
24:56
there are ways back there I I don't
24:59
know uh what happened to them but we
25:01
can't reach them on the radio hopefully
25:05
everything's good and uh yeah it's uh
25:10
it's really rough out here but uh yep
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we're uh sailing on a 45Ā° angle to the
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wind and
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waves and so we're basically kind of
25:22
Surfing up the waves and but we're
25:24
bashing into them but it's more
25:27
gradually that way okay guys so we can
25:31
actually see the island where uh Fox
25:35
Town's on it's a huge Peninsula that
25:38
comes out and we're probably about 3
25:40
miles off from it let me turn you around
25:43
here so you can just see it right there
25:47
and uh yeah it's actually helping to
25:49
smooth out this
25:52
water what are you thinking
25:55
baby have to
25:59
done done
26:01
today yeah me too just had a really long
26:05
passage Friday yes so we only stayed one
26:09
night or two nights over there and then
26:13
uh decided to make the jump knowing it
26:16
was going to be like this but it was
26:20
getting really rough over there yeah
26:22
well it's starting to calm down over
26:24
here so it's feel a little bit better
26:31
oh okay this is our hardest passage yet
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thought it was only 5
26:40
hours it was uh I knew it was going to
26:43
be a horrible weather right now but we
26:45
really had to take
26:50
it just be showing a lot of rain but
26:54
yeah sure so hopefully it washes all
26:57
that water
26:58
that spray off the boat cuz we were
27:01
getting sprayed all the way up in here
27:03
my hair is so
27:05
sticky disgusting but we're about uh
27:08
three naal miles out of fox
27:11
town and uh catch up on my dropping
27:16
anchor okay guys there's Fox down
27:20
uh May can't wait to throw down the
27:24
anchor I don't know how calm it's going
27:27
to be
27:29
here um looks less than what say okay
27:34
yeah it looks
27:37
less less than what we came from
27:40
so that' be
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awesome but yeah we got 27 miles until
27:46
the
27:49
anchor that was a long day some serious
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waves and it is over I'm at some
27:56
serious ocean hair right now now is
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horrible so wash it yep we have lots of
28:02
hot water and also my job that I pinned
28:06
up it was so windy today that it blew
28:08
down we were up upwards at uh 30 40
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knots
28:14
today that was we're waiting to get to
28:17
like Trinidad or Granada to get this fix
28:20
or somewhere cheaper it's just too dang
28:22
expensive in the states I mean they
28:24
wanted 1,500 just for this not even the
28:26
Dodger yeah huh 1,00 For
28:29
What and we had the material too so yeah
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uh yeah we'll figure out a solution for
28:36
this someday but uh right now it's just
28:39
a sunroof but uh our friends I think
28:42
they're coming in I think they're way
28:45
over there back so yeah and we all made
28:50
it in safely and uh we're in about 8T of
28:54
water and there's a town over there a
28:56
town yes and I smell food yes she does
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restaurant over there but we're not
29:00
going today no I'm too tired for that
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but this it was a eventful trip and uh
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yeah it tested our boundaries of what we
29:11
thought we could
29:13
do but we pushed on yeah we did we're
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getting braver just a little bit now our
29:20
dog wants to eat so I'll let you go
29:36
oh
29:39
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