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Eleuthera Bahamas, Terrifying Sailing, Beautiful Destinations | Ep 64 #svaguaazul #eleuthera #boat
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Apr 9, 2025
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hey guys so we made it here to Hideout
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and uh this is a royal Island nice
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little place to Anchor of course Hideout
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and we're going to head on to U Meek's
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patch which is uh more I
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guess um pretty Island so hopefully
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that's what he
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says and there's not really any beaches
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over here no well I told you there's one
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right over there it's like a a little
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sand next to the Coral
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Rock I need I need more it's been a
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month I need more yeah so it hasn't been
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a month since treasure uh treasure K
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it's been a month since we've been here
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there's only been a
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few few places that we've stopped that's
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been really pretty so yeah um I'm sure
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there's uh I'm sure we missed some
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beautiful locations and y'all can go
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ahead and call us out down below what
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we've missed
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but we're going to continue South and
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right now we are in uh alra and know if
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we missed him it was on purpose we were
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hiding from
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weather you know but uh yeah so we're
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going to see what Alora has to offer and
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like I said we're going to go to Meeka
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and uh see what's there and just pull up
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anchoring maybe we can get some selling
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in today I see people out there selling
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or I saw one SBO going
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fast okay we've been on the road now for
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23 minutes and we're halfway there this
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is a Shor hop like my babe
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likes yeah I mean we did do 10 hours y
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yeah look how clear that wire is right
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there there's no beaches though no there
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is no beaches but over there I see Mass
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behind the island that's where we're
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heading and uh we've got 2.4 naar miles
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to get there or two naar miles to get
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there
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we've gone
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2.4 so Beach time is in our future yeah
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baby look at that my babe right
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there some fun in the sun I probably got
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a little bit too much sun but can never
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get too much vitamin D
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right how are you yelling at I'm not
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yelling I'm right here who are you
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talking
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you oh I'm right
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here but okay guys bringing the anchor
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down
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yeah I don't know what I saw fall off
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that anchor
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connection I hope it was sand I looked
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at it I didn't see anything metal piece
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missing I think it was sand but it like
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dropped
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off so our anchors falling apart but no
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no it was I I
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bald I think it was sand it was I left
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the sand on but uh this is uh Meek's uh
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patch there's uh picnic tables and
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grills and all kinds of good stuff and
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uh just over here what's that
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called um alra well it's a luthra but
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that is uh Spanish Wells so yeah some we
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got a southern blow so burn trash got to
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get that cleaned up you know don't want
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it to infumigate the
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citizens but uh yeah we're going to go
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check out the beach though after I get
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this anchor
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set got my babe she actually digging
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through her clothes she's like I didn't
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know I had clothes on this
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boat I forgot that I brought these
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shorts and there's bathing suits in
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there and yeah so she's have like
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dresses so she's all she's got a lot
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more clothes than I do I've got like
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couple shirts and some
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shorts and she's got all kinds of
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clothes so but we're going to get over
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to Meeks and uh I think the puppy's
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coming along so yeah she needs to get
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off the boat we can do a little
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exploring and she hasn't been off
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the boat since um Marsh Marsh yeah so
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yeah got to get her off the boat that's
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the last time we were off the boat too
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yeah it was yeah it was Marsh so okay
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that's been a while it's been a minute
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so we're going to get off the boat and
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get some vitamin D out there so y'll
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join us well I was trying to sink the d
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i Prett without the
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plug
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and wife going in there but uh yeah
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postponed her plans to get across but
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just probably a little bit it's pretty
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much drained it was uh fairly
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high so that was a Fasco of sinking but
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we got it fixed when we're out
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and over there look at that look at that
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zo man get a sneak peek I see a pi the
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table from
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here so we made it to the island and the
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dog is ready to get
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off water's a little
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chilly but the island is there's a
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picnic table right there and looks like
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I have some little tables I guess you
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could just clean fish on there and stuff
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let me get this uh jingy anchored down
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and go
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explore looks look at that that's the
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other side oh it's so that was like
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turquoise it doesn't look like that when
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you're over there uh-huh that is so
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weird and this is we look like over
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here it's just it's pretty calm out here
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that only it took us a month in the
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appos to get
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here the some of the appose is nice I
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ain't going to sugar coat it a lot of
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Bahamas not worth not even worth it MH
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my opinion um but if you're sing it
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varies on what you're looking for we're
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looking for white sand beaches I think
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most people that come to Bahamas are
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looking for
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that um but if you're sailing you have
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to go to those places to hide out and
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stuff and that's the only reason why we
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had to go to those some of the places
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that we really didn't want to go there
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well we were never supposed to be in the
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appost that long anyway we're supposed
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to go uh across to
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Theo so but weather got in its
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way but yeah going I could there's a
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bunch of flies over there anyway I going
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up there I could do this probably
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something
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dead not so look at this picnic tables
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and
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grills that Grill almost look brand
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new what are you
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do how do you
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I don't know I guess you use that has a
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line on
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it he doesn't have a
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tank I guess you bring your tank out
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here and you
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cook we don't have one no we don't have
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one of
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those so
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yeah a he's coming in look at him right
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there he's coming in close and hot gets
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pretty shallow over there though
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glad we brought the
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chairs yeah you got to watch out for
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these rocks though they kind of
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uncomfortable on the feet little sore
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from
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yesterday I'll get mine
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baby sitting out here on the beach
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that's our son's little speaker he gave
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us the JBL Charge
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bab about exploring the Wilderness had
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to pee had to
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pee be real and here come the
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zetar yeah they
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are you don't know that well they have a
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big Oz on the FR their boat okay I
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dropped my phone down there you see it I
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mean not my phone my cup my cup is down
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there I got to go get it so I'm going to
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go get it I miss
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okay guys I saved my cup and my babe is
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over there just talking to my mom and
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but yeah I got my cup
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saved well we were just about to leave I
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actually had all the panel instruments
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on and everything and then some friends
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of ours we met in Lake Sylvia just
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popped in Mr Turtle they're actually
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YouTubers as well but uh yes uh just
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just di had the engine crank I just
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turned it off it's so
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weird yeah they always say you run into
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each other
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again last time we saw them was in Fort
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Lauder down yeah that was uh what two
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months ago yeah quite a few months ago
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so they're probably heading back to the
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States they're from Canada so they uh I
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guess want to go experience some of that
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Canadian Su summer which is cooler than
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I imagined down here but
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[Laughter]
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okay guys so we're
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leaving uh Meek's uh
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patch and uh cuz there's going to be
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some weather coming in there's a lot of
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boats over here right now but the Mr
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Turtle we met they they briefly uh
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stayed here and then they're heading to
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another shelter area and uh we're
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heading in the opposite direction to
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another sh shelter area cuz we're moving
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towards the EAS they're they're moving
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towards Coast then with the the other
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way but uh a babe over there she's like
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uh we really get Sandy up the house from
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our beach Adventure last night and uh
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yeah so it was a lot of fun though and
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uh this is a nice place uh be nice to
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stay a little bit longer but we just
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don't want to risk the weather supposed
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to be 40 knot blow coming in I don't
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know if it's going to be 40 knots but
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this has a big open area all the way
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around it with really only protection
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from the
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uh that's the South yeah I think the
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South secure that cab before falls
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out okay we're about to hit curent cut
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Inlet and uh friends and the cat just
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passed back there they said it doesn't
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look that bad right now so we'll see cuz
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uh it's been about half hour since they
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went through a little bit more so I
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could have picked up a knot or so and
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half knot knot and uh burn some more
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fuel but uh we'll get through it show
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you what it looks
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like okay so that boat just made through
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the cut and let me turn you around and
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show you what this cut looks like
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there's another boat coming through so
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there's the cut right
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there and that to figure out which side
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of this yacht I'm going to be on
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so there is what the cup looks
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like my wife says that looks very narrow
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let me zoom in here and show you there
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we
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go but now I'm going have to get behind
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the wheel and start
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turning current's not feeling too bad
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that looks like a beautiful pool over
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there oh it is look at that it goes back
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off in
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there yeah you you could anchor over
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here and then go up in there that looks
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nice doesn't it
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babe wonder what
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about no I can feel the current though I
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know just put two hands on
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o we lost a
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knot my wife saying no videoing and
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driving there's rocks close to each
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side but we're getting through this I
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think that's the closest will be to them
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rocks right yeah that's them right there
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they're
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close but right now we are
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in 6 of
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water yeah that's not a
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problem and you can see the Rocks over
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there on that side so this is deep
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through here but
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uh I guess that cuts down that current
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with it being that deep which is good
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good
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thing we are almost through this cup but
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you can see some of the shallows around
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here it is pretty darn shallow on the
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edges deep in the center though that's
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what we
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want and this is the you won't see
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hanging at a resort this is the only
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local see
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this right there that's all shallow guys
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they're out there just having a good
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time got some
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boats pretty much on the ground but
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yeah so you can see the cut is way back
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there and we still got a half a mile to
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get through
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this if you see on the map here a thread
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in the needle
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here and that's our last uh shallow
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before we get out to the
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Deep okay current cut coming from uh
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Meek's uh whatever it gets down to about
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slow I saw was
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8.3 ft so if you're struggling with a
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draft come through here on high tide
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because uh we came up here we have came
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up on a rising tide so if we would have
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uh
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snagged we would have uh eventually got
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off but if you were on here in
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a low tide that would have been uh
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pretty that may have been bad for us
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with a
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6.4 now now cuz it was only a foot from
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low so yeah wouldn't have been we we
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wouldn't have hit but yeah just be
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conscious of
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this okay guys so we're motor Silling
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along here and we're hting
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uh six to 7 knots let's see if it hit 7
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knots on camera and then you always pull
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out the camera it never does it so
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there's
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7.2 but C St is not that friendly so we
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are wanting to get tucked in tucked away
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get out of this and uh yeah chax a bit
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and there's a nice little hole we're
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going to show you it's going to be
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great my wife is saying that looks like
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the
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med there's like a lot of places in the
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H there is so Rocky
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yeah got little houses in
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there yep that's really
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there's a road back
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there somewh there yeah where we just
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came from Smash
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Wells all the way over there
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[Music]
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yeah so we're going into Hatchet Bay
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Harbor and uh they say the inlet can be
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a little bit
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dicey so we're going to uh you know of
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course Square onto it really good and uh
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give it some gas get us in there we're
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going to pull down the cils of course
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but I won't be filming this because uh
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that's it's going to be
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rough it looks like our entrance right
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there now you can see the sailb mask in
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there yep that's our
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[Music]
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what do you think of that
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babe that's it is it white in there
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[Music]
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yeah let's go full Zoom
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here yeah that's it
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[Music]
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sure yeah it has to
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[Music]
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be okay I'm going to bring the sails
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down I ain't going to sail through there
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yeah they say the this is entrance SE
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for the F of
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heart
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so I think we have a calm wind wind and
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we're uh doing pretty good so I'm going
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to put this down
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again it's a tight little
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squeeze holy
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moly it's calm inside but it's like this
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one part right
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here this part right there
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this is this is
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[Music]
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tight this is tight holy
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[Music]
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holy
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I
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know them
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rocks nice little oh stay away from that
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shallow and that shallow
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holy
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wow oh yeah it's
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scary oh that was
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scary okay now let's not run ground yeah
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wow that is shallow right there uhhuh
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and as soon as you get in here it's
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calm look at that it's like thread in a
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needle right there oh that was yeah that
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that was that's probably
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one of the tightest entrances we've ever
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done oh wow we should probably be
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protected in here for that blow look
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there's mountains all the way around us
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yeah there's a lot of sailboats in here
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too guess everybody has the same idea
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and there's a harbor over there some
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kind
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of out your boat over here you can ha
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out there we're not doing that no we're
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not so let's not run around and run
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something okay oh you okay guys so we
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made it into Hatchet Fay Harbor and B
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enough go go and this should be called
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heart attack Harbor because coming in
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here that is a tight squeeze our video
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recorded mhm but uh yeah we're going to
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stay here through the there's a blow
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coming should be about 40 knots or so
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and we're going to stay here and uh you
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know avoid that and uh then we're going
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to be heading further south we're hoping
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to be in the Exumas by next weekend yeah
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maybe yeah that's a goal yeah it's uh
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well from here it' be 10 hours 10 and 1
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half hours no if we go
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down uh Al Lu we'll build across at a
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very a much shorter distance so that's
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what we're planing yeah that's exactly
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it wait for uh the blow to end so maybe
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Wednesday we'll probably be leaving I
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wonder how many uh boats are going to
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pile up in here hiding from this stuff
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yeah there's a lot of boats coming in
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here good thing that the wind has calmed
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down so they can get through the
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entrance when we came through it was
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about 15 knots and it was a little bit
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wavy so probably a lot of people coming
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going to the Exumas in here and probably
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a lot of people coming back from the
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Exumas it's kind of like a halfway point
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or what yeah cuz usually people hit from
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here to going to
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abacos they make hit Meeks uh uh before
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they hit abacos but you know that was a
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cool that I like that little island yeah
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it was this
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is not much to look at but it's just
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protection yeah protection and maybe
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we'll get out and see it tomorrow and
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then uh there's a town over there so
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we're probably going to go over there or
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whatever so we'll probably go yeah we'll
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go check it out go you know get off the
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boat third world country town it's not
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third world it is okay
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