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Slowly Sinking On A Sailboat, What Nightmares Are Made Of! | Ep 37 #svaguaazul #boat #sailboat
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Oct 20, 2024
Boats are always slowly sinking and require constant upkeep. We're seeking a freshwater leak, no a fan of losing drinking water. We're dismantling the boat to find every leak. I'm so glad we solved it; nothing is more unnerving than the water pump turning on when you're not using water. This video covers the regular maintenance we do on our sailboat, including toilet repair, which is a constant headache. We have to replace both flush water valves on our Dometic vacuum toilets. However, that wasn't the only leak causing us issues; the major leak was surprisingly simple yet odd. The bilges on a boat should never be neglected; check them at least a few times a week. At the marina, we wash down the bilge with a hose, clean the shower sumps, and remove barnacles from the sensors, which took most of the day, but as always, my babe had a great meal ready. We've received our new solar panels. Krannich delivered the Aptos 440-watt bifacial panels and helped me get them onto the sailboat. Installation, including a new solar arch, is scheduled for next week, hopefully. Left their information below. They are a global solar provider. After all that, Danielle was ready to get off the boat. We made our first stop at smash burgers, a treat after months of cooking ourselves. The grocery store was next to restock fresh veggies. Stay tuned for next week's preparations to leave Titusville Marina. Parts in the video: Krannich Solar Provider https://krannich-solar.com/int/ RV Toilet Water Valve Kit Replacement for Dometic/Sealand/Vecuflush Pedal Flush Toilets https://amzn.to/40cWyaV š¢ Our Website: https://www.chrisdoeswhat.com/ š¢ See Our Recipes: https://www.dininginwithdanielle.com Tools I Love:
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Okay guys, so we're on anchor and we're gonna get some repairs done
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Got our solar ordered that you may have saw, flew off. But, and been many repairs, but we still have some little odds and ends we need to fix here in the boat
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So I'm gonna first start working out on the toilet. Okay, one of the most annoying things if you live in an RV or really if you live on a boat is
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you live on a boat is the sound of your water pump going off all the time, just spurts every
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few seconds or minutes or however long it is, but you're losing water and we have that very
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problem. You heard that. So we're going to go through and fix this. So if you see here on our
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toilet, get some water down here, I think there's some o-rings in there that need to be replaced
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I'm hoping and that will fix this issue. It's got a this looks like a bolt on the bottom that you can pull out and hopefully the whole assembly comes out
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Okay, so I took this out. I took that out. There's a spring in the bottom of it, but there's no rebuilding this thing. It just won't come out. So if I'd be slick and replace O reins, but that's not happening. So I worked my online. They're about $12 up at the end. Okay
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We just figured out that dried beans don't last forever. Okay, so when we were in our house
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well, two years, three years ago, I started buying a lot of dried beans for, you know, just whatever
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And we still have a lot of them on board three years later
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The thing is, is that they don't like to cook. Add them in a slow cooker for about four hours
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Not cooking. So we had to bring them to the stove top
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Because I have a lot of slow cooker beans and recipes out there. but
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and they do do exactly what I said on my recipe if you have
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fresh beans and these weren't even expired no they're not expired but they're just
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they're just been sitting around and it may possibly be due because they're
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been on our boat we have a lot of humidity in here sometimes
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and maybe that's done it I don't know they're still good they're not molded
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they're just really hard to cook so I'm doing it on the
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stove top and they're soft now so I'm putting all the seasonings in
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what recipe are you making I'm making my slow cooker meatless black beans
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the chili it's a chili but it's no meat it's yummy though
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yeah it's yummy you'll go to our website and you'll check that out
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It's a good recipe. Yeah. But I usually do it in the slow cooker. But use fresh beans
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I mean, if you're going to do it with older dry beans, which they're still good
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just know your slow cooker is probably not going to cook them
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You're going to have to do it on the stoke top. You're going to have to kind of like get them parable
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If you parboil them maybe on the soap top and then put them in the soap up there, you'll be fine
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But it's, they're definitely, uh, old. I'm guessing that's, they're old. And she's putting in her whole
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I'm just going to do this. Oh, that one's not going in. Oh
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Oh, man. It's way under there. I'll have to vacuum that out tomorrow, baby
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I'll just been small like garlic now. They're underneath there. Okay, I can find them
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Babes out here making our deck look great again. I don't know how it gets like this
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I mean I have this spot I was just I just scrolling again Yeah it probably because of me
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That's what, the unclean, you just go to clean that. I'm gonna start to squirt this
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It doesn't help when my shoulders add a whack. Babes up there clean with a brush now
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Does that make it a lot easier, babe? Yeah. Okay, my wife has finished cleaning
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Not the cushions, don't look at the cushions, but the floor is white
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and that sugar scoop is white, looks a lot better. So we're doing our repairs
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I've got, I already got me. got a macerator in for a spare and I'm going to pick up some toilet pieces because
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so I picked up our part for our vacuum toilet let's go get it in it's uh yeah these vacuum
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toilets are interesting beasts because I haven't had any poop explosions but you do get the
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water leaks and vacuum leaks all the time which is a interesting beast in itself
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Back here at the boat we still have the hole in the Bimni. I do have a whole roll of material so you can get that fixed and
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calling somebody we're going to actually get the new solar arch I believe we're going to have it welded so it will be one complete frame and then it will bolt to the boat
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Of course it's going to be aluminum so just similar metals hopefully it doesn't crowed itself together
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A little bit up with some silicone grease. So my wife is making us a little breakfast over here
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I'm gonna go get the toilet fixed. She likes the front head all to herself
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Oh, you don't like that about your room? No, it's too narrow
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But, oh, and also, the helm, I already got a little dirty and she cleaned it yesterday
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So making a rear head, we have the controls or the valve down here
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That's why I'm replacing. And it's just two screws on the side and the hose is coming in
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So I have to use a ratchet on these. The ones that came with the replacement part have Phillips head
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I don't even think I can use them. I might use these. go back in here
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So I've got the old valve off right there, and this is the new one. And they look to be the same size
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So that's a good thing. And there's our empty spot. I'm just going to plug these back in
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Okay. That is all installed, not leaking anymore. Yeah, I've got to clean it
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But now I can pull up on the handle. You can use your foot to do this
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you know, fill up the wire, it wasn't doing that before. And looking flush
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So, good deal. That's all done. So I've changed the bathroom valves, both the bowel toilet and the aft toilet
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And we're still getting that issue. So I know that I installed in your sink faucet
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I checked all the plumbing on that. but no clue where this is coming from
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So I found the problem. It was out here. I had to tighten this up, and it was just leaking water down
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I don't know if you can see that trail. It was just leaking water down
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And this is where I plug in the water if I'm on a dock, which right now I'm using my tanks
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Because right now it's pretty chilly, and if you live on a boat
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But when it's hot, which it was hot, that water come out of the hose will give you about maybe a minute or two of scalding water, which isn't fun
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Okay, so my babe has been listening to this pump issue for how long
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About a month. A couple months because it was doing it when our friends were here too
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Yeah, so I've been fighting this issue. finally found it and uh
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wear a relief because that is the most nerve sound you will hear is your fresh wire going away Well kind of boat rocking
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Especially when you don't, you're like, is there a leak in hoses underneath the floor or something
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You know, but we didn't find any water, so. Dude, I've been tearing up this boat trying to find that, you know
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And I found every little, even if it's got moisture on it, I was working out
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So, but we're good now, and hopefully the system is there than it was before
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Hopefully. Until next time. Okay, but guys, we're making a simple recipe tonight, and it's not..
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It's meatless. Meatless pasta with black beans, out of a can, and corn, and some sauteed up. onions
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I gotta do what you gotta do. But I have seasonings, but seasoning is
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Yeah. But this is life after a hurricane
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Now we have a lot of meat, but we're trying to last until the first of the month
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We're budget people here. So I can't go to the grocery yet
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Enjoy's the volume on boat. Now we gotta clean up the villages and the shower sombs
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So I've already started here. I got that shower soap clean. I've got the barnacles on this depth sounder and for a whole arm boat
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Okay, got that all cleaned up. Now I'm just going to swap it out. I'm not going to do this on camera because you have to be quick
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That right there looks a lot cleaner. So it's a build, it's not going to be perfectly clean unless I just paint it
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But yeah. You know, I have the rear stuff to clean out
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This is for our rear AC, our shower. Yeah. And the front one's for our front shower and the Friday Sea
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And you just look at how yummy that looks before I get started. Yeah
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That's green. Now on these soaps, you have to vacuum them out before you spray them down the water and let the bilge pump work because
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whereas you get hair and stuff like that and that will probably destroy the bilge pump
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A lot better. My vacuum's kind of getting full, but let's see if I can finish this out
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Okay, that village is cleaned, and now we have to clean out the main village
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See, I shower out. I might do some fiberglass repair someday on that, but yeah, it'll work for now
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So now we have our final villages to clean out. clean out. This is where all the water goes sprayed in up front. So get this cleaned out and dry and make sure our bills stay dry. This is how you keep a safe boat. You don't want to sink
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Okay guys, so we just got our solar in and David here, he hurried him over here and he actually helped me get him on the boat, which is awesome
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Oh yeah. And you want to tell us a little bit by your company? Yeah, so I work with Granik solar
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We are a global solar distributor. We're in all the countries. We have poor locations here in the U.S
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And, you know, we got what you need. Let us know. Yeah, so I'll leave their contact information down below
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And hopefully, if you want, you can reach out and get you some solar
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These are the Atos 440 bifacial solar panels. So we're about to get them installed
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Okay, so all y'all followers from when we were DIYers house bearing people, we were always doing stereos and jeeps and cars for our kids
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I like base. But, so here in the boat, we decided to put a little base in here
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It just stuff I had left over from those days And let me show you So behind our power panel here this amp is actually almost 10 years old It a boss 1 watt Of course it doesn make
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1500 watts. It's got a 20 amp fuse, but it's behind our panel here and then a
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guy plugged in the radio right there and the cord runs or the speaker
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wire runs right through there under this floor. And then I have a speaker right here
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It's just a little JL8. And yeah, it's tucked in nicely. Okay, so the base on this is working pretty good
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I was kind of annoying my wife out there because I was playing music and she's like..
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Well, we're in a marina. Yeah. I don't know, wow. Yeah, so..
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But the base is pretty decent. Let's see if this has any base
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free so yeah you just kind of a roll deep thunder out but you know not extremely loud but
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it's good enough for now okay my baby's gotta get out the boat it's been a week
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and we're at a marina. We're working on building that solar array
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Did we get a good? I have a card. And, uh, and we're going to hit a hamburger joint
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Yep. So, packed mules carrying groceries back. We've got some groceries and, uh
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has some smashed burgers. Oh, yeah. We've actually been up here a couple times in
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We've never tried them because they closed early. And yeah, it was good
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So another place, walking distance within the marina. Yeah. And, of course, save a lot
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But now back to the boat. Okay, baby's making brisket and a crockpot with Chiply rub on it
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Oh, it smells so good. yeah I was gonna try it in the oven
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but that would be a long time cooking then I was like
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I don't have a deep enough pan and grease will be spilling everywhere
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I'm not doing that so our slow cooker revived itself it was broken no
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that was the beans yeah we think it was our beans they're too old
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but yeah it's cooked roast it's fine so I guess I'm going to have to
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Get some more fresh beans Look at that guys Oh my gosh
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This is just half of it Oh yeah The other half is in here And we're going to make that tomorrow Mm-hmm
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Some other way Gonna be yummy Okay guys So we are almost in real time But
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My wife's getting some breakfast here done You saw earlier in the video
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Where she was doing the Resket Yeah We're that close to real time
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But we plan on getting the, hopefully next week we'll be getting the solar installed because we don't like a marina life
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For one, it's too expensive. And a great marina, but it's expensive
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And two, the waves and the wind never come from the front of the boat
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So you don't get a lot of blockage there. It's just all over you. So hopefully we get out here soon
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She's cooking all the time. Yeah. I got to put another recipe out
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It'll probably be in this marina. We put a recipe out. When it stops rocking so much, it's really hard to, you know, do a recipe when I'm doing this
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But I like your dance when it's rocking. But, With that, y'all, y'all please take care
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