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Feb 8, 2025
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big thing uh when you're out here on the
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water or you living off the grid is
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power and uh AC power requires the
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inverter which sucks up power so to
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charge your phones and other devices you
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I picked up something like these I have
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uh uh one in the helm that's cigarette
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lter size and got this one I just found
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on Amazon and this is a flat one has two
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USB and one USBC this nice little cover
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a little uh I guess to keep the water
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out I don't know if I might use that cuz
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these are going to be inside may use it
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and then some screws to screw it down I
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don't know if I want to screw it down or
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just glue it down but when I get there
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I'll get there but uh I'm going to run
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it basically over in the salon but uh
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since I disconnected all this propane
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stuff yeah that's my uh nice little
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fridge uh solution I made up y' can go
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check that out um yeah I'm going pull
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out behind there and get to the propane
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wires so I can wire this up on its own
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breaker and then I can wire lots of
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things up because it's 20 amp dc and
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these don't use 20 amp I think uh with 3
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amps maybe yeah 3 amps so yeah nothing
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so I'm going to get this installed but
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uh you know power is an issue you know
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go check out our I keep going back and
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check out but our solar install where we
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did the Bish panels great panels really
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uh uh you know upped our game as far as
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our power and not having to run the Jare
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but we still you know we have that power
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constraints because the sun's not always
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shining uh we had three four days of
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just nothing but clouds and I was
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kicking on the generator a few times so
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you check that out but we're going to
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install this so what we got here is see
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this fancy little thermostat gauge I
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made for my freezer and fridge this is
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my freezer temperature which
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is8 right now cuz it's I ain't got it on
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turbo mode if you go back and look at
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that video I have a turbo mode on this
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so I can hit turbo mode but it uses more
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power and then my fridge so this is
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spillover fan for our fridge and uh with
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turbo mode on it's it's cool enough
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right now it's you see it's off the
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freezer is still on because it's got the
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lights on but I'm going to take this out
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[Music]
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and this was the uh old uh propane
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control we're all electric in this house
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now so we don't use
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propane but uh it worked really nice
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it's all aluminum took a while to cut in
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my gauges but works
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right that was a long screw used a long
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one for that
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one okay let's pull this out
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don't look at my messy wiring it is a
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mess so I finally found the wires I'm
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going to use these are my LP gas wires
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which this boat is complete electric 13
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volts that gives me the voltage I need
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to power one of these and fact I could
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power a lot of these but uh I'm trying
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to get as much of the boat I can on DC
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so I don't have to run that inverter and
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suck up all that juice wasting you know
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wasting a few amps
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there okay I got my wires Ran So I ran
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from here up here in this uh AC I'm not
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going to drill it in yet I'm just W to
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see how it works ran through this uh
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vent here I think this is like a fake
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vent cuz there's no I don't know what
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the hell this is but it's got no vent uh
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uh thing in there no clue up through
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here and then down through that hole and
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uh yeah now I just connect them together
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and good to go all I got to do is do a
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little stripping so on here I'm going
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with a the car autum
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of uh positive and
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negative and this wire is not very high
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gauge it doesn't have to
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be okay and already have a connector on
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this
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one
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so if you
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uh also you need need to get you one of
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these uh crimpers these work great so I
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just pop in
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here pop it the right way in here so
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it's got beveled on one side crimp on
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the
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other and you pick your color we going
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with uh blue here cuz that's the one I
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originally had on
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here this wire doesn't probably need
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blue but
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and there we go give it a good tug I was
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going to use these pink ones on the
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other side cuz this gauge of wire is
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small now I have to take and disconnect
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this one so I'm going have to cut this
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off and uh I don't think I have to cut
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it off I just have to pull it off on
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that
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side yeah I crimped
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it or it was crimped but it wasn't crimp
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good
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there we
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go trash over there oh this is still
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working because that's running from my
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power on my
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uh
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uh
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compressor use the blue one here
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again
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so hold on somebody's out
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there okay so I'm back I got all this
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finished I'm going to heat shrink this
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later I'm going to test it of course on
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there before I lock it down but yeah
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that was just some boers coming by and
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announcing that we can go rob their boat
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now but no they're to they're going to
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be off their boat so y'all out there uh
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looking to Rob sailboats or
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motorboats Community watches each
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other oh also I may have not mentioned
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that three 3 amps or 3 amps that's fast
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charging so now my tablets and all my
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stuff is going to charge up fast pop it
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in 55% fast charge 32 minutes till full
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yeah baby so I'm going to get
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uh some heat shrink
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shrunk because uh I don't like wires
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pulling
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out and this is another reason why you
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need lithium on your uh boat is cuz you
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can power High out but things like heat
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guns so let me heat gun this
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up and that's
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hot now let me put all this stuff back
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together
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again okay got this grill right
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here got this is going to go up in
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there so
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[Music]
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I wonder if this thing will go below
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zero while I'm put this
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together let's turn that to Turbo it's
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at
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three turn it back on there and we'll
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put this back
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in the vent to nothing
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my there our beautiful vent of nowhere
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and I think I'm going to leave these out
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for right
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now I may pull it
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now so if you look here I've got it
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mounted right there and I got the cover
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on it looks looks nice it's out of the
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way and I didn't put the little plastic
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cover on it but now that I'm saving all
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that power I can turn that fridge or
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freezer on turbo look at that it's
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already down to
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1.9 so this will save me in uh of course
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right the the Inver which uses about 3 3
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and 1 12 amps and uh you know I can save
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that in gas so that's a good thing cuz
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our battery is at 72% and it
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is about two 2:00 so we may make it up
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to almost 80% today that'd be awesome
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and uh cuz we started out at
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50 55 so that's good
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recovery okay guys here's just some of
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the meat we're getting for the
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Bahamas we got
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chicken
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steak ground
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beef food in what's here got over here
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got more meat and eggs over here and
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there's veggies and some cheese and
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butter and yeah we're
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going I
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B my babies say she's filled up the
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freezer all the meat and everything is
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done on yeah it's it's
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full we learn not go through this in a
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month half a month no so this is the day
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before we leave for the
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Bahamas and are we ready to go babe yeah
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I've been asking for you to put up your
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crap I'll put it up I'll put it up no it
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doesn't go there no it doesn't go in
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there I'll put it up it's been sitting
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here for 2 weeks I'll put it up
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baby but this is uh the last of the food
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we have to get
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up we've got uh $300 in meat in the
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freezer and uh yeah we have to also set
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up these uh life jacket thingies figure
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out how they
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work and my house is dirty and the house
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is dirty she says it'll get clean in the
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Bahamas okay before we leave for the
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Bahamas which is here soon tomorrow
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hopefully uh got top off our batteries
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which got the J run and I'm also
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checking our linkage for our steering
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connection make sure all that's good and
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I'll show you what I'm looking at so
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right here here is our connection you
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see it's right here here's the helm but
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I just took the flo pan up and man it's
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nasty in there so but I I'll clean that
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up but yeah everything's working looks
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good uh I'm glad it's a uh solid
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connection like this versus a cable
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that's awesome and there's our autopilot
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right there so that's good and there's
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the floor cover I took off right
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there okay it's our last night in the
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anchorages and wife got all the gear
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cleaned up we're ready to go got safety
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gear cleaned up and uh way you check
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these if it's green you're good to go
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that means uh you you can self-inflate
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I'm not going to pull this thing oh gosh
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don't do that yeah that would get th
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than I am we have two brand new ones
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that don't have the tanks in them
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yet and we have these but we also have
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uh proper um safety lines so these are
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the ones you can pull quick release so
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if you get uh overboard
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and you're dragging underw you can
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release yourself and then they of course
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tie onto the boat but uh I'm not going
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up there
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no no but I'll show you what we got
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upstairs and uh and then uh it's beer30
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tomorrow we're leaving morning tomorrow
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morning early early I don't like to get
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up that road so y'all y'all stay with us
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and you know we we we get to the Bahamas
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so our dog she has her life jacket and
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we have an extra uh one we could
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actually tie her on the boat but right
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here I have this line tied all the way
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to the front and yes that is that is a
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good knot I'll probably uh adjust it a
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little bit but it is a good knot that's
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a
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a uh
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bowling and of course I have my life
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jacket and I'm strapped in strapped onto
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this right now so this thing this is
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slightly stretchy I just knocked off my
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mic so it's slightly stretchy so you
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know got some elastic so if I do fall
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off it won't be a Sudden Impact but this
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is what I'm talking about this right
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here you can just pull that and it comes
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off so yeah need
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that and then my babe she cleaned up our
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Windows there he they look all
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seethrough now and uh she cleaned our
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winches
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we still have the hole in the roof got
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to fix that
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someday and then back here got my Deanie
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tied and uh yeah we'll go back here
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and move
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this let me go out you can't move this
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from side to side so we'll see how that
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runs but uh if not I got enough line I
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can tighten it up some more and then got
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my my fenders in there in case I need to
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use them in the Bahamas
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okay guys so tomorrow me and my babe
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babe down there looking for stuff to eat
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we're going to figure out we're going to
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figure out what we're going to eat in
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the Bahamas tomorrow so what do you
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think of that
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[Music]
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babe I haven't processed it yet I don't
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know it to me it it just seems like you
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know it's been a year
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we were supposed to leave through the
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Bahamas last year at this time I don't
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know eight months ago yeah last year at
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this time so so I don't even know how to
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process this yeah I guess when we are
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like crossing the waters and I see the
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the waters changing colors I'm going
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like oh okay yeah this is happening I'm
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going s her up front with the camera so
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she can record the wire changing colors
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I'm not going up
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front no I'm not falling off I tied a
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line and everything guys she'd be safe
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I'm going to be if I fall off you're I'm
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going to be having to wait for you to
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turn around the boat to come get me and
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I might have been already flown I might
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be like towards Florida already y you're
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not going back to Florida we're going to
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bahas we're doing the b b baham mamas
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yes that's what we're doing so yeah it's
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uh it's been a journey it has and uh and
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a lot of money so if y'all think that
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doesn't cost money to live on a
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boat it does yeah get ready eventually
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we'll um I'm slipping but eventually
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we'll we'll we'll go over what this
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actually takes to do this and it ain't
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cheap guys so I don't but it depends on
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what how you want to do it of course of
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course we we've made our boat like off
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grid yeah so that costs a lot of money
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yeah wire maker solar batteries all that
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stuff so we' made it off grid and if you
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don't want to make your boat off grid
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and you're like Marina people yeah it'd
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be cheap which is fine we we've lived in
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Marinas here and there maras are
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nice um if you want to be off grid they
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going to cost you going to cost but I'm
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going to let her get back to dinner and
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we're going to uh we grocery shopping I
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got some lettuce we'll uh see you on the
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water tomorrow
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guys
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yep guys I think I hurt my toe this
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morning getting the anchor
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up yeah I didn't know I was bleeding
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that
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bad wasn't supposed to be yeah two
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months
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bye Lake
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Sylvia we stayed here for two weeks and
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we wounded up staying for 2 months a
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little longer than expected it was a
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nice stay though yeah it was got a lot
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of stuff done and we were pretty
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protected we did get some pretty gnarly
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winds a couple of times but um other
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than that we were pretty protected so
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yeah yeah we had a hard time getting our
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anchor up it was so stuck oh yeah it was
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stuck was Dug Dug deep now we're trying
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to get through here this is all that
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right there really shallow and you have
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to come in close on this side you'll see
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on the charts here to avoid all that
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shallowness so yeah we're squeezing on
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through here and we're going slow we're
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doing 1.9 knots two knots just to so if
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we do uh nudge something well we're at
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low tide so the tide will only go up for
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from
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here 10 back behind me yes so we're 10t
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deep back behind me that's Lake syia
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entrance and that is where we're going
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right there to
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dannyland I didn't want to get up no she
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didn't I still don't want to be up she
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said the sun is not up I'm like it is
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peeking it is peeking he's sathing no
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sunrises at 7 but the sunlight happens
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earlier plus the deck is all wet oh yeah
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I slid bad messed up my foot oh it hurts
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but we're getting through here don't get
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yourself garine or anything yeah it
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stopped bleeding so I'm good I need put
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some peroxide on no yes okay we'll fix
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that later once we get out of here okay
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so we're going to m is and you need to
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be rushed to an emergency
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room we're going to uh put down the
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camera so I can navigate these last uh
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this last crooky area cuz they're
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getting down to
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8T and then we'll get out of
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here okay guys we nudged ground there a
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little bit but we are out so we're going
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back up we're at 7.6 ft and getting
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deeper and uh yeah we're just going to
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start turning out into this canal but
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yeah that was that was fun so we touch
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bottom this is our fourth time to touch
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Bottom
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now yeah we need to get into some deeper
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waters
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a little shallow
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here babe cleaned the window yesterday
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now she's drying it
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today yeah so we can see a little
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bit and now she's getting the front we
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don't have defrosters on the boat
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I wonder if that uh what What's that
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called the the stuff you spray down
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the water beads
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off rainex
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rainex thank you very
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much okay we're leaving out of here and
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the current I wanted to get out of here
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earlier I think 30 minutes would been
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better but now we are we are just
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crashing in these
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waves
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woo my wife is probably hating life
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right
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now our puppy is not liking
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either don't don't it your
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butt also I think we're going to have a
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oil tanker come up behind us so we got
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to get out of this Channel and we're
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doing
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about 5 and A2
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knots let me show you up front again
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eyes
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the
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plans sou the we just pass pretty rough
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out here right now this is all caused by
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these currents a um deceased manity
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floating right behind a celebrity
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Beyond okay we're almost
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through this is I wouldn't even want to
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be on haul out hul over what that uh
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that feels like this feels pretty rough
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out here
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oh
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wow we got some air
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there currently uh 26Ā° 5 minutes1 153 is
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a tanker over there 06 over there we're
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going to get out of here I'm moving past
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it I got a haul out to catch but
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it's 100 y out of that position see how
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the water is
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it's pretty rough they're tied on to
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that that buoy right
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there why I don't
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know we're trying to get out of this I
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mean it looks c yeah it's just not right
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here
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nobody said this
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part how rough it is to get
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out okay so the weather said it was
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going to be one to twoot waves and
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uh an Eastern uh basically an Eastern
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Breeze the breeze is correct it's not
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we're not
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getting any kind of Breeze but we are
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getting a a good bit of sweat my baby's
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not liking
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it so that it's going to make me hate
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voting but
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uh yeah uh right now we look to be
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getting into 600 fo water and I'm hoping
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cuz right now where it's a where kind of
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shelves so I'm hoping it gets smoother
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the deeper we
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get at least not as uh more period
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between these waves cuz they were
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supposed to be you know 6 second period
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1 to
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2T and uh yeah it's
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uh sliding
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around I'm stopping okay guys so me and
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my wife are just sitting here there's
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baby right over there she's just sitting
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there we uh you know Lessons Learned
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From
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Yesterday me I have to look at the wave
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direction and the wind direction it's
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very important that they're not going in
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opposite
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directions or that leads up to a very
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confused
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sea which scares my
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baby and uh our
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dog and uh bust my toes so don't need
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that but uh yeah Lessons
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Learned and uh today I'm just just well
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I had to fix the dinghy cuz uh I left up
24:31
there and at C State over rocked it and
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it uh kind
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of it uh kind of the transm was trying
24:40
to come off so I had to reglue
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that and uh I'll show you all that in
24:44
second and I had to replace duck valves
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in a
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toilet and uh the fan in the fridge one
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of my fans stopped working so it was a
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eventful day and uh now it's beer 30
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right babe
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no no not yet no it's got an hour till
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be be 30 but uh let me show you this
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ding okay Decker you may remember this
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deck War Adventure he came out here this
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was coming off so my transom was coming
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off right there you can see I didn't
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align it completely right but I glued it
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and now I've got this uh tie
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strap tensioning down on this to hold it
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together and it's holding this which I
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reglued and that together and I just
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reinflated once I got the glue in and
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then ratchet it down and we're good
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hopefully we'll see how long that lasts
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