Do you think shes going to make a crew like Tuya?
Ooooh.
Thats a failure.
[LAUGHS]
This week on Luckyfish
Zayas neice Zaya joins us in Fort Myers and we begin a beautiful journey north along Floridas
ICW.
What do you think of Florida so far Zaya, Mark 2?
Zaya version 2.0
I love Florida so far, its really good.
Especially the boat.
Its amazing.
I love this boat.
Im really looking forward to the next couple of days
I cant wait to show her some sailing
You better tell us.
Where did you come from?
Im from Mongolia.
I study in Boston.
And Im here for a break from all the cold weather
What are you studying in Boston?
Business Management.
What year?
Second year.
Hello Uber driver number one.
You are our very first Uber driver.
You know, all the bridges
Normally we go under them.
This time we go over them.
They can open up and you have to stop your car.
We are about to do a lot of it.
After provisioning the boat,
we left Fort Myers to begin a 100 mile journey
along what must be one of the most picturesque sections
of Americas 3,000 mile intracoastal waterway.
Amazing.
Amazing!
Oooh.
Many of them.
I think we are stealing their dolphins honey.
Stewart this is amazing.
Is this a dream.
Am I still sleeping?
So, whats the plan Captain?
Umm, drop the anchor and pour a sundowner, quickly.
What would you like Madam?
White wine please.
White wine.
What about Zaya version 2.0
White wine.
Ohhh, she doesnt drink.
She is twenty and cant drink.
Awwwww.
Except, its New Zealand drinking rules here.
I think you can drink at 17 in New Zealand.
Mongolia, there is no ....
Oh, Mongolia.... gawwww
We only covered 30 miles on the first day,
and lowered our sights even further on the second day
for a 12 mile leg
to a place we had heard a lot about,
Cayo Costa.
It was the start of many great experiences
We watched a trimaran divert course towards us
The solo skipper, Mark, yelled out
Hey, Im one of your followers!
This was the very first moment we learned
Luckyfish had an audience.
That was after 18 episodes
and 5 months of publishing.
[MUSIC]
As soon as wed anchored,
another viewer Rob and his friend sent us a message
and youre Zaya as well?
Yes
asking if it was us that just anchored at Cayo Costa.
[LAUGHS]
Cut.
Cut
That was a memorable night of laughs and coincidence.
Push, push and to the left
[Mongolian]
Do you think shes going to make a crew like Tuya?
Ooooh.
Thats a failure.
[LAUGHS]
Thats a failure right there.
We learned about the Manatee Hole,
and set off in the morning to find it.
She said I look like those
Thailand, Vietnam or Cambodian
Going to her rice field
Oh yeah, look at this
Co-ordination
Come on.
You are almost to your rice field.
[LAUGHS]
Come on.
Look at this.
Natural Mongolian
Land-locked country my a$$
They should have a coast.
They did have a coast.
Look at this, natural rower.
Were going to crash into something you know.
Touch the nature.
It was meant to be.
Whoops.
Why am I touching the nature though?
Big ones.
Absolute natural.
We have found rowing genes.
Buried deep in the Mongolian DNA
We have uncovered them.
Come on DNA
Come on DNA, where are you?
We have come here in search of Manatees.
They say they just pop up.
And, if you dont see them.
There is supposed to be half a dozen or so
Inhabiting this little canal, creek.
And if we dont see them we are supposed to just stop
And wait
They breathe every couple of minutes or so
What a pretty little lagoon
Oh.. so cute!
Wow!
Two of them
Stop.
Hes right there in front of us.
Theres two of them.
He'll come and look at us if we are lucky.
Having some sun.
How cool.
Didnt expect to see that.
Right next to the boat.
After that pretty neat encounter with Manatees we left Cayo Costa
for the 34 mile leg to Venice
Well this is a first for us
We are just about to go through a swing bridge
We just called up the bridge operator
And he said
Hes going to open in a couple of minutes
Keep it coming captain, keep it coming
So he can see us and hopefully,
When we arrive there, this swing bridge
Will be open
Theres dolphins on our port bow,
Theres boats going past
Alright nice and slow now honey
Its all happening here on the intracoastal
They just closed the road barriers We just saw those drop
So it looks like its all about to happen
[HORN]
Ok, now just keep to your left a bit, yeah
You have got the wind pushing you down
All under control captain?
Yeah, all good
Bridge number two, the Tom Adams bridge
Open sesame
Ohhh, yeah.
They can only open the east span,
Because the other side is broken
I dont know, hopefully Zayas got it all under control here
Shes got Zaya mark 2 ready to
[LAUGHS]
Well it is pretty tight
You want to get over to your right a bit
Yeah, youre good
So we are at Mannasota Key bridge
And the booms are just being lowered on the traffic
Cars are stopping
With a bit of luck we should see open sesame
OK there it goes, now your away
Third one
Well it goes from narrow, to wide
We are certainly in a narrow part at the moment
Built up with houses and posh properties
Whos that pretty little Captain weve got?
Skipper.
Another Mongolian sailor
Skipper junior.
Skipper
Well this is so pretty.
We are coming into the township
City probably, of Venice
Yeah, no speed boats.
The speed boats have all gone home.
Is that why its so calm?
Yeah, it changes everything.
Its a man made canal.
You can see where it runs inland
You can see where we have left the coast there
On the chart
We follow this canal system that links up with
a lake, and an estuary at the
Town of Venice
Up the top there
And then we zig-zag across that
And rejoin the waterway
Heading north to Sarasota.
Ohhhh, is he splitting the bridge?
Can you do it?
[HORN]
Hey Everyone, we had a really interesting day yesterday
so it was really interesting because almost like
six bridges opened up for us while we went through because
Our mast was too high to go under the bridge without them opening up for us
so
they just opened up for us.
Then they folded and then they swing it was really
adventurous for me
I've never seen a bridge like that before and
having the chance to sail through them all by myself with the two
Captains next to me and going under the bridge
and then them opening up for me was really a new experience
To me and I really enjoyed it.
So it was getting late and we realized we couldn't make it to Sarasota
So we tried to find places that we could anchor and
we found this place called Venice, which is really an amazing
neighborhood in Florida, I guess and
The place where we tried to anchor was pretty shallow,
but we did find this
really beautiful lagoon with all this amazing houses built nearby and
there was a Yacht Club and a mooring field
And we saw some other familiar
faces familiar masts
anchored up so we tried to anchor there and
It actually worked the funny thing about Luckyfish is that we never know
where we're going to anchor but we always end up finding
this amazing places that we we can anchor up and
Although the water was really shallow that it was almost like I could stand up in the
water
but we managed to anchor up in there and we realized the tides would rise up in the morning.
That shouldn't be a problem
See, I'm already so familiar with sailing.
Venice truly is an amazing place.
We find ourselves anchored virtually in the middle of suburbia
almost on people's front lawns and
Beautiful homes, too
It's a real great privilege to be able to do this sort of thing
And when I contrast the anchorage here against places we've anchored in the past like
Ascension Island or
St Helena it just shows you what you can do with a small
shallow-draft blue water catamaran
the nice thing about Florida is that people are so friendly to boaters
as the Sun set went down we
Stewart made a beautiful barbecue for us and
Zaya version number one made nice mashed potatoes and we had this
amazing Riesling wine and
it was another beautiful relaxing night.
and I cant wait to have more
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Are we going to the beach or the bar?
Bar.