(ambient music)
(sighs)
(metal clangs)
- It is a really beautiful morning.
We're ready to set sail.
It feels really good.
(metal clang)
It's just one of those mornings, you know,
when, I've had enough sleep, it feels amazing,
and the sun is just coming out.
We're just gonna get everything sorted on the boat,
got to put the dingy on deck.
Yeah, we're off. (sighs)
It's definitely a little workout
in the morning. (laughs)
It's a little different picking up the dingy
and organizing everything with just two people,
but I'd say that it goes pretty smoothly.
We have a system down, which is cool.
- We've been hearing lots of cool things
about St. Croix lately from a few different people,
so, I'm really excited to go check it out.
I've a feeling we're gonna get plenty of wind out there.
Good Morning, Mack.
Morning Mack, you ready to go?
(Mack panting)
All right, let's go.
Mom's picking up the anchor.
(engine humming)
All right, Kazza, good to go.
- Okay, starting to pick up the anchor.
(upbeat music) (engine humming)
(chains clinking)
Okay, we're up.
- [Narrator] St. Croix lies just 30 miles south
of St. John and St. Thomas,
both of which are very popular cruising grounds.
But for some reason,
that 30-mile south of the normal sailing route
through the Caribbean makes a difference.
And we'd only met a handful of boats that had made the trip.
But those that had, spoke of great diving,
organic farms, and quaint little towns.
The conditions looked perfect
for a beautiful day of sailing,
so we decided to give it a go.
- Okay. - Ready?
Main coming out.
(wind blowing)
(joints cracking)
(exhales sharply)
Isn't that nice?
Silence, now we're sailing, the power of the wind, nugget.
(wind blowing) (water splashing)
Cool, huh?
(grunts)
(Kazza grunts) (Brian grunts)
(upbeat jazz music)
- [Narrator] Delos is built for these conditions,
with only a small swell running,
full sail out, and the wind forward at the beam,
we're flying along.
The thought of moving 40,000 pounds of boat
through the water using the force of nature
never gets old to me.
And being able to navigate your house
from one island to the next in the course of an afternoon,
gives me a feeling of absolute freedom and adventure.
- Nice? - Yeah it's awesome up here!
(both laugh) (water splashing)
(upbeat jazz music)
I love doing that kind of filming, it's really cool.
You get a bit wet though.
Nugget, hallo! (Brian laughs)
There is a happy one.
- She likes it sailing.
- [Kazza] How far is it?
- I think we have about 34 miles to go.
And the wind is exactly as it should be,
we've got...
12, maybe. (radio muffling)
Geez the radios are crazy around here.
We've got 12 to 13 knots, just forward of the beam,
which Delos really loved those conditions,
and we're moving along at about six to seven knots,
which should be five hours, maybe?
5.5 hours, we arrive into Christansted, St. Croix.
(baby crying)
You were a happy baby like five minutes ago.
You were a happy baby, now you're a whiny pants.
Are you tired?
Here, have some apples, have some apple snack.
Oh, Apple Snack.
(wind blowing)
(sucking)
(upbeat music)
- [Female Narrator] Feeling so peaceful right here,
sitting at the helm, watching Delos
as she cuts through the waves.
It's always exciting coming into a new island,
not knowing what to expect, or who you might meet.
And the best part?
We get to do it all together as a family.
(soft instrumental music)
- What a fantastic sail, Kazza.
- [Kazza] Yeah, it was a really good one.
(rotor squeaking)
- We're 0.9 miles away, the conditions were just beautiful.
But would you mind going up on the bow?
(water splashing)
Keeping a look out, there should be a green mark coming up.
And then there is a proper channel.
And we're in the US was red, right, returning.
So, we'll keep the red markers on star route.
- [Kazza] You can see the green marker coming up.
(soft instrumental music) (water splashing)
And, now port.
Port Port!
(dramatic bass music) (water splashing)
(groans)
Fuck, that was pretty close.
(chains clinking) (soft instrumental music)
Backing down, you can see it like...
I think we're hooked real good. (laughs)
Sorry about that close call on the marker.
Fuck, it was a little bit nerve-racking.
This is actually why I got pretty confused.
If you look at the chart,
it's actually two channels going in this entrance here.
And, this buoy that we almost hit,
was predominately green.
It is red and green, but it was, you know, 90% green.
So, I kind of got really confused about the whole situation.
And then this reef right here,
so, we came on the wrong side of it,
and then yeah, we had to turn really fast
to not hit that reef.
And, I don't think you could see very mark standing up
even with my up there.
So, I just have to be more precise
when I say where to go, I guess.
- We made it, we didn't hit anything. (laughs)
Our little nugget is sleeping peacefully,
unaware of everything, and now we're gonna go explore, yeah.
- It looks like a really cool place, though.
- [Brian] Oh no!
(child crying)
Baby Nug, Baby Nug, did you wake up from your nap?
Oh, come here.
Hi, did you have a good nap?
Did you have a good nap? (laughs)
Hello, oh no, everything's fine.
(upbeat electronic music)
- [Kazza] Yeah, do you know anything about this place?
- I know absolutely nothing.
I think it's pretty old though,
and we heard a lot of the town was,
sort of like had cobblestone streets
and a lot of history here.
This is a National Historic Site,
Custom's House 1841, right there.
There's another warehouse from 1749,
a church from the mid 1700s, that's cool.
- So far I feel like it's a very quaint little town.
It has a lot of cool restaurants,
boardwalk, all the good things.
It will be nice to walk around a little bit,
look at some sites.
(upbeat music)
- [Kazza] Yeah, it's really cool how they left a lot
of the old stuff.
- Yeah, it's very quaint, look at this,
this tree is growing right into this building.
- [Kazza] Yeah.
- [Brian] How are you?
- Hello, my name's Elvin Lambert.
- Oh, hey Elvin. - Elvin Lambert
from St. Croix.
- [Brian] Right on, this is little Sierra.
- Here's the baby.
- This is the baby. - Do you mind if I film?
- Sure, hi sweetie.
(Brian laughs)
Oh my god, hi sweetie, nice to see you.
Welcome to St. Croix. - Thank you.
- I am intruding on your
privacy like you get, - No, it's fine.
- All the time. - We were just going
for a little walk and we got some ice cream,
and, we just sailed in. - Any good restaurant
that you would recommend?
- What do you want, local?
What kind of-- - What would be local here?
- I just bought stew fish, salt fish, stew fish and fungi.
- Oh, like mushrooms? - You've been all over.
- Come here, I've gotta see this.
(Kazzi laughs)
I gotta see that.
Oh, it smells awesome.
- [Elvin] This is salt fish.
Salt fish. - Oh man,
where do you get that? - And I know you eat
about anything, I've seen you eat anything.
(Brian and Kazzi laugh)
So, I got this at a place called Rosie's,
you have to drive to it, it's not walkable.
- Oh, really. - But
something like this local,
right about on the other side of that pink building,
which front's on King Street is Kims'.
Kim's, a real small little sit-in,
sit on the porch kind of thing,
should have all kind of West Indian stuff,
if that's what your after.
- Yeah, sure.
- [Narrator] Meeting Elvin totally made our afternoon.
It always surprises and humbles us,
when someone living on a small island,
in the middle of the Caribbean, watches our videos.
Nothing beats local advice,
so we were off in search of Kim's
and some local stewed salt fish.
(reggae music)
- [Kazza] I think we found it.
What is salt fish?
- I don't know, I'm gonna ask her though.
They have chicken, bbq ribs, - Do you think it's like dry
salted fish?
- I have no idea.
- [Brian] Would you mind explaining what this is for us?
- Okay, this is the dumpling with coconut
and this is the salt fish
and it's stewed and there's some curry
and some salad on the side.
- [Brian] Woah, sounds delicious.
(car engine drowns out speaker)
- Hmm, I like that.
- [Brian] What do you think about that?
- Good.
- Oh yeah, it's got just enough fishy flavor,
but it's so full, like spices.
- The dumpling is kind of sweet.
- Yummy.
(reggae music)
I think we did pretty good.
That was freaking awesome.
- [Kazza] Really good, huh?
- Yeah, I wish we knew what was in this.
I'm sure we'll find out,
we'll make it our mission to figure out this recipe.
Thank you, Elvin.
(reggae music)
- [Kazza] Bye-bye, Christiansted.
- I really like that town,
it's super cool. - Right?
It was a short stop for us but
it was very nice. - Short stop,
but it was nice, it was definitely worth it.
But we've decided to go to the west side of the island,
'cause there are some wrecks over there we wanna dive,
and we are gonna go meet up with this guy
I've been emailing with, Ryan and Corinna,
who own a little place over there.
I love it when people email us with
like, little out-of-the-way spots that,
you know, It's like their project
and their passion and their love,
and you can tell that the way he's written this email
and sent the picture, they're super super proud
of what they've done.
And that in itself is enough
to make me wanna go and see it.
And we can hang out, and use it sort of as a base
to explore the island.
So, it should be a little two-hour sail around the corner.
And that's it, here we go.
(happy music)
- [Kazza] We made it!
(happy music)
So, for some peace of mind?
- I'm gonna go dive the maurine as usual.
(water splashes)
(air bubbling)
(happy music)
I just dropped a little stern hook off
to keep our bow into the swell.
(air bubbling) (happy music)
Then we could make it much nicer.
The maurine looks real good, it's pretty solid.
It's a big piece of chain,
but since it's gonna start blowing,
I might want to put out a backup anchor
since we're on a new shore anyway,
you know, since it's our house and all.
- Okay, so our plan is it to put out a second anchor.
So, we're literally gonna drop the anchor,
Brian is gonna tie it off to the dingy.
I'm gonna let chain out,
and we're gonna go out to the side.
(upbeat music)
(laughs)
This is kinda weird!
(laughs) This is like, very strange,
we've never done this before.
(upbeat music) (chains clinking)
- Haven't had to do that for a while,
but now we've got double maurine lines set up,
we've got the main anchor out forward into port,
and we've got a stern hook to keep us out of the swell.
Now I'm gonna sit down and relax, have a shower maybe.
(upbeat music)
(water splashing)
- Okay, we're going in, (laughs) Sierra.
And, it might be a little bit trickier,
it's gonna be a beach landing, some waves.
(metals clash) (upbeat music)
(waves crash)
- [Brian] There we go, got her.
All right, I got the baby.
(waves crash)
(birds chirping)
Successful mission, all right.
(water splashing) (upbeat music)
- [Kazza] Looks like a nice spot, huh?
- Yeah, it looks really nice.
(upbeat music)
Built in 1760,
that's crazy.
Hi - I'm Ryan.
- [Brian] Oh, you must be Ryan.
(Kazza laughs) Nice to meet you.
- Nice to see you. - Hi, Ryan.
Nice to meet you. - Welcome.
- [Brian] Thank you, thanks for the invite.
- [Ryan] With pleasure.
- Of course, after he sent me the email,
I said, "Oh, so you have an N,
"does that mean you have an address?
"And since it's a US Virgin Island,
"can ship stuff there with
"the United States Postal Service?"
And he says, "Yes, absolutely."
So, there is probably about a dozen boxes, (laughs)
waiting at the reception for us to pick up.
I think these are all of the packages. (laughs)
One, two, three, four, five, six,
boxes of heater.
- You guys found the loot.
- [Brian] Are you Corinna?
- I am. - Hi, I'm Brian.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
(upbeat music)
- [Ryan] This is a sugar plantation,
it was called at that time the Butler Bakery House,
it's on the National Registry of Historic Places,
and we're opening it as the Feather Leaf Inn.
So, we decided to name it after
the shape of the leaves of the tamarind tree.
And, there's all these beautiful huge
hardwood tamarind trees on the property.
(upbeat music)
(wood cracking)
That's baobab.
- [Brian] That's an amazing tree.
How many things has that tree seen?
- Yeah, that tamarind tree is old.
So, shopping for a tropical paradise property
is a lot like shopping for a boat.
Which means there's a lot
of type type type type on the computer.
- He showed me this place and I was like...
It didn't look like anything,
because it was poorly marketed.
And then when we got here, it was really rainy,
there was a lot of mosquitoes around,
and we got out of the parking lot,
and, I was speechless.
(Ryan laughs)
I was like wow, I feel like-- - And you were like, yeah.
- Corinna's like a tough nut to crack in that way,
she looks at a lot of properties,
and she says, "nah, not this one."
But this place, she lit up, and she was like "yeah.
"This one, I could live there, I could do that."
- [Kazza] How long ago was this?
- [Ryan] Two years ago.
- [Corinna] 2017.
- [Brian] So, those are all rooms.
- [Ryan] And now we have them as guest rooms.
So, for the first time in 206 years,
this is now open to the public.
People can come and see and enjoy.
(upbeat music)
- [Narrator] Up next on Delos,
we have one of our worst nights ever.
- [Kazza] The dingy is like filled with water
and it's just getting bashed onto the rocks.
(water splashing)
- One of the worst nights on anchor I've ever had.
Stern anchor line snapped,
put us broad side to the swell.
We gotta leave, we can't stay here, it's insane.
- Hello Delos Tribe, check out
this sweet new flags we got made.
If you see somebody fly it,
go up and say "hello," and maybe bring them a beer,
it's a fresh new batch waiting for you in the shop,
so, go and order one.
- Perfect, I should stop wearing pants.
I don't know, I seem to be caught up on a bunch of things.
- [Ryan] I'm getting through.
- Oh, he's getting through.
(engine humming)
Business in the front, party in the back.
- [Kazza] Look at that. (laughs)
- Like it, I like it a lot.