- [Voiceover] This is Delos.
She's our home, our platform for adventure, a dive shop,
a five star restaurant, a playpen, an office, a nightclub
and so much more.
But she's also a 20-plus ton hunk of fiberglass
and mechanical components.
And after safely taking us through another sailing season
of six months, three countries and 3000 more nautical miles
under her keel, she was ready for some serious TLC.
So for the ninth time in our trip around the world,
we'd be hauling Delos out of the water.
An experience that hasn't gotten any less nerve-wracking
over the years.
Always get a little bit nervous hauling out.
It's just a weird thing.
There's so many things that can go very, very, very wrong.
- [Voiceover] But before that would happen,
we still had a few days left to enjoy this
wild and rugged paradise here
in the Sea of Cortez.
In true cruiser fashion,
instead of spending our last days frolicking with sea lions
and exploring empty beaches, my beautiful view would be
from the inside of the engine room.
- That is not good news.
So I was running the generator last night to
charge batteries and run the AC so we could get the boat
down to like a little sane temperature,
and it threw a high exhaust temperature alarm.
I decided to go to sleep, sort it out this morning
and now when I woke up, every time I hit the start button
it blows the DC circuit breaker right away.
Usually what it'll do is, it'll start up and then
if there's a problem like a bad oil sender or a
temperature sender or the water flow sensor,
it will run for about seven to eight seconds
and then it'll shut down.
It's not even trying to kick over.
I've never seen this problem before.
First step, I guess I'll take the cover off.
I'm just gonna look for anything obvious.
- [Voiceover] After isolating a few possible causes,
I disconnected several different components,
one at a time to see which one might make a change.
It appeared to be some combination of a bad connection
and some kind of fault in the temperature sender.
After a bit of fiddling, smashing, sweating, and cursing
I was able to start the generator back up,
or at least for now.
- So what I'm interested in watching is the temperature
to see if it gives me a reading at all.
Right now it's reading 54 C, 53 C, which is pretty low.
I want to see that it's at least working.
I gotta pull a little bit of load on it
just see what it does.
Okay. It's 74, so I do think it's reporting an accurate
temperature.
- Did you find anything or is it just magically?
I don't know.
- The, so I sort of like jiggled it a little bit
and then it started working again,
and it's reading a proper temperature.
But I mean, I'm using it.
We're charging the batteries, but I wouldn't be surprised
if this continues to happen.
Back to our normal lives for now,
until something else fails.
- [Kazza] What's going on?
- Well, you know, the generator's been giving us hassles
and even after I fiddled
with that temperature sensor it's still running hot.
- [Kazza] Yeah.
- Although it is running now.
So I decided just to start from one end of the system
and start checking water all the way back.
So I cut one of these hoses in half of this adapter.
Can you see through that?
- No.
- That's a problem.
Watch this.
- [Kazza] It's completely blocked.
What is in there?
- It's a barnacle, and a bunch of other crap.
Mainly that guy.
Now look, can you see me now?
- [Kazza] Yeah.
- The other thing that sucks is, when this thing was
installed in South Africa, this is a mild steel fitting.
It's not stainless.
And so look what it's been doing,
it's been corroding.
It's just crumbling in my hands. (sighs)
(laughs)
- That's a good sign.
At least I found something.
Okay, I'm back at it.
- [Kazza] Good luck.
- So as usual, I don't have the right piece to fix it.
There's obviously no store out here.
So I've got a bunch of pieces,
and I am literally trying to cobble something together
from this piece and this piece,
which is very badly corroded.
Then I have some extra bits and stuff.
All I know is that we're gonna have it working
this afternoon one way or another.
- [Voiceover] Fixing stuff on the boat is often
more of an art than a science.
It requires improvisation, creativity, patience
and perseverance.
Sometimes, you end up with a masterpiece
and sometimes, you end up with a mess.
And today, I landed somewhere in between.
With a bit of plumbing tape thrown into the mix,
I was feeling pretty good about my Franken-pipe.
Now I just needed to hook it back up
and see if there were any major leaks.
- So you'd imagine it's about 110 degrees down here
but at least there's no flies.
- [Kazza] Look at you, Brian.
Look at all of them.
- Ohhh! I can't stand it.
They're all over me.
- I've only been out here for 30 seconds.
- [Kazza] This flies are insane here.
- I hate it.
- [Kazza] At least we don't have bees.
- I'd rather have bees.
Ah!
It's still a bitch to get in here.
It's like sweaty,
hot, yoga.
Okay, it's threaded in there.
So now I gotta put the hose back on,
if I can get it on there. Oh, holy crap.
Think I need to heat it up to get it on there.
It's pretty tight.
Come on.
(grunts)
(blow dryer running)
Got it.
If this works,
it's not something I would cross the Pacific with but,
it'll definitely get us to the next port, that's for sure.
Okay. Turn AC back on, check for leaks.
No leak so far, that's a good sign.
One thing left to do.
- [Kazza] Oh!
- [Brian] (laughs) You know what time it is.
- [Kazza] AC time!
- [Brian] It's time to enjoy the fruits of my labor.
Ooh! You look naked right now.
You're not naked. - I'm not naked.
- All right, let's crank this bad boy on.
Ooh. It's gonna make it so cold in here,
like a refrigerator.
This is how we chill out after 110 degree day.
Yeah...temperature.
Let's go with number one unit,
number two unit, number three unit.
Battery charger.
Let's see how we do.
Okay. All systems go.
69 degrees.
Ooh, hello.
- [Voiceover] After running the generator at full load
for several hours and maintaining a good temp,
it was pretty clear
that the barnacle block was in fact the culprit.
I was happy with the fix for now, but an overhaul
of all the sensors on the generator would definitely
be on my list once we hauled out.
- Hey, is that nugget cam?
- Oh, hi Mama.
- Oh, hi Sierra.
- [Kazza] So we're pretty remote out here.
- Yeah. These guys, the little fishing camp over here
next to us, they came by in their panga.
And I think they want some water, which is good because
I just made a lot of water after fixing the generator.
I just made like 400 liters of water.
They have these little fishing camps.
There's nothing to it.
They just have like a few jugs.
There's like, got carpet for shade or something.
It's tough, it's tough, man.
But they're super nice guys.
Ready? (groans)
Okay, come on.
Come on.
- Hi. Hi.
- Gracias.
- Say bye.
Whoa, look at those baby footprints, and look at mine.
Mine are bigger.
Watch, put yours next to mine.
Good job.
Watch.
Whoa, that's a big difference.
- [Kazza] Geez. (laughing)
- Water's so nice.
- [Kazza] It's our last day here, huh?
- It is our last day.
Tomorrow we're gonna sail to Puerto Peñasco.
Probably motor,
'cause there's not gonna be any wind.
- [Kazza] Yeah.
- We're gonna haul out
and that'll be the end of the season.
- [Kazza] That feels crazy.
- [Voiceover] It was hard to believe
that another season of sailing had passed.
So much had happened since we left Shelter Bay and Panama
about six months earlier.
We transited the Panama Canal, explored some of the
most beautiful and remote corners of Costa Rica.
Got some tattoos, had brushes with four name storms.
I officially finished my circumnavigation of planet Earth.
Sierra turned three years old.
Kazza got salmonella poisoning.
And we had our minds blown on a daily basis
at how insanely beautiful the Sea of Cortez is.
It's always a bit sad to close another chapter,
but it's exciting too.
And while we had a lot of work ahead of us in the boatyard,
all of it would be taking us one step closer
to our next big move...
crossing the Pacific Ocean for the second time.
- [Brian] Okay.
- Time to go.
- So next time you see us, we'll probably be hauling out.
- Well passage.
- Well, yeah
Whatever.
- (laughing) Okay, that's a wrap.
- Okay.
- [Kazza] She's like, pick up the anchor.
- Are you ready to go back, nuggs?
- It's time.
- [Brian] God. Let's get outta here.
Get rid of these flies.
- [Kazza] I hope that the flies will go away
when we start moving.
- Forward!
(sound of anchor lifting)
- Let's go, huh?
Look at all the flies on Brian's head.
(Brian groans)
Do you see them all?
Probably be a motorboat ride, huh?
- Definitely a motorboat ride.
- [Kazza] For how far is it?
- 107 miles.
So if we average five knots right now,
we make it right on time for our haul out.
- [Kazza] Cool.
Bye-Bye. See you Cortez.
(light music playing)
- We're here, we're about seven miles away.
You can see Puerto Peñasco right here.
Normally when we haul out, we paint the bottom.
I change the oil in the MLC drive,
so like the propeller bushings, seals, wearing, bearing
all that stuff.
Service the prop and then the bow thruster.
Those are the three things that I always do.
Are you nervous?
- A little bit. - [Brian] Yeah?
- I always feel a bit nervous pulling out.
It's like a big thing, you know.
- [Brian] House gets pulled out of the water
by a giant machine.
I've counted, this will be my ninth time
hauling Delos out of the water.
- Really? - [Brian] Yeah.
I did it two times in Seattle
and then in Mexico when the propeller accidentally fell off
and I had to put it back on.
And then the next time wasn't until
Australia when we had to fix the damage
from hitting the reef in Solomon Islands.
- [Kazza] Yeah.
- And then we ran out of money
and had to leave the boat in Bundaberg and go work.
And then the next time was Langkawi in Malaysia,
where Frieda and Max were there.
And then the next time after that
we sailed all the way to Grenada.
And then the next one was a couple years later in Annapolis.
And now we're on the other side of Mexico,
number nine.
How many of those have you been here for?
Almost all of them.
Except for the times in Seattle and Mexico.
- [Kazza] Yeah. The first three, I guess.
- You're pretty experienced.
You've got five under your belt, Kazz.
This one's gonna be a cinch.
Oh, we're two miles away from the entrance.
- [Kazza] Nice.
- We have an hour to get there.
- [Voiceover] The tides in the northern part
of the Sea of Cortez are massive,
with a range of five to six meters, or 15 to 18 feet.
That means it's only deep enough
at the slip during high tide.
So we needed to time our arrival perfectly.
- (indistinct) Delos, Delos
- [Boatyard] Come in, Delos.
- Yeah, we're ready to go whenever you are.
- [Boatyard] Okay. Give us five minutes.
- Okay. Standing by.
Five minutes.
- [Voiceover] Hauling a 20-plus ton boat out
is always an interesting experience.
You're basically asked to steer your boat
into a narrow concrete-like bunker
with a gigantic machine looming overhead.
There's usually some old tires
and rusty bits of metal waiting to
impale your vessel, should anything go wrong.
So you approach slowly
and if you have timed the tides correctly,
you glide over the slings and stop
just before ramming your bow into the wall,
or your forestay into the machine's cross brace,
both of which are considered bad form.
- We're so ready.
- [Voiceover] As the machine tightens the slings
and starts to take the weight,
it's a surreal experience to feel yourself
and your boat lifted out of the water
supported by only a few straps and pins.
But the guys running the lift are pros
and they have a down to a science.
You're then free to step right off the bow
onto the concrete and watch your house move
through the yard into your assigned working spot.
- Sierra, where's our house?
What's going on?
This is weird, huh?
We got this take to our place that we're gonna chill out.
We're not gonna stay on the boat tonight.
This is my ninth haul out, like I said.
- Yeah.
- And for years we were so hardcore
we always stayed on the boats.
- I don't know if we were hardcore,
I think we were just really broke. (laughs)
We got a really sweet hookup from a Delos follower,
that have an apartment here in like a super sweet kind
of apartment complex, I guess.
- [Brian] Resort.
- Resort kind of thing.
And we get to stay there for free.
So I was like, well, if I get to choose from that and
- The dirty, dusty, hot, boatyard?
- And you can't, like-
- We can't flush the toilets,
you can't use the sinks.
- I was gonna say everything!
- [Brian] Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.
- You're gonna film me,
then you just say everything. (laughing)
- Okay, so basically when you stay
on the boat in the yard, it's really hot.
It's usually a lot of bugs.
You can't use the toilets
so you have to do it in a bucket at night
or go downstairs into the lobby, which is not that nice.
And then you can't use any of the sinks or any of the water.
It's just hot and nasty
and dusty and yeah, it's not that great.
So yeah, we opted for a free, amazing place to stay.
- [Sierra] No Mama, no Mama. No, no, no.
- [Brian] Sierra, do you wanna stay stay here
in the boatyard or do you want to go swim in the pool?
- Nope. - [Brian] Nope.
- [Kazza] Two bags left.
- [Brian] Sierra doesn't wanna leave the boat.
Are you on watch now, nuggs?
In the boatyard.
How do you steer the boat?
That's it.
That's how you do it.
Come on, nuggs,
we're gonna go stay in a little resort.
We're gonna see (indistinct)
in Annapolis, soon when we go to the boat show.
- [Brian] She wants Grace and Mormor,
her best friends in life.
The bottom's actually not that bad a shape.
- [Kazza] Wow!
Ooh, this is the master bedroom huh?
Oh, no way.
Brian!
I'm gonna take a bath!
I'm gonna take a bath, I'm gonna take a bath!
I'm gonna have a little glass of wine
and take a bath.
Whoa, Sierra.
- Whoa, look at this, nuggs.
- [Kazza] What? What is this place?
- [Brian] You wanna go down there?
- [Kazza] Let's go there.
- [Voiceover] Up next on Delos, we head
to the Annapolis boat show for a week of mayhem.
We're reunited with some of our favorite friends
in the whole entire world, and we get the chance to
meet the people who've made this whole journey possible.
You guys
- So much bugs.
- [Brian] Oh, look at the whole ceiling.
It's just, yeah, you can see it.
Look, should I smash 'em?
Hold this.
- [Kazza] No, let's just spray.
- No, no, I got a plan.
- [Kazza] No, let's just spray it.
That is never gonna work.
- It's gonna work.
- [Kazza] Sorry.
- Die,
die you little bitches.
- You're literally just like smashing them around.
- That's good, they're all dead now.
They're not dead.
- [Kazza] No
- No. Brian, take one at a time!
- One at a time.
- [Kazza] I feel so nervous,
take one at a time. Please.
- Woo-hoo!