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- [Narrator Brian] The Annapolis Boat Show
is one of the largest
and most prestigious events of its kind on the planet.
On paper, it's a chance to check out the latest
and greatest gadgets and tour some shiny new boats.
But for us, it's the one time
of the year that a collection of our favorite people
in the universe who are normally scattered all
around the world, can be found in one place.
(guitar strums)
There'd be lots of YouTubers, lots of shenanigans,
lots of alcohol, and lots of incredible moments shared,
with the people who have made this entire journey possible.
You guys!
The Delos Tribe.
We had just hauled out Delos in Puerto, Penasco, Mexico.
And now, all that stood between us and getting serenaded
by this lovely pirate wench,
was two days of travel,
and 2,500 miles.
(guitar strums)
- [Brian] So getting to Phoenix,
- [Kazza] Yeah. - in the US,
from here is a bit of a trick.
There's really not much of an airport.
I think it's for private charters only.
So, we just happen to have somebody that was coming
down from Phoenix to check on their boat.
So we're gonna catch a ride up with him.
His name is Josh.
And then the next day after that, we have a flight
to Baltimore, and then we'll be in Annapolis.
So, just last organizing things.
Sierra is not happy because I closed the door.
What are you doing?
(baby crying) - [Sierra] Mama!
- [Brian] Oh geez.
Okay. That's it.
That's all we can do.
All right, here we go.
- [Kazza] Here we go.
- [Brian] Bye Delos!
See you in 10 days.
- [Kazza] Bye.
Now we have a five hour car ride,
with a toddler to look forward to.
Are you gonna be good Sierra?
- [Sierra] No no. - [Brian] Nope.
(Brian laughing)
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- [Brian] The drive was smooth,
beautiful, and uneventful.
We had a big day ahead of us in airports and planes.
Which isn't always the most relaxing experience
with a toddler in tow.
But when you're used to traveling
at the speed of a bicycle on Delos,
the novelty of flying is actually pretty incredible.
Our journey was about 2,500 miles in total.
Which would take us just shy of three weeks by sailboat.
So a day in the car and a day in airport was pretty doable.
And Sierra actually seemed to really enjoy it.
- [Kazza] Hey Sierra, are you ready for our first flight?
- Yes!
- Where are we going?
Are we gonna go see our friends in Annapolis?
- Mmhmm.
- It's gonna be fun! Woohoo!
- [Kazza] Hey
- Woohoo!
- [Flight Attendant] Please remain seated,
with your seatbelt securely fastened,
anytime the seatbelt light is on.
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- [Kazza] This is us.
(baby yelling)
(air plane intercom bings)
- [Pilot] Flight attendants,
please prepare for landing.
(upbeat music)
(baby yelling)
- [Brian] Ta-da!
How did you get caught in there?
- Yeah.
Okay.
Jeff is here to pick us up.
Jeffrey, hi.
Hello.
- How are you?
It's good to see you.
Hi Sierra.
Hug?
- [Kazza] So many bags.
- [Brian] Jeff's an old buddy of ours.
And he's the man behind the madness,
when it comes to all things YouTube here at the show.
His home and the makeshift trailer park he set up
in his front yard would become ground zero
for the 20 plus YouTube channels that would be descending
upon the event.
After getting settled in at his place,
we are treated to the arrival
of a few faces that you'll probably
recognize.
- Oh! Mama has arrived!
Come. Come on,
don't fall.
(indistinct)
Yay!
You made it.
Everybody's showing up.
It's happening.
(indistinct)
- How are you?
That's the best hug I've had in a long time.
- You're wearing Lisa's socks.
- I know I am.
- Oh yay.
- Together again.
- Hi dad.
- Hi. Good to see you.
- Hello? Who's editing this?
Is that (indistinct) over there?
Hello?
(group laughing)
- Camera is on right?
- [Brian] Oh its perfect.
That's good! I'm coming! I'm coming!
- Everybody say "Jeff Bach!"
- [Everyone] Jeff Bach! (group cheering)
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- Here we go.
Wassup??
- [Interviewer] How's your boat show going so far?
- Good.
Ask me how I feel.
- [Both] With my hands. (both laughing)
- No!
- [Interviewer] You have a very important job here at the,
- I have a super important job.
This is the job and it's the best.
I love it.
Kiss.
- Hundreds of people were gathered here
at the YouTube sailing channels booth.
And it wasn't just for the
world class dad jokes.
Different channels have time slots
throughout the day when fans can come and say hello.
It was our turn to man the booth
and we were absolutely blown away by the turnout.
- Here at the Delos booth, and I'm telling you
the line goes a ways out,
and it's been awesome,
just talking to a bunch of the fans,
just wanting to say thank you.
And just watching 'em walk through here,
and finally get to say what they've always
wanted to say to these guys.
This is Jessica and Tony from Dallas, Texas.
- Dallas, Texas.
- I'm Matt from Minnesota.
- From Michigan.
- Surf City, North Carolina are here.
- Birmingham, Alabama.
- I'm from Mars, sadly, just Mars, PA.
- I'm Brady and I live on the moon.
- We actually bought our own boat because of these guys.
- Well you guys inspired me
to buy my little boat on a little lake.
Yeah. Now I too wanna sail around the world.
- They are the reason why we have to do this life.
- They're our inspiration, really.
- [Brian] The whole experience was pretty surreal
and humbling in so many ways.
In 2010, I posted my first YouTube video
about crossing the Pacific Ocean.
It was more or less a glorified home movie to let my friends
and family know that I was still alive
on my 18 month sabbatical from work.
- [Man Recording] That is an old volcano.
There's Brian.
Hey buddy.
Say hi.
- How's it going?
- [Brian] But somehow my 18 month sabbatical turned
into a 13 year trip around the world.
And my home movie evolved into an entire way of life.
Never in a million years did I expect to have hundreds
of thousands of people following our journey
and supporting us at every step of the way.
But above all
the most unbelievable part was learning how the simple act
of sharing our story would inspire so many others to
build the life they had always dreamed of.
Meeting the Delos tribe,
we heard stories of hope,
challenges, loss, triumph,
and everything in between.
And learning face-to-face what an impact our journey has had
on their lives is an experience that I will always
hold close to my heart.
And it's what inspires us to keep going
and keep sharing with all of you.
- You hear me baby?
- Would you rather have a cider?
- Ooh, I want a cider, yeah.
- Cider.
- Si, gracias.
- Cider. Cider. Cider, cider.
- Over here.
- Come on.
- Going down memory lane here.
Look at all these pictures.
Dad put this book together.
- These are really nice older pictures.
That's Brady, right?
You can see the button nose.
(both laughing)
- Aww.
- That little babe there.
- Abraham Lincoln.
- 'Babe-braham Lincoln.
- What?
- So what's the situation here?
- Hmm. We're pre-gaming here.
- Pregame.
- One hour.
One hour before we get ready for the party.
- What party is it?
- Well, that would be the party for Delos.
- The party for Delos.
- This is our patrons party.
It's a patrons only event
and we just have beers and just chat.
- Yeah, it's pretty cool.
It's gonna be like a lot of people
like 300 people probably.
(group cheering)
(indistinct chatter)
- Jordan!
Did you get some wine?
- Some frozen?
- Yeah, it's going good.
Meeting lots of new people, friends
talking about Mauritius stories about smelly Jack
the the drunken skipper.
You know?
- [Brian] Over the years we've had meetups
in the Big Apple,
60 feet underwater and Grenada.
Blindfolded and stuffed with tacos in Mexico.
But the amazing thing about this collection
of humans is that no matter where we are in the world
we have a home, a family,
and unconditional love and support.
It's hard to put into words
what the special community really means to us.
It's pretty mind blowing,
what we've been able to experience
and share thanks to our patrons
and everything positive that has come
from the Delos Project.
All the inspiration, all the hope, all the laughs
and adventures that we've been able to share
with millions of people around the world.
And all of it is because of these guys.
(group cheering)
- Wait, you gotta start over.
- I gotta start over?
- We gotta vlog.
- We're vlogging?
- And.
- And and action.
Hello and thanks everybody for coming today.
Welcome to the 2022 Delos patrons
meet up at the Annapolis boat show.
No, it's so incredible to have so many people here
and just talk with you and hear your stories.
And I think it's as inspirational for us just to
to know that we've made, you know
people happy and have brought so many people together.
And I've heard some incredible stories
about people making friends here
through Delos and just through the boat show.
And I think it's, it's fantastic.
- And we also have Ray and Alex here.
- What's up everybody?
(indistinct)
Yeah. Thank you.
Thanks everybody for coming here,
even though we haven't been on Delos
or in the videos for,
What's it been like three years now?
It's been a while, but it's awesome to come back
to the boat show here
and see everybody like all the familiar faces.
And the reason why it's all possible is cause of you guys.
So thank you so much for being here.
- Woo!
- What else is up?
- Update.
- We're sailing in Mexico.
- [Crowd] Yeah!
- Yeah, we have a passport 42 that's in San Francisco.
Sierra's gonna join us as our crew.
(crowd laughing)
Of course we're gonna have lots of time
to cruise with Delos too hopefully.
Anything you wanna add to that dear?
- You guys are awesome.
- I would love to take like a group photo
if we can in some way.
So Mom, do you have a phone up there?
- Everyone say Chuck the funny!
(crowd cheering)
- This is me just talking at a normal volume robot voice.
- Normal volume at the robot voice.
(static buzzing)
- [Brian] The next few days we're a blur to say the least.
- Oh, what's up?
- Oh my God.
Where'd you guys?
Thank you for coming.
- God Save the queen.
- [Brian] We had a few more slots in the booth.
- Hi beans.
Are you Adela's fan?
Are you here for the show?
- She's Adela's follower for sure.
- [Brian] We drank an obscene amount of alcohol.
And just generally ran amuck on the streets of Annapolis.
I even had my first crack at being an award presenter.
- Woo!
- There's something quite special with being some
of the only sailing channels out there back in the day.
- OG.
- Ah yeah.
Delos has sailed around the world
and they're here to present this award.
(indistinct) Please come up.
(crowd cheering)
- Okay, so do you wanna say,
- The magic words?
- Yep. And the finalists are...
(crowd laughing)
- Nailed it!
- [Brian] But before we knew it,
our week had flown by
and it was time for our last event.
- [Kazza] Jump! Jump!
- Yeah. We're gonna go do a presentation
entitled Circumnavigation Fails,
All the shit that went wrong on the trip.
I'm pretty excited about it cause I could stand up there
and tell embarrassing stories about myself
for about 90 minutes.
(both laughing)
And it's gonna be a joint presentation
with me and Kazza and Senior Brady.
So it's gonna be a lot of fun.
I'm actually looking forward to it.
- [Kazza] Yeah.
- It's packed.
It's sold out.
- [Kazza] Yeah, let's do it.
- Alright.
- Yay. Oh
(baby giggles)
- What are you doing Kaz?
- Everybody ready?
- Yeah. A little bit rough today.
It's the last last push.
Gonna do this presentation in front of hundreds
of people and like, but it's gonna be good.
It'll be amazing when we get there.
When we start speaking it's always better.
- Yeah, just wherever you can find a place
up past that white tent there.
- Oh, we're gonna get you to that white tent then.
Who's gonna mess with us?
I don't see nobody out in the street directing traffic.
(baby babbles)
- Today's presentation is brought to you Sierra.
- Hey no no.
- You gonna tell some good stories today?
- Wow
- We're going to do this.
- So many calm people.
- Some people actually showed up.
- I'm like really nervous too.
- [Brian] The venue filled in and we began to recount some
of our cringiest, hilarious and sketchiest stories
from 13 years and over 70,000 miles of sailing.
It ended up being a blast.
And you can actually view the entire presentation
by clicking the link here or in the description below.
But here are a few little gems
from the night to wet your appetite.
- And here is green man entertaining
a children's birthday party.
(crowd groans)
The thing about green man.
Talk about things going wrong is these are the the Tahitian
dancers that like to rub on Green man's nice silky
smooth spandex suit.
(crowd laughing)
And when that happens to Green man,
green man
little green bean starts to grow a little bit.
This is actually the only frame of a something that I caught
Green man literally running out of the party
before he traumatized the children.
There's senior Brady on bow watch
looking for reefs right there.
- Brian was sitting at the helm
with Karen directly in his lap.
- I was probably distracted
by my skipper duties by something else and uh,
- I didn't know a lot about sailing so I didn't know
that you actually had to like zoom in on the chart to
see certain islands.
Brady's like 'shallow, shallow'
and then he (indistinct).
And I was like, what does that mean?
Like what are we supposed to do here?
Yeah, just hard hits.
- Full speed. Six knots.
Ran right up on the (indistinct)
and the outboard started full throttle,
and instead of launching over the wave we just
launched straight backwards and it was yeah, terrifying
cause then you have fuel tank
and radios and everything else
that we had flipped.
Now the outboard is still
running upside down
the propeller's spinning.
Remember that one time we actually accidentally
kidnapped a small boy from (indistinct)
(crowd laughing)
- So I just wanna say that this guy has sailed
on the world I'm so proud of him
(crowd clapping and cheering)
And yeah, let's do it again.
- Cheers.
- Before anyone leaves,
can we get a selfie?
- [Brian] And just like that the boat show
was a wrap for us
and left our hearts feeling so incredibly full.
Spending time with our family
and friends is a thing we miss most
while we're out cruising.
And since we're preparing to cross
the Pacific again in a few months,
moments like these will become even harder to come by.
So we felt super lucky that we were able to cram
in so much love, hugs and laughter into one trip.
(country music)
- Hi guys. Hope you enjoyed the video.
I just wanna give another huge shout
out to all our patrons out there.
So if you wanna join us for more patron meetups like this
also get access to the videos before everybody else
and we also share a lot of cool patron only content.
So head on over
to patron.com/svdelos if you wanna check it out.
And yeah, see you guys next week.
- Up next we get back on Delos on the hard.
And start getting her ready to cross
the mighty Pacific Ocean.
(static buzzing)
- Do whatever you want to my back.
- Pish, that's what she said.
- I like it when they call me big papa.
(man laughing)
- Oh hey, here we go.
Here we go.
- Paul keeps doing my accent.
So I thought I was gonna try
and train myself out of the American accent.
Oh my God.
Chad. Chad gra- I can't do it.
No.
- Can you say grandpa?
- Can you say buy a condo in Mexico?
- Yeah. Buy a condios bro.
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