(Calm piano music) (Water rushing)
(Seagulls squawking)
(Calm piano music)
(Soft beeping)
- And we're off. (Dana giggling)
- So we are out sailing today
for the first time in a few days,
and it feels so good to be back on the water
after completing some projects.
And we are doing five knots,
and we decided today 'cause it's a bit windier,
I think it was like 18 knots of wind,
that we were gonna do reefed jib and reefed main sail.
And so it's kind of nice because now it lets us
go bit slower but get our confidence out
in a bit heavy wind for us.
We, I feel like 15 knots is the most wind
we've sailed in so far right?
- [Lou] Yeah.
- So little bit, like, more today
and it's bit rolly out here.
- [Lou] Yeah.
- Right?
(Waves crashing gently)
- Right when we come around this point I think the wind
is gonna pick up. - For real.
- It's supposed to be like 18 knots out there
a little bit later so we're kind of reefing everything
and seeing what happens 'cause we've never really sailed
with reefed sails all that much.
And yeah, it's a beautiful day for sailing.
- It's really fun to be out here.
I feel like we've been like in the harbor
doing projects and it like always,
it's like with the van, you know?
If you stay one place too long,
you forget that your home can move and--
- Yeah it just feels like so incredible
to like sail this boat.
(laughs) - Right?
- Yeah.
(Calm music)
- [Dana] I can't believe it's actually happening.
- [Lou] Right?
- Yeah it's so wild to be out here.
Just like sitting, enjoying the like water.
We like laid down, took a little snooze
as we were coming back in and
I don't know I can't believe like we actually are sailing.
- [Lou] Right?
- It's so weird, it's like
I think this is our fifth time out alone
and the boat is moving just with the wind.
Like there's no engine on or anything
and it just really feels so profound
that it's actually happening and like
all the effort was really worth it, you know?
- [Lou] Yeah.
- It's hard honestly to put it all into words
like what it feels like to be out here finally.
It's like quite emotional honestly
like just to know that like this is what it's
like this is the adventure, you know?
Like-- - [Lou] Yeah.
- We are moving, we are sailing with the wind
and we're getting like the hang of it, you know?
- [Lou] Yeah.
- And it's like no one like
that's what's so crazy like in America
after living in Europe with like all the different like
you know, there's no way you could just get a boat like this
in Germany and just sail it
because you'd need to prove that you aren't gonna like
I don't know, get in trouble.
You'd have to like learn to sail
with an official person and all this thing
and get certifications and for here it's just like
you buy it, it's yours take it.
And we had no idea what we were doing,
just like I think we're like a few days,
like five days away from, or three days away from
two months of being in the water,
and it's like we knew nothing two months ago, Lou.
- [Lou] Yeah.
- Like, nothing, it's crazy. - [Lou] Zero.
- We didn't know how to do anything.
And it's just slowly been picking it up
and like yeah.
It's shocking, like the learning curve
has been so steep and I feel like today
was our calmest sail, you know?
- [Lou] Yeah, I took a nap.
- You took a nap!
What?
Yeah.
It's just really cool that it's all coming together.
And today's a really beautiful day, too.
But it's blowing,
I mean there's little white caps on the water.
Like-- - [Lou] Yeah.
- It's--
- [Lou] We got 7.5 knots.
- Yeah.
That was just for a hot second.
(Lou laughs)
Today's been a calmer sail, like six knots really.
Because
we reefed all the sails.
But that's nice, you heel a little bit less.
So that's good.
- [Lou] Love you.
- I love you.
You got this.
(Calm music)
- [Lou] The wind is coming that way, Dana.
- [Dana] I have to get it on our starboard side.
- [Lou] Okay that's fine.
(Engine whirring)
(Metal clanging softly)
(Wind blowing)
We're on.
(Beeping)
- Woo hoo!
Welcome back to SV Penelope.
It's a exciting day around here
because we have another project to complete on the boat
which is just the normal life on the boat,
is basically all summer long we've just been focusing
on getting as many projects done as we can.
And today's project is to install our wifi extender.
And I'm really hoping that it works well
and that we can get access to free wifi
from neighboring good Samaritans like coffee shops
and yacht clubs and those kind of, and bars and stuff.
And then this way we can upload our videos
without having to use our data from our cellphone
because right now we're just tethering our phones
to get wifi, which is working fine
but it's definitely not ideal because
you don't wanna use all of your data uploading videos
when you can do it fo free.
So we have the wifi extender,
hopefully we have everything that we need to do the project.
We are gonna have to drill through the deck again
which is never fun but hopefully we can do it.
And yeah, that's the project for the afternoon.
Did I say its three o'clock already
and I'm kinda tired?
(Drill whirring)
(Engine buzzing)
(Drill whirring)
- [Dana] Wow!
(Drill whirring)
Hey!
What a cute little antenna.
The question is does this antenna need to be like
I don't know, near a window or something.
- [Lou] This is just for the internal wifi.
- Oh, okay, so this is just like
from our computer to this thing.
- [Lou] Yeah.
- Okay.
Well then it's nice for this to be next to a charger.
(Zip tie whirring)
(Wood banging softly)
Okay.
(Wood banging softly)
(Metal clanging softly)
(Dana grunting softly)
(Plastic squeaking softly)
(Water rippling softly)
Wonderful.
Here.
Okay.
(Metal clanging softly)
Wingardium leviosa.
(Both giggling)
Pretty cool, right?
- [Lou] Yeah.
- I think we want it this way, right?
(Water lapping softly)
(Dana humming softly)
(Water lapping)
(Soft piano music)
How awesome would it be if we have wifi for free?
Oh my gosh.
Wifi extender not connected to optimizer.
It's not connected to the extender.
Oh, did,
oh no you plugged it in, didn't you?
Or no?
Is it, it's fully plugged in.
What the heck man?
- [Lou] Uh-oh.
(Man laughing)
- Internet problems.
I think I'm gonna just try unplugging it.
- [Lou] Okay.
- You know?
Classic turn-it-off-turn-it-back-on.
W-W-A-N slash L-A-N-I-P conflict detected.
LAN IP network is the same as the IP network
supplied by the access point.
Let's just, I'm gonna get my computer out
and see if this works.
(Zipper whirring)
(Soft clicking)
(Lou laughing)
That's not what mine says. (Soft music)
So I wish we had a more
satisfying ending to this story for your guys.
But that's just the truth of it,
sometimes these boat projects don't work out
the way we imagined.
Thanks for watching anyway, and a huge thank you
to all our lovely patrons for supporting this channel
and making all of our adventures
and misadventures possible.
(Lights clicking)
Welcome back to the Live Creatively podcast,
it's Dana.
- And Lou.
- And we are recording live,
it is eight PM on Friday.
So sorry that this one's gonna be a little bit late.
It's so hard when we're filming like
day-in-the-life videos to like--
- Yeah.
- [Dana] Everything just takes
so much longer than expected.