what's up guys so it's another beautiful day here in Los Roques
and today we are gonna go and see who can fix our propeller or de propeller because the hub is spinning it has like a rubber and the
hop keeps spinning so you can give it throttle and the propeller doesn't move uh so i have to go
really slow so that it doesn't slip so i'm gonna go pick up donny which is the local fisherman that
we spent the whole day yesterday and then we're gonna go into town and see if there's someone
that can drill the holes and put some screws in it the boat's pretty dirty we gotta clean it but
yeah it is what it is we're alejo andrea and we've been living on our sailboat for the past two years
we sailed from the united states all across the caribbean to a right to this pyramids
it means no worries so guys today here on hakuna has been a cleaning day because it's just bad like
you just it just takes over the dirt takes over so alejo has been removing stains from the fiberglass
which we've been we've had to do since we hold out the boat and we have some really bad stains
as you can see that one over there we had some really bad ones here here in the sugar scoop
on the stairs and as you can see it's completely white super beautiful looks amazing this thing
is magic but you use it with one of those magic erasers the white little sponges well what
whatever is left over of the sponge right yes um and yeah not sponsored it just really works doing
it right now on that big stain i spent the entire morning just cleaning inside the dogs haven't been
on board in like six months and we still have hair from the dogs everywhere coming out as we
clean clean clean and it just keeps coming out so i spent some time just fixing the kite room this
is super messy looks a little bit better so we can enjoy and go snorkeling without feeling like we're
living in a cape if you haven't noticed the people in yachts the people in boats there's always
scrubbing going on whether it's inside or outside there's always some cleaning to do how do you feel
about all the work that needs to get done in the boat yeah we're we're doing it little by little
is that what you expected when you bought a boat of how much work it would be or less or more
like how much more like like 100 more like 200 i thought i was gonna be drinking more really
so we are moving to uh uh that's more like uh more south of the rockets
so we're moving to this little islands right here
uh we're just gonna we're gonna go explore see what we see see what we find
okay change our plans we're going to the island with
to sakisaki where they do kiteboard because we see some kites
so we're here thinking that we caught a fish and the boats over there got caught in our line
captain tell us exactly what happened please we fished the boat so we have a
60 pound line on the 30 pound fishing rod yeah but i mean it worked so the line didn't rip and
which is good that's what we wanted so a couple of months ago we finished something
i don't know what it was something really big and it ripped our line and we had a big
massive couple situation because alejo was like oh shoot and i was like pissed because majority
of the plastic in the ocean is just fishing line so i didn't want to contribute to that so i was
like no we need to buy stronger fishing lines he looked and did so much research on like a really
strong fishing line and i think the fishing line it worked it worked it passed the test we can fish
a strike now or a whale or something and it will hold if you held a boat i'm sure it's gonna hold
right yeah so we have tried to anchor two times near the island but it's very rocky it's it
doesn't and that in the navigational charts you don't you can't tell exactly where to anchor
so you have to like kind of test it you also want to make sure that you're not damaging the
coral so between avoiding the corals and trying to find a standing patch it's very hard so we are
moving to a place where we can see a sailboat over there and we're gonna try to anchor there
see if that's an option so that then we can go by dingy to the island
so as you can see that's all sandy patches sunny patches over there so you really have to find
your way in because you don't want to get stuck so we know we can try to throw it here
it really all depends on what you're looking at so for instance here over there where it looks almost
white right we know we can't throw it there or we might be able to throw it close to there because
it's very sandy but it's also very shallow so if we throw it there we'll be able to just drag back
and still stay in the area where we're gonna be over five feet
five foot deep five feet deep so yeah that's what we're going to try to do and see how it works
didn't help people we got it after three try three tries so now we are going kiting
we're going to the island over there that is called sakisaki very popular among kai borders
we made it to this beautiful and incredible island check out everything around us a
beautiful blue crystal clear water and well we were hoping to kite board but the wind didn't hold
we cannot complain at all it's a beautiful wonderful day and we left hakuna over there
so we are back on the move yesterday we visited the day i don't know if you can see that little
island called sakisaki and now we're going to another place what we use here for navigation
is like google maps so today the idea is to move to a spot where where we can go diving so here in
the buckets the navionics charts they barely work because they just put everything as like 12 feet
and then like little patches of grass but they're not accurate so i recommend not looking at the
charts too much and just going with google maps so thanks to this rift right here the rocket has
flat water so you can see it's a big reef so this is a whole wall here this is like a fairy tale
baby you look like you're in a movie like they're putting like a fake background on you
it's amazing right the last thing that we told you guys is that we had a damaged propeller
um it was spinning um and it wasn't just kind of going with the engine nobody could do
welding there he couldn't find a solution that god that was supposed to fix it it's like he kind
of just never told the guy to fix it the guy that we were with donny the the the fisherman
so i had this extra propeller but the thing inside you can see like yeah that was in the
right pattern of the one that we have i don't know why not but yeah so this is what broke so
you can see this bronze part inside and then it's rubber right so bronze rubber and then
the propeller when that rubber breaks the hops start spinning when you put it in gear
there's a couple ways to fix it just temporarily once that breaks you can either change the whole
assembly or just buy a new propeller might as well buy a new propeller because they're cheap
or not they're not cheap but yeah they're not expensive so the solution we did for now
was because we couldn't find another property yeah yeah here in the rockets there's no parts
for boats so what we did was i drilled three holes so one here so it goes all the way
from this to the to the hub right so three holes one two three and then we put three screws that
attach that hub to the propeller so it doesn't spin so i'm to show you guys our propeller it's
already on the dinghy because you forgot to record i forgot to record and then i got really bad
it's just a temporary fix i don't know how long it will hold but for now we needed the dinghy to work
if not we can't even go like two miles per hour yeah so you can see one screw here
one screw here and one screw here that's a temporary fix that you guys could do
just in case your propeller is start spinning just to get you out of somewhere like the
bahamas if you can't find a propeller or an island or somewhere that's a temporary fix
while you get another propeller we don't even have paddles on the dinghy so we're gonna put
some paddles just in case and we're also going to take our satellite phone just in case because the
thing is not too reliable you don't know what you know it could just like stop working at any time
and we don't want to be just like drifting and there's nobody here you know the more south you go
basically the town is here in this island and there's people around here but once you go past
this area all the way down here there's nothing once you go past this area here there's nothing
nobody can help you we are preparing for our dive picking up the regulators this is our
toys room trying to find the regulators which are here
last time we did scuba diving was what was a woof a long time ago
in karaoke that's true in karaoke which was really nice as long as we have all the safety precautions
we're taking the satellite phone we're going to be um diving with the dinghy just in case
we don't want to get lost and lose a dinghy we just want to make sure that we're able to just
get up there and have the dinghy out there how we don't get lost um what else are we
doing we put the battle boards on the dinghy and we're putting our flag our scuba diving flag up
the diving was amazing it was so beautiful the corals were so alive
and so beautiful we had to move from where we were anchored because seems like
not sure if it was the wind or or the current or exactly what was it but we started turning
and we were going on top of those rocks over there now we're gonna go snorkeling those
corals that you see over there might have a lot of life they look very beautiful
guys so we have just made the decision to go back to where we were
i know we're changing the sessions like in five minutes and every other second um because we just
kind of moved out it's about 50 feet here and you can't see anything at all it's already like 4 30.
it's not worth it trying to move right now when the sun is not you know allowing us to see
because the sun's already kind of going down so we can't really see the bottom and it's not worth it
because we might get stuck on a rock and run aground and there's a lot a lot a lot
of corals and a lot of rocks here we really messed up we really really really messed up
we shouldn't have moved we can't see anything now can't see the bottom can't even see her
baby
so you can see the rocks right there
so we can't move the boat we the only time we can move the boat is from 11 to 2
because the sun is up and we're able to see everything and nothing is on the maps
so you think that was very risky yeah that's such a good idea
we're gonna spend the night here yeah i think that was a good call we would have ended up in
the rocks for sure we couldn't see it could just we couldn't see anything right like nothing at
all and it's deep so you could see like it's 40 feet deep and then all these rocks come up almost
to the surface like to this yeah and you might see like some little waves breaking there but
you can't see [ __ ] and you could see like blue super dark ocean just like the way we
see right now over there looks super super dark and then suddenly you see like little tiny breaks
of waves which means like there's a massive big coral there which is why the waves are breaking
don't want to risk it so we're staying here it's still beautiful
well we moved to another little island like a little sandbag you can see it there some
people came up with some tents we're gonna go kite boarding we have about from 16 nuts