last time on the lacy geckos check out the bed down okay lay down and relax
you see daddy there he is working on the boat
maybe worse there's a leak when we turn that John I disassembled it a little
bit and I slid it forward an eighth of an inch and turned it 30 degrees it's receding
itself and we should be fine we're in the dominican republic women we explore it a
little check it out all things that you'll see with with the orange space yeah yeah
just came to the 27 waterfalls and the dad went and lost our GoPro is
easy does this by word stuff here you trust it
they just came up and like completely washed our car down there well beggin we love you our weather
window is opening we've been in the dr for a few weeks pinned down by strong trade winds it was
great to get some work done on the boat and now it was time to plan for the Mona passage this
is a notoriously dangerous passage between here and Puerto Rico it needs to be done right this is
how you have your morning coffee I have a great idea yeah before we take off tonight we should
get pizzas to go cuz I'm usually having to cook or like slow cook something along the way we can just
grab some pizzas we've never done that through your Papa John's now we have this Dominican
pizza which isn't that bad no that's good that's a great idea let's do it yeah what are you doing
just organizing the wires and stuff is it a mess it was kind of messy but I have next box the DVD
player I used splitters to get on two different TVs behind there it's like a RCA in TV antenna
that we haven't are used I'm still living back there I put this here this is our Apple TV that we
don't use and with the boat but this little block here separates you know like the view you can put
something here like that behind it is like our amp and so like that but basically I'm gonna just
remove it so I can put some storage back in here very cool yeah so I'm just trying to get a little
bit more organized are you ready to get on out of here I'm more than ready tradewinds I know man
blow they blow and after a while you get sick of it that's for sure but it's all good I'm happy to
be leaving I don't really like the passage we're about to go on but you know fine we should have a
good weather window we've talked to Chris Parker several times he thinks this is a good weather
window so we agree so we're gonna go with it why I felt good until you just said that plummy and I
always feel a little nervous for a passage but let me past nurse you know we can always turn around
yep very fine so we're planning on a about five knots with a current and went away no waves right
at us so we'll leave here before sunset because the winds died at night we want to get out of the
harbor before the Sun Goes Down so we can get out safely then the Sun should go down the wind should
die and then we will motor into the wind all night long along the coast of the Dominican Republic
with pizza the pizza on board I'm just so excited I don't have to cook that's great I was gonna
slow-cook like a beef and cheese thing and I was dreading that because I'm always cooking so that's
awesome pizza for lunch dinner and breakfast yeah do you want pizza yeah what kind oh I know what
spicy all right no spicy so no pepperonis I think you means how opinions we gotta help you use that
one oh yeah I picked them off but the juice is still on there this is our offshore predict wind
we use this to download all of our forecasts and everything for winds waves all that type of stuff
we can download this through iridium GO but this is the forecast starting tonight at around sunset
or so you can see the winds out here 20 knots 10 knots we're gonna be we're right in here and
we're gonna be hugging this coast so this is going through the night you can see the winds
diminish it goes down the five nozzle is a little bit strong here we'll have to push through and
then we're gonna be motoring up down into this little ravine we roast about five knots this is
the Mona passage metal island here and here on the sixth it looks like we might have another weather
window opening up there's a whole book about this but several but a lot of storms going across here
there's a there's a big huge shoal here it's very deep but it causes all kinds of waves it's tough
because how deep it is or where else like the horseshoe show I called the ball sac show this
looks like a ball sac but what you can do is you can go around the island here Dominican and then
come down the Moana and cross or you can come across here and the bottom the shoals are all in
here you come across and kind of go up and then you want to tag north and then tacked back down
because a bunch of storms form off Puerto Rico so this is a pretty sketchy passage you got to make
sure you hit at the right time I've heard horror stories and I've heard that it was beautiful
because we waited for the right time so that's what we plan on doing waiting I'm fine with that
it's about midnight we're setting sail with five other boats for
the Mona passage here we go a man named Melchizedek he was good good
one of only in the desert he fighted meets dead said I would learn to love the space
patch behind me year
watch this time
in a long
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I mean climate but I went to the top of that mountain I slept probably three hours
to get going and a little white it's always hard to untie a knife
and I'm curious to am Edith love it
while a couple votes decided to divert for semana three of us continued on for Puerto Rico
something that kept me busy on this passage when I saw some humpback whales earlier so
beautiful big that was special for sure we're on the third leg of our motive
see
last night the wind in 12 so we're on a beam reaches 90 degrees
I thought on the first leg
looks like that way
and impressive
we were in a group with five boats
to them decided to
the three catamarans decided
been great our first real experience buddy voting
having something top to bounce ideas off of
anybody rancid
really nice a great experience
one of the passages that I've worried
he uses the pretty crazy descriptive words that
he has great information so long and it pretty kind of goes off that
I really read
Porto Rico we have Center 20 miles to go we're making almost seven knots
whole sales up and motoring just whether window is
and a marina to pull in we're gonna get our mail and then continue on
in America we're back
without Taco Bell burger game probably Dunkin Donuts West Marine
trying to out playing a couple squalls right now last day and mother nature's throwing us when we
came in off the motor passage beautiful passage across the board and then a huge storm at our
port this will figure out which way it's going and how fast it's going and then it'll tell you
if you're going to intersect they will help you oh boy walls one just popped up on choir
20 seconds of the passage wearing some fire boats that don't have any is like that and then it takes
a couple seconds to tracks it and they don't say hey is okay it's going Northwest at 22 knots which
these storms these squalls are growing at about 22 to 25 now so far that's been this without
these doors and we're going southeast
going putting a little point five knots north well past
none of them have been right on our burritos oh they're all ignore so
that's good so let them stay over there couch around it without blanket it's
been a good passage I'm not gonna jinx it so far there's been fine
to get there before sunset which was the plan you know everybody has their own method of doing like
the Mona passage you know Chris Parker you got the Vincennes book everybody seems to have an idea
they're talking about but everybody's opinions are different some of them fit together whatever
we had five boats some people were going to ban same thing we were relying on the Chris Barker
idea with predict land so on and when it came down to it the Chris Parker one was exactly right 100%
I mean across the board and even when we thought in weather window was closing because of Wendy
when they said there would not be a weather window I emailed Chris said hey you know can
you confirm that the weather was kind of close he said no it's still be good to sit all your
parts at certain times and it was exactly what he said the beach that's great I'm really happy
right oh yeah you want to walk me through what he told us to do
we got a storm track now but the main part was jumping off from Dominican around the horseshoes
Schultz Christmas like hey get to the go past the Shoals at dawn Saxe north of the southeast and
head straight for this place so instead of tacking north and coming back down like some people to
do to avoid this wall we went ahead and just went because they're worth the speeding sports we ended
any until we got very at the very end so it's been great man say here's a storm here a couple
different parts have been acquired so that I can see which way it's kind of going in this one is
actually headed right here here we are and say we will intersect but moving it what's in the knots
moving at 10 knots will see the I've seen the four of these now pop up and
they fizzle so if it is moving there then what I would do is it is really coming down
there I would just stop turning around and go back up to a passes and come back down
we're going here so our passes here into here we made it honey and don't know jinx us down
wherever you go I didn't think
I don't know it's pretty cool
amazing I'm happy that we like to educated ourselves listen to other people asked around
got Chris Parker to help us out I read a lot of horror stories and ours is not a horror story it
was like smooth sailing I could do that passage again if I knew it was going to be like that
coming up on the lazy cat go I think we'll go in town today we got some dolphins coming yeah
look you got the radio for the coaster I will launch that dinghy they're from
Australian we're in Puerto Rico and they don't have the correct visa I over cited
out these it was a an exemption quarter est a visa and we needed a big one or
a Beto we wrap phosphorescent Bay we're gonna go see the file women
let's get going it's a double rainbow look at that is she done now there's liquor in
that coffee fix is where the wanderer was the vote from Captain Ron generators
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