we're traveling up Florida's icw after sailing through the Bahamas they say the safest place
where a boat is offshore and we're about to find out why it's like I'm gonna cry no I'm
shaking today you're going to come aboard Calypso for this crappy experience we were
not ready for those hundreds of votes to come flying at us when we're driving into the storm
then we're mixing it up and headed to the motorhome for some mummy and daddy fun we
are at a clothing optional Resort yeah ready let's do it do it
[Music] this is how you dress for a storm and when the storm's gone
[Applause]
[Music] all right
we've been dodging storms every day for a few days now today is our last as we travel
to a marina that Calypso will stay at for Hurricane Season what we didn't realize was
that today will be the strongest storm yet and it's going to hit us at the worst possible
time I feel like I'm gonna cry so I'm shaking that was pretty scary I can't even explain
what just happened my math Exodus through the bridge toll bridge everybody's flying
freaking out I tell you that was the worst time for that swim to come well as soon as
the Bridge open which is every half hour so we're taking that and then this huge mass
Exodus of all these boats and you know they're all drinking that's probably what the 14 year
old's driving they're full there's a lot panicking right after this probably hundreds of them
hundreds of them hundreds of them I mean they were hitting each other Bernie's on the battle
Hawkins move out of the way and they're like it was completely stupid
this is the remainder
it's my horn situation I'm shaking New Smyrna Beach The Bridge opened and it's only big
enough for our vessel we can't even go through with a smaller boat it's not big and boats
are just rushing flooding through granted they're little boats they could have went
under different parts of the bridge where the only boat that should have been going
under that part so I'm just honking like a crazy maniac telling them to get out of the
way yeah but it might save their life also they are coming down current at you with way
behind them and they're coming right for you like freaking out so you want something new
and they go to save their life they're little babies that's all little babies we get through
and there's hundreds more and they're taking up the entire Channel Jeremiah is in my ear
telling me he's going off and I'm like move over and they're just looking at me like I'm
a total evil witch guys you gotta move over right standing up there I have horns going
at the worst worst possible time my one horn runs out so I had to get this one out of the
package it wasn't even ready it was ready it was right where it should have been but
it was still in the package I'm like shaking I can't scramble it together we got through
the bridge the end was right in front of us I just shot the throttle and basically just
kept the boat put into the wind and uh because we couldn't go forward and plus there might
be enough there could have been another boat up there I didn't want to run into so we just
kind of like Mark times you know got through it we were able to cut over once we swim broke
a little bit usually we're really really prepared we checked radar and we were this time we
checked radar the storm's gonna hit us I grab our raincoats and our spin locks grab those
grab the horn get the headsets going all before the storm hits like close all the windows
and we're ready whether it hits or not we were not ready for those hundreds of boats
to come flying at us when we're driving into the storm it was crazy and we have these really
nice people on a duck like whistling and calling us get on our duck get on our dock we don't
know the depth there we don't and we have like right next to the bridge it's right next
to the bridge
yeah so it was so nice of them maybe they knew us I don't know but we had seconds to
make a decision we were like no way because if we don't get it right we'll go straight
into the bridge and then we're demasted just nasty best place
yeah so you know we did really well we worked together I flew through an entire horn and
shaking uh this sounds silly but I put sunscreen on my face so as soon as the water sort of
pouring the sunscreen started getting in my eyes and I couldn't see anything so out yourself
maybe you don't put sunscreen on I don't know that was crazy that was insane that's your
welcome home we've been hitting storms the whole freaking way but actually we're diving
for it wrong place wrong time wrong day I hope it wasn't Saturday all those books would
have been there you know even the bridge operator I was like Hey we're clear and he's like I'm
really sorry about all that but if he saw it all happening but you know what that was
scary but that just made us that much more experienced and what do you always say you're
only as good as your most recent like when somebody's like I was in high C's and you're
like but if you've been in worse yeah and you're like oh my gosh this is terrible if
you go out and it's twice as bad well then the next time it's like the terrible ones
it's not that bad but you also say when you go looking for adventure you'll find some
where actually said that oh well even something bad happened and they're like sometimes when
you go
what'd you think of that do you even know what just happened
you're looking at a bunch of Nets that was freaking scary for real amazing right now
time to put it behind us and enjoy the last bit of time that we have off the dock for
a while hurricane season is here and it's time to refit the boat and play with our new
motorhome and John was on hand to catch the lines and he grabbed some neat shots as we
pulled in [Music] Calypso is a 2013 atari's 44i we've sailed her through the Caribbean
Bahamas up and down the east coast of the U.S and more the plan is to do a little refit
while we wait for Hurricane Season to end another part of this adventure is rving it
up this is our Fleetwood Discovery 44b and we call her naughty Sailors we'll be taking
you across the United States in this bad boy we're ready to grill out oh yeah I think it's
the potatoes steaks asparagus do the grilling I usually Grill I may ask for your assistance
I figured that so this is like kicking off our rving time our rving adventure yeah hey
it says lazy gecko sailing and Adventures I'm talking to share all last week and she
was like well it's lazy Echo sailing and Adventures and now we're on another adventure yeah so
that's really cool Jeremiah asked me six years ago do you want to go rving when he was coming
up on his retirement he was figuring out something to do for like a year and I was like no I
don't think I can do that because I didn't realize what it was I just thought you were
driving staring out the window I didn't realize it is what it is to be stopping somewhere
yeah it's much more than I fast forward so like all right let's go rving so Jeremiah
got me in an RV yeah for Hurricane Season yeah it's much shine than what I thought it
would be a lot easier it's a lot easier than boating I did get a sweet Jeep with the deal
I love it I think that was the topping on the cake and kind of sealed the deal for me
yeah well I'll live in the Jeep well I got the food prep let's jump back to the boat
we've been replacing parts that we have been needing for a while one of which is the GoPro
that I'm using it's brand new GoPro 9.
our GoPros got damaged and we're just aging and started glitching and all kind of stuff
like that another thing we needed was a new drone we lost our drone off the boat it just
basically took off and landed behind the boat in the water and we couldn't do anything we
just could uncontrollably watched it crash into the ocean which sucks I also picked up
a Craftsman power ratchet this thing is awesome I'm gonna be doing some maintenance stuff
like that the amount of time that this will save is phenomenal so I'm looking forward
to that and then this little deal here takes out little pins with these types of things
you know but not on these actual ones what's going on
um I'm looking for baggies and I'm out my stores out oh for the first time I've looked
for something in the store and it's gone oh darn I hit something I think this is the healthy
part of the store so I have like that for chocolate crab powder whatever healthy chocolates
different types of flowers so I'm not using like all-purpose stuff gluten-free options
over here all types of different nuts so this is just where I keep all my healthy stuff
it's very sad it is sad but no I'm making ginger spice cookies some homemade mayonnaise
nice it doesn't look so good but I need to blend it but you were filming so I was waiting
oh we'll go for it we had a propane failure where we replaced our whole propane system
uh except for the one regulator that's on the grill and right before we got back it
failed too it just basically stopped turning so I went ahead and put a brand new one on
this is it right here I already go through LP gas system but then it comes through down
here comes up and then that's where you turn it on off high medium low and you can tell
which part is new we just used it and it was phenomenal it was so good I have some major
stuff going on soon I'm going to replace water pump on our starboard engine uh there's a
line down there I might replace and just stuff like that so we're looking forward to this
next season we're starting to get everything together but for the most part the boat is
good the big thing that we're going to do is we're going to remove the props we have
Max props four blades we're gonna remove them in a couple weeks we're gonna take them we're
gonna set them to pyi where we got the props and they're going to do a complete reconditioning
they've been sticking like when I put it in reverse the prop won't fold the other because
it spins the other way it won't do that and it causes the engine to either just die down
or stall on both sides and I greased them and I think maybe some electrolysis got in
there our starboard side just eats zinc's up like crazy it's always done it I'm not
sure why so I'm probably looking at that later when I'm not doing so much but for some pyi
they have a 10-day turnaround we're going to knock that out and get the prospect going
uh we're looking forward to having brand new stuff like that when we get out of here a
couple new camera components which we really needed to do especially when you fly your
drone into the ocean do you remember how my drone what did I call it Fiesta my drone Fiesta
went plummeting into the ocean in the Bahamas yeah I remember if you don't remember um we
got a new one thank goodness it's actually really improved from our drone super sexy
happy to have a new Fiesta busy busy busy we have trouble stopping which is one of the
reasons we got the RV let's get back to relaxing
need help [Music] two most important items three honey you're one of them oh oh yeah
that's so sweet it's the black stone it's like a flat top grill it's pretty cool so
this is the motorhome it's got these canopies and I'm pretty sure you get blown off destroyed
really quick there's like no structure to them they're automatic they're nice they go
in it's like 18 knots or more but there's no structure so I'm pretty sure they're going
to get jacked up this thing is I don't know I love that it's like heavy duty too it's
like steel or something like that it's like what's it cast iron and then is it yeah I
just watched it yeah yeah you scrape it down and then didn't you also have to oil it at
first uh yeah yeah you gotta like prep this Grill this type of so you just oil it while
it's hot yeah and uh do it a couple times and unless it's soak it in the metal perfect
those are looking good yeah so we usually like them well done but uh filet mignon we'll
eat medium for sure we are at a clothing optional Resort I didn't realize that um there were
so many options like this yeah our friend kind of turned us on to it this is actually
their spot they said hey go enjoy it I'm like all right and I'm sold I love it yeah Brittany
loves it she's like just the only reason she has that thing on right now is because it's
going on YouTube but yeah it's awesome it's very freeing right it is very very freeing
on the boat you have to be an anchor right um then you looked at didn't you look up clothing
optional uh marinas like a big economy yeah so
Google and believe it or not there's a lot of clothing optional RVs there's a billion
of them at least in Florida yeah I'm pretty stoked I'm excited yeah it said in this in
this journey yeah it's caught my attention it's an added perk I do love it why not try
all that life has to offer that's how I feel about it anyway they look good you did a good
job thank you you only need to show me one besides when it comes to system ah whatever
you're crazy I'm still learning
let's do it okay I gotta turn it off that's important yeah turn it off just turn that's
off grab your plate and we're good you ready we're all settled in for the weekend time
to relax and have a few cold ones before heading back to the boat
[Music]
next time how you feeling about the haul out good don't F this up we'll be back aboard
with Captain John who we haven't really hung out with since the boat show that we attended
together Naval Academy but it's a lot better than paying 800 a night so we're gonna flash
back to the Annapolis boat show we are walking through Pussers there we go I can do this
this is Jack he kind of organized everything it was a heck of a bash you missed it all
I heard it was a heck of a bash and we can't wait to show you all the fun okay Steven Spielberg
here we go and click now they're gonna do a Yanmar hybrid system with lithium batteries
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