what's up everyone good morning and welcome back
to another video
How are you feeling?
very good, we're going to Dominican Republic!
today we are officially leaving The Bahamas and we have been here for almost 90 days
and it's incredible because the last time that we were here COVID happened
and we had to turn around and go back to the United States
even though we wanted to keep sailing through The Caribbean
all the islands had closed and we just had to go back to the U.S.
but today we are heading to the Dominican Republic
COVID will not stop us from sailing The Caribbean we are going to our next stop
this is the farthest that we have gone and
our goal this year is to make it to our hometown in Colombia
baby tell me a little bit about the passage
we waited for a window that there was barely any wind
because usually there's straight winds between Dominican Republic and Turks and Caicos
so if we had any wind we will get wind from the fowl
so we waited for a window that was
like little in wind and the waves are pretty small
it's gonna be about like 36 hours of sailing
or not sailing like motor sailing because the wind is gonna be pretty soft
this passage is called the thorny path
because you're going against wind waves and current so it can be pretty
pretty bad, but we chose a pretty safe weather window so it's gonna be
good for us
so i'm done doing my fishing line i'm gonna show you guys what i did
so this is the fishing line
it's attached to this one so it's secured to a boat
then it comes here to the bungee cord bungee cord so if we catch a fish
this is gonna take the load the bungee cord until this is tight
and then we have the lure back there so yeah
hopefully we catch a mahi-mahi
or something a mermaid
guys we just saw a giant humpback whale
and we're trying to approach to see we can get a little bit closer
um it just blew out of the water massive
it's still pretty far
um the tail is like oh my god it is so big
we are spotting the whale right now
this is perfect season to be seeing whales especially between Bahamas
and the Dominican Republic because they are going they're starting to head North
those whales were incredible we have been going just back and forth
and back and forth
and just trying to see them just kind of like grasp them as much as you can
they're huge they're just massive incredible animals ah insane really insane
seeing whales up and close was an incredible experience
but i got a little carried away and after making a few u-turns to stay close to the whales
we realized that the fishing line had gotten tangled in both propellers
Andrea is going in the water
because our fishing line got caught in the propeller
while we were doing a turn
so we're gonna see if we have to cut it or we can just release it
That was all because i wanted to take the whales
and i went around and around and around
and our line is all over the propeller
and now i have to go in in the middle of the blue ocean
it is very deep. thousands and thousands of deep
i'm a little bit scared
so she's getting the last pieces, this is all the line,
So Andrea got all the line out
My God! The boat didn't stop hitting me at all
It was like bouncing on me
The boat was bouncing on you?
Yeah
Because of the waves
And then I'm trying like to get it out of the propeller
so i just noticed we ripped we ripped the mainsail so we're gonna take it down
i'm gonna show you guys where it ripped
so i'm gonna bring it down so it doesn't cause any more damages
it is day two of sailing to the Dominican Republic
and it's a beautiful day, morning actually
we have flat seas perfectly calm water
it's awesome because the waves, there's not waves so we're just moving slowly and calmly
I wish we could have the sails up but there's no wind and yesterday was a typical typical
day living on a sailboat we went from having a super high and exciting moment where we see
whales and everything's great and it's exciting
to going to low where the line is caught in the propeller and the sail ripped
and well now we have to figure how to fix the sail unless we have to
you know sail with the first reef all the time but that would suck
so anyway you know things happen and you have to get over it and you have to move forward
so that's what we're gonna do we're just gonna keep going get to the Dominican Republic
and we'll figure it out once we get there
we are about 10 hours away from Luperon from the Dominican Republic
our average speed has been five knots
last night we did four hour shifts so I slept from
eight to twelve, then i did the shift from 12 to four, Andrea slept from 12 to four and so on
I'm gonna put out the fishing lines, see if we have better luck today
than yesterday,
hopefully we catch wahoo, a mahi mahi or something
we haven't had much luck this year with the fishes
we forgot to lower the Bahamian flag i'm gonna lower that right now
which is up there
gonna take it down so we can put our quarantine flag in two hours
or three hours that we're arriving to Dominican Republic
we have left only like half of the flag
Here we have Ozzie
the wind will destroy the flags so we have to change flags like every month
even our U.S. flag
gets destroyed by the wind and sun
if you guys know of a flag that would last a long time
let us know, we don't buy cheap flags they're usually like twenty dollars every flag
We see land!
check it out, we're still a few hours away maybe five more hours
but we already see the mountains of the Dominican Republic
and we're so excited!
the reason why we're so so excited to arrive to the Dominican Republic is because
four years ago after leaving our jobs we came here, we moved to Cabarete, a little town in DR
and we moved here for three months just to learn how to kite surf and after four years
we're finally coming back we've been wanting to come back every single year since
and we haven't had the chance and now we're here
We want to show you guys all about the Dominican Republic
it is the first Latin American country that we come to after being in the U.S. and The Bahamas
and we can't wait to show you guys all about it, share a little bit with people, anyone who's from Europe or from the United States
or you know Asia who knows if maybe someone sees us from Asia, show you guys a little bit about our culture our Latin American culture
which is so so amazing and i would love to share everything with you guys and i'm excited to come to the yard because
here this is where merengue is from where bachata is from, maybe we can dance a little bit
hopefully we'll have lots of fun. Baby do you wanna dance?
Dominicano soy!
we are putting up our quarantine flag, you're trying to discourage me from
excuse me ma'am do you even know how to do a bowline?
yes I do guess who taught you my friend
so i had forgotten about the rabbit but now i know where my rabbit is my rabbit goes up the hall through the back tree
back in the hole and there we have a perfect
no
she doesn't know how to do a bowline
i do know i just haven't done one in a long time
okay, I got the bowline, I got it here
it took me some time but do not doubt in my abilities i'm like the turtle it takes me a little bit of time but i get there
okay we are entering the channel of Luperon
well so we are trying to find a space to anchor but it is packed here it
seems like everyone decided to arrive to Luperon or everyone has been here already
dude we just got stuck on that thing
oh my god so the guy from customs told us to anchor here but there's like a rock or it's super
shallow it's completely you know we got stuck here
did you freak out? did you freak out?
a little bit
all right so we just anchored, the military came up came on board
they checked out we didn't have any weapons and that's about it or drugs or anything
like that and tomorrow we will be doing customs and immigration and that's about it
good morning! So, Alejo is heading to customs and immigration and he's going to get that settled
today right now so we can take the dogs out and get moving
i'm on the way to the dock
okay guys so I just did my check-in and Andrea has to come too, to do her check-in
and look at this dock
it's like made with pieces of docks
is it tight? very tight
so many boats around us?
horrible
do you get nervous?
oh jesus
so guys i'm gonna remove the mainsail so we can get it repaired
so right now i'm gonna take off the rip lines so i just i'm gonna put some nylon through the clutch
i'm taking up the second reef first so i already took it out through here here here
there, so i have the nylon here, now i'm gonna detach it, attach the nylon to this little wheel so
next time will be pretty easy to to just put it back
now i'm taking the the rift lines, this one's
taking them off, so i just took out the first leaf go through here
guys we have officially checked in into Dominican Republic and now it's time to lower our quarantine flag and
I think this is where we will leave you for today's video, we will see you guys on the next one, peace!