so i supposed to go up to tulsa this afternoon i checked the weather it says oh you only got 10
chance of thunderstorms and that's down from 20 percent i make it 40 minutes up
the road to muskogee and uh yeah things have changed let me show you a picture of the radar
well there's no sense in rushing too fast it's on top of a boat right now so
hopefully she's where i left her when i get there and that is what we're driving into
and yeah i see what that is
looks like everybody decided to get off
the highway i've never seen another car on this accident
ah now we got hails going
today we're moving again i'm kind of between two cells it'll make me feel better if i can
just see the boat still sitting there can't even see where the lake is underneath the blob now
come on baby show me your anchor light
there's the hot tamale can't see the boat all right there she is right out there hallelujah yeah
that is a relief doesn't look too bad so i'm gonna go on get out to her a lot of water everywhere you
know rains in where the mast is left the pilot house door open let the main hatch crack so
it'd be cooler in here definitely cooler in here now look at this we need to weld the mast down
and ford is just fine a little water come down the companionway but it's got a collection
system on that that hatch is closed now all right i swear baby i'll never leave you again
i don't wonder how that happened definitely been blowing harder than this when i was gone
at least i closed the windows and hey i got that one fixed so i can close it
and i get to mop up everything again we obviously rolled a little bit and yes latches for the
refrigerator doors are on the list that that is if there was a list they'd be on it we're
right over the edge of our anchor so i don't think we're dragging we just get it all stretched tight
geez the wind just shifted now we're healing the other direction that pin is us look how fast
this thing grows boom and that noise is the anchor alarm yeah we moved around the circle a little bit
you know what's odd is none of the crates fell over down below in the cargo hole
they're stacked like four tall there well let's check the bailout system just to make sure right
you know that starter still flaky but i love hearing it start up
i'm not gonna turn into the wind a little bit right
shouldn't need it but good to know you got it right no i don't have to wash last night's crop
of mayflies off the deck yeah there's a big cloud around us comes out of the south now that's weird
yes do not do that again be fine that it matters a lot but let's turn this [ __ ] off
look at this
look at this swell come in from the south that's weird the wind hadn't been blowing
from the south up here we are dragging anchors see all these dots in here that's our normal
circle i expanded out to 230 feet because that's where we've gone to and that's why i
don't like that that's what's behind us but you know we're doing okay we're not moving too much
tested the engine and we move easily into this so i can always motor off you're just going to
pay attention i see a little break over there and it looks like it's actually clearing out to the
west so we're using engine now just to lighten it up on the anchor i'm not sure i need to do
that but it makes me feel better and it feels like crotches she doesn't need much pitch at all almost
there i got to be careful not going too far forward because i'll run over the anchor road
which it floats and could foul the prop definitely don't want to do that neutral
yeah it should work all right
check that anchor okay the mission for the next fair weather day is to bring up the anchor line
and weave in little markers so we know exactly how much line we have out because
maybe i just had that much and it would just you know land on the bottom of the chain
so i can't be positive i'm dragging because it could just be straightening out the chain finally
so i need to know exactly how much road i have out and then i can know exactly if i'm dragging
the anchor or not raise my expectations so maybe it'll stay there darwin can check it i turn this
back on you can see we scoot a little closer to shore now we're drifting back and forth in here
and using the measure feature it says we moved uh 67 feet so yeah we're gonna
pull up the anchor in some clear weather and see what she's doing maybe it's filed you know it can
wrap around the chain and so forth and we can always put more chain on too to get more weight
this bottom is so muddy though you think it just keeps sinking down and stick
that's a nice thing to wake up to chris tonight was very uneventful
now maybe i can make it up to tulsa this is all mayflies when matthew was out here he
was cleaning up this mess and he said i thought my days of cleaning up after orgies were done
man what i wouldn't get for a diesel outboard and i think i'll get one it just won't be in
the united states because here we're all freaked out about oh the environment never mind that's the
only reason i carry about 25 gallons of gasoline everybody freaks out about propane on a boat
you know shoot any kid that had a half decent upbringing knows that getting propane to explode
is hard to do it's got to be the right air fuel mixture getting gasoline to explode that's easy
we're just taking the boat out for our gentle cruise today and we're practicing some
anchor setups and it pulled in 40 feet of chain just fine so i think i'm going to put
another 40 feet on it and then we're going to put markers on the line so we know how much we put out
that'll give us 80 chain and then the am steel
i like talking about boats a lot of conversing about boats but uh anchoring is a hard thing to
have discussion with people about because you know they have their way of doing it that's the right
way and in truth if you look around the planet you know there are all kinds of ways doing this anchor
uh spools up on deck in the commercial industry fishing especially where people need to drop the
anchor quickly you know like the northwest where there's lots of rocks and heavy currents a lot
of boats out there have spools like this with a anchor chain up on deck the advantages to it
is it doesn't get fouled because i've had anchors coming up out of a locker down below and they get
fouled up so then you got to go down below and unfoul it now as a single-handed sailor
you're trying to get the damn thing out in a hurry and all of a sudden it's not coming out so now you
got to go down below you know that's a messed up situation so i like this a lot the downside to
it is you're carrying more weight up on deck and that will make you a little more you know prone to
healing but yet another advantage is all the mud and the water and the salt stay up on deck and get
washed off on every rainfall so that's a good thing uh it takes up a lot of deck space so that's
a bad thing but you know we got space that's not a huge deal so you know you find the answer that's
the right solution for you and when somebody comes along and wants to tell you the right way to do it
blow them off because uh you've likely put a lot more thought into your project than they have you
know now there's an idea out there sure there's other ways sure you know be patient with them but
that you know this is the right way to do it and especially don't go and show me a west marine
manual west moraine's trying to sell you [ __ ] you know of course they're going to have their way
and they're not going to have a way that includes products they don't carry so don't let that get to
you there is no way there's different ways find the one that works for you find why you like it
change it up if you need to but those are decisions that every boat needs to make themselves
so here i am going from 40 feet to chain to 80 feet of chain because my setup this diameter that
motor can handle 80 feet i think and i know it can't handle 150 so we're finding our sweet spot
that's what you do you work the problem until you get a solution that works for you
i tell people anchoring is a lot like a religion once you're convinced about
something there's no one convincing you so having the conversation is kind of a moot point
now we pull it just a little further we'll take that stopper off
stoppers off we'll give it some slack we'll make sure she's ready to drop
there we go now she wants to go on her own undog the spool go down turn off the hydraulics and then
all we got to do is let go the break and off goes the anchor you know i love talking about religion
i love talking about politics and all those things but i like having a conversation about
it where the other person's actually listening and thinking about how i feel about it and telling me
why they feel the way they do there's always a reason behind it you know it's like when we get
so divided like you know republican or democrat there's no conversation it's just talking
points going back and forth that's that's not a conversation that's being a child you know take
the time i think and learn to listen to people because it doesn't matter what they are there's
a reason for it try and find that reason that is learning there's a little creek that comes in over
there guys fishing up in it look at that beautiful lawn coming down this is gorgeous territory
so
so we let it out lock it down and he reverses the boat and we
pull on it to set it okay it's coming tight now okay she's tight
so that's about 60 feet of chain in the water and now we can mark off this rope
so this is marking off the rope for me some people like using color codes but i think
knots work better because you can feel them in the dark you don't have to actually see them
so at 40 feet i put one knot in at you know 80 feet two knots and so forth so now we're up to
six here at the end of the line 240 feet plus some extra on the spool
so we got 80 feet of chain out we're about 700 feet from the shore
we're going to let another 80 feet out so we have 160 feet of scope
here 40 80. start the engine and back into a little pressure
yeah that's tight all right it's hard now the chart plotter will let us do a couple things like
we can do a measurement here and say okay we know we're there and we drop the anchor right there
on that x and that says we're 157 feet we know we let 180 feet out about so that seems right and we
can measure back to the nearest we don't want to hit that part and that's almost 600 feet away so
it's the trade-off between scope how much line you got out and where you're gonna bump and where the
navigation channel is remember work like a captain play like a pirate all right it's time to turn
off those videos and get out there in your shop start making your dream happen what you make today
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