we are headed to the West Palm Beach powerboat show last time we popped down to a boat show
there was a surprise afterwards let's check it out we are leaving the boat show I had a good time did
you have a good time it was a wonderful time yeah powerboat show and it was so enjoyable power boats
are beautiful and luxurious and nice and pretty and have some I think sailboats have more systems
on them though I don't know about that I don't think that there's a couple things like there
were no wind generators in sight yeah our solar I mean you know power bones are like yeah so we're
just heading out and we were on the way and we've been kind of throwing around an idea of getting RV
calypso for many reasons when we're off sailing and we have to come back to the
United States for Health appointments or you know there's a something that happens in the
family or anything that we have nowhere to stay and we're spending all this money on hotels
so we're like oh well an RV might work and it goes along with travel which we're a travel
channel so today we are actually on our way to view an RV that we've been eyeing up they act
the one that we've wanted and the one the one want has become available they just
contacted us so good news after leaving the powerboat show we're headed that way
and we did check out an RV we'll get more into the details on a later episode for
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foreign
it's early morning we have a ton of work to do so let's get started I saw the look of success
yeah standing out here all done how was it good it's all working now the change counter's working
yes I pulled this apart it squeezed you can see the white ceiling I put around there I put a 4
000 down it's not permanent but it's um yeah it's like medium so it's strong which is what
we need in here just keep the water out of that I have to bolt this down from inside
but other than that we're done yes baby yeah I'm so proud of you too babe good job
our windless woes are over thankfully look at her there all sexy and ready to pull some anchor chain
this looks interesting this is a swivel that holds the chain I'm unhooking chains
so you don't want your anchor to go off into the water so I just put the sponging cord
now I'm just kidding that's like a that's like a thing just skip this down but I put
two lines hook to the Top of the Rock now to each sleet and then I also put a spinner for halyard
down as like a third now I'm just I'm now I'm just breaking the safety wire that's on here tape this
apart and then we'll be able to start taking the chain off the boat using the new windlass nice
Andy thanks babe I don't know what I do without you there's somebody
I wouldn't be doing this without you this thing is only held together by safety wire
so the safety wire goes you it comes right apart which makes it easy to put together and
stuff but you gotta make sure your safety wire is all good so I can just pull this back now
take this little bar out that holds the chain on
this is put together with like Teflon tape so I I've had to sit that Teflon tape this
thing just comes apart and that comes out but I'm not gonna do that I'm just going to take
this leave that like that keep that away so we don't lose it and then pull the chain out
foreign is original to the boat it's really not in bad shape but we want to extend its
length it's unsafe to just shackle more chain on so a full replacement is an order
Reese is joining in on task now let's get this old chain off
just got the anchor chain off the boat so that feels nice so both real dirty now it
was kind of the little operation Reese hit the button for us Jeremiah stood up here and
walked it along and then I helped dump it on the dock but our anchor Locker is dirty
we had 120 feet of chain Ah that's what the previous owner actually not the previous owner
John the owner before that that's how they hooked it up right now I got a little roast in my insta
pot I love this thing cooking it for an hour and three cups of beef broth a little bit of
Worcestershire and salt and pepper and some bay leaves and then we will make steak sandwiches
foreign
I'm sorry is it warm out no yeah it's nice oh good it's been cold so here from the 5-0
the police where and why oh the police boat ow let's see them as they go by their leisurely job
it's the life of a porthole it sees many many things
chain isn't very cool until you buy quality anchor chain it's freaking expensive and that
makes it cool after Wheeling it to the dock it was time to pull it on board using the windless
we pulled it aboard well after I helped our neighbors Barry and Fran grab their anchor
looks like all this anchor work is contagious even though your power boaters we still love you guys
thank you foreign
Jeremiah went to work securing the new chain to the Anchor with the Mantis swivel
our issue is still the same yeah it's gonna pile up on you we still have the same issue it piles
up but Jeremiah says it's easier to maneuver now well the links are larger I was just hooking it
but it was coming up and then I'll just hold it up and drive it over here and drop it I'll give you
the the true answer when I anchor because I'm the one up here and the one that has to deal with it
so we'll see if it's a little bit easier maybe it is I hope it is our anchor Locker is definitely
more full we have what 80 more feet of chain in here yeah ready yep we'll need to figure something
out for the piling up issue in the meantime I'll lock up the anchor and call it a day
oh yeah I've been wanting these aircraft mechanics done with these are now let's
see how they work yeah so it gives you they give you this weak acid to wear and these are pretty
small I thought they're a little larger but I think they'll work but you can cut the sage of
white right with them all you do is like let's see your safety wire in this take the pliers
we go way off here put them on squeeze lock it so it's on there now you can see it back here yeah
there's doing there nice and so you can you get Ace of 12 and then so you can see
you go all the way down you know and then at the end you take it like you do like a
like a twist with it lock it and then you can flip it off same thing
and then you can you know you can pigtail it over do those excite you yeah Isn't that cool
that is really cool I use these for many years and larger ones but um this would be
great for the boat I want to go around and re-safety wire everything on the boat oh
yeah bad news in the in the uh kitchen Department in the galley Department
well we've been working we should be making a bunch of uh homemade pizzas
oh the rest of them are in there they're in here yeah and went in there to convection
oven and it just cracked itself I can actually kind of smell some
well the last couple yeah you smell that Electronics yeah the last about the last
month it's been doing this weird thing when I stop it keeps spinning so I was like I don't know maybe
it's failing or I don't know what was maybe I did a setting different obviously it was failing
um today I was making pizzas I accomplished making my gluten-free crusts and dairy-free toppings
and they were all ready to go in the oven the boys crust were here they are not cooked yet and when I
go convection set the temperature to 450 and then you set the timer and you double click it kicks on
timer yeah the only timer comes on the light yeah the timer light comes on but
it doesn't the good thing is this is a GE it's a good brand we can buy that
in the states everything else is like you know Argentinian yeah and usually I'll be like okay
well let me ask you this yes can we use the grill cool I mean we could try you know who would know
any hello I she puts her crust on the grill yeah they did and so can we okay well you're gonna want
to do these ones Reese we've been called in as the B team we have to start at the grill yeah mom's
kind of right one of the Woods have popped off and two of them had popped off oh the little knobs yes
why don't you spare bite that little thing one thing at a time right why does stuff always break
well because you're on a boat everything breaks on boats so how is it good I think the grill worked
out okay yeah it's working to still cooking the other ones right now I want to take a look at
it here's mine I had already cooked the crust on mine so they're just gonna go in last to heat up
and it smells good tastes good I'd say it's working out we are back at it again this is our
sixth day of working on The Windlass slash anchor chain day one through three we got the winless off
day four we put the you enlist the new one list on day five we put the new chain on and now today we
are redoing our entire anchor Locker setup along with our emergency anchor oh my goodness I didn't
think it would take this long we were hoping that the new chain would allow for it to fall in and
the bigger links would allow for it to freely flow and it wouldn't back up into the wind list well
we have the same problem it didn't fix anything might actually be a little bit worse because we
have 80 more feet of chain in there so now it has less room to drop we knew that that would
happen but again we were hoping that it would fix the issue with the bigger lengths it didn't
we decided to pull everything out of the locker and remove the divider that separates
the two chains we just had to make the decision whether to pull the divider out or to cut it
the divider will pull right out but we decided to cut it pulling it would create a gap that
would quickly fill up with mud cutting the board keeps that space filled it would be simple to cut
and install a new board for it if we ever needed to are you ready to see this thing come out yes
yeah you've hated this thing for a long time I have causing
issues huh yeah I mean I don't like changing the way the boat was made
but yeah we could always get a new one made I guess if we wanted yeah we could yeah Jeremiah got
a new little saw and it was time to make the cut I was thinking I might leave like a strip on the top
um but I really think it would just because the chin should be going here and falling into here
more I think it's just going to get away and start banging it on that so I'm just gonna chop
it down so the cool thing about this little saw is I can go in and then work my way over to the
wall so that I can walk up and down the wall to make it real nice and straight he just used the
sides as a guide and cut all the way around the edges we're hoping to free up some space so that
the chain will drop without piling up the wall which is what killed our last winless foreign
it's not difficult it's just pain the ass to uh get down there
this is quite the event that's going on
yeah you're nervous I've never seen so much Road in my life
then we come up as much as I can here right yep
foreign
special tools interesting
nicely done honey they're good and you got a new tool out of it yeah
I love that it doesn't look too bad I can well obviously vacuum this out but
this will all come off I'll just scrub It Off cut that sucker out of the
bat split up the anchor chain on one side was 200 feet of our new chain on the other side was
chain and rope the whole thing together is called road so now we're shortening the Rope the chain
on our emergency anchor and then we'll put that in and hopefully our 200 feet of chain can lay
nicely over that and we don't have that backing up into our windlass problem fun little project
we just measured out our rope of 70 feet so we have 15 feet of anchor chain and 70 feet of rope
so that's a total of 85 feet in Road and that's for our emergency anchor Jeremiah's just cutting
it now and we're going to get rid of all the extra so we have more room in the anchor locker
and then we'll be able to Anchor in 10 feet of water and that'll give us a seven to one ratio
so I'm curious to see how this works out we first started sailing we had a really nice couple email
us there like hey we sailed for 20 years let us know any questions you have and I was like
tell us anything you know he's like can I send some stuff sure and he sent like stories about
like this and that it was great and one of the things he said you never need more than
one anchor when you're anchoring and I thought that was interesting because if you're reading on
the internet everybody's like oh you need two and put one here and put one there for swing currency
you don't ever need more than one anchor ever unless it's like some type of emergency
we use our secondary anchor up here for emergencies only so if let's say we had
our anchor route whatever we lost it well we could dump this chain out and we could use this
other one we have if we have 10 feet which is pretty average for an acreage 70 feet that way
you're not taking up too much room in your anchor Locker dump it out and you're done with it it's
not all chain so it doesn't put a lot of weight so that's good we have 200 feet on our main anchor
and we'll have 70 well 85 feet on our secondary so I'm just going to tie a bowline on this thing
check out your knot see how good you are
oh you're so good
so you put the rope in there first yeah this is our emergency anchor chain
there's the 70 feet of the Rope that we measured out and then this is
our emergency anchor chain going in on top of the Rope trying to make it even
and then I'm just going to feed in the little leader I have for our main chain
and then we'll use The Windlass to put it in coming soon on the lazy geckos
I'm gonna go for it I've never seen the inside of a microwave I'm gonna check this fuse my underwear
on backwards not sure when that happened this is pretty freaking amazing thank you for everybody
that has followed us we have Jason Pinko here today inner dyneema is spliced into itself to
right there you got there do you feel like you can administer emergency auction now honey having
a CPAP on the boat Jeremiah just left to go be a part of the RV survey first night aboard the RV
all day you know it's gonna be rough when you put on your West Marine floaty
a hole in the Bahamas somebody said they were going to go now well I worry about a lot of
things it turns that electrical signal into a mechanical we're going down test as early as
six days before the day of your missed period how long you supposed to wait I already see it
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