(foreign language)
- [Brian] We're gonna have our breakfast
so it's only fair that Cierra gets hers too.
- [Karen] This is true.
Here you go Cierra.
- [Brian] Let's see how this goes.
(baby noises)
- [Brian] Oh geez! She's double spooning it.
What's going on here?
Special morning breakfast for departure day!
- [Karen] This is so exciting. Oh!
- [Brian] Look at that. Poached eggs, toast, fresh avocado.
Mmmm, I think by far, my favorite way
to cook eggs is poached. Look at that.
- [Karen] That's perfect!
- [Brian] That's what I'm talking about!
So today we're setting sail for the Bahamas.
- [Karen] Yep! Should we look at the weather?
- [Brian] Yeah, let's check it out.
Alright, well I pulled up the latest forecast
from Predict Wind and it's looking pretty good
for departure this morning. So here we are
in San Juan and this is where we're going
to check-in in the Bahamas, Great Inagua island.
If you look at the wind, like right now we've got
a solid 15, 16, 17 knots for most of the trip
and here's how it progresses. This is right now.
This is as we cruise. This is Monday.
This afternoon. Cruising, cruising, cruising.
This is Tuesday, tomorrow. And you can see
it's coming up even a little bit so we're
starting to see like, you know maybe, some high teens
and then maybe even up into 20 knots in some parts
so it's looking pretty solid for a four day sail,
three, four day sail.
- [Karen] Cierra is sleeping.
- [Brian] Cierra is sleeping so yeah, we'll get
the dingy on deck, pull up the hook (whooshing sound)
No matter how many miles we put under the keel,
I still get butterflies in my stomach before every passage.
This will be our longest passage to date with
just Karen and I alone, and we are more
than a little nervous about how we would
handle the watches, the cooking, and the
sail changes by ourselves all while caring
for Cierra at the same time.
But once we get the hook up and underway,
the nervousness fades into excitement
and the rhythm of passage making begins.
(ocean sounds)
(cranking sounds)
- [Brian] S*** the wind has shifted and we're right-
it's brought this guy like right over our hook.
And so, he's literally right on top of our anchor
now, so we're going to try and back down.
See if we can drag back a little bit.
- [Karen] Yeah, I think so! Yeah, it's working.
Thanks y'all.
- [Brian] Hooks up? Alright, here we go.
(music)
- [Karen] Bye bye San Juan, huh?
- [Brian] Yep, we're out.
- [Karen] We're out.
- [Brian] I really like Puerto Rico
and I really like San Juan.
- [Karen] Yeah.
- [Brian] It's an awesome city. It's like
a lot of energy and culture and music and just fun.
People are just having fun here.
- [Karen] We had some really cool friends.
Some old friends that we met last year
and some new friends.
Just to be able to like hang out with locals
and talk and go for dinners, it was really really cool.
- [Brian] But it's always such an intense experience
because, basically our mission when we got here
was to provision the boat so we're going
off the grid for basically the next
two or three months through some really
uninhabited places so we needed to stock the boat
up with enough fuel and food and baby essentials
and everything else to live by ourselves
in these remote places. And so it's always quite
intense going into the stores and, you know,
getting all the stuff, making lists, and then
going and shopping and trying not to buy too much
but trying to make sure you get exactly what you need.
- [Karen] So we got everything we wanted, provision wise.
And yeah, like Brian said, a little bit more probably.
It's just really cool, it's a cool city
and I didn't mind being anchored out either,
it was kind of interesting and I like it better
than being in the marina so that was nice.
And yeah, passage, huh? I'm a bit nervous.
I'm excited though, it's both, it's always like
that I think when you go on like a passage
that is longer than like a day. I find I always
feel a little bit nervous, excited,
it's like mixed feelings and I think it's
definitely more now when it's just the two of us
that have to do everything and take care of the baby
and cook food and sail the boat 24/7
and make sure that we're safe and stuff,
so it's definitely a lot of responsibility.
(baby laughing)
- [Brian] I don't know, it's so exciting because
this is our longest sail with Cierra,
that we've done this season and so
it'll be cool to see how that goes
and the weather's looking fantastic
and I know when we get there, it's going to be amazing.
(water splashing)
- [Brian] Ready to jive?
- [Karen] Ready to jive!
- [Brian] Jiving!
Nice jive.
Get it (mumbled), get it! Wow!
(Karen grunts)
(music)
- [Brian] She loves those apples, huh?
- [Karen] She loves it.
- [Brian] I feel like our whole trip, so far,
has been leading up to this passage.
- [Karen] Yeah, I know. I think it's because
it's kind of like a big milestone for us
to have this done, you know?
- [Brian] It's like a long sail.
- [Karen] Yeah.
- [Brian] And we've been building up this-
- [Karen] Whoa
- [Brian] -idea of getting back to the
Bahamas for so long
- [Karen] (chuckles) I know
- [Brian] And I'm always a little bit worried
of that because you never know if it's
going to turn out to how you expect it,
putting all these pre conceptions on it.
- [Karen] Yeah
- [Brian] But whatever it is, we'll have fun.
- [Karen] No, we will. And it will be like
a big achievement, I feel, for me to have
this passage done.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- [Karen] Yep, day 1.
- [Both] So far so good.
(water splashing)
- [Brian] So the wind's looking pretty good,
we've got I think pretty close to 20 knots true
and we're doing really well except our course
is that way so I think what I'd like to do
is put the downwind pullout on starboard tack.
So put the pole out on port side, that'll
allow us to turn like another 30 degrees to port,
put the wind in the swells a little bit
more behind us, we'll be on course
and I think we'll still cruise.
So we've just got to furl the jib in,
I've got the pole all rigged up,
put the pole out, unfurl the jib, and (whooshing sound).
Okay, you ready? One, two
- [Karen] Three!
(music)
- [Brian] There, that's a lot better already.
- [Karen] (chuckling) Yeah.
- [Brian] Yeah! Get it!
Well we're settled in, Delos is getting in her groove,
Cierra is nursing, and this is our life
for the next three days or so.
I'm gonna sit in that corner, I'm gonna chill,
and I'm gonna watch the ocean
roll by for the next few hours.
We have our first stinker at sea.
It's a squisher.
- [Karen] Oh, it's a squisher.
- [Brian] Ohhhh, it's a squisher.
To tell you the truth, I'm honestly not
looking forward to this because we've
just started the passage, the boats moving,
we have all the hatches closed, so it's like hot
and I don't know, it needs to be done though.
It's like going into battle.
- [Braveheart] But they'll never take our freedom!
- [Karen] How is it?
- [Brian] Oh, you can definitely tell she's been-
- [Karen] Oh!
- [Brian] -she's been eating solid foods.
- [Karen] Oh, I can smell it.
Smells real bad. Okay, I need to go outside.
I'm feeling quite (cough). I usually take
sea sickness pills, the first two days,
when we go on passages like this,
but since I'm breastfeeding I don't really
want to do that so I'm not feeling to fine right now.
- [Brian] I did it!
It's like a battlefield in there.
How could something like that
come out of something so cute?
Oh man!
(both laughing)
Round two.
- [Karen] Oh no
- [Brian] Oh man. Why again?
Oh man.
(baby fussing)
- [Karen] She's fussy
- [Brian] Yeah. Geez, okay. I'm going back in.
(baby fussing)
Yeah, come on child. Let's get this out of your pants.
I'm gonna bring three rags this time.
- [Braveheart] (cheering)
- [Brian] The ocean is actually pretty wild
right now and there's some pretty good size waves.
(baby crying)
I don't think Cierra is too happy about it.
Are you enjoying the ride?
(baby cries louder)
No. Anyway, we're taking some pretty big waves.
Delos is making good speed. Cierra is crying.
(music)
- [Brian] 9.9, 9.25, I saw 10.1 one time.
- [Karen] Really?
- [Brian] Yep.
- [Karen] That's crazy. It's a bumpy ride though.
I'm not feeling to good.
- [Brian] Cierra's been having trouble sleeping.
- [Karen] Yeah, she slept for about 30 minutes,
30 minutes, that's about it. (laughs)
- [Brian] So what did we decide to do
for the watch schedule?
- [Karen] Well if you still want to do it,
you'll do from 8 to 6. No (laughs)
- [Brian] What?!
- [Karen] No! I meant from 8 to 2.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- [Karen] That is still a long watch, it's 6 hours.
- [Brian] I can do it though, I got my energy drinks.
- [Karen] (laughs) Okay. And then I will
come on and do from 2 to maybe 6 or 7.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- [Karen] Maybe we can like, I
will wake you up or something.
- [Brian] Yeah. Good plan.
- [Karen] Lack of sleep was my biggest
worry on this passage, but by adapting
our watch schedule to Cierra's sleep pattern
and probably some day naps, we hoped to
take care of ourselves, Cierra and Delos
without getting too exhausted.
So day 1 is done and it's been a really great day
and I'm looking forward to seeing the
sunset tomorrow morning.
So (foreign language). Bye.
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- [Brian] (singing) Audio check,
audio check, one, two.
- [Karen] (singing) Audio check.
- [Brian] Oh there's the pump now,
Business in the front, party in the back.
- [Karen] Look at that (laughing)
(both laugh)
- [Brian] Like it? I like it a lot.