on watch right now my watch started at 6 00 pm it will be from 6 to 9. jeremiah's
over there napping in the background bella's taking herself a little nap too right there
it's funny because feels lost when she's out of the pool i think it's like her security she likes
being in the pool while we're going um i set her up with well she usually has a bed in there but
he got on peed and it got on the bed she does a really good job peeing on the puppy pads right
there but the other night i was rocking and rolling and um it went on her bed so i threw
out her bed it's in the garbage can and the dinghy keep our trash and the dinghy so i put a towel in
there but she loves it i think she feels a little lost when she's not in her bowl and we're underway
pretty nice smooth calm night so far it's a little overcast but that's okay because we've got
quite a bit of sun jeremiah is a little red too um set myself up back here
i think we have about two and a half more days um we'll be crossing the gulf stream
back to the united states it's a bit of a weird feeling i always said we were never going back
you know but now we are going back but we're going back to continue on
that's the most important thing um we have a little bit of a passport issue with reese he
needs a new passport expiring in july and um but i understand oh there he is say hi say hi
what are you doing
oh go in the fridge okay
we can't renew it he's under 16 so he took a new passport
from what i understand it's going to take several months at this point to get it reviewed um
yeah so we're gonna go back just to be safe let's go find some water
gary you hold it it's teamwork you hold it all
there you go is it nice and cold
all right i gotta go back up come on watch we don't want to get stuck
where we can't fly home if we need to unless it's an emergency and um we can't
or we have to do big passage to get back to the united states whatever
so we're gonna go back there take care of that this passage has been
bittersweet um it's been long it's been trying at some point i felt a little a little bit panicked
a little bit claustrophobic a little bit like leave me alone so i've had lots of emotions going
through this big long passage can't touch land can't stop anywhere it's a lot like mentally when
you're thinking about stuff so but i'm proud of us we've done really good we've worked really well as
a team we're understanding we're thoughtful we try to respect each other and um let each other
get as much sleep as possible and we're really working well together as a team proud of us
i guess i could live on a boat with him oh wait i do and i have for like five years we've been on an
offshore passage for almost two straight weeks we're getting close let's wrap this sucker up
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a couple days ago i realized that our oven completely kaput
no more um i cooked up all these meals for the passage that would be easy to put like
in a crock pot or in the oven or whatever and uh i've been trying to light my oven along the way
fighting it battling it i'd be like pouring sweat so um i think we finally came to the
conclusion that it just has died um i couldn't even really light it i had to like stick a lighter
and by where it would cut the propane comes out to catch it light it on fire and then last night
i was like okay i'll try one more time i had like a frozen pizza i wanted to throw in there
and um tried to light and try to light it and the whole thing actually like a huge flame um came out
of it so i wasn't holding down the propane i don't know i'm not gonna try it anymore
so i have some hamburgers i'm gonna cook up for lunch but i'm gonna throw them on here
i got jeremiah to grill them up last night so they're already cooked
and i'll heat them up on the stove that'll be super easy and the pizza i kind of realized i'm
going to try to keep it on the grill tonight one of the many things i love about calypso
is how redundant she is even if something fails we still have options so we just keep keeping on
okay
things change fast out here so when you get calm seas you take advantage of it like relaxing on the
bow are you just chilling just chilling listening to the waves listening to the dinghy yeah
i think it like rubs our defenders right yeah
it's funny because it's been doing it this whole time and the other day the other morning i think
i'm just so tired it was like bothering me i'm like listening to it this whole time
i know i find like you know when you're sailing especially when we were sailing fast there
you hear all these noises and so we were selling fast for like three or four days and like you know
all sudden my brain picks out a sound i'm like but is that new was that happening before what is that
yeah then eventually after obsessing it goes away but that's totally like you yeah we've been doing
shifts we started basically right away we first started out where we tried like
6 am to noon jeremiah and then noon to six me and then six to nine jeremiah then nine to 12 me so it
would be two six hour shifts during the day and then the night would be four three hour shifts
um but we weren't really liking the six hours that was like too long and you find when you're going
you don't really sleep a full six hours anyways you kind of sleep two to three and then you wake
up because things are happening you want to check on the person so i prefer the three-hour shift so
we ended up doing just three-hour shifts all day all night but really what kind of happens
is jeremiah does more day stuff and i do the cooking and cleaning up and you know all that
stuff but then i think right around 3 00 p.m we start the three hour shifts and then right around
noon we stop and we kind of just work together throughout the day right yeah so there's a little
part of the day where we just work together and cooking and stuff um but i like the shifts and i
i set alarms and i try to stay on top of it he never comes and wakes me up if i sleep through
the alarm but i tend to wake up like 15-20 minutes later he doesn't set alarms i have to wake him up
you'll wake me up you do yeah because i'm like i'm done it's your turn you know but it's been
good i mean at night when we first started i was kind of falling asleep i couldn't stay awake
my body was just trying to get used to it and then now i'm pretty spot on and our radar is
giving us a bit of trouble so i don't really trust it so now i'm definitely looking around i'll put a
movie on my lap and then i'll set an alarm for every 10 minutes and i'll do rounds around the
boat that means like taking my spotlight checking out things looking at the waves wondering how big
they are i'm bored checking radar looking with my eyes for lights out in the water
making sure all the lines are right checking wind where it's coming from
basically everything looking at reese looking at him
well we've also not had a moon at all no so we've had you know no moon at all or
if we did have a sliver of a moon it was cloudy and tonight's supposed to again be like a crescent
moon so we've had like no it's like perfectly on the moon cycle that we have no light so
nights have been like pitch black out here yeah i was feeling from like day seven eight and nine
i was feeling a bit exhausted i needed a break so i'm really happy we took a break and now it's
like a full reset i feel like i can do another nine days yeah as long as it's not downwind
what's cooking good looking
a little exuma sound pizza there we go when your oven puts itself you can still
throw pizza on the grill right yeah man um you know who maybe think of that and yejo
yeah able yeah they would always well ellen she would make up pizzas and they would put
them on the grill and i'm like man that's a really good idea so when our oven went down
boys were like we want pizza and i have frozen pizzas to just super easy and i'm like well we
can't make it and and yahoo went off in my head on the griddle yeah looks good it does look good
really good i might want to turn it down a bit can we yeah
pizza going down the bahamas yeah the zuma sounds yeah the only thing is if it's super windy
we can't use our grill yeah because the placement of it but nice following winds following seas yeah
the gulf stream is calm today
hot
very nice we were motoring no sails are up the winds are at two apparent they're behind us and
they're not doing anything so we're coming across the berries and what you have to do with the
golf stream is basically plan to move two and a half knots north as you're going across uh
at an hour or yeah two and a half no you need a plane to move two and a half miles
north each hour you're in the gulf stream it's about 45 miles wide we're going to be in it for
like six or seven hours it worked out to be about 17 and a half miles we were going to drift north
so all you do is you just you pick where you want to be where you want to land and then you go 17
and a half miles south and you aim for that um our heading was 300 degrees and we were aiming for
delray beach and actually i could show you what happened right here
this is our backup shark plotter that we use just in case something fails out there but
you can see this is our path or our heading that's what we wanted to go to right right
around delray beach and the yellow is actually what we're doing it's not because the boat's
turned that's the gulf stream pushing us up to where we want to go as right now it looks like
we're going pretty perfect for what we want so even though we're going much more further north
um our heading is still three zero zero which is here so we're basically just going like this
just pushing this up and the cool thing is if you start lower and you're excited you're going
north you'll get speed out of it so we're going like eight knots right now which is really nice
so we should get there around between 6 30 and 7 tonight sunset is eight and that'd be
nice to be able to get there before it gets dark and get an anchor and this is day 12 of
our trip to 12 12 days how are you feeling a little salty oh you're my little salty sailor
i feel fine i mean the first three days i think we're the roughest because you're adjusting the
sleep schedule the motion the new everything you know and um you know i think we did pretty
good the boat's not too dirty it just feels a little salty um today five flies do come in
the boat so it's like all right probably start cleaning it bella's a little hot
i have given her two baths since we started this trip still a little hot but you know i think we're
doing all right i'm looking forward to anchoring tonight and getting like a solid night sleep
sleeping with my husband no time out yeah me too i'm looking forward to sleeping yeah
should be good i'm gonna start cleaning the boat now actually i'm kind of bored
um it's coming to an end we don't really need to do watches anymore at this point
uh so i'm gonna start cleaning up the boat so i can get working on that and we don't have to
spend too much time stopped and we can continue on tonight will be air conditioned and at anchor
and then we'll hop up forward a little bit and go into a marina to get a couple things get some mail
and then we'll continue on yeah and i'm looking forward to uh maybe finding some cooler weather
it's been 12 days and over 1500 nautical miles what an amazing
has nearly journey me and my mind is putting me on here
life has nearly killed me and my mind has shift after shift we've averaged about
six and a half knots overall so i can barely crawl i've got to walk with his angel's feet
darkness it's so cool to see it all come together the preparation training
and how well jeremiah and i executed i'm very proud of how it all turned out of
course there are so many variables that just take plain luck but we'll take it
we're checked into the us and safely tucked away at anchor well good night mountains
coming up on the lazy geckos it looks hard moments like this that you'll remember probably
set itself with me oh there's another one coming during a storm you should
put stuff in your microwave how's your pill assortment you slide the sticker on go for it
not that it's fixed but we have tried an hour left on my watch
got an uber to get some groceries
i thought i saw you coming so i flipped it on here
we're passing billy joel's estate
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