are you ready ready today we're rigging throttle cables in a high-tech fly-by-wire
system at least trying to I have like two options shake my engine apart or rip my
throat my transmission out of the boat we'll take you diving on a famous plane crash in the Bahamas
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foreign
all right so we've programmed it this is our yacht Commander throttle box look at that thing
yeah it's pretty sweet let me get a good look this is coming from The Wire signal coming from
the helm and this box uh turns that electrical signal into a mechanical input to the engine this
is the throttle cable going to the engine this is the transmission cable going the engine we've had
issues with this thing it's like unprogrammed and I have to reprogram it otherwise it like shakes
our engine apart because what happens is the freaking uh throttle box is now giving an input
to the engine that's like lower than it should be for idle or whatever so I have to come down and
reprogram it so the way you do that is like when Brent was up there I had to hold these two buttons
down right here these first one two and three of the buttons can you see them yeah one two three
I hold the two down she starts it and it puts it in program mode now this is the throttle setting
you can go through the settings that's like low throttle High throttle and there's different
settings and stuff like that and then what you do is you put it in program mode where you hit that
the enter and it flashes and then you can use the down and up arrows to move this like a little tiny
little tiny bit so arthrottle is too low and in this this position I have to hit the down button
in order to increase the throttle a little bit so I would put it in program by pushing that button
now it's programmable and I just tap it and then and I don't want to do it because we
already programmed it but this will just move a little bit and move that throttle just a little
bit then we'll go up we'll start the engine it is not like the perfect thing like you you it jumps
so you go from like 800 to 1000 to you know to you can't get it like right at the 900 you know it's
kind of annoying it's sensitive as far as using it but it's not sensitive as far as programming it's
I'm not a fan of this thing if you can tell but this was in the boat when we got it but
um so I'm gonna go up here and start the engine to see how this house all right so I'm gonna restart
the throttle down there by just turning it on turning off I'm turning it off just turning it
on and then I'm going to start up the engine area throttle is going I like to put it in if
I put this little button push this button it puts this yellow flash on and that's
that allows me to increase the throttle without engaging the transmission let's
see let's see where the RPMs are I like them around 900 it's probably gonna be a thousand
okay so these even higher okay which I don't like it likes the idle the engine 700.
I want the engine idle between 8 and 900 and it's so freaking not like you can't mess with it to get
it perfectly between there so it's high or low can't fine tune it when it's right when it's low
the engine's just shaking itself apart now it's come down a little bit to about a thousand I'll
accept a thousand it's just it's rough on your transmission when you're engaging the transmission
so I'll run it and see here you have her yeah it's okay we went down to 900. that's fine it's better
than it was it was shaking the boat apart um and like as we're doing stuff so I'm in gear right
now on strategy gear I see it's going back out see I hate that um now now if I put in neutral
see if I can increase it and bring it back down and it's still idling high see
which makes me want to go down there and pop it one more time
to try to bring it down just a little bit I think we should all right let's shut this down okay so
you're gonna stay up here and turn the throttle on and then we'll actually go through okay
done so now we're gonna put it in program mode for the lower
okay now I'm just going to pop it we're going to go up which brings the Throttle Down
okay now take it back out and let's start the engine see what that does
I would like it just to be like the tiniest and I'm barely tap it let's see what it does
okay so we're at a thousand here we go it's okay I don't mind that
because I can increase the throttle just a little bit
but idle until items a little high
reverse again I can increase the throttle a little bit so that's idle it's so like
stupid and see the thing is you don't have the time when you're out here when you're dealing
with crap to take your throttles put them in neutral mess with it a little bit try to make
the engine go back to normal when it should be just sitting there so should we program
it again to bring it down some more no it's not going to be here which isn't surprising
oh my gosh now it's not responding at all right there we go
I mean I'm I'm thinking maybe I'll leave it here I'm gonna leave it here because it's not
too high and it's at that point where I can kind of screw it I'll still have to screw with it until
we take this piece of crap out of the boat you know yeah but do you see the frustration
I have with it yes that's one of our issues it's shaking our engine apart I have like two options
shake my engine apart or rip my throat my transmission out of the boat
because oh gosh the idle's so low it's just or so high that it's still naming my transmission
so whatever but hey you know you think it's a little bit better yes it was so bad like it was
the point where the whole boat would just like every time we come to idle and then so Britney
would be anchoring I have to go to neutral for whatever reason then the motorcycle so I'm like
okay I'm gonna put it out of gear like I gotta put it in the neutral mode increase the throttle which
means now when she needs me to engage that I gotta decrease the throttle push the thing put it back
in the engine mode and then it's stupid I should be able to go to neutral and then go back in gear
and you need that when you're being when you're fighting currents and winds and we're anchoring in
20 30 knots like you can't screw around you know so whatever I'm not in a bad mood it's just that's
the reality nobody asked who you were I know you're not what are you doing
oh you're finishing up here soon maybe a week left
are you excited we're in the Bahamas you're gonna graduate kindergarten in the Bahamas
well yeah so cool no I'm excited for you are you looking forward to first grade
but I don't know
it doesn't get easier that's okay because you grow and learn
weave weight anchor and are sailing down the Exumas
what's up people where you going
oh okay well this is a nice Anchorage beautiful yeah it's relaxing I just we just finished up
some school what'd you learn in school today different stuff I don't I don't usually remember
it yeah that's exactly what most kids say it's like 15 30 right now 1600 we're gonna meet up
some people that we met before and go dinghy into the mangroves yeah I'm looking forward to
it I think you can go right through to the ocean side if the Tide's high enough yeah well it was
low tide we pulled in so hopefully it will be up a little bit but it is an absolutely beautiful
Anchorage before we head into the mangroves let's jump back a few days when we Dove on a plane crash
just Beach the dinghy we are at Norman's key there's this little restaurant off
it's really really pretty setting uh we tried yesterday it was closed so
we're trying again today to go there and get some lunch before we dive Pablo escobars plain
wreck Norman's key and the Exuma islands has some interesting history look it up if you ever
get the chance today we've landed the dinghy on the beach in search of a place to get some lunch
turns out it's glows for what reason good private function s darn it I was so looking forward to
that we got so close we got to the entrance that's sad but we're gonna head on over to Pablo's crash
we have to wait until slack tied that's not for another um till two it's about 11 30 now um we'll
see how about the current is yeah it usually slow starts slowing down like an hour before
Tides going out and literally had a slack tied I'm sure it'll be fine and boats going over there
so they're doing it I'm sure we can do it we wanted to do it yesterday but we
didn't have the dive lights fully charged so we decided to wait until today and then that
way we can get some good video footage for you tomorrow no yeah straight to the wreck
thank you
I think Daddy can do this yes
oh that makes him strong getting Reese involved in all tasks is something that's
important to us not only does it keep them active it also teaches him skills
that he may use one day either way just lending a hand is a good thing to do
this is MLB that we got on there Reese has had special training in
it haven't you good thing we haven't had to use it
we're ready
done it's much easier to put the dinghy back in the water than it is to take it out of the
water that's what we should be filming it's pretty tough pulling a dinghy up on shore
can be a struggle at times we're so happy we have an aluminum Hull which reduces weight
we're anchored on the more protected west side of the island so we took our dinghy Taco to the east
side where the crash site is located a quick five minutes or so and we could see the plane
five feet five and a half feet that's where the wing is so we don't want to
Anchor around top of it I just want to kind of see how strong the current is it's pushing
us a little bit but not too bad what do you think I'll let you get in first and make sure
we anchored and hopped in the brisk water it's close to slack tie but
there's still a current here let's check this plane out while we can
for me
foreign
it's pretty strong so I just did a kick with me okay
I'll be as close as I can comfortably okay
foreign
thank you
is that awesome
very cool man it's nice who did a higher Tire because it was all underwater yeah
yeah oh my goodness yeah
I turned around and it was like right in my face
the day was wrapping up we decided to relax on a beach
close to the anchorage for the remaining time
I think we will uh maybe have one more and then head back to see some friends
and that's what we did crack another cold one and spend time together before heading
to enjoy a sunset with friends if you're looking to experience this lifestyle Kate and Cyrus here
are awesome and they Charter their beautiful sailboat you can find them on Instagram let's
get back to shroud key where Jeremiah is drying out our dive gear and that was cool so we have
all of us a lot of our gear out just drying and stuff like that afterwards I try to rinse it all
out with fresh water and then let it dry before it's put away but we're probably going to save
that stuff with us today I don't know just in case we can jump in but this is called shroud
key in Exumas and there are a lot of Mega Yachts out here and then there's a little Mooring field
also we opted to Anchor just because it's easier than Mooring in my opinion just drop the hook so
we're kind of off the side of the Mooring field but you can see there's some charter
boats mixed in with sailing cats modern halls and all that kind of stuff so very beautiful Anchorage
how deep it is and hoping to get to the other side where it's the ocean front
there's supposed to be a lot of a turtle a lot of sea life and lots of things to see
here apparently there's a turtle right up ahead
it's funny because we didn't get the electric um tilt on the dinghy engine we're like oh we don't
need that here for I don't know a couple weeks and turns out we need it this is quite the experience
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