on this episode we're teaching you a few things we finally figured out the process
of getting your stuff hopefully they're there today c14 all filled out and approved we're
gonna go through the process of getting parts shipped from the states then we're off for a
photo shoot working hard honey you're going the wrong way it's a nice little spot yeah
i think anybody has their binoculars out oh probably that's a huge anchorage before
we dive first into some ac problems it's getting hot in here go ahead and pull it out
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i am on the way to the fedex location here in grenada we finally figured out the process of
getting your stuff shipped here so we did like a trial run with our generators heat exchanger
worked out perfectly i used dhl but working with dhl here was a little bit time consuming
so i switched over to fedex plus with our big shipment that happened to be the cheaper option
what i did was we have a traveling address in green cove springs called saint brennan's isle
i get all my stuff shipped there and as i ship it there i print invoices because it can be hard
to keep track of what you ship over time you forget right and then i take all this stuff
from green cove and i ship it to fort lauderdale miami area to our other traveling address it's
like an international traveling address called myus.com so i have uh an account set up there
with an actual address i get everything shipped there and they consolidate it together they also
kind of itemize it out for me so i can check and make sure i have the invoices for everything
and then they have different um shipping carriers you can choose from like fedex dhl
and so on i chose fedex and then they ship it here to grenada to the fedex location
now the tricky part is getting your c14 done and actually getting them to give you your possessions
so this shipment was like a lot of boat parts and also some stuff for lazy gecko sailing if you're
doing this and you are flying home i suggest just taking all your stuff back with you in suitcases
and paying the customs when you fly in and declaring everything that's what we did the first
time around and now the second time around we got it shipped in because we're not going back but
yeah so come on let's go to fedex driving in grenada can be quite uh fun it's almost like
being at a theme park dodging everything you know like when you go to disney world and all
the kids are running around you're like dodging bullets it's kind of what it's like here it's
uh we often talk about how it reminds us of the harry potter movies they get in those boxes zoom
zoom zoom and all crazy it uh really reminds us of that and there's lots of bumps as you can see i'm
gonna work out all the paperwork side of it and then it usually takes them a little bit of time to
figure out the amount that we owe for taxes and then jeremiah will come pick it up which is kind
of nice i'm off to recap i need a corrected invoice then a sport team from customs to
say how much to pay in taxes we'll pay the taxes and then they'll release the shipment
currently in the fedex warehouse in grenada they are looking for my packages so they can
go through them and confirm that there's only two water pumps and not four like the invoices
about two hours later and i'm leaving fedex he was nice enough to print out all the papers for
me and now i'm going back to the customs office at my marina and they will do a c14
for all the bow parts walking over to the customs office at our marina which has been
really really convenient to renew cruising permits and do stuff like this so hopefully they're there
today customs office on property is awesome they were there and i had everything i needed to get my
i'm back in the car i got my c14 all filled out and approved for the boat stuff um now i'm gonna
go over there bring it to the customs officer at fedex and uh she should she'll come up with
a price for me to pay duty on so i'm paying 2.9 on boat parts and then six percent on um
just normal stuff normal stuff so curious to see what it all comes out to
going up to the customs officer here at fedex she will fill out the other paperwork stamp
and approve it for personal items such as clothing or vitamins whatever else i got
she stamped everything
now i will go into the actual fedex office and he will work out payment so he'll have to do
two separate payments uh one will be for the package of boat stuff which is 2.9 percent and
the next will be the packaging on the personal items which is six percent so i'll go in here
so i wait they take this paperwork in the back and a lady does all the itemizing and comes with
with the amount they'll ask me how much i did for shipping write that down
um so now it's just a waiting game right here which is nice because there's ac
i'd say i'm about three and a half hours into the process of just trying to pick it up
probably take me all together about four hours when i get it back to the
boat maybe four and a half hours depending on how long this takes
awesome got all the packages it came to shipping was about 500 u.s
the duties were about 447 um ec was probably 125 american so all in all we paid 625 to get
all of our boat parts here plus some extra stuff that i like to take like vitamins and um belly
button ring i lost mine that's exciting and lots of boat stuff like carpeting for the entire boat
new trampolines shelves fans water pumps so much stuff that we needed um so you know sometimes you
gotta do this and uh if you're not going back to the states it's sometimes the better option it's
all a part of cruising and that's what you gotta do i'm gonna go home and let jeremiah take over
thank you for coming to the rescue he's so nice he packed it full for me
nice opening yeah are you excited go ahead take it back yeah okay so we got carpets
trampoline and a bunch of boat parts enough jumping through hoops it was time to hit the beach
working hard honey you're going the wrong way
come over here don't break your pinky i'm not gonna say anything oh the tide's coming in
right right there yeah
let's see if there's some shade
it's a nice little spot yeah this is great it's pretty when the sun starts to set
no now you're gonna do it well now i have a little bit of an audience so now it makes sense to do it
it's simple i've never seen this before yeah i've seen it yeah hopefully uh i don't really
care honestly i'm sure he won't want him either he's cleaning his dinghy over there
you look beautiful the lighting this is like right outside the marina yeah very very pretty oh yeah
like your own private beach it literally is
well you ready to go back and uh hang out yeah i'm ready to look at these photos i'm excited to see
how they turned out i think it'll be pretty i'm gonna walk back and make it and then anybody will
know a little see-through oh well see the dinghy's going by yeah hopefully oh it's talking it's all
right you think anybody has their binoculars out oh probably that's a huge anchorage awesome wall
see that it's thing it kind of makes you feel like tiny you have vertigo when you stand next to it
it's odd pretty pretty little spot i can't believe we didn't find this sooner
so now that we've been in the marina more we've been using the acs a lot more strainers have
started clogging up a little bit which is cool it's not too bad you spray them off and then
the filters for the acs have started to get really clogged up so it's really reducing the airflow oh
yeah it looks like a filter that's cool so that's not actually the radiator so go ahead and pull
it out if you can without screwing anything out it must be nice to be that little yeah
i don't know about that little but it is nice to be have a smaller i guess other half
oh yeah oh did you get it out that reese was only one that could fit in the compartment in the boat
okay yeah yeah there you go it's caked yeah that's our problem yeah shut the strainer and it
was pretty dirty i just trained like three weeks ago and um so we went down and checked this the
radiator part of it that's probably another name for that condenser or something i don't know but
this is what she found there's a little filter in front of it and it's filthy
if you want to hold this well i'll clean that out yeah i got it i can't put that on the
bottom because it's dripping what's it dripping condensation i guess squeeze back down in here
this is where it was i have now figured out that we have a whole empty compartment on our boat i've
been noticing the last couple days that uh our ac hasn't been as cold and it's kind of been turning
off and throwing some type of code so we looked it up and now we're trying to troubleshoot what's
going on this is our ac and our salon so our main ac not fun when it goes out trevor's room which is
our port side berth he's now in that room his ac unit is down and i'm pretty sure our bedroom one
something's going on with that one too it doesn't feel as cold so before we get a professional in
here we are trying to troubleshoot ourselves and figure it out to save some money apparently
the freon's supposed to be good for the life of the system so yeah i hear him real dirty
do all our ac units have one of these yeah i wonder if we should clean them all out yeah it'd
probably be a good idea a little harder to get to i believe but i'm sure they're all just as bad and
we should i should probably get under each area and clean out the dust from around it yeah yeah
well you know the dust is constantly sucking right so yeah it's pulling dust from the air
it's definitely not as comfortable to sit like this as it used to be
ten years ago this was in the bottom yep
so this is what he brought back you did all right oh i didn't want to scrub it
too hard it's kind of falling apart okay going back in well that was easy enough
the clean filter will allow much more airflow we hope it fixes our issue blow some cold air baby
it's been pretty hot here in grenada the acs really keep up but we just have to keep them
healthy see my light yeah yeah you don't want to wipe any of those like components down too much
yeah i'm good for you to go in and put it back together oh okay was it dirty
very i mean it's all wrapped in there but even like take a peek right there
yeah that's a little dirty yeah i wonder how our spare room one looks
coming up on the lazy geckos
okay we're both sitting here yes we're both sitting right here obviously then it also
cinches it so it doesn't fray a bottle of scotch we just got our sail back it was like
all the way here the pole was bent this is the rudder stock it's like kind of bent that way
and there's cracks you put safety wire through here this one here is the voltage sensor pressure
i'm looking down now i
and more laundry we are off to grenada's
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this is day one of our trip from grenada back to the united states day 10 or 11.
and we're still having a pretty good time out here
well picked up and ended up on our beam oh my god we're gonna uh navigate through a little
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