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oh my god what do you think of that thing oh my gosh it's like a tornado i know that thing's wild
i can go it's going the other way thankfully oh man what are the winds coming off of it uh they
got up like 25 we just kind of went around the side of it we're a little lucked out yeah we
really lucked out it's like all about time we're going that way yeah yesterday wasn't uh so lucky
no that was crazy but you know we're going to a different part of the world
because the weather's going to be different yeah we're going to adjust accordingly yeah
could be worse now the winds are coming from it and they're only at 18 17. they're going down
and we are motoring up the icw about to make another turn and we're almost at our anchorage
what do you want for dinner i was thinking throwing some pizzas on the grill for you
boys very cool i'm gonna do a little vegetable pasta for myself very nice
yeah you guys love your pizza yeah and the oven's broken but we can use the grill
the anchorage was lovely weather seems to break up around sunset and we've been
treated with some gorgeous views along the way it was time to snuggle in for the night
we've got a ton of bridges to get through in northern virginia starting with the great bridge
fifty
right after the great bridge while heading north you come into the great bridge lock
a fun little lock where you get raised or lowered a bit before heading on
you slap a sticker on go for it laughing a sticker on
where should we do it uh wherever we can reach don't fall in now
nice
got it nice that was my morning stretch it's shutting us in just basically just
have you tie up to the wall here two lines four and a half no fenders and then um
close you in and lower you or ratio depending on the tide on the other side
easier than uh docking on your own yeah we did bang the wall but yeah that's not my that's the
driver's issue we bumped into that that's why they have that rubber you know the other reviews i'll
talk about the rubber side the port side the other side is cement and sometimes if it's real crowded
in here you got to go over there and you can get your boat damaged over there yeah so what do you
want to take off first when we um oh we'll put take the bow off the bow off first we put the
stern line on first um because our stern thruster is not working right now so he was able to come in
kind of hot swing the stern and i threw the stern on and then he was able to thrust the bow over
and i just kind of threw it and looped it like i was lassoing a cleat there you go i'm not a good
laughs or but it takes practice and then i guess when we leave we'll kind of do the opposite yeah
uh
that was easy pushing north along the icw takes a bit more time due to bridges
locks and traffic but it can be entertaining for now we're out of the lock and back on the move
so much for that how about an unexpected delay
this train bridge was down with no trains in sight nor a time frame of when it'll raise again
instead of getting pushed into it by the current
we'll just motor around in circles while we wait life is nearly killed
this was about a two hour delay the bridge operator didn't want to raise the bridge
again until a second train came through there's not much you can do about it besides weight
these bridges are gnarly yeah man they got f-18s flying over and everything this place is
full on all military you feel like you're uh back home again
you know it smells like virginia because it's uh you can smell the grass it smells like virginia it
smells like home smells like virginia looks like virginia does it taste like virginia
well we get some maryland blue crab that'd be good ourselves yeah
i gotta put the sunscreen on before i go out here and now it's 143 feet 144 feet
these bridges are left oh the big basket bridges are crazy
no i think we'll clear it
where we headed portsmouth virginia yeah right across from norfolk
and uh we're gonna go explore this little town you know we're always going you know so now
that we've gotten above the 36th parallel which is what our insurance asked us to do
after we said we want to go north they said well if you get above the 36th
uh you will give you a big refund so we said yeah so we're above it
we can pretty much duck into anywhere so i think it's a good time for us to stop going so much and
just enjoy somewhere and porcelain's supposed to be beautiful right but what you've read yeah it's
a cute little town you can walk around explore yeah i'll be able to get some fresh groceries
and then we'll continue on down the chesapeake up up sorry continue on up wow industrial for sure
how's your pill assortment it's great so you're just going through them yeah about every six
months i go through all of our medications over the counter and then prescribe medications
not that we take these medications but i'll go through them and check the expiration dates
get rid of them take notes of what we need and so what i do is every time we're in the united states
or once a year if we go back to see family or whatnot i will go to our doctor and
i'll say hey you know he knows our deal we're sailing i want to make sure we're stopped for
anything that could happen if we couldn't get to a doctor and he stocked us up with
amoxicillin for each of us um something if we were to get infected eyes like pink eyes skin
infections he stocks us up uh drowsiness gives me my patches for my ear so that's a great job and i
you know it's nice knowing that if something goes wrong you can handle it on the boat without having
to wait until you can find a safe harbor to go into and a doctor to see and so on so i like it
never had to use them yet so that's the thing but you know it's all good yeah i hate seeing
stuff like that and then um over-the-counter stuff i'll just go to a pharmacy and grab it
like seasickness stuff simple things cortisone creams whatever well let me check autopilot
just gonna make sure we're still in the track here yeah we're good go two degrees to port
yeah go ahead yes so i just go through and we have a lot to get rid of this time around and
that's fine probably make a doctor's appointment for all of us before we head back out on a passage
that'll be in a couple months and all we'll be well yeah well it's easier now that we're going to
be in the states because you just go to the doctor we don't have to carry uh so much on board yeah
um sometimes i'll keep them like a month or two past expiration date if we're going on like a
passage but even if something came up we're the type that probably wouldn't use it unless it's
like life or death another a really good one that's still good it's epipen so because reece
and i have allergies we were able to get our epi pens covered by insurance so that's a big one and
they were only like 20 bucks for us but well another great thing that we just were able to
get on the boat was a defibrillator are you learning we got our infant child key
we bought a defibrillator recently i don't know if we've talked about it at all yet but
um i have afib and then you know there's all kinds of old people around out here and people you're
way out in the middle of nowhere and you never know when you might need something like this so
you know when we're way offshore like when we're uh sailing from grenada to here you know you're
days and days away from land and um you know i i've actually seen somebody go missing and
the countries argue who's going to go get them i don't know if everybody wouldn't to get them
anybody anybody i don't i don't know yeah so sometimes you're on your own so we went ahead and
bought a defibrillator for the boat and when we got it realized it didn't have the
infant key so this is like a hundred dollars more or something like that
but it's basically a key that you turn like this and you put it in the little slot here
and the machine now will go for a kid under 55 pounds zero to eight years old let's use
yeah and obviously different instructions right there where you put the pad yeah so this thing
lights up and it tells you it talks to you and it goes through the whole process pretty cool
and i also got some extra pads because these are like i think about one time one one time use so
i'm just gonna put this in here and i'll put this like that right now that's cool we got our infant
key i love it like that i don't know yeah so that goes along with medical too we have a good
stockpile when it comes to medical we really take care of it in that aspect and it's not
only good for us but somebody else that might need something in a life or death situation yep
coming up on the lazy geckos we're gonna do a little q a because brittany has a list of
questions you're getting an a for efforts well today's the big day i'm excited to get
to the boat today and move on wild with new jersey boardwalk not that it's fixed
but we have tried it smells like i have an hour left on my watch i'm passing by calypso
north carolina now it's bad when you have your friends emailing you are you guys okay here we go
luck on your first cruising adventure thank you bloopers i got an uber to get
some groceries and i saw this cute little bar to stop it here's your coffee thank you baby
are you ready for this no we're passing billy joel's estate
if it lets loose it's gonna probably plummet into our boat
don't take me back you can't take me back and turn north and probably put out the headsail
have a good time with it uh put your foot put it right under your butt yesterday to come back into
new york what do you think about what are you gonna just make a shot lovely want more check
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