on this episode we're all jacked up and dislocated my pinky will fly me up on concord waterfalls
then we're off on a parts run and international parts run we're in miami we're here to load up on
all the parts we need to get calypso fixed up fuel filters fuel pump before we're off again
let's get back to the islands how about the parts situation a huge shipment didn't make it
did i get the right sizes we got our new mantis stuff in that's pretty cool and our new lithium
ion battery bank gets installed new batteries what are the new batteries going to do for us and
what's the new solar going to do for us welcome to our battery compartment they just got installed
welcome to lazy gecko sailing i'm brittany and this is jeremiah
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what happened there
dislocated doing dishes
honey that's what you have a wife for i'll do your dishes
you just continue to cook dinner and i'll do dishes yeah and dislocated my pinky while
flying me up on concord waterfalls i slipped on a rock and fell and
came up my pinky was hanging off my hand so i went in they reset it and everything took
x-rays it's really good because it was only uh 200 american dollars to go into a doctor
um have a consultation have an x-ray and have them reset it and do the split and everything and
that's how they charge 200 bucks so the x-ray itself is 100 so i've been milking this uh
swelled up dislocated pinky i'm pretty sure it's pretty jacked up in there but i'm just letting
it do its thing and i'm just splinting it to the other finger at this point but when i do dishes
and stuff like that i just the problem is i keep doing stuff with it messing it up so like i went
on a hash and i dab my hand on the ground carrying a wreath and i'm working on the boat and i'm doing
dishes and it's all jacking it up so it's not getting better so i just re-wrapped it after
doing the dishes and uh i have to deal with that it sucks man it's painful yeah okay fire chief
okay so what do we have on the boat that can tell you there's a fire um a cat a fire protector okay
a smoke alarm a fire detector right and beep beep right you've heard it before right okay so what's
the saying that we say when we're walking through the smoke what do we have to do um crawl on the
ground go through these layers stay low and go right all right put on your fire chief hat okay
so when it when i when i make the beep sound okay you have to get out of bed and stay low and go
crawling your hands and knees to mommy and daddy's room to get us okay all right here
we go go lay down you're sleeping and i'm not here pretend like i'm not even here okay
living with a retired u.s marine means you'll be running drills jeremiah likes to keep us
well trained on emergency procedures while living aboard a boat where lots of things can go wrong
fire drills piracy drills man overboard drills you name it we're off we need parts so we're flying
home to the states to get them parts run baby we are in miami we flew back to the states we'll be
here for 14 days this is a little bit of family but mainly because we've ordered so many parts and
stuff like trampolines and all kinds of stuff to our mailing service that we need to get the parts
bring them back down to grenada we're getting stuff uh along the way and today is cummins
and bomar so we're we're gonna go to cummins uh onan which is our generator place um
they helped us out when the when the brushes went bad on the generator by getting us the part
okay great i appreciate it i already called the hotel thank you got a hold of cummins in miami
who didn't they have six of these parts in stock i was like hey is there a way i can pay somebody
a hundred bucks to drive it from miami to john's airport talk to the front desk at the airport
hotel and they're you know they're expecting the package so a little bit of luck we should
have our brushes brushes here tomorrow they're really great so we're gonna actually go there
and see if they have a heat exchanger um fuel pump and fuel filter along with some oil filters
uh i wanna i need to replace the heat exchanger because it's been seeping in raw
water and it's actually like a little valve underneath of it it seeps raw water
and it dries and it creates like a stalactite of salt uh which is not good this is the generator
so come in zoning unfortunately we developed the leak on the raw water side and then that gets all
over stuff underneath it which is the fuel pump and that type of stuff so we're gonna get the new
heat exchanger and we're gonna get a new fuel pump hopefully they have the parts in stock we'll see
it's nice to be back in the states we just had some fast food which made me feel terrible
and we're making our way up towards jacksonville where we have our mail service
can you believe how big this store is it's awesome let's just rain clear up before we go in there we
don't want to get the camera wet no so what i want to do is get those parts order them if they don't
have them in stock order them so that we can pick them up when we come back down to miami
and roll out but this place is uh right in right near miami and it's awesome and huge so i'm hoping
they have all the parts this is something you learn to appreciate as you cruise parts just
aren't easy to come by out here so when you have a warehouse in front of you it feels like christmas
we've cruised down the grenada and uh and when we were in nassau we need brushes for we have
a common zone generator okay and you guys got it which is awesome so we came back for
two weeks and i want to see if i can get some parts for my generator
yeah right yep you have the model the generator i do um and if there's specific parts because
i don't know if you have a picture of this generator but i can show you exactly what's
going on it's a mdk bj kbj okay do you have the spectrum by any chance yes
it has like a nipple underneath something sometimes before probably a drink let me
see okay leaking raw water out of there we're in heaven plus the man working the counter was
a former marine 2004 2012. i went to iraq and afghanistan a few times actually yeah me too
yeah i went to iraq three times afghanistan twice nice man been out since 2012. yeah do you miss it
every day yeah every day man like though the heat exchanger especially we have to have to
charge it up front right now okay that's fine yeah no worries i'll probably for all have you
heard about this before you said yeah yeah yeah i did over the phone yes we were able to order the
manifold that should be here tomorrow and we were able to get free oil filters
so we'll pick it up on the way back down we got a fuel filters fuel pump oil filters and the heat
exchanger that comes tomorrow we'll pick it up probably in a week because we'll be back down here
then uh and i'm going to replace all the stuff underneath of it which is like the fuel pump and
on that so success they had everything we needed we're good to go after about two weeks of visiting
family and getting the parts we could it was time to head back to the boat we're excited to get back
good morning good morning i thought i heard you fumbling around in here doing my morning
daily routine of making the bed you know i'm happy you do that because
i hate making the bed it's yeah i know it's hard to make and it's okay because when you make it
i just kind of remake it are you happy to be back i am so happy to be back this is a quick trip but
yeah it takes like four it's a four-hour flight from miami to grenada but the whole customs and
all that stuff it's a lot but it's nice to be home right yeah it's really nice to be home i enjoy
little breaks from the boat but when we do that i'm also like i just want to go home to
the boat i missed the boat it's our home yeah okay well we have batteries happening this week
um how about the parts situation oh yes so we got like 25 of what we wanted to get as far as parts
we ordered it a long time ago it was supposed to be in weeks ago we booked our trip
assuming everything would be in but it wasn't so we'll have to figure out something else
yeah so we had stuff going to our mail service we expected it to be there a huge shipment didn't
make it so we'll just have to send that here but we didn't have a large shipment like big stuffs
yeah trampolines all that but we did get like a lot of stuff so we'll go do that plus the battery
steven's coming this week to put the batteries in yes that's exciting yeah that'd be good it's
always good to come back to the boat when you have stuff to look forward to anything's good but
when you're like oh i'm gonna get stuff done i'm gonna get stuff done you know i really enjoy that
type of thing howdy hi just give me a minute it takes a little while to open the door oh my gosh
how are they they're good did i get the right sizes i think so nice i mean some of
them yeah i mean they're fine the other one was really really tight so this one's not as tight
but you know the fenders are also differently inflated yeah and i'm sure if some fenders are
older or some fenders are newer you know yeah so you happy with them yeah they're cool they
feel nice well they're very fluffy i'm sure the boat will love these rubbing up against her hall
they do up at the top and the bottom our fenders have always looked a little rough so we decided to
add these covers we think they look much better jeremiah wanted tan i wanted to go with red
looks like jeremiah won this battle we got our new mantis stuff in
we we've been looking for a new bridle and i contacted mantis and they're like hey you know
we'll send it to you so they were nice enough to send a sweet headlamp as well look at this thing
like a rechargeable headlamp that's cool i use headlamps all the time
for like working and stuff like that they're huge i mean you get down and we were just using
it last night to open up all the through hauls and stuff like that so that's great
so they sent a nice shackle for it and look at that look they have this upgraded uh
like strap that goes across it that's pretty cool wow well i can't wait to use this three eighths we
have a 3 8 chain and you just basically shackle it up have that on this thing is heavy duty man
and then you put the chain in there and then pull it across and strap it on the strap on batteries
are coming we're waiting on them right yep should be walking down the dock any minute i think it's
been about six weeks since we ordered them it took four weeks to get here it came by boat and then we
went to the states right when they got here he's supposed to come today to install them so that's
exciting that means we can leave the dock it's so hard to see you behind this camera it's so big
that's our other camera so now we're filming with our canon it's a canon as well but it's not
our 5d it's like our backup camera or our drop camera to give guests it's pretty good but um
it's not the 5d the 5d start to have audio issues so we sent it off when we were in the states to
canon to get serviced they called us and we paid for it i think it was about 400 to service the
audio which is great compared to the cost of a new camera um and now they've mailed it back to
our mail service and it's sitting there more bad timing we missed that shipment by one day so now
we add our camera to the ship to grenada list one and again good morning the people of grenada are
so friendly this is a big day our batteries have arrived new batteries rb 300 hps that's cool we
decided to replace our house bank with lithium-ion batteries after our flooded cells failed
this is a pretty major upgrade that we're super excited about what are you hoping for with like
what the what are the new batteries going to do for us and what's the new solar going to do for
us and solar charger first off we can get off the dock now because we can have battery power but
um these are huge there's 600 amp hours we can dig more into those amp hours than we could before
um last time we had a 450 amp hour that we could only use 50 percent of this one's 600 we can use
i think like 80 of it so it's gonna be much better for us and then we don't have to worry
about watering them dealing with them venting all that stuff so we're also going to replace
our solar on the back on the arch the antares comes with four solar panels two in the arch two
on top of the bimini they're gonna be much bigger i don't know how that's gonna look but it doesn't
matter because it's solar and it's gonna create a little bit more shade so we'll see how it goes
welcome to our battery compartment it's rather large we're really lucky to have such a big
compartment to hold our batteries because it not only holds the batteries it holds extra parts
over here and it kind of goes back and then we have extra lines here these are other electrical
components and then this is for running lines lots of room and over here we got our windlass
and when we're not in here working we tend to put our fenders in here if we're not using
them out there and then it kind of fills it up but even still if we put all of our
fenders in there we have a whole lot of room behind our ladder right here in here this is
the most special part of this compartment are our batteries they just got installed
be careful there we go these are batteries lithium-ion batteries they are 600 amp hour
so there's two 300 amp hour batteries uh they can be stacked like that they're offset and they have
a space between them um a little foamy thing yeah i've got some foam just you know holding it steady
but so far they're running pretty good right now they're charging yeah you excited i am i'm
you know i'm really happy we got them they're a great addition to the boat they don't hope they
don't come bust on you right there yeah that'd be awful now you put that thought in my head i
felt pretty safe down here until you started i should they shouldn't vent or anything like that
no they're really good i'm really happy to have them they're a nice addition nice little upgrade
and when you talk to people and they're like lithium irons oh my gosh that's awesome that's
my next upgrade so that always makes me feel really good you know what i mean like yeah
we're staying up to date with the most current stuff i love them let's do a photo shoot with
them
coming up on the lazy geckos okay we're both sitting here yes we're both sitting right here
obviously and then it also cinches it so it doesn't fray a seat a bottle of scotch we just
got our sail back it was like over here 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
our ac hasn't been as cold yeah there you go
attack of the mosquitoes and more laundry we are off to
tornado brewery most of our fermenters when we started party's still on dean's on our
regulations this is our new runner whoops
do you know what you're doing no well i watched youtube video oh then you must know everything
about it 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
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