what's up guys welcome back to another video and
as you guys know we are spending hurricane season here in grenada and one of the things that we have to do for hurricane season
is haul out our boat
"get a boat" they said "it will be fun"
and we're hauling out tomorrow, at 8am! we're very nervous
huge list of things to do for the boat that has been long overdue because
when we purchased the boat uh within a month or two months we hauled out the boat and did
the bottom paint and we were trying to care for our boat
we did polishing and all this cool stuff
and then we were like okay there's no time for that let's just enjoy the boat and
we didn't do as many things on the boat as we had to
well actually alejo always does all the maintenance and stuff but nothing major right
so the past year mostly we have just been enjoying bahamas and everything
not really a lot of work
so we will be hauling out and doing all that we have been postponing for the past year
one of those things is fixing the air conditioning
so baby tell us what you're doing
what's up guys what's up what's up my people
so what i'm doing right now is that our air conditioner
we love sleeping with a/c
i turn on the ac and it gets cold but not like really cold like it used to
so what i'm doing is i'm taking everything apart and we have this bucket which it has like a little motor
and we connect one end to another end
and a hose it goes to a bucket that pumps the water and then it circulates through the system
and we put barnacle buster in there and we leave it running for like i don't know like 30 minutes
and we're gonna do that for the three ac's
so everything's gonna be barnicle clear
as you can see in there everything that you see here it's a bunch of barnacles so that is actually preventing
the water from flowing properly as it should
so we got lots of lots of things happening at the same time on this boat right now right
yes plus andrea needs to make lunch because i'm pretty hungry
yes i'm about to make some lunch again
before i make lunch i also want to show you guys
so the first thing the most important thing that we're doing during a haul out is we are doing the bottom paint
let me show you guys how bad our boat is right now in terms of the paint
the anti-foaling is already off we are already seeing the primer as we have mentioned to you guys in previous videos
it looks really bad
so we urgently need to take care of the paint for the boat
one of the other things that we're doing is we are going to get rid of a bunch of stains that we have all over the boat
we have a bunch of stains all over the boat because it just happens with use
you can see that yellow stain as much as you clean it it won't get off so that's a stain
so what we're doing is we're going to be cleaning the boat with acid to get rid of all those stains
and then we're going to be doing ceramic coating all over the entire boat
baby is it dirty?
super dirty
so if you take a look here this is a huge abstain you get stains around here all around here it's a massive stain
and obviously we want to keep our boat as pretty as possible and obviously as clean so that it lasts longer
and also that we don't have to paint the boat um soon
on another note a lot of you guys ask us how it is to have pets on board
do you love having your dogs on board and let me show you how dirty it gets because of our dogs
it's not like we haven't cleaned the boat in three months
like we have done the cleaning but the situation with the dogs is that bad
you get a lot of hair everywhere and they step on their little paws get around everywhere after we take them home from the beach and
lady africa told us yesterday that their boat is also super dusty
and apparently that's because the dust from the sahara desert ends up here, right baby?
yes
"get a boat" they said "it would be fun"
this is a massive stain here and that stain that's only going to be removed
once we do the haul out with acid right
we'll put the boat nice and white, no stains and then behold - ceramic coat!
how do you feel about your ceramic coating
very excited but it's a lot of work but we'll let you guys know how it works so if you own a boat you can do it yourself
because you want someone to do the job it's really expensive, i mean the product is still expensive
but it lasts a long time and you don't have to be waxing your boat like every three months or four months
we will be vlogging the entire process of us doing the ceramic coating the waxing everything we're doing it all over the boat
we will do that on during the haul out and then if we're not able to finish we will do the rest like the deck and stuff we will do it once we're in back in the water
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work that we will be doing in the next few weeks which is a lot and i'm not looking forward to it, alejo is definitely looking forward to it
and the last thing that we will be doing on the boat is we will be installing a bms on our lithium batteries
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so we are on our way to the stadium here in st. george in grenada
because we are going to get the vaccine and honestly we are not too thrilled about having to get the vaccine here
but we sort of don't have another option because in the past month three different countries have set the rule
that you have to be vaccinated in order to enter the country
that includes grenada, where we are
so if we for some reason have to travel to the U.S., we can't come back unless we have a vaccine
barbados
trinidad and tobago
union island
and so basically we are just going to be required to have a vaccine if we want to continue traveling
if we go to the U.S. it would take about six weeks between the first vaccine the second vaccine
and we can only enter two weeks after the second dose of the vaccine that makes it super complicated to to take to get the vaccine in the U.S.
so we're pretty much forced to get it here
so we are heading to the stadium to get our first shot of the vaccine
and that's about it
so we just got some last minute news uh ricky and simone from lady africa
you guys met them in previous videos they just moved to clark's court because they will be hauling out their boat too
and they gave us a call and they told us that we have to haul out tomorrow because apparently
they don't do appointments they just haul out boats every two weeks
as many boats as they can and so that seems a little odd but
anyway if we don't haul out tomorrow it means that we won't be able to haul out until the 18th until the 18th
which is in still two weeks from today so we need to be able to like call out this week
our stuff from the U.S. is actually arriving on wednesday today is monday
i'm going to clara's court i'm gonna go pick up ricky ask them if they need any paperwork from us
so we can hold out tomorrow and i'm gonna pick up ricky so he can come and pick up his scooter
so it is time to move we are raising our anchor and we are ready to move to clark's court but
bad news check out how the anchor how disgusting it is
guys look at the chain
the growth is horrible
we got captain andrea right now driving the boat
she's gonna take us out
and we are about 30 minutes away, that's what simone and ricky said, haven't really looked at it
and we're hauling out tomorrow at 8 00 a.m, we're very nervous
good morning ladies and gentlemen we are preparing for the haul out
it is about 6 30 a.m
and we are doing the haul out at eight we have to be at the slip yeah
we also rented a small apartment
because since we're going to be in the boatyard for a little over a week
we can't be taking the dogs like up and down on the boat
we also won't have any functioning air conditioning and this bay in particular, it does not get any wind at all
we did a schedule of our week how it's going to look
let me show you guys
so today is tuesday we will be getting some quotes for the removal of the paint of the anti-fouling
um
also we'll start removing the bottom paint
alejo will start working on the engine oil the coolant filters uh generator oil and clean the heat exchanger
uh meanwhile i'm just going to be his assistant today
tomorrow we will be running the barnacle buster on the engine, we will remove the clutch
and we will be getting started on the sail drives
thursday we will be working on the sail drives then we will take the sail drive and the clutch to whoever needs to do the sail drive on the clutch
we will start working on installing the bms on the lithium batteries
friday this is where the tough job for us starts
the bottom paint should be all around removed around the boat
and that's when we're going to start just putting acid all around the boat so we can get rid of all the stains
and then saturday we will be polishing all around the boat so we have to do all the deck
and we have to do all the hauls
alright guys so we are ready
we are raising our anchor and we will be heading to the marina to clark's court
we are supposed to be in the slip at 8 a.m it is 7:39
so we are right on time
okay here goes nothing
i haven't gone in a slip in quite some time
two years since we did the last haulout
this is very nerve-wracking but we got this
we need to put the boat in front of the slip just going slowly
unfortunately the footage from the camera recording the docking got destroyed
and this was all we had left
i thought i was going to be able to put the boat in the slip but my nerves got the best of me
and last minute i asked alejo to dock the boat, he is the captain
once we were in the slip we had to find a way to get the dogs off the boat
and this was a bit stressful for us as not too long ago, while in dominican republic
ozzy fell in between the boat and the dock when trying to jump
and echo well she's fully blind so we can't take our eyes off her for one second once we're off the boat
because one wrong step means she can fall off the dock
so now we're gonna put the boat in the trailer
so they're gonna lower it pop
and then they're gonna put it in the trailer but they have to remove the sling
big machine
so now they're gonna lift it up take these blocks out
and then the boat's gonna be sitting here and here
funny enough we're hauling out at the same time that lady africa is hauling out
it's a race to the finish who's gonna finish first
i know right
that's lady africa right there and then you have hakuna
once again
we're sort of neighbors yeah
so now we're going to get the scooter that we left in prickly bay and then we're going to get started on the engines
a lot of work
oh how exciting this is what i dream about
this is what you think about when you think of sailing, so much fun
hard work
as you can tell the boat is already on land
now what we're going to do is we're going to take the dogs to the airbnb
and we're just going to start working we have lots of things to do
it's pretty hot and but we have to get started we have one week to do the boat work that we have to get done
we arrived to the apartment that we rented it's a small airbnb just enough
yeah that's the bathroom
and it has just a small bedroom it has air conditioning which is just what we wanted for the dogs
so we can just leave it's literally one minute two minute walking distance from the boatyard
like right when you leave so it's perfect because we can just leave any time
go to the boatyard leave the dogs here they'll have ac they'll be good
and you know come back to sleep because the boatyard is super super hot
so we can just come back and sleep like babies
we will be going to the boatyard to start getting all of the work that we have to do
so guys look at the paint oh it peels off
you just take it off
so what we did we hired someone
to do a bottom paint
didn't want to do it ourselves because the paint for the boats it's really toxic
and yeah we don't want to get sick
we don't want to get any toxins into our bodies they're going to be doing pain stripper
like a chemical put it on the hull and strip it and then they're gonna sand it down to the gel coat
and we're gonna see how the boat looks
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