this is handy he's got a little jib crane here for lowering the outboard onto the dinghy
okay al that means the boat's ours
okay we got the little shop back out and we are vacuuming the vent for one of the tanks because
it seems to be clogged there's two tanks one port and one starboard and they're connected together
the fuel one flowing from one of them to the other so we think it may be a vent
is the guy get air into the tank or let the fuel go from unused tank over to use tank
and then it began to rain it's actually kind of nice look there's sarcasm in the sea i think the
real name is sargassum but i like sarcasm better it just fits my style and it's not
in really big pieces but it clumps together i never knew it had little spines on his leaves
and it's got like little seed pods maybe they're floats
yeah they're hollow
tastes like fish that there's bahama blue she was anchored next to us the other night
over at turks caicos and she's about 200 feet long
she's doing this the courtesy of making a left-hand turn so she passes behind us
yeah oh and get this i was looking at those charts the other night they actually have
traffic circles for guess and you know what i have not seen since i've been out here
there's another sailboat you guys need to get out of here
those are 12 foot waves and it's blowing about 23 miles an hour
scope of me doesn't work but i figure with this i can eat twice a day lose weight
well this is how we do dishes on a boat moving seven knots
at a 20 degree heel you stand on what you can you hold on to what you can wait for the roll
and wait for the roll and see there you go you got to brace yourself and just figure everything out
well the wind is up so are the waves got just uh the main with two reefs in it and uh the downside
to it is we're only making three knots the wind disgusting 25 sometimes 30. this is sailing
school okay maybe you do get used to the four on four off i actually just woke up this morning
and it's still kind of dark out when i did so and this here is what 20 foot seas look like
they don't still stand up and they're not all 20 footers but every once in a while you find one and
it hops on board the boat with you charlie back there he's been taking several showers this night
he must be awesome it is surprisingly warm when it hits you so a little on waves they uh they
can be 25 feet tall or 15 feet tall but they also have an interval that's uh the distance between
one wave press like that one right there and that one over there and that is measured in time so
these are about seven seconds apart and there's two types of waves out here there's a there's a
swell which is more regular and then there's this wind blown [ __ ] which is on top and it mixes in
that's why you see these peaks jump up every once while like that because they come together so
it's always a convergence of these swell driven waves and the wind-driven waves that that's why
they jump on board sometimes so easily and then there's something called fetch and that's the
distance this wave has had to build over the ocean and since that's all atlantic ocean out that way
these waves have had a lot of time so the longer the wind blows from the north the bigger the swell
gets and then the wind top waves kind of mess with it because the wind's kind of out of that
direction and you really got to take some time you know spend some time on a boat
watching them to appreciate just how complicated this whole system is i thought you know there's
big waves they roll at you you go up you go down nah it's a lot messier than that and at nighttime
you got a lot of time for contemplation and i'm reading the perfect book for it
it's called until the end of time by a physicist his name is brian green fascinating stuff it's
basically how the universe started everything through it you know like consciousness and thought
and then how it will inevitably end it's not a good story okay it ends harshly but we won't be
alive i you know it's funny that people think well you know if it's all just going to be for nothing
what difference does it make and that's totally not true i hate that idea because
it's about how you can affect people in your life today here and now and if you do that
what marketing you want it's fun it's joyful it puts some joy in their life and they return
it back to you be nice to people it's the best thing you can get out of this
seasickness footnote i'm back on dramamine i need the hard stuff bad i'm puking my guts out
last night but you know i've always thought that seasickness was you feel miserable and you throw
up and you feel miserable i throw up i feel fantastic after that okay even if it's just a
little left over of you know 12 hour old breakfast it makes me feel better so dramamine is my thing
now the downside to dramamine makes your ears ring i don't know i haven't looked at the long-term
effect of dramamine but i think it's going to be my drug of choice better than heroin right oh yeah
it has been raining a lot and i left my rain gear at home but the best thing you can leave at home
is a bad attitude these guys that i'm sitting with that makes it nice close to 37 miles an hour now
problem with this rain is it changes the wind directions and it's a squall sometimes so it
can blow a lot harder when you're inside one you just see some of those waves out there starting
to break so you can see why that hood over the life vest would be so important once that really
gets going that's a lot of water coming down over your head well that is the dominica republic where
we're going to stop and rest look at that there's a cattle chef over there that's right cruise ship
wheaties sea lice you name it they came here last night before us pass this up just left us back
there having fun this is just over from the port entrance military has closed down the port until
the waves calm down apparently they don't think it's safe to sail in that i'm with my people here
man i like the color down here betsy you taking notes
okay the last thing you want to happen when you're at sea is to run out of fresh water we ran out of
fresh water let me show you the problem you know we feel okay because we got a water maker right
while at anchor the only time you could possibly hear this i heard water running up here those are
the water makers pre-filters this is its back wash filter and whereas you run water from the
tank back to blow all the salt water out of the membrane right there and this was mounted
on the wall using 5200 and look in the test i did with 5200 it did the same thing it actually
yanked the paint off the wall when it did that it slid down and that press on fitting up here
came loose just it was cocked over at an angle we lost all of our fresh water from the pump
now on a seeker my pump is loud and it's up in a cabin so you'd probably hear it but over storm
waves you're probably not so what i'm probably going to do is put indicator lights up on the
dashboard to tell me what a bilge pump and what a water pump is running if it stays on for too long
away you know you've got a problem then and that would have saved us from pumping all of our water
into the bilge we actually saw a lot of water in the building thought that was odd tasted it but it
had salt water mixed in with it so it tasted salty so off and overboard it all went the other thing
to do is when you're under heavy sea conditions turn all that [ __ ] off you know you don't need
your fresh water be convenient yeah you know get a water bottle that plugs up turn all that
stuff off so that something does break you don't lose your water and then you know we can we have
a water breaker we can make water no not in not in six foot seas not even motoring at one knot
could we make water because air comes underneath the boat and it goes up into the uh boost pump
then and then the main pump they both cavitate so you got a weight we made maybe two gallons
and decided well we'll get into someplace else and it's a harbor with no pump out so we're not gonna
make water here even i have my standards this gets glued back on first we're gonna scratch up that
gel coat back there and take it down to fiberglass a little bit so this sticks better get me a dry
block of wood that was hard to find okay we got to say goodbye to al and doug doug has work al i
don't know what al is doing no something black ops i think is necessary that's where we can't
talk about it can't we no okay so anyway these two guys are off and charlie and i were bringing
are you bringing somebody else in yeah i'm gonna fly wilder in wilder's coming in oh like any water
knows how to sail yeah well no not really he's well he's like as good as doug he can cook oh hey
cook's always worth it these guys are back on planes from the yeah where the hell are
we dominican republic yeah yeah we're the dealer yeah we'll see you all later and
doug gave us the t-shirts here captain c money's great adventure check out the back
but did you die oh that's a nice bit of air maybe some dryness okay
so
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