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all day we've been like what is that smell it smells like throw up we started sniffing
around the boat and we found disgustingness little feather what the hell is that from
do you have a bird yeah it's like a little white feather our sink has a bunch of that stuff in
it yeah nasty doesn't smell now though because i put vinegar down here still need to get this out
there's a little piece in there it was like all clogged up i don't know how it got clogged up i
don't know what the hell it puts on this sink but well it won't smell anymore the smell mystery is
over thank goodness you're like a surgeon a boat surgeon yeah i did teach you how to take the sink
apart huh i did teach you how to take the sink apart yeah well i've never done that i don't know
i just did this in the bathroom oh that's nasty honey yeah and this is like nobody
does it you don't brush your teeth in this thing nothing you literally just like wash your hands
yeah you ready for tomorrow i'm ready we'll get out of here portsmouth
porch p-town how about that key town what do you guys think about being off the boat it's
great this is the first time off about like a week right yeah but we haven't gone out to eat since
march has it no i'd say before march yeah no before march we were all hunkered down
so that's not like january wow we're in the historic downtown part of portsmouth
virginia it's very cool lots of history here i love seeing the ships we're going down the icw
there's a commodore theater here it's called the commodore theater told us yeah cruiser friend told
us about it lots of votes stop they go over buy tickets at the theater and you dine in and watch
a show they give an option of two shows but it's not open right now i don't think it is
at least i called nobody answered but it's like a perk for cruisers to do around here
this is the free dock area where cruisers can come in if your vessel's under 40 feet
and tie up to the free dock then you take a short walk to the commodore theater or restaurant
brewery of your choice and uh eat some dinner watch a show and pop back on back down to your
boat it's been great i've loved it we got pizza tonight we gotta deliver and it was delicious
like the best pizza i've had in a while with some calzones with a pretty sweet spot right here
at the marina there you go it's like we pulled basically right up to the bar which is right there
and it's been good yeah i enjoyed uh sitting up there getting a view of the boat that was nice
seeing the boat from like a different perspective yeah top part
i really liked you here definitely come back it's cute little town well i'm looking forward to going
to anchor tomorrow night and then off to annapolis yeah that'll be nice so the first time i ever went
to annapolis i was searching for the boat and now the second time i'm going in on my own boat
so we were off we anchored for the night and set sail up the chesapeake to annapolis maryland
we pulled into annapolis not too long ago and the goal was
to complete boat projects here and i think we've done a pretty good job with that
uh we've done a lot of troubleshooting on one of our ac units not that it's fixed but we have tried
this is our water pump for the air conditioning that's having the issue and i don't know if you
could tell or not but it's hanging so instead of being like this it's hanging which puts this
lower this outlet right here should either be parallel coming off on the top end not the bottom
or straight up and down and that helps with air getting air out of the system this thing
is water cooled so what happens is water goes through gets it goes through these little pipes
gets spun around here and cools this thing off so what's happening i think is this is overheating
it's shutting itself off to save itself it's actually warm and i haven't ran it for a while
it's saving itself by shutting off but that stops the airflow under the water and then you don't get
air conditioning so what i'm going to try to do is just take this off off this for this bracket
i'm going to replace it i'm going to spin everything so that it's this is straight up
and down this is our throttle system for the yacht commander anytime i work with water and stuff like
that i always worry about this thing getting wet so i just usually just take a towel just
as a precautionary deal and cover everything up so if some water splashes it doesn't get on here
it doesn't hit the unit directly and i can hopefully save it before it gets too bad
this water's already shut off and i'm going to start removing this bracket
so this is the little l bracket i got from the air conditioning guy i just took
basically pre-drilled two screw holes and i'm just gonna mount that up on my bulkhead there
so
i'm gonna check this for leaks if you could uh just turn on be ready to turn off
yeah all right thanks you can leave it
we accomplished wiring in the boat right putting our balmer on yeah today we just finished
installation of the second baumar 614 we have professionals come do it we have the other one
installed in grenada the belmont regulator has um cool well really into four or five essential wire
this one here is the voltage sensor this one here is the main positive you have the ignition
from the from the key switch negative and the blue i'm not an electrician at all i never claim to be
so whenever i have something like this going on i usually try to get help it basically entails
to modify the alternator on the engine you have to disable the internal regulator which is something
i'm not going to do and then you basically hook it up to a ball mark 614 and then the alternator
can send current straight to in our case the house bank you can do it different ways we chose to send
them to the house bank so what we did is we took the alternator off sent them to an alternative
shop it took them a day they disabled the internal regulator they take it all apart
redo it all put it back together and then i had electricians come in and run cable from this
alternator all the way to our mount main power bus i'll show you that and now this alternator uh
by use of the baltimore 614 that's hooked up to it will charge the house bank while we're while we're
underway get all that this thing is pretty sweet let's see the new one so the engine is over there
this is our starting battery for the engine and this is where the bomb arms are hooked up which
is a good spot it keeps out of the heat from the engine and uh it's right there with the battery
everything's cool that thing right there is what regulates is the new regulator for the alternator
you can program it it does bulk absorption float um it does all kind of stuff and it also
monitors the alternator's temperature and battery temperature i like to run the engines
and exercise all the systems um every couple days at least while we're at
a dock there's a starboard battery and the port battery now they'll both do a little something
different here because they both have their own ball mar sensing everything they're pretty close
but one thing that is awesome is whenever i had the stock alternators for the volvo
pencils in here it would uh bury itself i mean this thing would be like all the way down even
though it was putting out like the correct amount of voltage it would be buried and
then it would cause alarms to go off and all that kind of stuff so slack tied at high tide
whenever i put these ball marks on it fixes that issue so obviously something inside those volvo
penta alternators caused that to happen and um now it's not happening so that's great i'm excited
it's cool to have both sides up and running now you want to see the wiring
we do all right you'll need to get up in there with me this is under the navigation station
and these are our main bus bars here so he's put in fuses here and here for the port and starboard
alternators it just hooks up right there and then the alternator send current up to this area and
then that will charge that charges the house bank company that we use was um marine electric systems
here in annapolis maryland uh i talked to the guy i don't know if he's the manager or the owner his
name is patrick and then um the two guys that came out and worked were nick and nick i would
recommend them for sure um we got oil changes done completed we really got into detailing the boat
and getting her in ship ship what is that ship ship shape uh so we've gotten a lot done here
that's not even all of it lots of boat parts on board i just provisioned two days ago and today
we're just gonna take the rest of the day and wrap things up so we have a little bit of organizing
to do one of the lazarettes i'm gonna get some burn marks off the dinghy and then there's been
a bird pooping on our boat after we've put tlc into it so i'm gonna rewash the deck as well
jeremiah also has some things going on too let's see what do you got going on well i'm
just looking at this part i think we're gonna have to delay maybe a day to get this other part
are you kidding me no i thought we were leaving tomorrow no we've been swamped with boat stuff
and washing doing all that kind of stuff but uh doing videos and all kinds of different stuff
so we hired a company to do the easy stuff which is the oil change the guy came in
here and broke the freaking engine i don't know why but today i can show you right here
on the raw water pump there's a uh little brass piece or bronzer that's a little number three
that goes inside the pump that's where the impeller goes and there's a little screw the
screws are extremely like soft but all that stuff's very soft and for some reason he just
like twisted it and broke it so this is not something that anybody carries
i'm gonna have to get with a volvo dealer here in atlas on monday it's today's saturday
and try to hopefully they'll have that those three pieces of the well i mean it's just the
the bolt the little washer and the the cam which is number three and if not we'll have to order it
next day it out so that's you know it goes to show like you have to do it all yourself you can't even
leave the easiest jobs to anybody else because you know something about happening always happens
and we're going to take it back to me because you're debbie downer
i just heard this news first just now yeah well i just ran the engines and i
wanted to see like how bad it was that i went down there and it's just like
the bolts just falling off i don't know i don't know why you who does that i don't know
but especially if you're professional who does that name the company yeah it's baloney okay
so i might not wash down the boat today because i wanted to do it right before we left
no i probably still will give her a nice clean i'm going to work on some windows and um just have
a fun day and then later i'll wash well oh you want to help me wash the boat oh my goodness i'm
going to have a helper first i'm going to do the dinghy you want to help me with the dinghy yeah
first we must find our cleaning stuff it's somewhere down there under all of this gunk
but i have a little helper that's going to help me i am searching for the cleaners back here
you can you tucked away really good no this is the wrong area to go in
for the planers but i appreciate you because i had to clean this out but um just leave the stuff
out you got to go into the other hatch seriously yeah is it easier that way that's where they are
i see them right here yeah so you go in the other hatch and then be right there
on the right this is crazy i'm happy that we have crawl spaces that we can fit in though
and i'm happy you're going to organize this today well i'm going to tell you right now half of your
things are going in there because it's been nice stuff so really you should be happy your stuff
i don't know i'm going to empty that sucker out all i have are two things
everything everything's weight it's going yeah it's gonna have to be your stuff
don't you just love those little husband and wife moments we all
have them on to something productive let's get our dinghy taco all shined
up so how's the uh cleaning going guys yes it's going good he sprayed me down
hi reese well mom you said to me so it's fair okay yeah when i did it was like short little intervals
when he did it he just like wowed me with it
zombies are attracted to dirtiness all right switch me now you oh yeah okay captain america
i've said it before i just love moments like this
spending time with my boys is my favorite thing to do
that thing's pretty new bridle the the old bridle was stretched to the max man and
we needed to replace that thing big time so since we stopped and there was west marine by
actually we ordered one for mantis and it was really nice but it's just
too big for our boat so i went in and saw asked them uh as marina if they could kind of like
adjust it they said no they wouldn't adjust it because you know legal stuff
um makes it weaker whatever and then i said well if i just bring you mine can you duplicate
it that's what they did we're going to go down and i'm going to shackle these two we have two
points at the water line i'm going to shackle them up and we'll have our new bridle going
i am so tall uh now kind of trouble are you two getting into ready oh my goodness
what's in the where was that for hey do you want to um lower them a little bit we'll really get
them swinging across the deck here yeah daddy can you touch me oh my gosh that's so cool
oh my gosh
the fishies are jumping right under you yeah oh my goodness what's in the what oh my god
up on the lazy geckos you're getting an a for effort well today's the big
day i'm excited to get to the boat today and move on but he cranked off broke it
so i'm just gonna put the cam right back in the center wildwood new jersey boardwalk
i have an hour left of my watch i'm passing by calypso north carolina
emailing you guys okay here we go good luck on your first cruising adventure thank you here we go
bloopers we got an uber to get some groceries and we saw this
doing a great job there honey thank you here's your coffee
we're passing billy joel's estate
if it lets loose it's going to probably plummet into our boat
they were under the bow already vhf antenna firmly mounted it's all burned up in here
i guess we won't be leaving early without a radar is everything so small i can't freaking
read it didn't really see the top at all are you right in front of us it's gone
don't take me back you can't take me back i'm gonna turn north and probably put out the
head tail it's nice and smooth our radar's giving us trouble have a good time with it
put it right under
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