on this episode we're sailing to block island there it is oak meadow curriculum for all you
cruising sports we'll prepare to start homeschooling aboard are you coming to
dinner before exploring a famous destination tara ran to the lighthouse it was only a half
mile to the lighthouse then we'll start to get to know our newest crew member a little better
it's like slamming the shower door tara aka manatee jello vodka shots let's go explore
together are you ready paddleboarders came by and they said you know why don't
you use our jeep today like that are you gonna remember that no welcome to lazy gecko sailing
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coming up on block island see right here this is block we're coming down the west side of it
we'll be approaching the inlet for long there's some moorings in here
you ready ready you've been wanting to go block island yeah there it is
oh yeah we're going to go in here would be vhf 1012 but i guess
uh the orange mooring balls are for heavier vessels with a lot of windage that should be us
the green ones are for vessels under 47 feet but since we're heavy i'd like to try to get a more
orange one but it's first come first serve we'll see looks like tara is out yeah well she took
james didn't she yeah so she's gonna be really tired it was the seas were about a one you can see
behind me this is even rougher than what it was and she got sick yeah you know it's the first time
being out like you know in a while so it's normal for us it's our everyday and you have to adjust
so as days go on she'll get better and better and better but yeah i feel bad she throw up yeah sucks
yeah she's napping now yeah but we will enjoy block island for a couple days yeah i'm excited
the inlet to block island is a thin little waterway that opens to a large basin there's a few
spots to anchor here but they have mixed reviews on holding so we opted to grab a mooring ball
how was that today on the passage we have probably zero to ones out there
and uh it was about six knots of wind so it wasn't flat calm but it was just a little rocky
and it was on the beam and she found herself not feeling well but i do believe it's because she
set herself up for failure by continuing to do school while we were underway what do you think
how was it yeah i think that's what it was so they just learn we do differently next time
not start with reading and writing while we're underway yeah this is a template that um tara
told me about and then i went in and i kind of filled it out reese's first day of kindergarten
he's using oak meadow curriculum for all you cruising schools yeah he's five years
old he's starting on september 28th not your typical starting date but hey we're cruising
uh 45 inches tall and then just little fun facts about him we're going to do that and his first day
of kindergarten picture will be on the bow and vote in anchorage probably
oh that's awesome yeah a little different thing in block island or no we're still here i don't know
we'll still be here but somewhere oh that's right because it starts to freeze from now monday yeah
so it's really cool we had a big thing of melon watermelon on the boat and i
took all of it and i made it into a mixer for a drink i blended up the watermelon
to make it slushy threw in some ice and added some vodka and this is the remainder
of it sounds good i don't know if it's fresh so i could end up with stomachache
martha's vineyard was cool we just left it today um i enjoyed it there's i think you can go into
the vineyard oaks bluff and edgar town by boat we chose edgar town just by talking to other
cruisers and they were like you know that's really the best spot to go if you only have
one day this is martha's vineyard little town uh edgar town or something like that we're on a ball
flying some colors and the ladies are making a dinner terrace making a dinner tonight
hello say hi to john hi john yeah are you coming for dinner coming into edgartown martha's vineyard
due to a weather change we had another chance to get off the boat here
so we all went in together we're going to go hang out and tara's going to go for a
run she likes to run long distances i like to run short distances she's gonna run to the lighthouse
we'll uh see her when she gets back hopefully it's not ours yeah right i know it won't be
you're gonna have to wait and end your town until tomorrow morning i'll pick you up
we'll pick you up you'll find a home right you'll find a home somewhere airbnb
while tara ran we went to check out this famous little fairy do you know why it's famous
if it looks familiar it's because it's the same fairy that was used in the filming of the movie
jaws the chappie fairy this is the oldest business on the waters of martha's vineyard
that's our mooring field this is a pretty cool little system they have a ferry they
have two of them one over there one right here they basically go at the same time
take cars back and forth for 37 years this ferry was owned and ran by a blind man
it's been struck by a seaplane splintered by a hurricane
and burned by a mid-channel fire it's also played a role in a tragic car accident that possibly
changed american history that's really cool isn't it really cool yeah a little swap action
they're like in their cars snacking they have their pods and they're just like this is normal
sailing too and exploring destinations with your own vessel is something we don't take for granted
it's not easy but days like this are so worth the time money and effort you put into the
entire process sometimes you just have to stop and appreciate the beauty that surrounds you
we were hoping to spend a week there but the weather has been
crazy the winds are relentless there's a front coming in so in order to get it in
we only had one day but i loved it we got to see one lighthouse tara ran to the lighthouse
that was a good run was like a half mile it was only a half mile to the lighthouse yeah
and so when i ran back i just kept going yeah and then i ran back to the lighthouse again
so i could take bill's picture yeah she kept um oh okay i think the water was bad no yeah
bad watermelon yeah bad watermelon but it was short enough for reese to walk so that was
neat on the treacherous beautifully paved path did you say how many lighthouses were here i
believe there's seven or nine i can't remember the exact number but all around the island
and people like their thing is to go to every lighthouse well if weather changes maybe we'll get
a chance to go to all of them that'd be awesome where you going is it the right way all right
there's a fork in the road
this was a quick half mile walk there's something fascinating about a lighthouse
whatever it is we love visiting them it's pretty chilly out here but it's lovely there's a lot of
boats sailing around it's kind of wild they sail right through the anchorage up here it's a little
bit different than anywhere else new england they just sail right through the anchorage
is it rocky back there yeah it's a little rocky but i mean when you compare it to like grenadas
rocks where you broke your finger i just dislocated it yeah it doesn't compare
that's
there's lots of cool yeah horseshoe crabs look at it it was alive see all the claws yeah what
are the ocean caps it's an animal that lives in the ocean are they white these are dead
but they usually are you gotta be careful because look at the look at the back of them see that
poker they can go through your shoes stuck on this one are these girls
i don't know there's a way to tell and i don't know he doesn't
uh the remember memorial was completed the base was restored and granite cobbles were installed
into which the name of a deceased child could be engraved so i guess you can put your deceased
child's name yeah you can engrave it into a stone it's under the lighthouse it's very sad yeah
there's pumpkins and flowers it doesn't say like what the history behind that was you know guys
sometimes children pass away and then their parents or a family member or friend can get their
name engraved in one of these stones it was really touching is it's actually a memorial for kids
and yeah it's sad hard to read all about them families come there and they put the
put like memorial things like right now it's they're putting pumpkins and flowers just because
the time of the year that it is but i guess um they'll pick out little stones and put their
child's name on it or grandchild i can't even talk about it okay moving let's talk about something
else sarah how was your running on martha's vineyard it was cool um i felt a little bit
bad though because i do not run with a mask on it would be really difficult to breathe while you're
um and i was running down the road and i was getting a few weird looks because there were
public metal mounted street signs that said that you needed to wear a mask on the street
i read the time wrong though so i thought that i was okay but it was not
yeah because i was running by it's a different time like if there were people on the sidewalk
i would try to like get off a little bit on the road and come back up so it's not like i was like
super close to them but yeah i got a couple weird looks i mean there were people on bicycles just
biking along and they had their masks on and i was like i mean i get the mask
thing but if you're exercising i feel like you're not near somebody then i noticed um
holy crap people come close to us here yeah they do did you see that yeah i didn't know
if you saw it i thought yours i woke up and it was a huge fairy going by i was like holy crap
that's a good wake-up call speaking of wake-up calls we got a really nice wake-up this morning
with the wake yeah a huge wake that rocked the boat yeah i felt that one it was like slamming
the shower door yeah yeah you had to get up and shut it didn't you yeah i had to pee really bad
tara was getting settled in we wanted to help with the filming of our series so jeremiah
gave her a few lessons on camera work then it was time to make dinner and enjoy the evening
it was a calm night we were firmly attached to our mooring ball so it was time to relax
and let go of it all for the night shots or jelly jello vodka shots with i have a candy
thing in there tara was getting settled in it was time for hair styling lessons
i don't want to hurt you and then i come more up here
it's like you're you're blocking him so like oh the reveal there it is no she said no
wait wait wait okay yeah we're looking okay so there's pieces over here
but you got you saw gel right here right so you can use your other
i don't want to take your hand and kind of bring more in that way i don't like can't show my skin
but we can get it off your skin though we're down with it
let me see look at me smile he said
woke up this morning and we're kind of doing our morning plans and two paddle boarders came by and
they knew us from the lazy gecko channel and they said you know why don't you use our jeep today
go around the block island and explore we're like wow yeah that'd be awesome because it can fit all
four of us we were originally gonna plan to use a moped but that can only fit two of us and reese
is too small to go so we have the whole crew and we're going to their house say hi everybody
hi so they kind of gave us directions to go down this little cove area hug the left side
there's a large rock on the other side make it pretty shallow so we're taking taco over there
and we'll uh figure out where to go from there is that a rock or is it just a piece of wood
looks like a piece of cardboard almost no that's a rock so that's on the ground yeah all right
i don't know how we get off that one that one looks good but we can tie back here and climb
up yeah we could do that like that matter yeah let's do that do you think we're going
underneath there i do watch in there watch the water we're going under guys this was a private
dock that we were invited to land on we don't usually accept help from people we just feel
like mooch is doing it but we're trying to open up to the kindness that people show us this was
really exciting we ended up landing the dinghy on the other side it looks a little bit more deeper
two like that i'm gonna go to the other side
are you gonna remember that no
i have to practice it you're expected to know it today all right let's go guys okay
this is really cool really nice of them to offer us the cheap right yeah a quick walk
down a sandy road and we were almost there well were we do you remember what house it is
coming soon on the lazy geckos i thought you were gonna get like a
block island special go back to police yeah chicks are checking you out like this
do you know how to get out of this if you needed to can we do one oyster
thank you this is not water hey it's a porter potty i need to go pee
take one brittany talking montauk new york my favorite part was probably
the stripper pole put your foot put it right under your butt i have a great time
yeah now we're going to go back to some naked shots though you wanted to make a shot lovely
pretty yucky day to come back into new york i'm not talking i'm not talking anymore we traded
in our other cameras today shelter island is exactly how it sounds a sheltered island
check the belt make sure it's tight tara's first time putting out the headsail the trickiest
part about the freezer somebody has to go in head first how is it in there ready for this
we found a sweet brewery walking on shelter island greenport chicken thank you what are
you doing you see them glowing yeah the thing is there's no power to this at all right now
tell this story so they say that when you anchor off of heart island
lights will flicker on your boat times square take 141 steps down and then 141 steps back up
you look good guinea pig feels really good yeah i just upset the captain i'm sorry
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