on this episode we're getting started on boat projects we are having tropical sails
come over taking measurements and we get our brand new power transformer for calypso
you opened it have no idea cleaning your fears away of lightning
before we head to our first grenada waterfall for some high jumping fun
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today we are having tropical sails come over and get all of our canvas
we've done we've decided to do the enclosure it's falling apart
and in order to go into any crazy weather we really need that to work to keep us warm
and dry so here's the enclosure right behind me he's also cleaning our sails re-stitching them
redoing the genoa red strip and a mainsail bag we're changing the bag from what we have to
something new that will be easier for us to just drop the sale and raise the sale so pretty excited
and then he's thrown in some freebies like our laundry bag and our line bag for our sail lines
so he's on his way i'm just getting everything ready jeremiah is getting ready the weather's
kind of yucky but uh happy to get it done here in grenada we were always told wait to grenada to do
any boat work that you want to do that can wait because it's super cheap and it is super cheap so
i'm excited to see them but not excited to take the sails down as you can see some of
it looks really rough but then if you look underneath some of it looks brand new i
don't know it was all sitting in the same spot so i don't really know what happened
he's gonna clean up the newer looking ones and do any re-stitching he has to do and he's going to
redo the disgusting ones these are the two sides to our cockpit enclosure they're in pretty rough
shape and we're thinking about crossing an ocean here soon so we'd like our enclosure to work
very well to keep us warm while we're out there we got the guys here taking measurements
so these are the two pieces that are harder right and so they go on the edges
on the corners okay that's my cone yeah and then the rest of them are like this
okay so you want so we'd like to get like see how it's like that a lot of not all of them but like
this one's still probably one of the worst ones as far as being dirty just like to get them cleaned
up any patches that might need to be done and then replace them these okay uh and i don't know if you
can reuse this stuff or not so the zipper's on because you know they they zip together
you could just put a new piece here yeah and you just change the glass into the right that's like
that one right that way the zipper over here would match it like yes but whatever happens
all would match up okay like new yeah yes right calypso's been in need of some love a year ago
we purchased her and left the dock a week later after about 2 000 miles we've finally stopped long
enough to get started on some projects so the sales will come down and shipped off for some
work the guy we found has excellent reviews and it's a fraction of the us prices we're so excited
you opened it i have no idea it's solid mounted it in there well i don't know it's actually mounted
yeah it's mounted but there's the transformer it's pretty big
huge
i think when you turn on it give come give it a big hug yeah that's huge we take our
european inlet it comes out with 230 amps it's big because it's the marine version of it and
uh it's got 230s coming out which you can power the whole boat which is pretty cool but damn
i guess it's gonna take uh the bottom bunk and reese's room have its own bed
you think we're gonna put it in there no i have no idea what we're gonna say
are you um cleaning your fears away of lightning
yeah pretty much i'm organizing it's running good it's interesting i sat here i heard the
thunder glock and i was like okay well i'm still alive i wonder if the lightning's gonna strike
no idea if it really works or not but we put important electronics in the microwave
i was trying to ignore it it's kind of um a crazy feeling knowing that you're sitting you're
floating surrounded by water and you have a huge basically lightning rod sticking out from your
head 62 foot lightning rod just trying to attack traffic bella's not scared at all
that's usually terrified that one was four miles away we're still in the process of
cleaning everything up from the trip back um the boat is dirty i wish i could watch the cockpit
but everything else getting washed down is great
if we were to get struck by lightning it would be bad calypso is so dependent on electricity i
wouldn't even even be able to engage the throttles i would kind of just sit there and stare at you it
just it'd be just an insurance plan that's all it would be gee like what do you do you know
you haul out and get insurance claim and try to rebuild the entire electrical system we'd
be fine if we were like sailing somewhere we'll be able to keep going and stuff but uh it would
destroy a lot of electrical systems on the boat at that point do you even want the boat i don't know
because are you always going to be chasing issues no not if you get them all but it will be a major
pain but hopefully and here in grenada could you imagine no no i'm going to talk about
annandale waterfall is so beautiful the people here are really nice and friendly
they were nice enough to take pictures of us they jumped off the top waterfall which is crazy
it's a pleasure i'm a flying eagle all right as you can see all these guys in the uniforms we
bought here from the anime jumpers association we are the ones by our government and grenada tourism
flying off the waterfall you'll have cameras you're going to get lovely photos
that's all the food and entertainment that's where you need some money to help the boys
that's our job all right about how high is it right now this part over there that's 60 feet
over this 50. into that pool of like right now is about 30 feet at the middle part where we land
okay do you all go together no we go one at a time one at a time how long have you been doing this
approximately 14 years now wow that's amazing okay looking forward to it okay see you guys stand down
there i need to pull you guys at the top all right awesome do that these guys are amazing
for a small donation to a good cause they'll jump off the falls for you but i'm a little
nervous i'm worried for them i'm wondering if i can just jump off this little platform
we weren't able to jump off the high parts not that we would but here they go
now for an afternoon of enjoying annandale falls this was our first grenada fall it was
sweet
i love adventure but not heights that's okay though
i'm up for the challenge it was time to take a
so jumped leap
one two three
oh man that was a little adrenaline rush i'm shaking
there are certain times of the year where the water isn't flowing as strong we were
fortunate to be here after a nice rain the water is super cold and very refreshing that's for sure
yeah we never get to go together really you go first and i'll go right after you
there's lots of local kids here just jumping in and having fun it's really really nice the family
thoroughly enjoyed this it was trevor's first waterfall so that was super cool
we spent the afternoon jumping and playing in the water it was so much fun
grenada is a pretty large island with several waterfalls we can't wait to
explore them all don't fall in and go over the falls that'll hurt are you having fun
is it warm or cold
coming up on the lazy geckos about to open this up to see what food i have before provisioning
and there's bug
eight to twelve twists per inch the hawk sundown
cool hash that brittany got us off whose idea was this our air conditioner has not been working
my latest screwed up body part i got attacked by red ants
that was a major fail a safe a bottle of scotch and more laundry here's your punishment
our battery bank is no longer good trojan t-tubes we're gonna take these out and we're gonna put the
new ones in did i get the right sizes the filters for the acs have started to get really clogged up
this is the rudder stock it's like kind of bent that way this is our new runner
then it all blows up
drones flying above us um people were getting irritated there's 14 000 people on this island now
empty car and by cruising backpacks doesn't look like it's gonna happen want more check
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