last time on the lazy geckos we prepared our home for hurricane
we batten the hatches lowered the sails and secured our dinghy taco
we also showed you our process of finding childcare while living a
flow how we monitor what goes on while we're gone and you got to spend an evening with us
today's date is I have no idea Reese's how old Reese is a little over a couple
days over 18 months this is his first touch yeah you ready loose your head
Reese I'm so proud of you honey giggles hey let's go did a wonderful job
you have hair all over you dad I think we need to shower him all right all right one two okay
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your back I see that you're back here sweetie I see you're back but I don't see that you're back
batteries we've got some shots today so how you feeling there I'm a little sad I'm not no I'm
just kidding okay so why is going by lies yes you want to explain what happened well Rhys have been
getting these little dots on his nose and around his eyes they've been turning purple actually
you can really see you um kind of concerned you know we weren't really sure and he had
a doctor's visit today and you think possibly be allergic to the docs yeah me she's like no about
me going on for a mile like long long time kids we always just kind of thought you know
do some of that so we had to find Caiaphas korede bello huh we met them in the marina
right yeah she live with another bulldog they have a bulldog ladies wonderful so it's high
as black-site with us and then she goes and then jacory is going to Grandma's yeah it's
gonna puke she's gonna stay in the family right Corey it's like nope I'm not going
anywhere nope and then I is with a friend of ours in the event that reef is not allergic to
the dogs after about what six months trial will give it mm-hmm he's not allergic we
will be bringing Cory in Bella back on board obviously you know kaya I can't take away from
possible dog but I will be able to see her I thought that I want Reaper and
Oh Oh everybody give it would be okay we're in full swing of preparing our boat for the
upcoming cruising season today we're working on updating a large piece of safety equipment
making sure we're prepared for the worst is the top of our priority list so it's
time to get our Viking life raft serviced we wanted to be sure this sucker will work if
needed my crafts are required to be inspected periodically because if you do then forgot it
that you catch minor things before they become a major show my vessel tests are
subject to getting a kind of mildew hold on called authorization benefits in the material is done
good news is sometimes life graphs can be 2025 years old
okay inspection we had another brand
it's a problem less than one year old bond to the Coast Guard feel the Turks into action
thinks fail allcom oh yeah oh that's why we're here this little guy do you like is there alright
we're in Tampa Florida we've just dropped our life raft off to get serviced they said if we
waited about a half an hour they'd open our life raft up for us so we could see inside you know
see what exactly the damages if any all hi pumpkin your cuddly today huh in order to service a life
raft you need to go to an authorized station it's quite pricey but we feel it's totally worth the
cost the people at the solution 1 maritime in Tampa Florida were friendly knowledgeable and
willing to let us watch the process which was so cool not only did we get to watch but we also got
to participate 10 meters and then kind of hard to see somewhere in there there's a text to it cable
texted right so all these fantasy here without cutting those are break1 the raft on plates
here's where the Pinter line attached to the raft right here yeah and once
I get open I'll show the the knife and everything
yeah
this big so how quick that equated 30 seconds or less you have the area here hissing out so excess
air because they do put a little more pressure in the cylinder to make sure their ass inflates
and so they do put relief outs on the rafts so look that's typical to hear them hissing
one when you do a gas inflation the light most of most rats have an exterior light and there
is an interior light those lights turn on when the rapid flakes and it turn the lights on and
off your exterior light basically turn it off and just stick the pen outside it turns the light off
the life pull the pin back out there are interior life this would be attached to some point on the
floor and when the wrapkin flakes this gets pulled out and that's your interior five years
here then to turn the light on and off just take the little magnet stick it in there ones live in
so exterior the rounds you saw the lights nice there yeah this is this is the knife and right
here this is this is where it would be attached the line that is attached to your boat would be
attached here you can do tonight you can cut any of this the line that comes out and cut that if
you want this is actually could be also a tolling point yeah afford around II yeah you know most of
the time when when the Coast Guard or somebody comes out there and rescue you they don't care
about that they don't they don't even bring the wrath of North Dakota they cut it and they
they sink it next year we flip the tape on the top and I'll show you underneath there will be
someone like reflect the tape underneath this V shape right here is your right water catchment
and if you look inside there is a two hanging on the calculator you can collect rainwater
it's it's raining obviously if you're rough see you don't want to collect the water because more
likely salt water is coming in here on a calm day if it's raining let it you know let them the
rainwater wash this off and then for some started taking some water but not right away because salt
probably school on there this model actually it's a self riding oh if it were to end up upside down
they rights itself you can fully close yourself and the raft a boarding rip I think these are
probably the best thing they they've added onto a life ramp the boarding ramp makes it a lot easier
to get into the raft oh yeah yeah some some some moles Viking under yawning they stuck with them
played and playful boring rant but there are some manufacturer that a rigid and basically
is just kind of like a folded holding ramp it's not inflated yeah yeah oh yeah you know that's
right yeah underneath you have fast bags they have uh web links on the bottom um and basically what
these deep bags do they fill the water and they keep the raft stable and again this raft does
not have any riding straps because it's the self writing this hole right here it's a self Bailey
so inside there's a to buy their elephant trunk and you have to bail you just undo the undo the
you know the bungee cord there and just put put it into the water and the water self daily you know
five of these valves and what these valves are is they're technically called topping up valves what
you use them for is if you need to put air into tubes there's a pump which I'll show you how it
works stick the pump in the valve and pump air into it now it's the raft of toys and you know
accidentally yes it is you can use it to like explain air but in a emergency situation these
valves would be mostly to put guarantee to yo so paddles that'll be your job honey fun doin
that we're going west so if you had to put air into your life raft this is valve just basically
stick this in there and just pump pump air and just close the hose about the bottle on Vikings
and ten years but typically for for a Coast Guard regulation they go by also by what the dye tank is
so every five years typically you'd have to have the bottle tested Michael bushes 10 years a lot
of people some people have medications I used to have customers want to put their medications
and life rafts I tell them no because there's a date on the medication and you know when you
have the raft inspected it might not coincide with the medication or if you have to use your
raft you might have expired medication in there so ditch bag you put medications you know stuff like
that it was really cool to see our life raft well inflated and almost completely operational besides
the interior light that needed to be replaced one thing that we really like is that our raft has
the ability to self right itself huge feature to have when you have a baby to worry about yeah so
here's the lifelines it's a four person tube right here is where you collect the water or
the rain water you would collect it and it runs down into that beam and comes into your boat and
there's your water supply along with whatever's in your safety kit here's your light very cool
we're so happy that we took the time to familiarize ourselves with our life raps
features now we know what to expect if we're ever in a situation where we're
forced to use it some service stations like this one will show you what your life raft
is all about as well all it takes is an appointment letting go of kaya was more
difficult than giving up our land lubber life but we're happy that she went to a fun
loving home on a beautiful yacht this particular live aboard couple already
have an English Bulldog on board which is just wonderful for our girl we'll see you soon kaya
next time on the lazy geckos
we finish up our rigging with completing some repairs that were needed we'll take
you up the mast again and then we'll show you the process of tuning a sailboats rigging all
part of getting our vessel ready for our trip south and across the Gulf Stream if you enjoy
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