welcome to season 11 of lazy gecko sailing
we just got back from an epic trip to the Bahamas we've been pushing Calypso
a bit and she's in need of some pretty big repairs we've stopped in Fort Lauderdale to
get some work done before continuing our way North just in time for the big summer storms
feels so good to be back in a Marina and um not having to worry about weather passages anything
like that but the only thing is we are not in our home Port Marina we are in a different Marina
Morse in like South Florida because we need a lot of boat work a lot of [ __ ] went wrong our radar
went out our bilge pump went out our props need to be serviced they're not Feathering so every
time we go in reverse the engines just drop our throttle systems are now calibrated it's
disaster a little bit but I'm always smiling always keeping a positive I'm
the positive one here always so it's just been crazy these last couple days
um these last two days of being this morning I've been scheduling stuff like crazy so we've
had workers to the boat all day long today and they'll be here all day long tomorrow so we pulled
into Fort Lauderdale we are at Pier 66 right now right across from BMR it's actually super cheap
because they're getting a lot of work done over here it's completely shut down no restaurant no
nothing but very cheap that's okay with us because we are getting some boat work knocked out so first
things first the thrusters yacht Commander uh they came out troubleshooted everything
it was actually the same guy that came out right before we went on our first Bahamas
Crossing and changed the throttle box out that the engine wasn't really kicking into gear
go figure yeah yeah controller I'm looking to see if I can find somebody that uh can help me
out with servicing mine broke the entire unit had to be replaced for five thousand dollars
he was the one that came back super nice guy troubleshooted it trouble shot
I got this guy back here correcting me uh he did that the brownies guys came out they service the
dive compressor uh one of the belts were shot and there was some cracking going on so we got
that taken care of we also had some D guys D guys decal D guys okay the camera's getting
heavy double the flavor we also had the decal guys come out they're working on a decal for
us and then we'll be getting the old one removed new ones put on and then Jeremiah is now working
on the bilge pumps hooray we had um some friends of ours that we just met now the friends take him
over to West Marine and he was able to get a new bilge pump and apparently it works exciting so
he's down there testing it out things are just moving right along rather quickly which is nice
after these decals we can pull off the dock um and start heading more North so we'll see
how it goes I found the roommate 1500 at West Marine it looks the same but it's a little bit
different it's built different you can tell so I went ahead and put it in I tested it best I could
there's a little test button on this one too and it tested okay so I went ahead and installed it
and now I'm going to fill the bilge up and we'll see if it automatically kicks on that's been our
problem we've had no like automatic bilge pump plants it doesn't go that'll be plan C
so it'll take a couple of these but sorry that's my little high water alarm geez I'm
like okay it's not working you put this thing in Auto right yes all right cool so if this
goes off then we fix the issue going off is it really already oh that's what's up guys what's
up I just need to wrap these wires up heat shrink them and then wrap them up and then we'll be good
oh there we go oh my gosh we were like gosh darn it yeah let's try that again
pretty cool yeah man it was awesome knowing the bilge pump will kick in
automatically makes leaving the boat way less stressful
there we go
oh you feel a little better
it's not a lot better I know you're worried about that one well it's been yeah
oh good job babe as you know I did bikini shopping in the Bahamas and if you didn't
know I did bikini shopping in the Bahamas there's one store there that I absolutely
love she is high-end quality bikinis um last time I was there I got a bunch as well but I
never got to show you and then I've had some patrons be like oh we haven't seen the bikinis
and I'm like oh you're right well when I was there I only had so much data it was hard to
get my hands on data because you actually have to go to a box load money and then it goes on
your phone it's weird but now that I have data I'm gonna show you my bikinis I love them and
um there's a lot of hotness that lies within this little bit of material
fell in love with this one and then when I realized it had a cover-up to match
so that's her little logo it's like great material and I don't know if
you can see or not there's like these sparkles
this one's all about that bag the back of the top this is what I'm talking about how
it crosses and the jewels and oh my goodness so this home was all about the print of the
bikini that's what kind of sold me and then the cut on the back on the butt it was fire
this one's also a favorite simply because of the print right now I'm going to either grow
some hamburgers or cook some chicken it depends on the rain and then we got
invited over to a boat for some drinks I'll be doing that as well so have a fabulous weekend
are you excited I am are you excited oh I couldn't be more excited new mattress
oh my gosh what how is it looks nice is it yeah oh my gosh it's so nice it's so much
better than the pad yeah we had this really crappy pad for never since we bought the boat
and we were in Fort Lauderdale and they have a custom mattress place for boats
and we picked it alternate mattress wait what do we get I don't know but I do feel the hump
sweet that you want to want it over here no I need to be there let's show how it
lifts up we have an access panel under here and it's always been an issue to get into
so they put the little hinge right here right there and now we can just push this
up and then get right into the access panel which is here what's the other one we really
couldn't because it was in the wrong spot yeah you know love it no not at all okay
so you're just gonna hang out in here then well yeah because my back is hurting from last night
sleeping on the bed so I'm like maybe it'll just work I feel it like decompressing but I do feel
well I think I have to put the pad on there's a pad that goes on it and then sheets and all that
you don't feel that hinge and you're over there that's where you sleep good it feels
let me see
oh yeah a mattress it's very springy I know it's very nice very nice honey wait lay on my side I
want to see if you can feel the hump I'm gonna tell you nothing about what why I'm just kidding
well I'm pretty lumpy right now myself so I don't know what you're talking about I do not
feel a hump what are you talking about Oh you mean like it gets a little more
firm yeah you want to feel that when you get your pad on there and stuff
actually it's nice because you could be like I need to stretch my back out come over here and
have like a little like a lumbar support and I'm like no I don't want that anymore
I don't think I'm gonna put the pad on it oh okay I'm gonna put it in the RV congratulations
you got that we just got the decal uh removed and buffed it looks great our old decals started to
come off so it was time to get some new ones made this took a little more work than you might think
he watches the videos maybe he'll see himself walking away
yeah have you ever moved
worked on both sides she actually eye drops oh that's cool well we dropped if you want to
get real technical that's right we dropped the jingy in the water I used our dinghy
but he also has a pad that he can bring out here but it's far walk so dropped our dinghy
down did each side of the hall the other day he came and it was just pouring rain
and he was still working I was blown away most people will be like no I'm not coming
even if there's a spot of rain happening that day for 20 minutes most people don't come
so he was able to buff it out get it all out that yellow right there is the gold flake from
our decal but the new decal should go right over that and from what I understand as the Sun hits
it it'll start to turn it back to the hall color but yeah I'm excited I can't no I don't know any
like other issues with it like it's just that gold shadowing yeah there's no shadowing at
all and that's part so partly I think to do with um the fact that our decals are printed on clear
okay you'll have fun now we're gonna have the decal people come and put the new decal on it
felt bad man it was thunderstorming and he was out there and he was such a cool guy and
um he actually told me that the price that the decal people are giving us is really
good oh that's awesome yeah oh yeah there she is cool cool they got the other one
up there and um they're gonna put the port one on then this is gonna be the starboard
see I don't like the micromanage people some of my former Marines might say differently
but let's see they're out there what the heck it looks exactly the same
yeah I was thinking that like a half an hour ago I was like oh man I'm so excited I'm gonna make my
bed but it won't feel like anything new no well visually visually it won't feel like anything
new physically it will how's it feel lay on it I hope I wake up tomorrow and my back is like but
it might hurt even more because we're gonna get used to it it feels a little higher does it really
maybe not I don't know it feels the same grade so glad we did this tomorrow I'll know more when
I wake up tomorrow morning ask me when I wake up all right well congratulations right now decals
are going on which is sick I'm just happy that it will say Calypso not calypsy anymore yeah
I have plenty of them yeah I have drone shots of it yeah for a patron post I was gonna
show the progress well we'll see how it goes we're hoping it doesn't rain it's been kind
of threatening can't really do this without with the rain so they had to copy the old artwork so we
weren't able to give them a file they just had to get it as close as they could to the old artwork
because the previous owner before John didn't have that Vector file to give us just pictures and they
did a really really good job so we'll see how it goes on I'm excited she'll have her nails painted
she deserves it we ended up having the entire thing redesigned it's very similar but there
are few differences from the original artwork a cool fact is that the gold leaf we're using
for the design actually has real gold in it it gets placed in when applying the decal this was
the last item on our to-do list before we left the dock and began hopping up the icw
we have an early morning departure today we got up at five and got off anchor probably around 5
30 5 45 we have 14 hours 14 hours of icw to make it back to our home port or the port where we're
going to keep the boat for Hurricane Season or the remainder of hurricane season tropical
storms are forming everywhere like hurricane so hurricanes will start forming relatively
soon we contacted our insurance and we're like Hey we're in Florida but a different part of Florida
um Can are we good to continue on just sailing around do whatever and they said no we need an
extra two thousand dollars I'm like oh my gosh so if a Storm's a name storm's coming
we need to give them another two thousand dollars when we already give them thousands
so it's a little Annoying we're just gonna bring the boot back to where it's supposed
to be for hurricane season and shop for new insurance and then we'll be able to
move again uh but I think we'll be able to make it 14 hours down the icw we'll probably
get there right around 8 30 and we're not worried about it we can pull it in the dark
what'd you think of that about what pulling up anchor in the dark
yeah it's very muddy yeah we're back in Florida Maybe icw is full of mud your
radar stopped working but it's working now yeah stop working when I need it got that
going forward and you can't troubleshoot it as soon as you go tell it it starts working again
so you think we'll make it the 14 hours trying man with five uh draw Bridges to go through
an hour and a half hour schedule I think which could really slow you down uh but I think the
rest of them are open on demand which is great as long as we get this two I don't have any hiccups
you need to keep on going I think that we should get there tonight I'm okay with
doing the last little part in the dark because uh it's kind of a remote part that we go through so
you know that'd be okay but you know so I got some free pixels this morning oh good and you
got pictures of that lightning storm last night yeah that was great we actually stopped early
due to the storm rolling and just north of our location we dropped the hook and watched it unfold
the summer storms in Florida are no joke
right here well we're making seven knots and that's better than what we planned
for what we need all right well I got your coffee coming oh man it's awesome thank you
the Seas were flat the weather was calm and we enjoyed a lovely motor up the icw foreign
there's a drawbridge along this part of the icw that's always an
issue for us and this afternoon was no different
next time on the lazy geckos we get hit with a massive Squall and have a close call with
hundreds of books I'm just honking like a crazy maniac wrong place wrong time it wasn't fun at all
then we're switching it up and headed to the RV for the weekend if we didn't travel
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