are you learning we got our infant child key on this episode we're going to show you some
solid safety gear we'll show you our sexy lithium battery bank well you're going to be out there and
you're going to leave the boat on the heart for six months cruising and absolutely and we'll take
you on a motor repairing mission you would think they'd start making these things better than that
plus you're going down below with us to repair a high-tech component what didn't blow up how's the
fork good this is a mummy special welcome to lazy gecko sailing i'm brittany and this is jeremiah
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it's funny as i was on instagram yesterday and um i was sitting in the back while they were working
and uh i saw a boat i was like oh this is getting splashed that looks familiar i was like is that
here and i kind of went through and then i went to the like last post and they were in the same yard
we're in the burt jabins yacht center that's funny on instagram and they're yeah they were launching
which i was sitting in the cockpit all day so they obviously launched right in front of me yeah
and then i looked around and then they were on a ball right through the blueberry am i funny yeah
let's just give them a zoom in don't judge me for all the lines down here don't judge you i don't
judge they were getting thrown in here i got to organize this you should know that i don't judge
this is our reliant lithium iron bank we have two 300 amp hour batteries in here before we
had smaller cables and they were i mean they were not run like this they were coming up here their
fuses and all this kind of crap they've isolated it all put it all together put thicker good cables
on there and re-ran it and it's all internal now so really happy with the way this is this house
bank has been amazing um it's expensive though i think each one of these batteries run around 3 500
at this point but you can take these down to like 20 so you get a lot more out of the 600 amps that
you have in here you can you can use more of them you know you can see all the steel sealant right
here reason why that's there is because the old batteries would vent hydrogen and it would go
into the boat and first off you're breathing it and it would make all the stupid um alarms
carbon monoxide detectors go off many nights we've pulled up mattresses into the salon and
you slept in there and right yeah they don't vent they take care of themselves they shut themselves
off if they go too low they shut themselves off if they go too high you don't have to refill them
ever they're just self-contained it's nice when you leave your boat and you don't have to worry
about your battery if you're seriously boating like if you're just you know going out on the
weekend it's not a big deal but if it's something like this where you're going to be out there
and you're going to leave the boat on the heart for six months and cruising and absolutely dude
you're doing a good job honey
sweeping might be better because you get the crack no it's not gonna
you're not doing anything but it's all good
you're getting it you're getting an a for effort
are you learning we got our infant child key we bought a defibrillator recently i
don't know if we've talked about it at all yet but um i have afib and then you know
there's all kinds of old people around out here and people you're way out in the middle
of nowhere and you never know when you might need something like this we went ahead and
bought a defibrillator for the boat and when we got it realized it didn't have the
infant key so this is like a hundred dollars more or something like that
but it's basically a key that you turn like this and you put it in a little slot here
and the machine now will go for a kid under 55 pounds zero to eight years old yeah and obviously
different instructions right there where you put the pad yeah so this thing lights up and it tells
you it talks to you and it goes through the whole process pretty cool and i also got some extra
pads and then we got our yacht commander box if you know the boat has yacht commander balance
stern thrusters they're pods they were put on by the previous owner huge upgrade
um you know you have to drill a hole in the boat i don't know if i would have done it honestly but
we had an issue with ours so we were like i don't know 20 miles offshore in rough seas i mean the
seas were probably six to eight we were sailing it was sunset it was just about to get dark
and all sudden the stern thrusters started blasting off just this it wasn't on or anything
i thought it was the engine because it was coming back from where the engine is it was like just
loud and i was like what the hell is that took me like probably 20 seconds to realize going
over there like what the hell i thought the engine sucked something up or got caught something or but
no it was the stern thruster going off full blast and then so i started tearing apart the lazarette
trying to get everything out of there to get to the battery switch and it started like sputtering
and then it just stopped so i finally got down to the battery switch shut it off and got a hold of
the people once just through some troubleshooting and uh over the phone and took an educated
guess that it's this box just a controlled little electrical control box it's inside
the from the lazarettes right above the stern thruster and the power negative cable goes this
right in here and this little thing hooks up and we believe this is the source of our issue so
at least it didn't happen while um it was in the middle of night because that would have really
sucked it's already kind of sketchy enough at night or um when we were like in a marina docking
or something like that so for swimming next to it or yeah like you know reese jumps off that
thing like i don't know man i get i have i lack confidence in this thing now
but i'm going to replace this i might just try to keep the battery switch off
at all times until we're about to use the stern thruster which is kind of a pain in
the ass right because it's not in a it's not in an easily accessible location it's in the bottom
of i have to get under and fly climb back and i've showed you some video on it but um that's
what we're going to do we're going to replace it and probably control it for a while at least and
not have it on when our kid is under the boat and if i get jammed up and end up with a heart attack
because of my arm getting jammed in the thruster or something like that honey you'll be able to
use the defibrillator to kickstart my heart oh good we're all taken care of
well this is our command module i guess whatever eye box that um controls the stern thruster
what i've done is i've taken out all the old guts right here taking all this out and now i'm
just putting the new one in we'll see hopefully this is what the issue was but uh we'll find out
this little deal through here a little zip tie which holds this piece in right here yeah
all right now just clamp this down make it look nice and pretty
it always comes down to one thing always it's usually the last thing to all right
take these connections up i'm too sweaty
the tape ruins it when i touch it so this thing just started going off all by itself
the only thing we could figure out that you know it could be besides wires touching somewhere which
they're not somebody drilling into the boat
screwing something up like a like into a wire which didn't happen
or this box i think it's probably this box well it was where's that good there there here here here
good oh everything's all put together
what didn't blow up hey babe um can you come here so i'm gonna turn on and then when i say go ahead
and power the system and then when i say just give it like a pop to the left or right at first okay
all right okay i'm gonna turn it on all right it's on okay all right let's give it one little pop
okay go the other way
all right go ahead and use it a little bit
okay thank you you turn off
so far so good wires look good nothing's touching so let's put this sucker back together
you do it one more time
all right thank you i'm just going to leave this area a little more accessible so
if i have to run down here to turn this thing off i will if it starts going off by itself
but what we have is 24 volt system it's the stern thrusters underneath me this is the eye box
that we just replaced the internal components to battery switch fuse 100 amp fuse and then we also
have battery charger that i usually had plugged in battery charger plugged into a gfi plug and then
the two batteries to make the 24 volt system right here two agm batteries we have two here
this is in the stern and then we have two in the bow as well hopefully we got it all situated and
now we have our strength thruster back which is pretty cool one good thing it did was it made
me not use it and uh you know make it makes you know help me learn how to drive the boat
a little bit better without them so okay stern thruster check now he's on to fixing the engine
there's a damaged part on our water pump that needs repair
jeremiah is removing the impeller so he can reach the piece needing replacement
look at that you would think they'd start making these things better than that
after all the time but they don't here's the cam right here the cam seems fine
a little set screw right here that he cranked on broke it it's just completely broke and take that
off i believe you just like stripped all the threads in here we hired a company to do the
easy stuff which is the oil change for some reason he just like twisted it and broke it
yeah broke it off shut the threads on the cam and there's the can so you can see how the screw went
right in there he just for some reason tighten it this these things are so soft so it goes through
here has a little gasket on there and the screw threads into the cam he just cranked it on it
broke it right off after all the time that uh you know goes into all this stuff and it's amazing how
fast impellers will just will break this impeller has about i think it has probably maybe 150 hours
on it total and it's breaking but i mean this just makes me want to tear apart the other engine
since i'm doing this and take a look and see what's going on in there too
but this should not be breaking after that long that's that's ridiculous so i'm just going to
button it up i don't like to leave the uh the water system open i'm going to button it all up
and monday go to a volvo penta dealer i can't order these parts online you have to go through
a dealer and then uh we'll see how long it takes one thing is huge having on boat is a parks bin
extra part spare parts i try to keep a lot of consumables like impellers and filters all that
kind of stuff i try to keep them safe i keep them inside the boat uh where the you know
less humidity and stuff like that but i just went put on a couple impellers i have two that i see
here might have some more in there and then i have like a little parts bin area down there where we
have filters and thermostats and all kinds of like stuff like that um fuel pumps stuff like that i
just want to make sure we have the propeller for that side and i'm going to go ahead and swap out
the other impeller on the other engine because if that one failed it was in the same batch so i'd
rather just catch it and throw a new one in there and plus i'm i'm obviously putting a new one in
the other side the port side with this issue and i like to swap them as a pair so that's what i'll do
how's the fork good this is a mummy special how is it buddy yeah oh mom built it or you built it
mommy built the blankets i got like the setting like that wall um these treasures i love it
we have the dog and the ac blowing yep and i'm uh what is that that's like an
emergency escape hatch this is our spotlight dad we got some spotlight coming in that's
cool our skyline it's an emergency one i love it and it's a window in the workout
so well while i work you guys are in here playing i've been working too i know you've
been doing great you did great with dinghy yeah the dinghy looks good um i'm just waiting on you
to get the hailer situated so i built some fort real quick we have no school today it's saturday
it's um a play day so trying to balance those working and playing but it's funny because he
really loves to work with us he's loving it he cleans he loves to clean which is amazing
it helps a lot having another little pair of hands it's wonderful the view here is really nice
it's been real pretty so these people have been paddle boarding
all by here they've rent paddle boards the two of them have slammed into the boat so far
all right well i'm gonna continue getting ready what are you gonna do
i'm gonna probably look for some food to order because we've been so busy today
i don't feel like cooking and we still have the hailer and the bridal yeah and the lime lazaretti
organized yeah that'd be great so what are we gonna do for dinner it sounds like pizza night
yeah he might be filling up on chips but it looks like he's grabbing them and putting the
oh i see stock it up you never know man yep we never know we might starve in the fort
coming up on the lazy geckos well today's the big day i'm excited to get to the boat today and move
on wild with new jersey boardwalk i have an hour left on my what i'm passing by calypso
north carolina i know it's bad if you have your friends emailing you you guys okay here we go
good luck on your first cruising adventure thank you here we go bloopers got an uber to
get some groceries and we saw this cute little bar to stop it doing a great job there honey
thank you here's your coffee thank you baby you ready for this we're passing billy joel's estate
if it lets loose it's gonna 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 thomas everything's so small i can't
freaking read it didn't really see the top at all oh you're right in front of us it's gone
don't take me back you can't take me back and turn north and probably put out at the
headsail it's nice and smooth our radar has been giving us trouble have a good time with it
yucky day to come back into new york uh put your foot put it right under your butt what
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