what's up people so it's the last day
today we are arriving to barranquilla
6 a.m the sun is just coming up
and the seas are really big here in the coast of colombia
so it's been since yesterday night
like eight eight to nine foot waves
they're huge you can barely see it on the camera
but you can see that we're going up and then down
we're sailing with one engine on
and just the jib
i put the mainsail down
because the seas were getting very rough
and we were getting some squalls
so like the wind wasn't wasn't that not predictable
we are going about seven to nine knots
with just one engine and the jib
we should be arriving to Barranquilla around 12.
in real life the waves are coming up to here
like he covers the dinghy
and then the boat goes up and then down
my parents went to the front of the boat
in the cushions right there
because when we are arriving to barranquilla
there's a river called el rio magdalena
and it's a bunch of like tree logs
and things that can we can crash into
we just saw a big three
like a log we had to turn and everything
it went to the front we're gonna keep an eye out
and i'm here driving they're keeping watch
while they are resting
so it's a win-win people win
we're gonna see how it goes down and all the way goes up
you can see your speed goes up
and down up and down in the waves
straight
we are arriving almost to the rio magdalena
and you can see the color of the ocean it's like
the rio magdalena is like dark brown
it changes the color of the ocean
and even if we are like five six nautical miles out into the sea
it changes the color of the sea
we are keeping uh eye out
we don't crash into any logs
we have eyes there and eyes here
and it's official brown water
very very dry very brown brown water
so it looks like we are arriving
you can see the marina
and you can't see with this camera
it's right there but we have to keep going
and go behind into the bay
and then we can dock our boat
we are going into the bay
and there's a bunch of like plants
so i've been calling them on the radio
and no one answers
so we're just waiting to see
because i don't know where to dock the boat
i don't know where to put the fenders
or what side we need to put the lines
so i'm gonna get closer to a dock
and see what they say
so guys we are gonna go into the marina
we are going to haul out the boat
and so we're traveling into the travel lift
there's two buoys here we have to go right in between
so guys this was very very very nerve-wracking
because the entrance you see these buoys
so we have to come through here
and then all of a sudden you have to turn
and the bow started to go with the wind
so towards this little metal
and that was horrible
so what i did is i had to put this engine in forward this in reverse
and had to like put it straight
but we almost hit this wall right here
so then all of a sudden
i had to put both engines in reverse
go out a little bit
and then come back in
so we are ready to haul out the boat
we i'm gonna go talk at the office
see if we can leave it on the hard
instead of the marina for hurricane season
so we have hakuna on the travel lift
the paint looks pretty good
not bad at all
for all these months
it's a little dirty
but nothing bad
and yeah so we're gonna leave it on the hard this time
what's up people
so we are here
in puerto velero
we're gonna eat from this little house
they'll bring the lunch here
and this is the same bay as the marina
the marina is back there tucked back there
and yeah
this is the little bay
the water is not so pretty
but it is what it is you know
so here in colombia in the coast is very common to eat uh fry fish
like whole fish
it's a red snapper
and they have the patacones and arroz con coco
so that's coconut rice patacones does plantain
and fish
what's up guys
so today this morning
um i went i took a ride to the airport of barranquilla
and i rented a car
so we have transportation meand my parents
and now i'm driving back to the marina
and it's raining really really hard
so yeah horrible
but yeah i'm going back to marina
and we rented an airbnb
because here it gets pretty hot
and since i'm with my parents
i don't want them to suffer too much
man
lots of water
here at the boat yard
and we were gonna go to cartagena to pick up some solar
things to put up the new solars
and we have a flat tire
so my dad is changing the tire
we are going from puerto velero
which is barranquilla to cartagena
and yeah so we're on the way to cartagena
it's about 50 minutes away
this is the road
so guys we just arrived to the place here in cartagena
where they sell the solar rails
and all the mounting
so we're gonna go purchase it
and then come back
and then we'll continue our journey
so today we are changing some solar panels
we are gonna get more power on the boat
so this is the old solar panel
those are the new ones
we got sun power 400 watts
and we had panasonic 295 watts
so we are gonna get like around 2 800 watts of power
so we're gonna be replacing this too
and before we keep going with this video
i'm sure you guys are wondering why we're adding more solar
to our boat
and the reason why we're adding more solar to our boat
is actually because our generator stopped working a couple of months ago
and that's also one of the reasons why we didn't want to bring the dogs on the boat
is because in order for us to run the genera the air conditioning units
day and night we need to have a generator
or at least we need to have more power
so we were very doubtful on whether we wanted to just fix the generator which was
you know we would have rather changed it
because the whisper power generator is pretty bad
so um instead of changing and buying a new generator
which was going to be around you know eight thousand or ten thousand dollars
we decided to add more solar to our boat
so it would be 100 solar
we could run the air conditioning units day and night
and only running on solar power
which is going to be a great great great solution
for our amazing boat
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today number two of solar
so today we're gonna be removing these three solars
and we're gonna put four
but uh straight out
so they're gonna come out a little bit more
and this is the first one we're gonna be removing and yesterday we did three
which are the three that are on the hardtop
which are this ones
i'll show you guys
this one right here
and these two right here
this one and this one
just this three
are 1200 watts
so it's a lot that's almost all our solar oh
now we have one two and three we removed
this is how they are held
it has like a regular roof thing about that and then a little bar right there
we're gonna be using the same system but we're gonna put a aluminum frame
on the bottom of all four
so it's more rigid and that's it's
pretty simple
346 minutes later
we removed the panels
these panels, someone's gonna come and they're gonna make an arch so it has more support for the other four panels
which we're gonna leave right there
uh right now what we are
emptying all our fridge freezer everything
we cleaned the engines with fresh water
we did the flush on the ac units with fresh water
so everything has fresh water, no salt water, the boat's pretty dirty
but here you pay like around 80 dollars a month and they wash it twice a week
and they put out a dehumidifier inside the boat so that's not bad at all
they'll take care of the boat we are doing the final steps inside
just fixing everything and we leave tomorrow to the us
i haven't seen andrea in one month one month
pretty bad missing andrea a lot
we have the old solar panels for sale which are really good
if you guys are coming to colombia or sailing to colombia
let me know i can give you the panels for a really good price
we took off the old chartplotter
i'm gonna take it to the us and see if they can fix it if not we'll have
to buy a new one, we'll put a new chartplotter
the guys here while we are outside they're gonna sand the bottom
just a little because the paint is pretty brand new and then before we go back into the water
we're gonna do brand new anti-falling
and here is really cheap like really really really cheap compared to the all other places
that we've been to
so the boat is gonna be like brand new when it goes back into the water
alejo arrived today to miami yeah
we're so happy that we're together again it was a full month since we we since we were away since we
were away from each other i can't even talk because how happy i am