last time on the LASIK geckos just leaving bings landing we just went
and had lunch and kind of celebrated a little bit like pre signing the papers
she's ours our new beau is his lovely 2013 and Terry's 44 i we couldn't be
more excited to start cruising the time has come so much went into this tons of
work and planning years of it we're shoving off the dock and setting sail indefinitely
when we started we figured we'd like sailing but we fell in love with it
said I would learn to love the space
we're so excited to take you along this journey with us let's walk away from the
norm and look to the horizon who knows what's waiting for us out there right
down the ICW we go this will be several times we've navigated this channel bridge after bridge
it's a great place to shake our new girl out oh hey just in time for the first major problem okay
from the switch the panel it just well the hours kind of funny and then I noticed that since we
got here and then it was just a little blinky which is the ECU these Volvo pets has issues
with the issues with the ECU so and I tried to shut the engine off at Pamela wouldn't shut off
so I did an emergency shut up but that means I'm not going to get it started yeah I could
suck the other end but not this engine from the panel so I'm gonna read up on it and figure it
out it's an electrical problem that off mechanical we've wrote on one engine before yeah also we have
two engines it's weird because so I shut the engine off and I was like well if this panel
is not working for the port engine then it's not going to turn the instruments off so I push the
button and let me trim the instruments off go down to the bush push a button in to turn that
back on and then we'll turn off so it's gotta be that easy is probably crap this off well we can
always get one shipped to us so explain to me if it's electrical will that happen with every
ECU or you think it's a vegetable part in the ECU no it's the ECU is kinda like a brain for
the motor electrical brain and apparently these posts have issues with the ECU's going bad so
antares he's had no volvo penta it didn't count ours correctly there was last trip and I just
went down and cycled the batteries in the turn office as a stop um I'm venturing about going
on I don't know what so now now it's stopped okay so that's on ours okay so I just turned
this Richard coming on and off again it's not going to try to start the engine but now it
won't come back on so definitely ECU it's a weird issue so I cycled the battery I'm gonna
try to cycle the battery and see if we can't get the engine to start cycling the battery
I've interrupted their movie so they're just patiently waiting so it's probably that isn't
you but if I can skew to start my cycling battery then you know now it's not coming
okay man just a little bit longer it's a shame that like engines are so dependent
on all the electrical stuff nowadays you know okay here do this put that down holding
pressing alright so now it's power let's see if we can get started
started let's say we get shut down
it's shut down this is cool yes I'm working right now I
mean it's working fine but it's not worth this
yeah I see you see you causing issues it's almost like he wants to go and that stops it's like it's
before it was surging well apparently in Volvo's been having this thing where they have all these
baddies to use and they're like 750 bucks a pop and all they're doing is sending out
like more baddies to use and there's no way to track them there's no serial number all this is
a part number on it so they're not tracking what's once are bad to come back in they'll
probably test out a little test bench and then they send it back out and it's bad so I guess
the tons of people are having issues with these ECU's will be able to continue on with that but
we're going to need to get another ECU at least swap it out I think cover there yeah it's in a
warranty oh thank goodness yeah so Jon's gonna work on getting that before we cross to the
Bahamas yeah well good that but I mean it should be hard you know to get it sent boom boom yeah
so that's all right you know we're gonna work some bugs out and that was the first button
awesome I'm very proud of you thank you for being a mechanic Jeremiah's 22 years as a u.s. Marine
and FA teen engine mechanic is invaluable he was able to make a temporary repair to get
us moving again I love it we're gonna leave they won't open the bridge for like an hour
and a half so otherwise units on hold on demand so but it was good it went well right yeah the
kids just had an awesome dolphin exciting up there that dolphins are up there swimming it
for like minutes and minutes and they're going back to work from the bowels fella go potty
trying to brief
how many were there five dolphin is that your first selling experience
you like it it's pretty cool sitting up here in the
we're going to just try to get down the ICW a couple days so we can get some warmer water
warmer environment it's been like 70 get down there so the kids can play I don't think we're
going to have a weather window until next week so they leave on Tuesday and it looks like the
Seas is starting to calm down around down around Wednesday so I've got a cruise down
south like Miami let them play in the water a little bit maybe do a little scuba dive in
there and then do some paddle boarding let them play with the sea scooter so I got to
stop some more water and then they'll fly out Fort Lauderdale and we'll be waiting
for our wetterlund doing probably leave unless we're waiting for discipline this time if we
can leave I will believe in Fort Lauderdale or maybe we'll cruise up the Lake Worth we
don't know where what does the sign as we go but while we're thinking about now is getting south
hey grill on the way I'm gonna pick up some more fuel so when we can the sweepers to live in Salem
learn the boat and trying to like knock some cobwebs up we have the issue with the
engine last night came way it wouldn't shut down from the control panel the Ford engine
brand new engines so these engines are volvo penta as they have this known issue where the
little control unit is about ECU or MDI they aren't working right so you know it's erroneous
cautions sometimes the things won't work like shutting the engine down so I had manually shut
it down we got it to work and talk to the reps we should have a part by tomorrow and they're
under warranty so I'm trying to find out if I could work on it or not but again I'll just
swap it if not they'll pay somebody to come out and it'll take 20 minutes to swap it out
I'm gonna keep the warranty go on the engines
what are you looking for
right there
probably like a museum
through
Buddhists range dreams holiness closer have you decided where danker
okay I have to anchor ready I've unlocked it
it's ready to go just waiting on your cue
your command your commanding officer what's the Deaf 11-feet since the winds are from
the north we're gonna scooch it and try to be protected tonight
I don't want to be banging our neighbors not literally
coming into the wind okay I am gonna go that becomes any Tulsi is Deb we go
over where to bridle up how much for diletto after that we got a new bridle it's a little
a mantis is Bridal it's legit a little hard for me to do
so I'm wearing the gloves to try to protect my nail host going into neutral
turning
meat is 1.6 now going into reverse to slow us down
so not perfect but hey we're just getting into it calypso is a lot different than the
lazy gecko it takes some getting used to for sure it's a little nerve-wracking but
still fun one thing I'm not crazy about yet is our new bridle let's see how it goes this time
kind of look for like a reference for you on the land
in holding it's time
beautiful anchoring that bridle is kind of confusing it's really hard in bulky and when
you loop it up it almost throws the rope over top of the anchor chain which makes you feel
like it's not correct but hopefully we're all good I'm sure we'll learn as we go if it works or not
Hey what happened I think it birds flew into the boat but he's gone I mean I don't
see him well are you sure it was on that side yeah definitely it was like right behind you
that's two nights in a row so that pooping all over the deck another slit now they're
kamikaze the but dick it's like causing chaos just like the movie the birds
they're all flying I guess our windows are just that clean yeah I don't know you put
the lights out the crap out of me yeah I thought somebody ran to our booth no
you're not gonna run it would look at the lights I have going you know it's
back to our card game yep who's winning Jessica Jess is winning oh my gosh so
the poor water tank is poop no the port water tank is empty the Starwood I just
filled I'm about to switch it over so that it fills up the port this tube right here
is coming from the water maker comes to the three-way valve comes in and you can
either go well I don't know I just felt the pouring beer right I I meant starboard so I
had to go to the port this is the port I need to type this up I just installed
this tonight this one so it's going here now I'm gonna push it over to the starboard side
boom now the water is going in and going to the starboard side that easy yeah Wow pretty amazing
making water waters kind of dirty I mean these are bad let's replace these yesterday but we're
not linking the Bahamas right now so it's not bad we're not near any marinas or anything like that
it's just you know that's just how it is but make this fresh water right make about 70 gallons today
coming soon on the lazy geckos so much for filtering at that
that right there we'd like to be included in your
22 dirty opening where the sailing vessel approaching from the north
that's it well we're ocean bound now
we're at Donny's marina just talk to Donnie really nice guy yeah gave us
walking directions to go to customs we have to make a left at the floor remember that
we're not really surfing only two more involved yeah but I'll take the money for it okay cool
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