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when you get to about here right before it you're gonna wake jeremiah okay so this heading
looks different from this heading because that just means the boat is going this way in order
to bring us straight because there's probably a current pushing us or something over here i have
my guard zones on so if anybody comes within these white areas it'll start alarming we're
offshore at night sailing from new york city to the delaware river this is our first crew change
so i'm briefing tara on what to watch for during her shift and that's pretty much where we are
all right we took our head sail in only our main sail is up if you need to
good morning it's 2 30 and i'm about a quarter of the way through my
watch just navigating around some obstructions
luckily there's only a couple of boats on the radar and so
not having to worry about them too much they're on paths that are not intersecting ours
we're going about six knots
currently just trying to navigate around some flashing buoys and doing good
i've got my sugar free red hole so i'm all set
i've been sleeping well during my time off so i'm rested and ready
it is my third watch i was lucky enough to be able to see the sunrise so that was really pretty
i actually got to see the sunset and the sunrise on this passage
we're coming into the delaware bay when i came out to take over my shift
when i came out to take over my shift jeremiah mentioned that we might have to press on through
the delaware bay because the way that the tides were um otherwise we'll be stuck here or possibly
a week waiting on the tides again um so i'm going to wake him up here when we get through
the inlet and just kind of make an effective decision between the both of us on what to do
do we want to go through the delaware bay um the only issue is we'll probably arrive at our ending
tara will be coming out in about 15 minutes to take over but i've been sitting out here with her
um she's doing really well on her first night
i know how nerve-racking that could be so she did awesome ask a lot of
questions made sure everything was right double checked everything so really good
that was a pretty good passage i think tara did really well what do you think well you
are terrible what do you think i think it went all right um i liked the uh two to four shifts
better than the other one seemed like there was less traffic oh yeah and that probably also had
to do with the area that you were going through yeah because you weren't going through like a busy
channel or anything where boats were going out you know but i think it went well to our rotation
i'm on about three hours of sleep um this is my sleeping time but i'm not able to sleep
and then my first sleeping shift i wasn't able to sleep either because grace wasn't bad with me but
how many hours have you won oh i'm doing good i think i had like about eight oh tara had eight
hours to sleep you look perfect jeremiah's on like six hours of sleep i believe and i have two rebels
too oh yeah she had two red bulls she's ready so you're ready for us to get anchored so that
you can do what let's go back to sleep yeah go back to sleep we're gonna anchor um right on the
outskirts of the delaware river lazy sunday in resort oh yeah it'll be a lazy sunday for sure
lots of just laying around i'm sorry but i'm gonna go anchor now okay
after some consideration we've decided to anchor for a few nights to wait
out the tides in the c d canal let's walk through the process soon 11 feet high tide
okay get ready all right and you're gonna drop
do
okay come forward
you want me to walk over or zoom in walk over
okay we're getting pulled so we'll straighten itself out
so in here there's like a current and a wind that's kind of taking our beam so we're not
straightening out properly when we anchor the chain but it just started pulling it
the wind's stronger than the current so the wind is sort of pulling us to straighten it out
so it is i put the engines in reverse now that she has the anchor down
and bridle set and everything and just to get us pulled and let it set a little bit
then i take the anchor alarm app i set it for the distance that i'm at because i'm mountain tight
and i walk to the back of the boat because our bedrooms are in the back
so i said walk back there just to make sure that i'm good set up for the distance i want
and then i'm good and then what i'll do is i'll start to increase the the engine
uh to back down on it but i'll let her know as i'm doing something up to a thousand on both
right now he has the engines in reverse and it's like an idle reverse it's allowing
it just to help straighten out and then he'll bring the rpms up to back down on it
the winds are higher you want to make sure your anchor's dug in there and going to hold you
and then i just watch for speed this one right here sometimes if you're going sideways you'll
get a little bit like point one no big deal and then this one is usually pretty good
and i have both engines at a thousand so we're holding so i'm going to go up to 1200
12 or 13. now he's going up to 12 between 12 and 1300 rpms and i'll watch our bridle
in the water to see if it's holding tight a lot of times when you break loose your bridle drops down
there's giveaway right there and it's holding tight so there's good holding here and
i have confidence that the anchor set he has confidence that the anchor step properly
because he's not showing speed back in the helm a little bit of speed there but uh it's
probably just being pulled sideways another thing i can do is i can monitor my anchor
the app see if i'm actually dragging back and look off to the shore but we're not moving
all right the anchor's set and i think we're all good then what i
do is i'll just bring the engines back i let that cool down for five minutes maybe
three minutes something like that but i'll shut everything else down in the process
turn on the anchor light and then i'll go ahead and start shutting down electronics
hit the power off network and that will shut all the chart plotters down i'll set
the rudder to be straight you can see it right here it tells me where my rudder is my runner
position i'm just said to be straight because i like to do that and then i'll shut that down
and then radios i use a handheld while we're at anchor um autopilot and now my instruments are
running because i'm still using my uh throttles these are electric throttle so i keep the
instruments on while running the engines let them cool down a little bit and then i'll shut him off
and then we'll start relaxing overall it's really good overnight it was really calm throughout the
night so that's good good for tara's first time out there at night and i had to there
was a point in the middle of the trip where there was a bunch of crab pots oh dolphins hey go ahead
and they're coming this way oops all right anyway i had a little dolphin thing we ended
up uh with the spot where we had to crack tons of crab pots and it was night so i had to like
keep a spotlight in the front but we didn't hit me so that's good now we will go off i'll
actually have to do a video today so probably take a little nap and then do a little video
we're here for a few days it was time to shut the engines down and clean the boat up
it has been a rainy day today like from the time we woke up till
now it's still going i think it's supposed to go all day long
so i'm going to utilize this rain and scrub down the boat a little bit
we're out at anchor so rather than using our fresh water why not use the elements to clean the boat
well i managed to get the spots taken care of and i've um been able to get the
covers down the enclosure kind of hard they're really tight fitting um but hopefully that'll keep
us a little bit more dry in here and the boat is looking good i'm happy get all those little like
dirt slots off so all good stuff i didn't get too too bad it's just swim clean right now but
i don't mind that oh no how's your nose do you guys you have the corona
my nose is extremely runny hold on what exactly are you cleaning
there was we shed a lot so there was hair all in the doorway oh wow yeah it's a girl problem
yeah it's definitely a girl problem it's either not it's either her or her
probably a little bit of both yeah you did some cleaning today i napped i was dead but um
the boat looks great yeah i usually clean like room by room so i've done today i did
the bathroom and i actually knocked out like this whole area it's great well the rooms look
great tara did cleaning too i know so how's your room look tara i don't go in there that's
fine you can go i'm afraid i don't know what i might find in there it's all put away so
that's cool a nice little reset yeah did you uh well you got a great night's sleep last
night right i did i slept almost every minute of my off time that's awesome and i still took
a nap today good i like to sleep nice so you're going to dump this now i'm going to
attempt to dump this yes without getting it all over me it's pretty windy oh there we go
oh look at all that dust over here there's a lot of dust in there huh a lot of hair
yeah isn't that i mean how it's only been about a week it's amazing how much dust
is on the boat yeah yeah i know i said it was uh dead skin and britney was like oh
tara and i was like well i do this yeah it's kind of gross we're gonna get like
early i think sunsets i mean sunrise is like around six so we'll get up and we're gonna
try to go up the chesapeake i mean the delaware river to the c d canal over to chesapeake yeah
um looking forward to it because then we'll be at the top of the chesapeake yeah all right well
until the next passage the camera's going away
coming soon on the lazy geckos broadcasting everybody the coast guard's recording you
everything's so i'm over here like this she's like you can hold on to me if you need
it's ridiculous it looks like a blocked bird just laying on our boat so there's mold showing up
where that condensation is you can still see the dark spot we're gonna be riding in style
we've never had a toilet problem uh-oh was it the baby wipe they glued it in honey yes
voice-over time duty calls what is this a blanket no the outfit man you look like madonna tara and
i are knocking out some cleaning i'm heading to walmart all right here we go have fun we made it
are you right in front of us it's gone i think it looks fine like this
haha i took my birth control that's great once again for a hurricane want more check
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