I had to get my life jacket because
the seas are getting pretty rough
I'm Andrea, that's Alejo and those are our bears Ozzy and Echo
we left the corporate world in Miami to become digital nomads
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Good morning everyone
so today is a very special day
because we're finally leaving Deltaville
it had been at least
I think a little bit over a month and a half
we had been just doing some boat projects
preparing for our time in the Caribbean and
we had also gone on a two-week vacation to Maine
it's finally time to set sails
and ready and go
and start making our way south
we will be heading to Florida and we will be doing that in maybe three-four stops
our first stop, we will be going from here, from Deltaville straight to Cape Lookout
and we will be sailing not through the
we won't be going through the ICW but we will be going through the outside
like out in the open, crossing Cape Hatteras
a lot of people feel it's kind of nerve-wracking a little bit scary just because it's very choppy waters
there has been a lot of ships that have actually sunk in that area but we looked for a good weather window
we have a good three, we have four days to do the crossing
let's see what our captain's doing
good morning captain
good morning
so cold
I know you should get a sweater, how cold is it?
very cold
like in the 60s or 50s
it's like 60 something
and then we're gonna continue from Cape Lookout, right? to charleston maybe?
charleston
maybe we just want to jump from state to state
maybe go to charleston, then Charleston- Brunswick
Brunswick-Saint Augustine and then straight to Miami
and then we're provisioning and then what are we doing?
because we're going to the Bahamas
i know we're so excited to go back to the bahamas
and hopefully this time we're going to make it all the way south to Grenada
hopefully Colombia
but yeah
bye Deltaville
we met so many awesome people
we had a good time there right
it's a great marina, recommend it to anyone that comes here to Virginia
the people, the dockmaster... like everyone there, super nice! great community.
so we have sailed for seven hours and 30 minutes
we have done 46 nautical miles
and our average speed is 6.1 knots
nice
yeah so far so good
yeah? How's the waves? How's the wind? How's it looking?
now we're exiting the chesapeake bay and the waves are getting bigger but
not that big they're pretty far apart they're like four feet every seven seconds i think it is
so i researched and the whales are migrating right now they're heading south
and the whale we just saw was a humpback whale but
in Georgia and South Carolina we can actually, see right whales so we have to keep an eye out
for the whales
this is the first whale that i see so this is very exciting
so you think they're searching for whales?
i don't know but I'm searching for whales
This is our first whale and this is the most exciting thing ever
i can't wait until I get to swim with whales
okay so we're still heading to Cape lookout
it's day two
day two
so last night wasn't bumpy at all
we have the waves from behind
we have a little bit of wind
yeah we did shifts of three hours
and what else?
and you already had your eight hours of sleep, I haven't
I didn't have eight hours of sleep
yes, I counted them
I had six hours
Whatever she said
I haven't had my eight hours of sleep that's why I'm so tired
excuses people excuses
so yeah the dogs are here
we're sailing
and yeah
it's a nice day blue skies
nice days
Ozzy please tell us, what have you been doing for like 30 hours?
Excuse me sir
what's up?
i just wasted like two hours of my life watching a movie
was it bad?
Horrible
good morning everyone
so last night we made it to Cape Lookout and it was such a beautiful day
such a beautiful morning
oh cape lookout i said
and it was a beautiful morning we had lots of dolphins
and today what we're going to do, we were thinking of staying here a couple of days
but since we want to get to florida as soon as possible and start heading to the bahamas
there's not a lot of wind but the waves there's not waves so we're thinking of just
motoring and just going down because we only have
we have a doctor's appointment and we only have 15 days
until then to make it south and so
we think it's just best if we start heading south
so if we could just cover a few miles because we're still pretty up north
so we're just gonna take the dogs out a little bit so they can run and have some fun since
we had been doing uh
just one night of sailing, two days but you know
they can still run and have fun and do their thing
and we will continue making our way south
okay okay okay
by the way did you guys check out my shirt
isn't it cute i just got it from our store livinghakuna.com
check it out it's really cute
what do you think of my shirt?
so things we have to do before we leave, clean the grass of the dogs
because it smells really bad after two days of sailing
so dip it in the water
so guys let me show you the bridle
how it's working
we spent the first night with the brand new bridle that i made
let me show you
so there's the snubber, there's one and here's the other side
i took some information online
that the bridal length, it had to be 1.2 of the of the beam of your boat
but the one before we had it was like 13 feet so it was almost half of the beam
and this one's like 20
i put it to 20 because 20 29 it was like two too long
and if you see the mantis bridal it's 29 feet but i talked to someone that has it and they tell me it's really long
and it's very annoying to to put it out so
so i don't know i think i might just make another one a little shorter
and see how it works because the one that we had before
i don't know if that's why we dragged a lot of times
because our bridal was so short so the like the chain always was pulling up
we're leaving and we have dolphins saying bye to us
hello
so ready captain we're heading out
did you get wet
what's up people?
so we are heading down
we woke up today like at six because our anchor was dragging so we woke up and now
we're sailing yeah
so the weather we have a pretty uh windy day
but we get the waves from behind
as you can see they're pretty big
they're like four to six feet
and yeah we're going like at seven to nine knots
we're going pretty fast and what else
so we are passing now we're almost at Georgetown the inlet
we're a couple hours away
so i don't know if we're gonna keep going, i think we're gonna do an overnight
so we can arrive at least to charleston and if we keep getting the wind from
behind will just keep going until..
what's it called?
brunswick georgia so
i had to get my life jacket because the seas are getting
pretty rough i have the harness just in case but yeah you can see the sea
very big waves
you can barely see it on the camera, the big waves
but they're huge
so we just broke our speed record we were surfing down a wave at 10 knots pretty amazing
pretty crazy pretty crazy
you can see a wave there the height of the waves they're super big
we're going on a wing on wing
we have 16 knots of wind
that's the true wind and this is the apparent wind
we are
oh yeah that's our sailing
people so we are almost arriving at georgetown we're about like one hour away
we are sailing
we are doing eight knots
seven knots eight knots
sometimes we surf down the waves we hit 10 knots so yeah we're going pretty fast
and yeah it's pretty choppy
the waves are getting bigger and bigger so we're gonna stop
for today and see if we can go out tomorrow it depends on the waves yeah
that's what andrea does while i sail we're almost there 30 minutes well no
yeah like 30 minutes to arrive
thank you guys all so much for watching and a special thank you to all our patrons for supporting us in the making of these videos
we really hope you all can join us in the next one as we finish sailing to miami bye