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lockdown has been on for weeks we want a cruise if we stay here we'll be stuck
for another hurricane season so we've made the call we're planning a passage
from grenada to the states where we can move around freely let's start planning
okay go ahead go ahead okay so we're both sitting here yes we're both sitting right here obviously
so we're going to go through a brief of our passage and our plan to get back to
the united states so this is a really expensive uh uh weather forecasting predicting software
that we subscribe to we're using predict when something went wrong alexis sucks
alexa it does nothing that we wanted to do it sucks but anyway um anyway we use predictwind
it's a really good software for planning out all your weather for waves all that kind of stuff i've
already pulled it up for the passes from grenada to where our plan is to go to saint croix so
if you look we're going to be going to the west end there's a little anchorage right there
so that's where we're planning on going and anchoring um this passage is going to take
about two and a half days depending so as you can see that's our route directly from grenada to
saint croix if you look at the tables 2.6 days the max win for our whole passage should be 21.3 knots
wind speed uh minimum wind speed would be 11.8 average wind speed will be 16.5 we'll do
60 percent reaching uh we'll be doing 40 downwind 100 of the time um the wind between
between 8 and 20 knots it says zero percent probably because it goes over like a flash for
between 20 and 30 uh and then the waves should be one to two meters 100 of the time so what
we do is can you unplug that stupid thing that is ridiculous do you have one of those awesome like i
didn't even say the word alexa okay so um so what we do is we just put in our two waypoints and we
can put all kinds of terms and stuff and then we say hey we want to leave on uh the 11th at 1600.
it's gonna give me four different forecasts so i can go i want one every 24 hours from that
time like 1611 then 12 13 14 or i can do like i want every three hours trying to depend trying
to figure out what's the best time to to leave and then you look at these one departure two departure
three departure four and you choose which one's the best one to leave so right now our plan is
to leave on wednesday or thursday we also have uh employed a person named chris parker who's like
he's a guy used to sail and now he this is what he does like he forecasts weather for boats he
sends it to you via satellite and all that kind of stuff and we've employed what's called a weather
router which is somebody that it's a weatherman that watches you on your satellite tracker
and constantly emailing like hey okay i want you to shift your sales to this and you're heading
to this because the wind's going to turn here at this time at one o'clock in the morning and
all that the entire way so we have predict wind we have chris parker and we have the weather router
all working for us and we plan on for this passage from grenada to saint croix we're gonna have a
buddy boat uh it's a couple on a 35 foot island packet um a really good boat we've made friends
and they're headed back that way too so we're going to bloody build with them there you go
this is called bleeding the air conditioning yeah don't spill that can i pour it down the sink yeah
oh that's a horrible smell let's go stir it up make sure it's running
that's a new valve oh cool yeah i hope it works when's the last time you had this ac unit on
before we hauled out
you just had to bleed the system yep i i had uh drive this system out i've
purged it of all the water so it didn't just grow while we were sitting so that's when you know
you should look at it make sure we don't have any leaks stuff like that when we first start back up
thank goodness our starboard ac is having trouble we're in the marina and it's hot
so it's great to have another room to sleep in with some cool air see this is the water pump
here and then put this little three-way valve in here so we can just purge the water right out um
don't mind that that's from a leak before that's our through haul going to our strainer and then i
can just turn that little knob put some water around and it believes the system also one of
these high water alarms down there that's a sensor right there and if it were to get wet that thing
emits a sound just so we know if there's any leaks sleeping in here tonight yeah our old room the air
conditioner is not good neither side so well we are fixing that we just use our spare room
it's good to have a spare that's nice right what you doing putting more brewing guys in here
oh my goodness we're having quite the war down here yeah mom mom you guys are not dead they have
super army i have super army like super powers that come back to life oh cool so so can you set
that up sure how's the uh war going guys it was good i thought you got the air wing over here
i thought that uh it was over because he had killed me off but then he told me
my guys have super human powers so they come back to life i i have superior power too oh yeah
is it marine guys or is it army guys navy seals dad oh some navy guys navy seals all right
he's asking me about all the different branches last night yeah i heard you tell them
yeah you like the navy seals he's quite the setup in there thank you
and generator's shutting down because of a low oil pressure
warning i don't have another oil pressure sensor right now what i'm doing right now is just testing
see if i can uh bypass the oil pressure switch i just went ahead and changed out
the filter i didn't change the oil right now but i changed the filter out and the oil is
cycling through the system so it should it has a little pressure just i don't know the exact amount
but it was intermittent at first it jumped all over the place so i'm 99.9 sure it's just that
sensor and if i can just bounce if i can just get this sensor out of the equation
we'll be able to run a generator until i can get a gauge on it or something
i'm just trying to unhook the one little wire right now
doesn't want to come off there it's all right honey i'll keep doing laundry by hand
i'll see you on the inside okay we are waiting on him to finish
up so we can have some dinner there's his little garage that he's working out of
and i'm in the process of setting the table but i'll wait for him what are we
having tonight for dinner i'm trying to keep it warm over here a little mushroom stroganoff
pure yumminess that's how i'm keeping it warm because i don't have another lid you want a treat
treat sit oh you're already sitting okay bella up up
good girl good attempt bella shake nope bella shake oh good girl okay bella lie down
up sit sit down roll over that's play dad but i'll give it to you
one of the things that we want to do before we get out of here is change a charging system thing that
we have the the engines and the antares were designed so that the alternator only charges
the starting battery for that engine so you don't charge your house bank which everything runs off
of what we find is that whenever we're out sailing overnight and stuff like that we have to run the
generator a lot because the house bank starts to die we've recently put in new lithium so i'd like
to make it so that we could charge the house bank while the engines are running and you know some
people think hey you could just hook an alternator straight to it you cannot do that so what you have
to do is modify your existing alternator or replace it with one that is made for this and
install an external uh regulator which will allow you to use your alternatives like a three-stage
charger so we have a guy coming today he's going to i'm going to take the alternator off he's going
to modify it he's going to disable that internal regulator and then we're going to install it
so that it can charge the lithiums it'll be amazing to have this system running
power straight to the house bank yes please we've contacted our electrician steven for the job here
we go the whole concept is to make sure that the inside do not touch because you need
where the screw is here this part is still on the internal regulator because it screws
in here so basically you're trying to isolate the brush from any contact from the regulator
and this is just for a precaution of back feeding from the existing uh internal from the external
to the internal yeah you should get continuity between the two
that's the brush itself and none between the frame no readout between different that means the
it's isolated because one side of the post is negative that's why
that's why we call it the n-type right the reason why we call it a
a p-type alternator is because this one n will go to the negative and the next end will go to
the regulator to control the excitation of the of the rotor coil and if you if you have it as a
n-type this one will go to the positive and it will go to a negative regulator
then we will just cut this to close up this and the only thing we have to worry about
is this and we wouldn't this is where the excitation goes into the internal regulator
the the brown wire which comes here will come here normal this way no connection
no excitation from the ignition switch and no back feed from the external regulator
are you ready for him to drill into the
boat
we're going to install this
battery gauge right here don't really like drilling into things but i think it'd be
nice to be able to see the battery voltage from up here i know i hate you're better at
this than me like dealing with like drilling in the walls and stuff and i just i just as
long as it looks like it was meant to be there and i don't know we've been there i don't care
yeah well you know it's not then we're screwed so yeah that would suck drilling into calypso
is not our idea of fun but we wanted to install a good monitor to keep an eye on those sexy
lithium ion batteries while they're charging i didn't even watch this talk about pucker factor
it worked out to be super cool this thing is bluetooth too
so monitoring is even kind of fun now on to the engine
we chose the balmar 614 external regulator 4 engine it has a ton of features and is easily
programmable it even monitors the temperature of the alternator so it can control overheating
while charging it's pretty awesome this little guy basically turns your alternator into a multi-stage
battery charger the belmont regulator has um really into four five essential wires
this one here is a voltage sensor this one here is the main positive
you have the ignition from the from the key switch negative and the blue the blue is a field coil
so the lower this number is so what this one goes straight into the brush
into the piece the p type side and to the negative the higher the number is here is higher the
alternate is going to all be output once it's charged up this number is going to go lower
and when you just stop with the battery's dead you'll see this one at 12 12 volts very very high
basically that's it the palmar 614 is installed this is where the starboard engine is we only
had one of these on the island and the other one wasn't going to come enough time before we left so
we're going to have to make do with one right now we've disabled the internal regulator
on here installed the obama r614 we've also redone the wiring so that this alternator goes straight
to the house bank so whenever this engine is running it's programmed to charge lithium
batteries it goes straight to the house bank and charges the house bank now the thing about it is
it no longer can go to the starting battery on this side so the way we did that is you want
to move around here take this out the alternator goes past here to the house bank and the antares
came with a a system inside of it right here if you get down we have an automatic charging relay
here this is put on by antares so i can use this to link the house bank to the starting batteries
so whenever the the engine's running the charge will go straight to the house bank and then this
will send it to the starting battery so it can be charged while running the engine
does that make sense yeah it makes sense yeah says the naked camera girl
coming up on the party lazy geckos we're looking at 10 to 12 days came out to anchor
so we could stage for our crossing this is day one of our trip from grenada back to
the united states we are freaking cooking what's the speed right now
we were having trouble sleeping what i'm talking about some chicks around the boat
john we're here he'd tell you to attach a beer
to it and he'd be there for dave oh he's saying six packs
it looks hard moments like this that you'll remember probably should itself with me oh there's
another one coming during a storm you should put stuff in your microwave how's your pill assortment
you slap a sticker on go for it laughing a sticker on not that it's fixed but we have tried
i have an hour left on my watch
ah i thought i saw you coming so i flipped it on here's your coffee thank you baby
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