we're about to catch an unexpected weather window we have to wait a few hours for the tides so i
figured i'd get a little workout in first okay i just started filming so you'll need to start over
i got another leg i'm not good on this leg
balanced it wasn't long before it was time to weigh anchor look at him there what a sweet
captain to get it all ready for me i'll have to give him a little kiss later to say thank you
and we're off headed towards the inlet for a three-day and night passage are you ready
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is fun one of our passage from florida to the chesapeake we didn't think we'd get so lucky to
have a weather window to go offshore but we did we got lucky so we thought originally we'd have to
take the icw which would take us a lot longer to get to the chesapeake because it's very windy and
lots of boat traffic but we have this beautiful weather window that's basically south to southeast
winds very light no northerly wind component which is great because when you're traveling from the
south to the northeast um if you have a northerly wind component it can make the seas really rough
you're like beating into it it's really really calm as you can see so calm that we got our
laundry hanging up i'm still feeling a little seasick even though it's very calm just something
that comes with sailing and probably by the time we all start feeling better our trip will be our
six and a half knots and there are some other boats out here which is cool
so i just kind of lay here on the helm chair i lay out along it with
a pillow and that kind of helps laying flat with the seasickness although i
it's not really working this time before long the sunset turned to night night time
can be a bit freaky especially when squalls are predicted like tonight
we're on the morning of day two from our passage from florida to maryland i got up here at about 4
30 and now it's 8 o'clock so i'm trying to let jeremiah sleep a little bit longer he didn't get
to sleep too much last night because we were fighting squalls so he was up and down up and
down helping me adjust the sails just made some breakfast and i'm now finally brushing my teeth so
day one is kind of like a wash for this boat you know we're all usually feeling
a little bit queasy kind of seasick no shower still the same clothes so day two
i'm definitely feeling a lot less seasickness and i'm brushing my teeth feeling a little better
oh are you on watch
he likes day one he doesn't have to brush his teeth morning is my favorite part of
the day i usually get a little me time then i get some one-on-one time with our little guy
while the captain gets some rest hopefully reese remembers these little moments i know i sure will
freaking thunderstorms popping up everywhere man we've been out
trying to out flank them but they're attracted to us for some reason
squalls or thunderstorms can be a little unnerving
often you can avoid them by changing course other times they chase you down keep in mind
these things move way faster than a sailboat so sometimes you're a sitting duck like this time
fortunately this one was just a nice shower great for washing off the salt let's get back to sailing
hello
we're about 30 miles offshore here not too far
but it's good enough to get some solid wind and current to help us along the way
so
have you ever been here if not don't worry we'll take you for the ride
we are on day three from our passage from florida georgia line to maryland we decided to pull in
the icw today because there was like no wind out there on the ocean um or it was right on the bow
so we weren't able to sail we were motoring the whole way we had to come in for a diesel
anyways because we used a lot of our diesel up i think we're at quarter tanks
we wouldn't be able to get the rest of way around cape hatteras with that so we had to come in
and we figured okay well we're a little bored out there so maybe we'll come in and take the
icw the rest of the way and get some excitement excitement yeah just in time for that to happen
we're just minding our business looking for an anchorage and then i hope the anger holds
i don't know dude we came in this huge storm was happening um it was and we kind of were like i
don't know it was kind of lingering so we were going to supposed to anchor up here and then
where's the script we came back down because it looked like it was going to go like this and it
just as you can see it just just took off after us boom right there so we came into this anchorage
and seriously we're going like seven knots i put the left engine in reverse thing just
britain dropped the anchor we got it all out back down and it hit uh winds jumped up to like
27 knots right now they're only at 13. thing is we did such a burnout maneuver we don't
know if the anchor's really set that well and we don't know how much is out she just had to
push so hopefully we have enough road out and uh
and it holds so what i'm doing now is that the engine's running just in case
it doesn't hold so i can uh you know like ease and i'm monitoring our anchor alarm
which shows where i dropped it where we dropped the anchor and then
you can see we came back and then we spun a little bit here but i don't it can brain all at once
i just don't want anything to do with lightning which is happening and the wind needs to stay low
so i'm just watching this this right here you know it's hard to talk a dragon because this will show
you have point one to 0.5 speed over ground but you don't know if that's straight back or if it's
side to side so it might look like you're moving because it says you're moving at half a knot
but really you're moving sideways we're spinning so but your anchor alarm
shows right now i'm at 91 meters away from the anchor so as long as you don't
so you start backing away you know then it should be good
i don't like to run the diesels without being like the propeller spitting you never do
because you want to keep diesels under load but in this case i'm just gonna leave it running
i just want to play in my bikini yeah the dog was freaking out
geez i went from like hot little bikini to this i don't know oh yeah let me know when i can play
yeah well right now it doesn't look very fun
actually it could be fun if it wasn't like lightning and stuff are you back serious
yeah go for it you can you can do whatever you want oh yeah do it i have been hoping for this
moment i'm all excited to take her headset off really not that bad it's a nice little rain yeah
you're funny you see lightning run actually just diving in the water
you'll be okay yes that's the last place i'm gonna dive die all right
coming up on the lazy geckos moments like this that you'll remember
probably set itself with me oh there's another one coming during the storm you
put stuff in your microwave how's your pillow assortment slide the sticker on go for it
not that it's fixed but we have tried i have an hour left of
thank you baby
you ready for this i know we're passing billy joel's estate give that birth
if it lets loose it's gonna probably plummet into our vote they were under the bow already
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