you sad to be leaving here a little bit early for two nights and we're cutting our
time there's some bad weather rolling in tomorrow squalls with winds up to 30 knots so rather than
traveling that tomorrow we decided to not relax chill enjoy and drink and motor two and a half
hours south to Stanley but we'll have phone service it'll be a blend let's weigh anchor
and head south all right cool I'm going to get everything out of the dinghy we're sailing to
another amazing destination in the Exumas yours look way better than mine sailing diving and
more are you ready I love these beautiful calm days we're having the same issue again you know
it's on it automatically turns off and of course we'll have maintenance issues again let's do it
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I hope they won't shoot me
I usually do my chart plotting on the iPad here with Navionics I trust my explore charts
more than this uh but I like the way this hands features to be able to do the routing
it's got going on in there oh you don't want to look in there it's disaster I'm just gonna work
on dinner so originally if we were gonna stay we'd have to turn the generator on because I really
need the microwave for our potatoes put them in this potato bag if they all don't fit then you
can just wrap them in a wet paper towel microwave them like four minutes at a time and as they start
to soften I take them out but if we stayed there I would have had to use the generator for that
now that we're going more underway I'm gonna do it running the engines that provides the power
I don't have to use the generator and I'm also going to do asparagus and that takes 20 minutes
so I'm sure the captain's happy that I don't use a generator yeah that's because we have we have put
the new Balmar 614s on and they charge the house Bank while we're going I'll start like marinating
the steak mistake prepping everything and then right before we get there well we're searching
for an Anchorage and stuff I can just start it off we are going upwind but it's so calm it's
like upwind is blowing like five or something so the seats are at zero very very calm motor down
sustainable key today ocean is pretty much empty today saw a couple boats in the beginning but
late season so a lot of people have already left Bahamas they want to get away from the hurricane
season and stuff like that so a little bit empty which makes it nice to paint usually a little bit
more empty I'm gonna use our clamp that you broke yeah that sucks we just got into the Bahamas and
Jeremiah got into our Electronics area and I heard something fall and it was our GoPro
Mount like clamp one where you can move it all around yeah it's our most used thing as far as
Electronics I'd say right I super glued that one together so it'll work but so I'm gonna go
pro this oh you're gonna go pro uh you're cooking yeah yeah all right kind of cool have a good time
cooking aboard Calypso is a favorite hobby of mine tonight's dinner is steak asparagus
and sweet potatoes the downtime during a passage is perfect for prepping meals
love these beautiful calm days then I can come up on the bow and enjoy it
gotta go check on dinner
I heard the microwave go off oh I smell them
oh yeah they're squishy the little guys are squishy the big ones are squishy too okay perfect
so the potatoes are cooked enough and then as we're grilling the steaks on the barbecue tonight
I will wrap up the potatoes in some foil throw them on the grill and they'll be like nice and
crispy and soft on the inside now I'm going to start the asparagus in the connection of it so
I did my potatoes first because they're gonna go back on the on this get you're reheated I guess
but once I wrap them in the foil they'll stay pretty hot we have super thick asparagus here
like I think
we dropped the hook just off staniel key and fired up the girl for the stakes dinner is served oh
yeah looking spectacular I think everything turned out to fly I know I've been smacking them all day
everything turned out awesome like you liked yeah what here Dad you can just pump the jam pump the
jam we saw another girl about Reese's age so we're thinking they might be able to hang out we'll see
nervous he's nervous he's always nervous but it always turns out to be the most amazing experience
ever that's so true Reese has made some great friends along this journey just like us this
Lamborghini at The Grotto we came here before we weren't able to go outside so hopefully today yep
a little bit really bad weather and it was rough and I think he's about three so 96
yeah all the system's going there he got his MLB all right let's do it the Thunderball
Grotto is an underwater cave system in the Exuma Islands the entrance is hidden so you
need to enter at low tide in order to see it otherwise you need dive equipment no question
we're at low tide slack tied so entering was pretty simple we really didn't know
what to expect it was amazing to enter this beautiful Hidden Gem
check that out Reese not cool yeah
you might have seen The Grotto on film as it's been featured
in the movies Splash into the blue and James Bond
one of the coolest Parts is how the sunlight reflects into the cave Illuminating both
above and below the water's surface with a kaleidoscope effect we loved taking it all in
foreign
in the past some have jumped in from the top but it looked like they've secured the way up
we swam back to the dinghy we're headed back to our floating home
back on Calypso oh yeah that was pretty cool it was freaking packed one of the things with it is
that um everybody has to go at slack tied so all the like you know all the little charter boats
all that stuff they all show up it's like that but what'd you guys think good good how was your mask
is it leaking my tube yeah and your snorkel yeah we got a good mask yeah yeah he's he's
just now getting into the snorkeling stuff so we're gonna get him some if we can find some
scooter probably will but how about you did you enjoy today yeah I loved it mask fins work great
I'm happy we wore them I saw people without fins and the current you know so it was great beautiful
um a couple years ago there was a little bit more sea life
but they say well also they said because it was like it was it was crowded you know
I'm gonna make hamburgers or we're gonna go to dinner and drinks yes
Daniel key has like a little bar called the yacht club I'm going
to get everything out of the dinghy and we'll make that call all right
disembarked boom done your mom
we have a fair amount of gear on Calypso such as dive gear that means a fair amount of upkeep
too we try to keep our equipment in the best shape possible in a pretty harsh environment
underwater experience I would have brought the guidelines but
all right yeah I thought you knew that no I thought it was going to be just
like watery kind of iron and cave no I knew it was underwater there's plenty of light
we do enjoy what are you talking about Mama and Dad both said no I'm just
gonna enjoy it we stopped filming while we were in there enjoyed it
all our salty stuff goes here and then we can rinse it down there
he's the one that usually rinses it down yeah try to conserve water but that's one
thing that's great about a fresh water wash down you can really preserve your stuff you
know what I mean oh yeah are you rinsing it down now um yeah I'll a quick turns off
having a fresh water wash down on the back of the boat is amazing for cleaning gear and
kids a lot of times we'll just bathe him or whatever then he just goes off to go you cry
and then I'll just spray everything off these things have lasted years I don't know three
or four years now as soon as we get out of the water we always rinse it off with fresh water
get that salt off there Reese's mov device I always make sure I spray that out real good
this is a like an automatic deploying one but because you don't have an inflatable
life jacket which I don't really trust for him because sometimes they don't work he has
been trained how to deploy it himself so yes he was he was unconscious that'd be bad but
he would float so I'd rather him float unconscious than and not be able to play the MLB then a life
jacket not go off when you know there's always some type of give or take I'll spray myself off
and wear the shirt today because I got severely sunburned I don't know how you
put sunscreen on like two or three times sailing it's just beating it oh man all right mom's turn
all right
way better than mine
the next day we continued South to another Bridge well looks like I'll be doing propane maintenance
yeah that's funny I was just thinking about that earlier you're like I'm gonna work on
putting a video together tomorrow I was just thinking nope you'll be working on
propane tomorrow now it's moments like these that make cruising memorable
yeah I asked you if you wanted a beer you have a table to sit it on it's still not a temperature
anyone at all this Grill allows the heat to light the wind goes right through and takes
all the heat right out the back we're trying to grill on a windy night and uh of course
it's coming from like the perfect if you go to the other side of the boat like if this
is mounted over there there's no wind but just with currents pushing the wind's blowing it's
like blowing 15 knots right on it I'm trying to block the wind to keep the heat in but it's
not really working because it's just going right around the side and taking it right out
I believe it's off is that thing making a noise no no all right so I hope you guys soft again oh
my gosh what's going on with this thing will be all big ass things yourself so I had to
replace that but we need to figure something else out for dinner what do you want for me
um LP gas to work well that's gonna take like a day for me to fix is it off yes well I think
it LP gas will work long enough for me to use it down here with these things you but I don't
think so and then I'll cook the hamburgers in the convection oven okay how long is that going to
take probably 15 minutes all right I actually use all the battery power up but okay I'll put them
on here so we had this issue before where LP gas kept turning off and it just like corrected itself
and now we're having the same issue again you know it's on it automatically turns off
but that combined with the wind is just like a no-go for burgers so I'm hoping it works long
enough for me to cook the rest of our dinner and I'll do the burgers in the convection oven I'm not
gonna say anything because I don't want to jinx us but you were supposed to cook dinner while I
was working out and the grill went to crap so now I'm doing working out and cooking we have
an LP gas system out here it's not like a self like sensory for a leak type LP gas system you
can hear it's going bad see it's on right now but basically this LP gas solenoid right down
there the black piece uh yeah they're bad down there there's a button inside you just turn it on
and off it's just like damn for the propane soft propane from being connected it's automatically
flipping it's not like it's a there's a leak we're maintaining pressure and everything
that thing has been intermittently going bad and now it's going bad last time it messed up on me
intermittent I figured it's going to happen so I went ahead and bought
the replacement I'm going to wire this sucker in probably tomorrow as long as
this problem persists I'm gonna work on this and get it put in but not tonight
there's thunderstorms in the area I don't feel like messing with propane tonight no the green
beans are cooked yeah this is what it did that one time like it did this you can just turn it
off and on so if you were to get a flare up right here first set of the emergency
procedure is push the off button and it secures the the lp the propane yeah basically that thing
is just flipping off but it's happening out there so yeah I'm not gonna replace this unit
although I I do have that unit but I'm not going to replace it if I don't have to I'll just keep it
as another spare and we made it honey nice job buddy have you ever seen these this is a first
I don't know if I'm doing them right it's like a pike push-up it's really hard have you done
those in the Marine Corps I don't know I'm sure a little somewhere along the way oh my gosh
how are you gonna do 12. that's pretty good it's my third set oh nice I don't know if
I'm gonna make it yeah your shoulders are getting to work out it's nice looks good honey thank you
coming up on the lazy geckos
a different size bracket on here oh dead low tide I feel like it's worse
just a little check valve I'm the um boat Chef did you know that no
propane system working thank you I've never heard when you can get in
get in all right you gotta go first one
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