in this episode we shove off for a big passage we have some issues
like a sliding and then a thud and we get into a little husband wife bickering match
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we heard a weird sound as we started pulling away after weighing anchor
it was almost like a like a sliding and then a thud so we re-anchored and now we're checking the
under the boat we'll probably end up in the water
a little unsettling we're about to take our passage to right yeah uh go ahead and go
over there just put it in the idle drive for about three seconds to put it in neutral okay
done
well i don't see anything so we'll go again and we'll see if we hear anything else okay
i will go way anchor one more time we checked everything and it looked good so we're gonna
pull the anchor again and head on out of here on the boat when we're anchoring and on anchoring
i'm usually on the bow and jeremiah's at the helm although we both know how to work
each other's position this is where i'm primarily at during this process so anchoring or unanchoring
twice in one day is a big job for me because the bridal can be a little tough at times
she's a mack daddy bridal so i have to struggle and fight her sometimes that's all right i do
enjoy knowing that when we drop the anchor and we're set and we're good that she'll hold us in
place so i don't mind the little struggle that she gives me or the little nicks on my hands and
also it's a good workout and if you know me i love to work out so it just adds to it building muscle
over here and uh communicating with my husband you can always work on those communication skills
it was just like a dolphin or a turtle i don't know everything seems we're working okay it was
like a slide and a thud i thought you know maybe like a crop shaft or something but everything
looks good might have been it might have been uh or maybe i i put a couple diesel cans on this
side maybe one just slid and maybe settled but um it sounded like it would come over there but
i don't know but seems okay so we're gonna go with it we're heading past knicker island right now
and then it's just open ocean after that we'll drop off get deep
and we're gonna turn probably to about 50 degrees so that the wind is at 60 degrees we'll see
but we're gonna do it hopefully a nice sail about eight hours north and then we're gonna attack
around sunset and we're gonna uh sail south east so should be good should be a nice long passage
you ready for it i am i already pre-made
banana bread for breakfast sandwiches for lunch and then in the crock pot i
already have it set up to not skid with my gecko strips that you got me for christmas
and i'm gonna put that in the crock pot tonight and then we'll put it over some mashed potatoes
nice it's falling yeah i've already buttered the bread and everything reese is working on some
play-doh he's just taking a little break sitting out there my little man and here is our setup
strawberries and banana bread for breakfast the sandwiches for lunch are in the fridge staying
cold crock pot for the beef stew tonight i already buttered the bread i have my bowls out my spoons
salt and pepper fully prepared yeah you ready yeah we got movies playing to keep grease busy
and then we're about to raise the mainsail yeah i'm going to just a little bit of space here and
then we'll turn into the wind we're already at like 25 degrees and then uh we'll raise it up and
do our under the raft we get to this it's called the invisibles and then uh that way we can just
tack north and go so we're not letting the sail beat as we're going into yeah bella you ready
for this i can tell you've ripped your bow halfway out there's bella's bed she stays out here with us
necker island we've seen you many times you are quite beautiful
it's richard branson's place pretty awesome i
like the three palm trees that he put out here on the beach
yeah they're nice are real
it was time to raise the sails let's see how this goes
i think you're good
it keeps going back and forth all over the place
i know
what are you doing i took it off autopilot why great it was like all you got to do is
dustbins babe you just turn this out of the way what are we at right now
20. you need to turn probably to four i can't really tell yep you're right support i am
turning like 30. you're coming around
it keeps going back and forth almost to
hit those 20. questions three times i already did so can i wait
you're at 20 going to 25
you're almost at 30. well let's make it a 40.
35 35 yeah 40. all right
we're at 40 i'm gonna hit support twice
you're at 50. you're bouncing in between 45 and 50. all right you're right around 55.
we got up to 6'4 all right yeah we're gonna we're gonna put the other sail out let me go this stuff
um
okay
all right wait a minute
all right okay they're both at idle
forward at the same time yeah okay we're in neutral
not very much speed
sure
all right well this is our track northeast all right so we'll probably go northeast until sunset
this is a little bit more of a comfortable ride yeah let's see on this place out here
i want an 18-5-9 so
you know we're not going to get that with just the salesman yeah
we made our turn south towards sava rock or sava island uh we have one engine going the poor
engine we're averaging between six six and a half knots we have a notch but not current our wind is
16 knots 16 to 17 true and we're sailing at about 70 degrees so all going well we have the
full main out and we have the gym great at the first reaping point we're heading out and down
there it's about nine hours till we get there though we're gonna shut the other engine down
as soon as the sun goes down behind me and uh just sail slowly so we can go by in the morning
and make our assessment if we want to stop or continue
until the sun goes down the sun goes down he's not out here we had some squalls form on top of
us during the night and the seas got rough but soon the morning came and we could see
saba island in the distance saint kitts was just south of that and we were excited to get to anchor
through the fields of ours keeping us close but it's strange now dreams holding us closer
coming up on the lazy geckos it's probably more of one of our
more intense sales you wait anchor right out of st kids
nice
you're looking for hot lava rocks yeah black rocks from the volcano
what'd you think of those monkeys there he is he's looking at me
so what do we decide dress your skirt what kind of fish awesome sail oh yeah
one of eight monkeys oh you know what it wants to get there oh
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