While sailing to Galapagos from Mexico aboard the Maiatla, the crew faces squalls, a target seeking booby bird, seasickness and the biggest equipment failure...

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join the crew of the math lab as we

visit the Galapagos Islands these unique

isolated Islands have given birth to

amazing creatures birds and plants that

you will find nowhere else on the planet

and inspired a young Charles Darwin who

created a theory of evolution and we

would never see the world the same again

sailing offshore found us getting all

kinds of weather one minute we had lots

of wind the next minute we had none some

of the times we were motoring some of

the times we were reefing

how many miles before we get to see the

other landing squall hit us early in the

morning that was blowing like stink the

guys scrambled to adjust the sails and

throw in some reefs thankfully the worst

of it missed us

did you have to put under the eyes

diplomas on the naked Canadian was

closed it was terrible

I thought your hoodie come out this

morning you were ready

it's amazing how quickly we got used to

the heat

I found it cold enough that I had a

steal my upper vine and the V birth was

equivalent of

we continued battling seasickness and

Nick was really starting to suffer he

spent most of his time in the cockpit

with a bucket close by we were expecting

the worst for me IFS long as I'm on the

outside looking at that horizon eating

soda crackers I'm okay

throw in some lemon ginger tea and I'm

happy as a clam Nick strategy was to

stay in that cockpit keep that bucket

close at all times

but he still did his watches and still

managed to try to get the fishing in as

evening fell we had a surprise visit

from a booby bird who had a particularly

fondness for we were gonna need that

blood and all that we could get because

the gremlin had struck on the boat again

during the night the navigation computer

screen had been cracked we managed to

hook it up to a TV monitor and make it

work but that was just the beginning of

it

we were about to face something that was

far worse hey guys it's day 6 we're out

here in the middle of the ocean and we

had a little issue last night and we

have now become an officially a sail

only folks you want to speak about that

guys in midnight bells

as long as I watch marina I know that

all the boats we got all the action

yeah they stick in you they stick to

newbies on it because they know we're

gonna right blame it on us the engine

room last night oh I guess one fuel

filter and bunch of water that came

through during all that rough weather

and it basically destroyed our fuel

ejector pump so we're gonna bust now so

what's the strategy what what Ceylan oh

we're sailing we're sailing fishing we

got a line oh yeah everything else works

we just just got no pushing I mean you

got his email out to the girls so they

know that we're gonna be a little late

cuz we were so far ahead of schedule

I was already picking out the tours that

I was gonna take somebody jinxed us

again again the blame is on me as it

turns out we're only 260 odd miles away

from the Galapagos Islands and we're

sailing out about five and a half six

knots going in the right direction we'll

get there eventually

right on under sail power alone in our

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