We were so scared to not be allowed back into the USA because the borders with Canada were only opened via air. However a few flights later we finally landed in Jacksonville, Florida where my sister came to pick us up. That was a huge relief.
Shortly after we drove over to Green Cove Springs marina to go inspect our small sailboat which had been left alone for 4 months during hurricane season. It was still standing up but we also get a few not so nice surprises.

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[Music]

time to pack up our bags without

hopefully leaving anything behind

because on january 6 we are finally

going to fly out of the country

the land borders between canada and the

us were still closed

but we are allowed to fly into the us

well first off it was leaving

corey's parents place and crossing from

quebec to ontario which

technically we're not allowed to travel

in the car with someone else from a

different address so i was a little

worried that they'd pull us over find us

or something

but the streets were really quiet

and no cops no traffic

nobody

wow the airport is closed

okay

anywhere here should be fine

oh i love you

you be careful

be safe we arrived at ottawa airport and

everything went really smooth actually i

even thought that the airport was closed

because there was like nobody makes it

easier to

tax people and get help it's so crazy

we're in ottawa airport and we're flying

back to our boat so hopefully by the end

of the day we're gonna be reunited

so far so good i don't wanna jinx myself

but we have all three boarding passes we

don't only have one so hopefully we're

not gonna get stranded in washington

like last time but we've got a clear

custom in toronto so we'll see how that

goes so the day before i checked in

online with air canada

and i only received one boarding pass so

one out of three flights so i was really

stressed that we'd get stranded but the

lady over there helped us out oh that

was such a relief i was really excited

to have all three of those and got on

the first flight everything went smooth

in canada when it's really cold like

this january

the planes get de-iced like this

[Music]

landed in toronto and we only had an

hour to go through

another inspection and

life number customs

[Music]

the inspection went good i mean worried

about weed because we're canadian but

everything went good

and going through custom that was that

was stressful

we got someone that just kept asking us

a bunch of questions and i guess it's a

little weird with our salvo story and

all that so kept asking even more and

more and more questions

and i'm thinking to myself we only have

an hour to go through all of this bought

our flight before they just abandoned us

in toronto so please hurry up get stuff

done

but finally he did let us go so that was

really good and after that to be honest

it was just a lot of stress that was

just lifted off my shoulders because

well i knew we were allowed in the u.s

and we had all boarding passes so i was

hoping nothing would go wrong which it

didn't it was really good and then we

landed in washington

and there was some crazy stuff happening

at the

white house so everyone was worried

about us but we were eating pizza and

not really knowing what was going on

there

i got i think the best pizza you make it

yourself

with like tons of unlimited toppings i'm

really excited because that's the first

meal of the day and it's almost five

o'clock

oh i'm so excited it's like final

stretch to jacksonville

third flight and 7 30 we should be there

for the last flight

[Music]

[Music]

and then my sister picked us up

[Music]

oh my gosh i was so nervous when i was

looking

and we went out for beers and burgers

first meal in the us that was exciting

first restaurant in forever because all

the restaurants are closed in canada

it feels kind of surreal being back in

florida after quite a few months spent

in canada

but

being here is such a relief like

yesterday was just

our travel day was just really stressful

there was a lot of different layers of

things that we had to get across in

order to be here and to be honest i

wasn't too sure if we'd actually even

make it in so now we're here in

jacksonville at my sister and sean

and we're gonna enjoy the weekend with

them and then on

tuesday

our boat is gonna get moved to the work

zone so we're gonna be able to

do some work do some cleaning

and

get on the water hopefully shortly after

and then sail over to the bahamas but

there's quite a bit of work to be done

prior to

and eating of oranges

well we're heading to the boat for the

first time

since we left it in um geez

months ago now so it'll be interesting

we're gonna see how it's held up make

sure

there's no uh hurricane damage or

anything like that

and get ready because tomorrow we're

pulling the boat or moving the boat to

the work zone so we can actually work on

it so today

we're just going to clean up and get

everything ready maybe

remove all the solar panels and stuff

and anything that will be in our way

it's right over there we're about to

get to green cove springs which is where

we left our sailboat for four months

during hurricane season

thankfully there wasn't any

serious

hurricanes that came in this area so we

shouldn't see too much damage hopefully

but um

i don't know what's wrong with me i'm

not excited right now you know i feel

like i should be excited

i

i have been like

nauseous for the last few days and i

just don't understand like

alex thinks it's stress but i don't feel

like i have stress but obviously there's

something wrong with me and i'm pretty

sure it's a mental thing

but yeah i just i'm not i'm not excited

even though i should be and i think it's

mostly because i'm

i've got some sort of

inner stress that i'm not

realizing where it's coming from or why

i'm stressed because i mean i shouldn't

be stressed we made it to the states

that was the big thing where what i was

stressed about initially like crossing

the border and everything or getting

turned around at the border that's what

was stressful there's nothing left to be

stressed about you know but my body is

still in like stress mode but anyway i'm

sure things will get better as we start

working on the boat and i start to

realize that we actually made it here

[Music]

i see your baby

there she is

[Music]

it's such a relief seeing it standing

straight up and nothing broken

i got the key

she got rusty while we were gone

ah i got a little bit of a mold

kind of a lot actually

well we definitely got some work to do

first we're well we used these things

while we were gone we had one of the the

large large buckets in there for a good

couple months and then alex's sister

brought this the second one

in and uh i guess it must have helped

but it's certainly well i mean you just

look at the outside of the boat and the

gel coat is molding

nasty nasty nasty

comes off well

i kind of expected that the inside was

going to be pretty bad but i honestly i

didn't think it was going to be this bad

they always say you should have aeration

in your boat and stuff but it's kind of

hard to leave your boat for four months

during hurricane season

while leaving it you know open to the

air so

we basically closed it off we didn't

install any fans or anything which is

what i was going to do initially i was

like okay whatever we'll just clean it

up when we get here but now we have a

lot a lot of cleaning to do i don't

think a lot of it's black mold which is

nice but there's definitely some

moldiness so right now we're gonna take

all the cushions basically any fabric

out which we talked about uh before we

left we were actually

talking about doing it and we never did

but now we're gonna have to we're gonna

have to remove all the fabric and

basically wash everything because it's

just gonna have this mildewy smell so

that's the first thing i think and um

since i got a bit of a weak stomach i

think i'm gonna install some of the

solar so we can get some power in the

boat and

start getting things together

here's another cushion

and on a really good note it looks like

nobody actually stole anything out of

the boat unless they did some selection

picking because we were little worried

with green cove spring marina because we

heard a lot of theft was happening a

couple years back

but the staff had told us everything had

been kind of dealt with

and it seems like it's all good the

boat's there with

i think everything in

okay this guy

has to go out

we'll try to attach it so that we've got

some space

[Applause]

maybe it's last season

i'm trying to

see if we have power

but

i don't think we do

i remember last time like on our last

day our little

volt meter here stopped working so i

have to figure out why that stopped

working but we were still getting power

but now i don't think we're getting

power

all right

since i was dumb and didn't bring my

tester with me my volt meter i am just

hooking up the solar panel to see if i

can trickle charge the battery at all

and see if i can uh pick up anything

just basically to find out what the

voltage is at i think the battery has

died completely while we're gone i don't

understand how because our selector

switch was set to off

and we didn't have anything that could

have been drawing power but anyway

fun times

as you can see our battery is completely

dead

well we knew there was going to be some

issues when we got here i thought it was

mostly going to be mold but looks like

our batteries are finished they were

down to like 4 volts

and we're trickle charging them now with

a solar panel outside

at around uh

four amps or so

and we'll see if we can get it back up

it's already at eight volts so it's it's

coming up but i really have my doubts

that it's going to hold voltage it's

just really a shame because we decided

we're going to just like make these

batteries last just one more season and

then we're looking because we're looking

to lithium as a alternative

we want to do a diy

lithium project

and add more to our bank but we were

like oh we could squeeze a little more

out of our batteries and we come and

they're pretty much finished so

obviously um if you know anything about

batteries uh lead acid or agm they

really don't like being discharged down

to nothing

and

more often than not if you do that

you're probably gonna destroy your

batteries

so i really don't have much faith that

these are these batteries are gonna be

any good anymore but we're gonna see

we're gonna try to revive them and see

if we can get maybe another season uh

season out of them

so i don't know if it's this thing that

slowly trickled down the charger it's

saying it's using 11 amps but there's

nothing connected to our inverter right

now

so either this thing is messed up

or our inverter is messed up but i have

a feeling it's just this thing is

reading wrong maybe needs to be reset or

something

but yeah i mean it doesn't make any

sense for us to be using anywhere from

10 to 15 amps and there's nothing

connected

nasty

yeah

this is disgusting

need some serious cleaning before we

actually can sleep in the hair

at least one nice thing is it's all

just surface more mold that seems to be

coming off pretty easy with no scrubbing

you just kind of wipe it away with a bit

of

that green work stuff

and it's good as new so at least this

part won't take so long

i'm a lot more worried about the

batteries than i am about the mold now

so

quick little team and

jaycon

and we're gonna head back to

jacksonville

so we're getting some new batteries

well today is the day we get moved into

the work zone we

got all our batteries ordered yesterday

i'm pretty actually stoked on what we

got out of the deal so hopefully we'll

be happy with them they're cheap cells

they're the cheapest cells i think you

can find online for like grade a cells

they're eve cells

there's some issues with those cells as

far as like the threads being like

fairly easy to strip so you got to be

careful when you're tightening down the

lugs and stuff

but

really cheap 280 amp hours and we

have

with a bms and a couple other things and

it's gonna cost us less than a thousand

so

significant amount more amp hours than

say battle board or some of the other

competitors

uh and all we got to do is slap the bms

on it ourselves so it should be good and

today we're getting worked and moved

into the work zone so we're gonna try to

get as much done as possible inside the

boat uh until they move us sometime this

morning well this is a little bit funny

yes they were trying to figure out what

time would be moved and like i'll be

late morning and who knows maybe we're

not even gonna move you today because

we're super busy so like okay so we'll

try to show up for late morning which

we're still like just mid morning

and

there she is

mid morning we're here like an hour

after they opened so i don't see how

they were even able to get this here but

whatever it's here

it's kind of annoying because we wanted

to ask they might not have been able to

do it but we can talk to them to be

honest we can talk to them about maybe

moving um that brace back and putting

they already have so many braces here i

think that would support the weight but

we're just gonna have to talk to them

about what we can potentially do here

well we hooked up the charger our shore

power charger now that we're here to our

batteries

and i'm pretty sure our batteries are

completely gone because you hook it up

and it pumps 16 amps in it it goes from

unreadable voltage almost you know like

5 volts

to uh 14 pretty much instantly

and um i mean that's essentially telling

me that there's there's no

it's not going to hold that power so i'm

going to try to pump in at some power

it's putting in 16 amps right now and

see if it holds it but i really have my

doubts but it's okay because we got

those other batteries coming

well i thought our batteries might have

died because it looked like our little

um

it's called the hall effect sensor

basically measures current and tells you

how much power you're using

i thought maybe that was turning on and

we're losing power through that because

it seems like when it gets lower in

voltage it turns on but it's only a

little light so it would have been very

difficult for something like so small a

little led to draw down our battery or

our 140 amp hours so much

but i realized looking at this when i

tried to turn on our radio over there

when we had it hooked up

we didn't seal up uh our boat very well

where our uh our vhf radio was and i

think some water well obviously some

water got in and it seems like it got in

underneath this heatsink

and actually when i took it apart i saw

that where the power was connected here

there's a short circuit somewhere

there's some fried circuitry right

around there and unfortunately this

little 10 amp

fuse didn't didn't break normally that's

what would happen you know if you reach

10 amps that that would break and then

you know it would stop the current from

flowing so my guess is that the current

was flowing

in between this kind of shorting across

the water that got inside here and not

drawing 10 enough amps to blow the fuse

so i was slow we were slowly losing our

battery power through the short circuit

which was inside of this and now this

thing is pretty much trash because i'm

not going to try to repair all the

circuit board on here

for 50 bucks it's not worth my time

are you taking the picture over there

we are

in the front in the driver's seat so sue

and larry are taking us over

hey tucker paul

look at this epic meal

don't even have to go to the bahamas and

we have such wonderful seafood

thank you guys very much cheers

non-fattening too

new friends

and good times cheers