On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we head out of Neah Bay into the Pacific Ocean. We head south towards Grays Harbor on our custom 435 catamaran SV...

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so last night was torrential rain and

wind and our new jib track that we

installed doesn't have any leaks so that

is a huge bonus we're still here in Neah

Bay and we're gonna looks like we're

gonna be here for a few more days

because we have been battling these

major storm systems and most most times

these storm systems are okay because you

know you deal with one and then you wait

for the Seas to calm down and then you

go out but right now they're pointing it

as the big dark it's six different

weather systems that are hitting us back

to back and it's actually coming clear

from China all the way over here so

we're just hoping that we get enough of

a window that we can start heading south

in the meantime we're gonna tackle

something else that's really important

and that is our AIS we love our

chartplotter then it's time to overlay a

is over it once we go out into these

waters that have a lot of boat activity

and we did a lot of research and I like

the like the ease and the simplicity of

the Vesper so that's what we're going

with you're just getting into this AIS

install it's gonna be a lot of work but

it looks pretty straightforward the unit

itself has just five plugs in it I put a

dedicated VHF antenna on it

here's my data and power cable I put in

the NEMA connection we have a designated

GPS antenna and then this is an optional

port to hook to a computer I won't be

using that we also are going to install

this it's an alarm and override switch

and just figuring out where all this is

gonna fit out of the way in a nice dry

area

to make all these connections

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well this is different the Sun is out

and the winds not blowing it's been just

crazy weather over the past seven eight

days here and it's starting to calm down

looks like our weather window to leave

Neah Bay will be tomorrow morning the

Seas are starting to calm down a bit

they were at their peak 25-foot seas and

you know that is no fun for any of us to

be in so we camped out here for a couple

days and it looks like the Seas have

calmed down a bit so we're gonna head

out tomorrow morning meanwhile we're

trying to get everything ready the girls

are up here picking all the rogue butyl

tape off the jib track just then just

rain it so hard we haven't had a chance

to do it yet I'll be fueling up today

we're doing everything we can to prepare

for tomorrow morning and it looks like

that's gonna be our best window over the

next week so we'll hopefully make it a

ways down the coast

maybe the west part we'll see we'll get

out there and see the sea State and if

it's good we'll run with it you guys

ready to get out of here girls yeah I

know it's been brutal we've been cooped

up inside just waiting for this weather

events to pass us and we're at the tail

end so we're getting excited

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so it looks like we're heading out again

everything is stowed we've been really

busy this morning just making sure that

all the levels and fluids and

everything's been talked off getting

close short powers off waters off

engines are ready sails rigged and it's

a beautiful day let's go I'm excited and

this is a big day because this is Emma's

first trip out in the ocean so we just

want to be prepared and make sure that

everything is good because we're

shooting straight down to Grays Harbor

it's about a hundred and two miles away

depending on how far we swing around the

Cape here so we should get there

tomorrow morning about I don't know ten

ten o'clock in the morning it to noon

that's a good time to cross the bar

we'll have a little slack and flood tide

at that time so that's we're shooting

for

say goodbye to the eBay the so exciting

you know what the one thing I always

remember about this stop the rain and

the people yeah the people were amazing

yeah they were everyone went out of

their way to just to be friendly and

lend a hand if you needed it or share

their bounty I don't know it was this

nice

okay here we are

that's Cape Flattery and to to SH Island

over here

we're just gonna stay off about three

miles off this point make a nice

sweeping turn and head south should be a

little more comfortable ride we're kind

of taking this well right on our nose

right now these have calmed down quite a

bit there's still seven to ten foot seas

out here and they should calm down

overnight to five to seven not too bad

though

been fighting the current for the last

hour once we make the corner we should

have that California Current that'll

help push us down the coast it's not

much it's a third of a knot maybe but at

least we're not fighting it what's going

with us well it's a bit unnerving we

just lost our wind

and so we're motoring along these are

nice and calm but all of this flooding

and rain that we had last week we're

seeing a ton of debris out here and the

sun's going down

I mean these trees massive trees we had

between five and six inches of rain in

one day last week we're seeing quite a

bit of this I hope we dodged these

tonight they're tough to see in the dark

we'll see

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oh I don't think I'm gonna sleep much

tonight

we're gonna have to have one at the helm

and one on watch until we get out of

this belt of debris there it is crazy

pig and they're everywhere

you

you

okay we've got a log up under not taking

on any water

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everything looks good here hey I'm gonna

try to back off this thing real slow

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you won't mean it back oh no no huh I

think I might be able to push it off

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I think you're in Reverse I'm not I

think you're spinning they're going

backwards so fast

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you go

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this is a big it's a big one honey okay

hit reverse again

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okay

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log it off it was fun reverse I gotta go

check inside

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love push coast guard luck push Coast

Guard this is sailing vessel basic copy

to to alpha over we are updating our

situation with you we collided with a

40-foot log off of the push like late

last night and we've been drifting for

nine and a half hours waiting for

daylight copy no immediate danger three

persons on board we wanted to wait for

daylight there's a lot of debris out

here but we are requesting to enter the

push is that possible over ëthat is

there any restrictions we are a forty

three and a half foot catamaran with a

25-foot beam over sailing vessel basic

station clear no restrictions at this

time we are currently on a par report

we'll let you know the updated bar

report and

to zero minutes how copy over copy we

are about two hours out I will stand by

on 16th thank you copy I'll stand by on

two to alpha over okay

turn around and look at what we've been

in Dodge there's one there and then

there's another one over there that one

even looks twice the size of this one

oh there's one more behind there - okay

let's reef in the sail that was

interesting last night yes it was winter

late variable

until current weather warning Coast

Guard stationed river has applied no

restrictions to our transit bunch of

crossing the bar vessel operators are

encouraged everyone where logical

content bar okay so here's the track for

last night we were coming along we hit

the deadhead here after that we drifted

while we were trying to get this log out

from underneath of us it took I see it

had little one right there okay hold on

let me get past this one it's this

little one here okay

so here's what we were getting the log

out we finally get it here and we had to

hope to for the night and look at this

path it just held us nice and steady all

night long and we just drifted about a

half a knot started up the engines and

here we are dodging logs already this

morning trying to get past all these

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it's amazing how many we see right now

just looking out how many do you see

right now

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but all around us it

just scattered and you can't really tell

the size because if we're lucky there's

like a little branch or something or the

ball of the tree that sticks out

otherwise it's just slightly submerged I

think overall though we did pretty good

I mean we didn't freak out we didn't we

didn't take on any water and and it

didn't freak Emma out I mean she knew

she knew what was going on

but she kept her cool to lens up there

watching for ones that I can't see a lot

of smaller ones out here

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it's not intimidating at all is it nope

not anymore

looks pretty straightforward though

gorgeous

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so we're now safe in Port but what a

night I gotta say that sound and the

impact with that deadhead it was

absolutely terrifying I will never

forget that crunching as it came under

the boat but the biggest thing was the

biggest surprise for us is how calm mo

was this is her first time out in the

Pacific Ocean and she kept her cool she

she was just hanging out

keeping compass calm and now I just

needed to keep compass calm cuz he was

kind of freaky you know I we were

staying calm for Emma but Emma really

stayed calm for compass and it really

worked it really helped the situation

just because we were out there trying to

get this dead head off yeah I have to

say the biggest thing was I was on watch

and I did not even see that it was

mostly submerged and it came up fast and

I didn't even see it until I heard the

noise Lyn was at the helm and she did

everything perfect she put it in neutral

within a half a second of the first

crunch she was in neutral and that

slowed the boat enough that that log

didn't make it to the back of the boat

where the sail drives and the rudder are

so it could have been a mess but you

know what I think the add action alone

saved a lot of damage it took us a bit

to get that log out of there but once we

did we decided to kill the engine and

just hope to and drift lightly with a it

was just a light breeze at night and it

was the safest thing we could do for the

situation when morning came you saw it

we were just a sea of dead heads you

know in the middle of the night we were

trying to figure out what are our

options and we had two options there is

no Anchorage I mean really nothing safe

nothing nothing so we either pull back

and go to the push which was about 10 to

15 miles behind us or we go down to

Westport which is about another 55 miles

ahead of us

that would have been a big run Noah not

knowing what damage we had under the

boat so we we made a family decision to

go back to the push that way you know

it's it's not worth it for us to push

our boat and us to that extreme because

this is our family you know this is this

is just the beginning of our journey

yeah we're not the race we want to have

a good experience especially for Emma

you know we it's safety is first and

foremost it's really important to us

that everybody has a good time a good

experience and today as safe as we can

stay as safe as we can and that's why we

went back to Lucas next thing we needed

to do was survey any damages so I rigged

up a GoPro camera on a push stick and

flew the camera under the boat I was

able to go from the bow all the way back

to the sail drives and inspect it real

thorough I was pleasantly surprised to

just see cosmetic damage I was sure we

had a large impact dents in the hull

because that noise that have made was

unforgettable

but after inspecting everything I was

pretty happy next thing I had to do was

pull that dagger board I did see the

dagger board jump up when we were

backing off the log I was sure again

that we may have did a little damage on

the dagger board but after pulling it up

it looked real good again just light

scratches that bottom paint did real

well didn't come off all the way but I

feel pretty good and I built a lot of

confidence in myself and a lot of

confidence in the whole of this boat it

is took a big impact with minimal damage

looks like we have another gale hitting

us tomorrow so we are going to be here

for the next few days gotta love those

gales huh

boy the weather here has been volatile

it's all or none in the Pacific

Northwest right now but you don't have a

little bit of wind tomorrow they're

talking 35 + gusting into the 40s and

maybe more it's probably a good thing

it's gonna help break up that debris

belt that we were going through and

hopefully push some of those logs out of

this area or onto Shore so fingers

crossed

yeah but right after that that'll be

over in a couple days we're gonna start

looking for that next weather window and

a battle our way down this coast one way

or another

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