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welcome back to onboard lifestyle

well we spent a couple days here in

charleston oregon

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view has been spectacular the weather's

been perfect

life's not so bad for us right now we

had amazing seafood while we're here

but it's time to go weather's looking

good

for us to head out tomorrow and it's

about

100 nautical miles to brookings oregon

that's where we'll be next but we're

going to try to break it into two

segments 50 miles to port orford

and then 50 miles from port orford to

brookings

port orford is a roadstead anchorage but

it gives you uh

nice protection if the winds are out of

the north or northwest

looks like we should have favorable

conditions to uh

attempt that so i think that's our plan

should be a lot of fun we haven't been

there before

sun's just setting here in charleston

and

conditions are just calm and perfect for

us

so we'll get up first thing tomorrow

morning and head out

okay bright and early still a little bit

of fog out here

but about a ten hour eight to ten hour

run

winds stowing the fenders

emma's chilling down below still

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looks pretty calm so far

seas are flat so we should have a good

little run

just hope for some wind

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okay we're heading across the bar

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it's a little bit lumpy but everything

should

flatten out when we start heading south

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so once we got across the bar

things just started to lay down it's

nice out here

sun's out seas are flat a little bit of

wind enough

we could fly some sails and start

drifting down the coast it's not a big

day today

50 miles so we're not in a big hurry

winds are supposed to pick up a little

bit more this afternoon

and we'll pick up our pace we're still

doing

five knots can't complain about that

just enjoy the weather and this sea

state

you know we're gonna be heading around

cape blanco here

in about 20 miles actually you can see

it way off in the distance that's

notorious

uh foul weather area between cape blanco

cape mendocino

a lot of people get beat up in this area

of the pacific northwest

in fact we had a boat uh tesoro

that was uh behind us back in uh

charleston this you know they came in

last week

they said they were seeing 40 and 50

knot winds through there

and frankly they said it was a pretty uh

scary

we picked a little bit better day it

looks like

so let's keep drifting down the coast

we usually like to leave pretty early in

the morning so

when that happens emma does not come out

with us

at the beginning of the passage because

well she really hasn't

found her singing legs just yet it takes

about

a good couple hours before she's good

and you know it works for us because

she's inside

with compass and it allows us to be able

to concentrate

on uh plotting out our route and she

does

start showing up this is like the

perfect spot i have all my devices

my book and i can see the perfect view

out the window

it's pretty comfy life's not too hard on

this kid

ideal condition still

cape blanco it's a bunch of uh

exposed rock that juts out probably

about two three miles off the point here

we're gonna swing wide around that into

port orford

you know i've been through here a dozen

times by sailboat

this is by far the nicest

this stretch of the pacific northwest

can kick your ass

not today i probably shouldn't say that

so loud

things could turn quick here but

just beautiful beautiful conditions

well this is how fast the weather turns

coming around these caves

you know we were in just this nice

little breeze

you know probably five to ten nods just

drifting along

and it picked up the white caps and

streaks on the water in about 10 minutes

as we're coming around the cape here

it's blowing 15 to 20. we just have the

jib flying now

and we're clipping along at the six and

a half knots

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we'll be rounding there's two big banks

of rocks to go around here

there's the right off here is the

cape blanco reef and the port orford

reef

there's one big rock way out here

that will round it's fox rock

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after we get around that we'll be

looking for anchorage for the night

but i can't complain this is beautiful

out here seas are still flat we got lots

of wind

and tons of speed just on a jib only

well we've made our turn around the

orford reef

and we're uh

heading into an anchorage for tonight

emma's at the helm and we're still

scooting along pretty good here

we are approaching port orford we're

about

two and a half nautical miles out and

the wind is picking up

believe it or not we're actually going

upwind right now almost right

we're going more upwind than downwind

and we're still

doing about 6.2 knots

just with the jib this is awesome

it's kind of cold

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it's been a pleasant sale and i can't

wait to drop anchor

okay here we are tucked into port orford

nick of time he's blowing 25 now

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got a good nice bite with the anchor

we're in 25 feet of water i put out 150

feet of chain

we've got an anchor watch system going

we haven't buzzed

in the last 20 minutes i feel pretty

good because

even if we do start to move we've got

four miles before land so we'll have

plenty of

time to react but i feel good

got a good bite hopefully this wind will

die down a little bit later today

and then tomorrow will be just a

straight run south

okay it's 5 30 in the morning we're just

getting ready to

pull the anchor it's a real interesting

fishing village all the fishing boats

are on this wharf over here and they

have to launch them by crane every

morning

the end of the night when they get back

they have to pick them back up

there's a whole fleet up there looks

like about i don't know 15

boats or so anyway we slept well the

wind died off to about

10 to 15 overnight it's time to head

south

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anchors up let's keep going

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well we had a nice start to the day sea

state is flat again

that's gonna be short-lived though

today's the last calm day out here

supposed to be blowing 30 to 55

for the next five days so we're taking

this opportunity to

make as much ground up as we can and get

into brookings

we left early this morning and it's just

been flat and nice out here

unfortunately not much wind we're

supposed to be blowing 12 to 15 out here

but we're not seeing it so it's a motor

sail today

just we have to get tucked in before

that gale heads

beautiful beautiful landscape as we come

down the oregon coast just

amazing rock formations i mean it's so

nice out here

the girls are up forward and compass

we're just whale watches there's so much

sea life right now i know i think we've

seen like three parts

not a bad place to hang out our sales

just for just for show today

maybe we'll see a little win for the

second half of the trip i'm sure we will

but then it will be quite a bit of wind

but we just got to keep making way and

get into brookings before the

the big winds pick up

so

okay we're getting close we're about 10

miles out of the chetco river

it's a downwind run right now winds

picked up a little bit

we're doing about six knots

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that's what six and a half knots look

like

with nothing else but our little jib

just left it out here mainsail's down

we're just clipping along at a good pace

this is chetco point our first

buoy is dead ahead about a mile ahead of

us we'll round that

and enter the chetco river into

brookings

should be in there within i think half

hour 40 minutes

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okay here we are made it into

the chetco river

this is brookings oregon it's pretty

blustery out there

when we entered but the second you make

it in

to the river system it just calms right

down

amazing protection in here this will be

our home for the next couple days looks

like there's some

pretty beefy weather just south of us so

we'll be watching that closely

and we'll make a decision in the next

few days on

our next stop next stop is not too far

away it's just uh

probably 20 miles south of here crescent

city but while we're here

and we're watching for weather we might

as well explore and have some fun

well this our home for tonight we'll get

some rest we had a good

couple of days it's time to relax

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okay so something really unexpected

happened to us last night

while we were anchored in port orfer we

were just kind of relaxing at that point

so obviously cameras were not rolling

but we have to share this with you so

what we've decided to do

is do a reenactment

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crash crash

what was that crash i don't know

what was that crash go

check i will

emma emma was that crash you

no i thought it was you

maybe it was in your old stateroom

nothing here i'm confused

it must be outside you're right it must

be outside

i will check

what

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a drone

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you guys you guys look

a drone a drone

a drone

okay all kidding aside this was kind of

fun

and unexpected for us because never we

would have imagined

that a drone would come out and visit us

when we're the only one in the anchorage

and we're about half a mile from

from shore and the wind was blowing

pretty brisk at the time this blowing 20

plus maybe 25 so i was shocked that this

tiny little drone made it that far out

there the little ones

normally do anyway

when it hit the deck it blew apart the

battery popped out so i grabbed the

pieces came back inside

and i figured you know we could

find the owner online somehow i looked

on shore didn't see anybody

but there's an faa number on here i

thought it'd be easy to look it up

on the faa website and do a reverse

search but they don't allow me to do a

reverse search

i try to other couple avenues couldn't

find the owner to this drone

so if you are the owner of this drone

shoot us an email we do know what you

look like because we

were able to recover some of the footage

on the sd card

yes um so we got a couple glimpses so

don't be

emailing us saying it's you and it's not

so that's right

we have no problems returning either

tell us your faa number or send us a

picture of yourself

and you know we were able to re-render

the some of the lost footage on this

and got a good picture of us at anchor

we'll uh

show you that right now but please

contact us so we get this mail back to

you

we will soon be doing our own drone shop

now that we're out of

a lot of military areas so looking

forward to that as well

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