On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we leave Catalina Island to seek safe shelter in Alamitos Bay. The crew really enjoyed the area while riding out the gale. We finally resolve our outboard issue and meet some awesome local fishermen. Come back next week to see our next move...see you then!

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previously on onboard lifestyle we left

marina del rey to test our new precision

mainsail and route to catalina

welcome to catalina island we spend

nearly a week enjoying island life in

emerald bay and cherry cove

we had one day of wild weather

it's nice i like it

my dad gets frustrated with our moody

outboard i'm going to say that

outboard

would not start and we leave catalina

island to seek safe harbor because a

gale warning was issued for the area

how close do you plan on being next to

this guy

oh 200 yards

it's a little intimidating oh it's fine

i just can't believe these guys have to

anchor out here for weeks

i think sometimes these guys are out

here for a lot longer than that because

why aren't things going into port

well this guy's empty look at his water

line so he's waiting to fill up

our sale from cherry cove on catalina

island to alameda's bay was pleasant the

winds were light from the northwest but

we were determined to sail the 27 and a

half mile leg

we certainly were not setting any speed

records as we sailed northeast towards a

sea of anchored container ships

the sea state was flat and was calming

to drift along at four to six knots

it looked intimidating to see nearly a

hundred ais targets cluttering the chart

plotter screen and even more congestion

on the radar

these ships are so large and far apart

it was easy and quite interesting

actually to sail directly through this

anchored fleet

so

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we sailed to the entrance of alameda's

bay and powered the last five minutes of

our 6.2 hour day

we tied up to the navy dock in the

alamitos bay marina and put out a few

extra lines knowing that the weather

will be ramping up in the next two days

compass got a nice walk in and the crew

wound down because the next few days

we're gonna be busy

alameda's bay right here

we got a nice

little spot on the navy dock

nice place to ride out this little wind

event

but while we're here

obviously we're going to get a couple

projects done

it's calm right now

barometric pressure is just starting to

fall

we'll see how far it drops today

but there's a potential for some big

wins

everybody's buzzing about it but the

strongest winds are expected during the

afternoon this is really just sort of

the beginning of the peak of this event

from five to eight feet so it is

dangerous to get into the water trees

toppling power outages

we'll see what happens

big thing we've got to get done is this

outboard engine

you know i've been working on it trying

to get it to run trying different things

running cleaner through the carburetor

thing just spits and coughs and smokes

i think it's time to get a new one so we

made a phone call

got a tip while we're out on catalina

island somebody gave us a name called

them up they had one in stock

newer version

of this engine 9.9

tahatsu

it's being delivered

today

they're actually going to take our old

one repair it and put it on consignment

so

hopefully that'll be salvaged and go to

a new home we just

need to trust our outboard so a new one

is

it's going to be nice

should have it here in a couple hours

plenty other things to do though

mexico's calling click

trying to line up all our little

projects the major ones before we go

we've been knocking them off you know

one at a time and we'll obviously

continue doing our projects as we travel

down into mexico

but a few big things we need to do we've

been working on our autopilot here and

there

i want to

get a couple more things done on that

hopefully finish the install and

maybe uh start testing that see how it

works

that's the big one for this stop along

with the the new outboard and a bunch of

other little things but

it's nice and uh looks like a beautiful

day it's supposed to deteriorate as the

day goes on

it'd be kind of interesting we'll see

what happens

okay

wind's starting to pick up

barometric pressures starting to drop a

little more i can see over at harbor

patrol on their flagstaff they're flying

double red triangles now that's uh a

gale warning sustained 34 to 47 knots

we're in a nice protected harbor here a

little bit of fetch is going to hit us

on our beam for a while but it's going

to clock around to the northwest

and i'm sure it'll be real comfortable

for us here

throughout some extra lines some extra

fenders just to play it safe

we're riding pretty good

i don't expect much from this

got in here at least

well the winds

picked up a bit more

still not too bad here

in the bay

it's probably blowing 25 to 30s right

now

sustained and

still a couple hours away from the peak

we've lost about 13 millibars

of pressure and

starting to feel it out here

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wind keeps

keeps growing

well i

i think leaving catalina island was

a pretty smart move

i'm watching the weather out there

and it's

it looks brutal

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okay let's go do this our outboard is

here

i'm teal actually this is lynn oh hi

lynn nice to meet you so much for

bringing this for sure

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okay you keep holding the backhand i

will

we'll just click right here first

i'll slide it to center

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that's right i'm gonna miss it

goodbye

goodbye take care of her

you know all outboards go to heaven

that's right

neutral

reverse

i know

so i wear this there's no choke like on

a carburetor what

let's get this thing started

hope this thing starts

and better

pull second pull

nice

okay there's a little bit of a break in

here

you like it

i don't know yet i'll let you know it

look it's not gonna die

i don't well i like that first of all

look at this

we're mobile

finally

oh see increase decrease this way

there emma is missing out

he's with her cousins again today

okay

we have an outboard of course we only

get to idle it for the first 10 minutes

10 minutes 10 minutes idle

after that

from 10 minutes to 2 hours we get to go

about half throttle

from 2 hours to ten hours three quarters

throttle

it would be like 20 hours before we

could open this up so what you're saying

is is our new outboard to tease

so far this is it makes you work for it

we're wide open for a while this is it

oh man it's okay there's a

speed limit in here anyway

i don't think i've ever seen so many

electric boats but this is like the

perfect place for it if you were to have

one man these canals just go on for

miles it does

reminds me of venice so teo is going to

serenade me

what do i hear

what do i barely hear our new outboard

trying to break this thing in nice and

slowly

we're letting it idle for

an hour each day

i'll bring the

the throttle up

uh

a little bit as we go

but we want to make sure that we break

this in properly

god

look at that

no smoke no coughing

just

purring along

what do you got we got you some dinner

come on

well here we are

we got your fish order sir

okay

tell everyone your names my name's brad

and this is uh chris chris nice meeting

you guys okay now tell us what did you

catch today

well we got some uh

wow okay so what are these in here we

got some half moon perch and some opaly

perch wow that's your uh that's the one

that the treasure right there isn't yeah

yeah let's just see hold that up i just

want to look at that one right yeah

what is that one now that's that's a

sheephead we only got one we were trying

to fill your order okay got that order

phil

look at the mouth on that thing

yeah and i heard that you don't give up

your uh fishing spots huh yeah

teal said he's gonna keep it under lock

and key didn't you i know nothing

i know

can we have one of these

they're all yours not all of those well

we've got ours oh you do yes wow okay so

what's the best way to cook these

uh what's your favorite the uh the light

perch yep

you could pan fry them they're real

light you know flaky meat good texture

yeah no fish on either

and uh you know

she's an awesome cup your wife can just

take care of it for you here awesome i'd

always like to get the local recipes

well i just do garlic and lemon and

butter and regular well thank you so

much

you're so welcome

we're glad to be a

long service uh this is uh

long beach's finest fishermen out here

here we go don't tell anybody if they

feel you sh

i know nothing take care everybody

so this must be my lucky day because not

only did we get a bucket full of fish

from brad and chris they came back and

gave us this beautiful sheep's head this

is also known as a pargo i think but

look at this this is just gorgeous

and i looked it up and it says that they

taste similar to lobster i mean

that's just magic i'm sure it's going to

be dope music to my ears

so i'm going to uh clean this up i'm not

going to show you because that's a

little gory we'll just cut back to the

meal that you prepared the teal i have

to say the local fishermen are putting

me to shame i know hey they know the

tricks around here

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now that we have our new outboard we can

finally be mobile again alameda's bay

was a surprise stop that turned out to

be the perfect spot

come back next week to see another

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