On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, the crew of SV basik decide to continue pushing further South while waiting for the Captain's lab results. In the meantime, we finish up our autopilot and take in the last stops of California before venturing into Baja Mexico. Come back next week to see if we make it...See you then!

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on last week's episode of onboard

lifestyle we spent some time in avalon

on catalina island enjoying the

picturesque scenery emma finally gets

her kid fix and spent some time with

other cruising families

our plan to sail directly to ensenada is

abruptly changed

as i have a bit of a health issue

teal finally confessed he wasn't honest

or he hasn't been honest with us

he has not been feeling great we

redirect to dana point

so i could see a doctor and get some

blood work done

it's business as usual on basic so we

knock out a few projects you look teeny

run some errands and meet up with

friends before heading to the next port

south as we wait for my lab results

all i know

i got lost along the way

fell between the four

pulling stitches

time to

we've been seeing a lot of this since

we've been coming down the coast but at

least now we get to really see it with

blue skies it's like a mega of dolphins

and they're chasing something look at

that

they're coming at us oh man

it's gotta be fish

don't look before you leave

what you give you get to keep

so

[Music]

okay on the approach to oceanside here

there's the big long jetty right there

we actually enter

the harbor uh from the south

we hook it around

gives it nice protection from this

northwest swell

doesn't feel too bad out here today but

it's amazing when you look at shore you

can see the waves breaking up over the

jetty right now

the period is so long it's like 12

seconds apart so

it's kind of irrelevant out here we

don't even feel it

but look at those suckers

they're really

breaking apart

[Music]

i think it's time for me to go

[Music]

time to let go

a big reason i wanted to pop into

oceanside is because we're getting so

close to finishing our autopilot i just

needed one more day

so that's what we did all morning

that pesky little rudder sensor

it's been a nemesis of mine for a while

but i finally got it all figured out the

hardest part was calculating where to

put it and making uh the right risers

and spacers to elevate it to the

position it needed to be to get a

accurate signal back to the autopilot

actually let's go check it out and show

what i was working on

well here it is here's the riser i had

to build

to elevate it up to get a good nice

clean connection here this is adjustable

so i could center this exactly on the

mark

and i've done that

the wire goes up

through a watertight fitting that i put

in the deck

right

here and through another water type

fitting that go through the bulkhead

it's all connected and ready to go now

it's just a little bit of programming

and i think

lynn's going to be tickled to death and

we're going to have an autopilot

this is great news you guys because the

rudder indicator is in which means now

we're going to do the dockside

calibration but this is just um it pales

in comparison because i just got

teal's test results for his blood work

and appears like he is good and is

normal i think that or actually

we know what the culprit was it was um

he we had switched his medication a

couple months back and this guy never uh

let anybody know that that was making

him feel terrible well yes the side

effects i won't go into the details but

my body was rejecting itself

it was no fun but but this is a huge

relief for us i feel so much better so

getting back on the right medication

just

all the symptoms are starting to just

fade away and feel healthy and happy and

we are now

almost two weeks um

switching back to his old medication and

i think that it's

it's working it is working psychosomatic

i'm sure because it takes a little time

but i don't care because the fact that

he is feeling good just makes our entire

crew hey i know i feel good i look good

you do you do

okay i need some help on this so

let's calibrate now that we are on a

roll i think it's time for a celebratory

meal

sounds good for the crew what are we

having

you'll see

[Music]

okay eat up family wow

this is a fish tacos thanks to brad and

chris and elementos bay hey brad and

chris

my name's brad and this is uh chris

chris nice meeting you guys to find

fishermen

jalapeno

[Music]

well we're leaving oceanside

we were here for two nights

got the autopilot finally installed

it'll be a nice little test today we did

our dockside setup now we have the kind

of the real world set up we'll get out

here and calibrate some things and play

around with it and see how the new

autopilot works well it's not new it's

it's newly installed

but looks like a nice calm day

a little too calm

but we gotta keep pushing south

we're gonna make it into

i don't know we haven't decided yet we

have our options for today if we make

good ground we get some wind we may go

all the way to san diego if not

we may stop short at mission bay

we'll see

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

wait for better days to come and carry

us like wind in our sails

[Music]

is

[Music]

it never fails any time

that it calls for a win we don't get win

and today calls for absolutely zero win

and look at this

we're sailing

it is so nice it's only going about

what

five seven

eight to ten knots

wow i thought that was sounding kind of

too good to be true

it's about what eight eight to ten not

to win and we're doing about five seven

bouncing between five and five seven

right

i know we're going in the right

direction

and emma just kind of

come hang out

nice

[Music]

seven years now on this boat and we all

know where we belong just wait

[Music]

wait for our home to show on the horizon

[Music]

there's a home for tonight

mission bay

so calm in here

[Music]

well we just

had a nice quiet evening here in the

mariners basin in uh mission bay

it was uh

really quiet and calm and still

you know there's probably 50 60 other

boats in the anchorage here some on

mooring balls and some at anchor

but there's plenty room

i don't feel like we got too close to

anybody

okay we're only spending the one night

here we are still pushing our way south

we got confirmation uh just a few

minutes ago about our

slip in ensenada can't anchor there so

we had to get a slip we were waiting for

that confirmation so we will stage

ourselves over

outside of san diego today that's our

goal we'll get out of here head around

the corner and drop a hook that'll shave

off two three hours uh tomorrow on our

journey to ensenada

we're just waiting for uh

tide to start rolling out so we could at

least take advantage of another knot or

two of speed on the way out of here

it's about a half an hour

then we have a big huge day

two to three hours that's all it's gonna

take us to get to the next anchorage

and we'll get staged there

so

no rush

just kind of enjoying the the scenery

for a little bit

[Music]

big day today yeah

we're just pulling up anchor in mission

bay and we're heading over to san diego

it's going to be

i don't know 11 nautical miles so

it's gonna take a lot out of us

actually the reason why we're going over

there is we still need to calibrate our

autopilot and it's a great jump off

point to ensenada so tomorrow we're

gonna be in another country

oh i'm so excited it's gonna be great

okay go to the

high side of these you know and shoot

right down the plate right here

[Music]

we are just

to point loma is right here

and

emma and i are on lobster pot duty there

are hundreds of lobster pots all around

us

and kelp so we gotta keep our eyes

peeled for uh for teal

oh so nice

we are so close to mexico i can taste it

at least the tacos anyways

okay okay i got it i got it we were

trying to

sail around this so we got sucked right

into it

so we're just drifting now

look at this

just gonna take our time and drift

through this

there's 100 pots all around us

we'll just get to the other side

and

knock off any debris

we're in

50 feet of water

do you have any steering at all

this way a little bit

yeah

because all these pots are all around us

nothing's caught up on us yet we're just

gonna drift through this looks like we

have another 100 yards or so to go

maybe 200.

what's your depth

38.

i feel like we need to just go this way

hold on

we got one coming real close too

catching us

just don't fall in

i might just swim up and thank you

i know we're going so slow there's like

nowhere here

so emma you know we did we did that on

purpose we just needed some excitement

right

okay no actually we were

following another sailboat

i won't make that mistake again

and uh they got caught up in it real

quick

we tried to turn we had full sails up uh

and just got caught in the edge so we

had to sail our way through

but we made it cleared the props

dropped all the sails now that we made

it through because we're

just

kind of coming up to uh the anchorage

here and we're going to calibrate our

compass for the autopilot

a lot of military activity here

every few minutes you see something

flying by

pretty cool

time to calibrate

how many revolutions are we doing two

and a half revolutions

to starboard

we are

one and three-quarter revolutions in

okay there's

that's two and a half right there it's

over two and a half so what's it doing

okay

all right alive so okay i need to go

into straight line straight line hang on

a second because i can't go to straight

line here

okay so let me get to center

we're at 10

that's about centered hold on let me let

me get a

fixed point

okay i'm at 285 perfect

accept

calibration done whoa

okay

okay here's our home for tonight

for the next few hours

we are actually you can see san diego

off here in the distance

san diego harbor san diego bay all

inside there we're anchored out here

with a looks like about 40 or 50 other

boats

we picked usually we tucked tied up to a

beach getting a little more protected

but we're leaving in a few hours

we're just going to rest here for

about 12 hours

and we're going to leave at three in the

morning for ensenada

our target is

down south

looks like uh

we can actually see

i think that's coronado island

and the point we're going to shoot right

through that gap it's about a 20 mile

gap

but

we'll be doing that in the dark of night

but i feel good got our autopilot going

we have radar now we've got

boy everything's just lining up for this

and we're ready

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see you then