On this weeks episode of Onboard Lifestyle we enjoy Bahia Chamela's Northern anchorage and explore the town of Perula as we wait for the perfect window to round Cabo Corrientes, or so we thought. Basik is forced to seek safe refuge in Punta Ipala as the crew regroups for another attempt. Come back next week to see if we make it...see you then!

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on the last episode of onboard lifestyle
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the crew spends a few days in barra
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enjoying this quiet seaside town
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we take an extended hike to a secret
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beach
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i even get some pool time in with some
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friends
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[Applause]
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the crew lays out our cruising plans for
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the next year
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so we set sail north towards the sea of
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cortez with our first stops at bahia
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tenukatita and then bahia chamela
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and that's where we pick up our story
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we are anchored out in bahia to mela
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right now and we are in the northern
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anchorage right off of perula it's an
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adorable little town and we're going to
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go check it out until we're going to
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stay here for a few days until a weather
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window opens up to head north
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we are
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at oh my gosh we're anchored in
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we're just off the coast
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of the village
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and we're in the northern anchorage and
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we're just
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right next to the town of
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and we are just outside of perula right
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now we're gonna be right next to parulo
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and we're in northern anchorage
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we're anchored in
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uh
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best thing to do when
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you go into an area that you're not
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familiar with is just follow the pongas
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do
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uh
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okay it's getting hot
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let's go back and go swimming
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that'll be nice
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this is a cute little uh estuary huh
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yeah i like it it's so protected coming
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in here usually we're doing uh beast
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landings this is pretty uh it's a nice
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little break from beach landing it is
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you drive to a dock
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pretty fancy
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so lynn's been cooking all morning
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okay so i ran out of baking powder
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so my pancakes are now crepes
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you know what though i'm sure they're
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delicious the flavors there just didn't
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get the rise but that's okay
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so just tell everybody you made crepes
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how do you say uh how is it like a
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fusion of pancakes and crepes it has to
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be a name for it right yeah it's a
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crepe
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it's fun i love brunch because
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it's just a little snacky thing what is
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going on over here i made a
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ham and hash egg bake
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i made one that's vegetarian for one of
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our guests and then this is an amazing
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spicy uh salsa i don't know what it is
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but it's so good i'm putting it on my
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crepes
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you can have a savory crepe
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you know how i get we're leaving in a
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few days and i thought it'd be fun to
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just uh invite another family uh
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cruising boat over for a little brunch
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that's always fun it is i love this kind
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of stuff you know that i know
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so get ready for festivities ed yes 10
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o'clock in the morning
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it's 10 30 and we're gonna have how
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often do you get brunch nowadays
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i got my great breakfast well me i i get
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brunch all the time but it's nice to
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share with other people it is i'm uh i'm
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excited because we're gonna be heading
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in and
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gotta take advantage of this nice
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anchorage
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anchorage yes for sure the views are
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amazing
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hey i see him here comes serena
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okay i'm starving i'm gonna go set the
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table hey are we eating inside or
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outside outside
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okay
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standing underneath the lights
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look into each other's eyes
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tired snowflakes are coming down
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collapse into water when they hit the
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ground
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it's a nice day emma has a friend over
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so we're giving her a little privacy
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in the meantime i think that we should
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do a little mission since uh
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we're still a little sour of losing that
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reeling
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rod so it happened so fast
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i had a pole in the holder just like
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this one over here
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and a fish
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struck it and just bent it over and took
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everything took the lure took the pole
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took my reel and left me the handle
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i've lost now
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so much gear i've lost
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six lures
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now a pole and a reel
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from now on i'm going to hand lined with
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this big old heavy-duty equipment
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so i don't know what type of fish that
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was could have been a marlin or a
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swordfish or maybe just this massive
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mahi i only had this lure dragon behind
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the boat 60 70 feet
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and when it went it went in half a
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second i mean we heard the noise we all
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looked over and everything was gone it
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just snapped it right off
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you know
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from now on i'm putting lanyards on all
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my rods and reels and uh using the heavy
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duty gear because somewhere out there
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there's a poor fish dragging
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my
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my rod and reel and
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all that line
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i feel sorry for him but
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i don't know what i could do
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i feel so bad but
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i feel bad you've been teasing me for
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two days i think it's time to
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start doing a little bit more spear
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fishing
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and hand lines definitely hand lines
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it's like hours of boredom and five
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seconds of sheer until erasing
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like the rocks are right here
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come on rockfish
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get me some fish tacos
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so i've decided
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i prefer cooking over fishing
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let me guess we're having chicken
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tonight
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no we have to have tacos
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well chicken tacos
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i don't want chicken tacos man i haven't
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got a nibble here you think this would
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be just perfect big boulders i haven't
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seen a fish i got a
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little even a hint of a bite yet well
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you did you hooked two big boulders yes
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older tacos it is but i'm not making
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stone soup yeah
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really peaceful out here though i know
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it's nice i like this
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i hear the sound of empty streets
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yesterday has gone to sleep
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so all that's left is you and me
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i can promise you're the only thing i
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see
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i'm impressed
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build a secret place
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let our minds be caught up in a dream
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we're leaving tomorrow that means
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garbage run
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last day to sightsee and to get a couple
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tacos
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always
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tacos for breakfast
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i literally if i could have tacos every
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day i would same
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i think we haven't had tacos every day
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no we haven't you've made them last
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night for dinner
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i know but i didn't have it every day
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but we should have them every day
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wise words coming from a young person
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okay let's get in
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you want anything else like a lime twist
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here okay this is just the start of the
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taco crawl
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there we go deliciousness look at yours
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give me the beans all right here let's
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just rotate it
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almost like in heaven right now
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do you want a little salsa too this is
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the milder one
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little
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uh good morning
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it is now what is it it's seven o'clock
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in the morning
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and we are picking up anchor
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and heading out
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of perula headed towards banderas bay
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it's going to be a
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92 nautical mile run
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the difference is
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it's a basher we're going to be bashing
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it up north and we are actually down one
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engine we notice
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a little leak in our wet exhaust so
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we're gonna just be uh powering using
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our port engine if needed there are
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southerly's this morning
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so we're gonna ride out as long as we
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can
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what do you think emma i'm excited to
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get there
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it's gonna be uh
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we're trying to plan it so that we hit
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cabo corientes about midnight that's the
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time when it's the most calm
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so uh who knows we'll see
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there were a dozen boats at anchor in
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perula with a majority waiting for the
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right window to make the dash north
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around cabo corientes
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we left the calm anchorage with 10
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vessels that accumulatively decided that
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this was our best chance to successfully
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round the cape
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we were all wrong
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the forecast was for the wind and sea
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state to trend in our favor
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and it did just the opposite
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the entire fleet was shocked that the
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forecasted three to five foot seas built
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to 10 to 15 over the course of the day
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with the wave period closing up fast to
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six seconds
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it's always difficult to film big c's
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the digital stabilization seems to
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smooth out the ocean
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but i read that if you shoot into a
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reflection that it paints a more
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accurate picture
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and it did
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most of the fleet just powered into the
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weather but we didn't have that option
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and just tacked our way north as the
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wind direction swung to 25 degrees off
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our next waypoint
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we had two options keep going or turn
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back but basic was cut in the waves
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impressively and we felt confident to
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keep pushing forward
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the 10 boat fleet bantered on the vhf
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relaying weather information to either
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comfort or scare the rest of the group
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the sea state was trending towards spicy
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and one by one the flotilla peeled off
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to seek safe harbor in impala
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well here we are
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anchored right behind punta impala
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he apologizes little teeny sliver of an
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anchorage
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you know our original plan was to
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make a run for cabo corientes and
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conditions were supposed to lighten up
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throughout the day
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well they didn't
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they just kind of got pretty blustery
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out there uh seas were building winds
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were building
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and
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to be honest
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we're here with 10 other boats right now
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they all they all had the same idea we
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did
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come in here and wait for this to die
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down some will leave i would say
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probably midnight tonight it's a good
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time to go around the cape we'll uh run
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some weather models and see what our
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options are
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uh we're not in a big rush to get around
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we just want to be comfortable this next
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15 miles of coast is notorious so
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once you make it around the corner
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though you're home free
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oh well it's nice and calm in here
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compared out there
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we're sitting in about 50 feet of water
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though
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pretty deep little
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hole in the wall here
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so we put out
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all our chain that we had
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i think it's gonna wind will calm down
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in here
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we'll be in good shape
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boy first time uh in a long time that we
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took
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blue water over the top of the boat
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it was uh kind of spraying for a while
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it was a roller coaster ride it was fun
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though
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hey bud give us some props we uh sailed
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all the way up here
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upwind so
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feels good feels good to wind down
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tomorrow banderas bay
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now that we are starting to sail north
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we have a lot to do before basic is
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ready to escape cortez come back next
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week to see if we could successfully
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round cabo coriensis see you then