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[Music]
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on last week's episode of onboard
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lifestyle
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we leave the small anchorage at punta
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impala early to round cabochons before
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the seas build again
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we're close hauled
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and we're making about seven knots our
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passage went smooth with the exception
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of one hiccup you're doing good
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just hang on
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my dad lands a striped bonito for dinner
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and we limp into paradise village marina
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on one engine we plan to make some much
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needed repairs and fly back to the
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states for a quick family visit
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so that's where we are let's pick up the
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story there
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[Music]
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we are now in paradise village and it is
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time for us to get pretty serious
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because we are a week away from flying
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home
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and we got a lot of things to do emma
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has already taken off with a friend of
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hers to check out the
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paradise resort uh grounds and obviously
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the pool which means we won't see her
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for a few hours
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this is my friend danica and we are
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going to show you around this amazing
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resort it's awesome which is fine
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because there's so many things that tl
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and i need to get going on first off for
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me obviously i'm going to be doing some
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washing and so that always makes me
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happy teal in the meantime is going to
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be assessing our engine because you guys
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know that we had that leak we didn't
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want to tear into it before we get into
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an area that we can get some materials
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or
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if it was something more serious
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we can get it all fixed so that's what
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he's doing right now and i'm just going
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to go and check and see what he's doing
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pretty much want to go swimming every
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day
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the pool's awesome isn't it yes it's
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very awesome
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okay
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well
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it doesn't look bad
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it's just a
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a leak in the wet exhaust
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you know we were in chamela
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and
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i noticed uh when we were doing our
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pre-departure check that there was a
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little sea water underneath the engine
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so i tasted it and it wasn't by the way
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well you got to figure out if it's fresh
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water or seawater
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uh and it was sea water
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i wanted to make sure there wasn't any
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coolant in it as well
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but uh it was sea water so i traced it
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up to our wet exhaust elbow and it was
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just a small drip but i want to run this
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engine with that uh leak i didn't know
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where it was coming from what
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you know what gave way so
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we kind of just shut this engine down
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and for the past 140 nautical miles
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coming up around uh
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cabo corientes
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we just uh sailed as much as we could
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and limped along on our port engine
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well we're in a place now where i could
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fix it i felt comfortable tearing it
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apart here i didn't want to do it at
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anchor just in case i didn't have the
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parts
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and so i think the first thing i need to
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do is uh tear that whole exhaust elbow
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off and find out
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where it's coming from because there's
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one two three four five six seven
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there's like almost a dozen pieces to
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that elbow itself and i'm not sure where
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it's leaking
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so i'll tear that out first
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it's hot though
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this shopping center has everything
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there's clothing stores there's a subway
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mcdonald's other fast food stuff and
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there's even a laundry area here
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whenever we're here we go and get some
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ice cream at mcdonald's it's my favorite
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as i unbolted the exhaust elbow it
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became clear where the leak was coming
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from because the seawater mix arm broke
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off in my hand
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i'm so glad that we had decided to shut
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this engine down when we did because
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this could have been a real mess real
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fast as seawater would have flooded the
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engine compartment at a high flow rate
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our bilge pumps would surely keep up but
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by being proactive we avoided having to
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deal with fresh water rinsing the engine
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compartment and dealing with possible
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future corrosion from the spraying salt
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water
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they have pretty much everything here
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there's pools there's a shopping center
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there's even tigers and macaws it's
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crazy
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there's so many macaws here they always
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take them out here and sometimes they
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take a hose out and like feed them the
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water like a dog it's hilarious
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this is daisy and duke's area right here
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and you can always see them just kind of
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sleeping i've only seen them awake a few
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times
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another great thing about being here is
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the hospitality lounge it's air
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conditioned there's a bunch of couches
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there's a tv there's a vending machine
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there's super nice showers and of course
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relaxation areas
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good internet
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this is the piece that snapped off
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uh took it to uh
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up to the marina and they have their own
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machine shop here on site
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they tapped out the broken piece and
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threaded in a new one for me and they
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charged us
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a whopping hundred pesos
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what is that five bucks
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yeah
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less than five bucks yeah i know that's
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the concept here in mexico
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if you don't have the part they can make
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it for you yeah
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so everything's uh at a very deep
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reasonable price too it's decent and it
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was fast yeah so i'm cleaning up this
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part
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this is all cast
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and starting to show some wear and life
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on it so
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i'm going to clean it up and shoot it
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with some high temperature paint just to
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slow this
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decaying process well we're also doing
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this because we did this on our last
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boat
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where anytime teal does um any engine
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any engine work we know what year it was
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so you color code it yeah our last boat
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looked like uh
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like an engine from benaton yeah
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that's pretty cool it works out
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makes it look kind of fun too she's
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showing her age she is it's not a bad
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thing huh we'll stay up on it and uh
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keep things running smooth
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there's nothing wrong with a little age
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on your girl
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that's what i tell you every day
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okay i've got it all cleaned up
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put some high temp paint on here got it
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all polished first sanded smooth put a
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couple layers on there to protect this
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new gaskets actually picked up two
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gaskets one spare
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uh bolts are cleaned up everything's set
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now it's uh just getting this thing back
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together another cool thing about this
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area is the local crocodiles that swim
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around and from time to time you can see
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them on the beach yeah we saw one just
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yesterday there's also a lot of iguanas
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here and they are super cool
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are you ready
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teal has now been holed up in this hot
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engine compartment
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i want to see what he's doing
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sweating is what i'm doing turn on the
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fan i will
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it'd probably help wouldn't it a little
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bit
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man
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yeah that's nice is it though
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everything's cleaned up back here
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just dry fitting it making sure the
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gasket's gonna work it looks perfect
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i think you're becoming quite
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contortionist i know
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well it's easy once your legs go numb
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you can't feel them it doesn't hurt
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anymore
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and yet you still complain
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it's what i do
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that looks like a nice wet exhaust
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almost brand new looking
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it does huh
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well this is so thick it would last
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years even though just the rust is kind
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of bothersome to look at
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well it's nice to give it a little
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treatment too though
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okay
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do you need help
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nope
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ugh
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[Music]
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uh
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okay this looks really good
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feels nice to get this project 100
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done
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[Music]
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we knew that our last boat savannah was
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in the area and we heard from another
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cruiser that she was in paradise village
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marina
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i felt torn whether or not to go see her
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because we knew that she had been
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abandoned over five years ago
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[Music]
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savannah was left with all her ports and
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hatches open over pv's rainy season
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at some point someone closed her up with
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two feet of rain water standing in all
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three holes
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over the next five years the trap
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moisture decayed her from the inside out
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her decks are now spongy
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her support beams are gone
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her mast now sunk into the box beam
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her mooring cleats have failed
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her interior is rotting
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her bottom is thick with growth
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her life is over
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savannah is a 1998 41 foot lauren
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williams tramaran that we purchased new
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in 99 and did a full refit over four
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years to make her our own
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we purchased her in alameda california
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and sailed her to seattle washington to
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start the refit
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after a cold and rainy winter we decided
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to sail her back down to sunny
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california to finish our project
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over the next three years we tirelessly
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worked on savannah spending thousands of
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hours transforming our boat into our
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cruising home
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her refit was extensive as every inch of
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savannah was modified
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we finished the refit in 2004 and set
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sail to the sea of cortez where we spent
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the next three and a half years sailing
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over 6
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100 nautical miles exploring meeting
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lifelong friends and falling in love
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with this amazing lifestyle
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i feel sorrowful
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seeing our once pristine boat in such a
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dilapidated state
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i walk down the dock at sunset each
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night and stare at her
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just remembering
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i feel saddened
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our once beautiful savannah is gone
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[Music]
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[Music]
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well
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i know that you're sad
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i'm sad too
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no it's just i didn't think i'd be
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emotional about this but it's kind of
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got to me
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well you know i mean to be perfectly
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honest you guys it's um
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it we knew that
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she was in bad shape we just didn't know
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the extent of it and
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and then seeing her
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up close and personal and seeing
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her in such a dilapidated state it was
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it was shocking i mean that should have
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never happened
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it shouldn't have and it was just you
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know it's hard because that was our baby
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that was our first vote you know so much
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time and love and energy and sweat and
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tears
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and
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here comes the water work
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it's it's like gifts to me it's it's so
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smart it's like your first born you know
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just have a pit my stuff you know and
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and seeing that she wasn't well taken
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care of it just um it's just it's so sad
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you know i mean
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she was the reason that we are
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continuing our cruising lifestyle
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because she jumpstarted this whole idea
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and this love for us and to see her
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no longer
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a sailing vessel it's just that boat
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will never
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sail again
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she's done
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there is no way it'd be too much money
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too much time to restore that boat she's
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done that that is her final resting
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place right there you know and the sad
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thing is is that you know we
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we've heard a little bit of what
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happened to her and obviously there's
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two sides to every story and you know
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the truth lies somewhere in the middle
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so we will never know exactly what
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happened to her or why yeah yeah so all
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we have is memories we do we have
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amazing lots of good memories so i am
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toasting to savannah our first love
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i know it's just so hard
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she was a good boat
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i feel the same way
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i do i feel sad every time i think about
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it you know
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i never saw savannah before this and
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seeing my parents get emotional over her
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makes me want to give them a hug
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now that they have officially closed
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that chapter we are ready to treat basic
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with some extra tlc
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come back next week to see if we can get
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more projects done before we fly out see
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you then
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Added on
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Description
On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, we take advantage of being on the dock for the first time in over 2 months and knock out an important project while Emma explores her new neighborhood. We all get emotional as we become aware of a huge and devastating loss in our lives. Come back next...