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Joe

What are we doing?

We are trying to get the motor started

So this thing will work

But it was working wasn't it?

Yah but then it broke!

Can we just try to start it real quick?

You got to get the waterline

up to the intake

This lens is so fun

Nothing

So let's see if the battery has a charge

12 volts

What's wrong with it?

Maybe you aren't pushing the

button hard enough

Maybe you're just not

doing it right Doug

Maybe we don't know how this works

Alright ready?

Sure go

You going to kill us?

I've gotcha brother!

It is me Hermano

Alright so I think we somehow

have to get to this

Just pull the fricken thing

What?

The manual starter

Hi! That's an engine!

Use those muscles

It's kinda gunky

Joe

Huh?

What's the meaning of life?

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Oh, I don't want my face distorted

Doug got the motor started

And we thought while we are at it,

might as well change the spark plugs

so we took them out

took them to the auto shop.

They said they were fouled

It ran the motor though so I'm not

exactly sure what replacing them will do

but four dollars so I might as well

Alright Doug, get her started

Here we go

go

All the way as fast as you can

Alright, let's get the mast clean

While Doug's out of town

I decided to address a few

safety issues with my boat

Well Jason, sorry to leave you

with all the boat repairs

but I really have to go to work

Fiji and New Zealand. It's

going to be rough.

But hey, Jess gets to come too

Jason we just met a sailor.

This guy back here.

While we were standing in line, these

guys right behind us were

talking about sailing and I

thought that was pretty funny

So we got to talking and I guess our

boat is the same model boat they had

Whenever they were kids,

like their family boat

so we got to Aukland and it was kinda

crazy because I didn't know it was

like a big sailing place

Everybody owns a boat. I think they said

2/3 of the families there all

own their own boat

And the harbor is gigantic.

I mean it's just like...

There's marinas everywhere

There's boats sailing all over the place

Anyway, I think we should totally find a

way to cross over and go to New Zealand

Because that place looks pretty amazing

Moana

Moana started her own place

Kinda like she stopped island hopping

Anyway, have fun with all the repairs.

Wish I could be there.

The first one being

When we got our boat home after putting

it on the water for the first time

as I was backing it into the driveway

my spare wheel fell out

That's not so good. If that would have

happened on the highway that would

have been pretty terrible

Got some bolts to secure it to the boat

So that way it won't fall off on us

Alright we're not sure what bolts to

put on here so John is unscrewing

one to see what it looks like.

We just finished, well one side of

putting this trim stuff on

We got some new bolts and nuts in it.

Right now we're working on this corner

Which is going to be a little hard

because right here it's a bit bent and

the holes don't exactly line up with

these holes in the metal

On the way to go to the Hobbiton set

I wanted to test my drone before I got

in there to see if I could fly it.

and I wrecked it.

So I guess no sailing drone footage.

It was weird on this trip, we had a

bunch of water themed places we were

going to

We got to Milford Sound

and oh. my. gosh.

the whole ride there there was like a

hundred waterfalls just coming down

everywhere.

but Milford Sound is this really amazing

like just cliff sites everywhere

and then you get to the end of it

and it goes right out into the ocean so

you could just sail into Milford Sound

and after that we went to Fiji and once

again we're doing boat themed activities

We went on this gigantic catamaran. I

mean it's the biggest catamaran I've

ever seen.

Bula!

I love it!

Went to a little private island and it

was pretty fun playing and it was just

kinda

nice thinking about what it will be

like with our families on all these

little islands we stop at.

It also gave me some ideas of some toys

we are going to need to get.

It was a lot of fun

I also have never been snorkeling before

I just got back and this is what you

have me doing?

Oh, it's like broke in there

Ow

How in the world are you supposed to get

that off?

I can't even get my fat hand up there

I think you have to take this steering

wheel off

Which one are you doing first? Just

start spinning and I'll...

That one closest to you

Oh you can see them up there too?

Yah, there's screws

Ginormous screws. My screwdriver is too

tiny for it.

I'll cut that out too

Doug what are you doing?

I'm unbolting this stupid thing

What are you unbolting?

I don't know, what is the thing called?

A steering wheel

You going to tell me why?

because it broken. it broken bad.

We're doing this to sail.

We're doing this to sail.

We're doing this to sail.

It's nice to be able to use a different

hand to unscrew it.

Ok, we're going to remove the wheel

Boom! Yah!

Alright so we gotta to replace the line

in this rolling furler

but we gotta figure out first how to

get it removed because I can't turn it.

Having trouble with the rolling furler

earlier but Doug got out here and just

sorta spun it.

So it's way easier than I thought it

was going to be to get this thing fixed.

That means we have everything done

that we need to go sailing.