Well guys, we bought another boat! In this episode we pack up our trusty van and head South to check out an Achilles dinghy and Tohatsu outboard we found on Craigslist. We take it for a test drive in Marina Del Rey, then strap it to the roof for an adventure back up the coast to Emeryville. We give up our live aboard status and move marinas, requiring us to upgrade our dinghy to be able to commute to and from anchorages on San Francisco Bay
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i

am out on the sandbar near our marina

i paddled out here and it is a beautiful

morning

enjoying some quiet time thinking about

the next

big adventure we are about to start so

we are choosing to give up our

liveaboard status

at the marina that we are currently at

and we're moving next door

to a slightly more affordable marina i'm

excited and a little nervous

obviously but excited to see

how we do trying to stay off the dock a

little more

how it is being a little bit more

nomadic

in our lifestyle we are making the jump

to get one step closer to cruising

one step closer to being a little bit

more self-sustainable

so luckily our work is super flexible so

we can kind of arrange and figure out

when we want to go

work on clients boats and how that's

going to work

the best for the fact that we're going

to be off the dock a lot more

you know we might need to buy a heftier

dinghy to be able to commute to and from

anchorages

to to clients jobs in different marinas

you know we really don't know what to

expect exactly but

it's exciting to be exploring new

options and

and it'll actually push us to be

cruisers on san francisco bay which is

one step in the right direction so we're

excited

in this episode we trade in our soft

bottom dinghy

for an upgraded adventure mobile

strapping it to the roof of our van

and driving it up the california coast

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we're driving down south to marina del

rey to

hopefully buy a dinghy that we found on

craigslist

and it also comes with an outboard that

would be

bigger and more powerful and hopefully

be

much more reliable and safe to be

commuting to and from our boat while

we're anchored out a lot more than we

have been so we're super excited

hopefully it's in decent condition

hopefully it's not a total

flop because we're driving about six

hours to go see it

so fingers crossed

what is it 270 fx

so it has a folding transom and then

it's a hot suit

9.8 if we do buy this thing we're going

to strap it to the roof of our van

and then drive it all the way back up

the coast so

wish us luck hopefully we don't have

some kind of dinghy catastrophe

out here

all right we will see how this goes

it's always a toss-up when shopping off

of craigslist

not knowing what kind of condition the

item will be in until

you see it in person lucky for us

after checking out the engine things

were looking clean and well maintained

we also checked that the valves held air

when unscrewed

as they can be a point of failure

what do you think

i mean it's you know it's got age but

none of it looks like it's coming apart

or anything

d-ring patches here on both sides

and then there's a there's an actual

d-ring on the hole

at the base there

let's try it yeah

with the engine running well at idle it

was time to take it for a test drive

and see how it maneuvered and went up on

plane

the guy who was selling it only allowed

one of us to go at a time

so jack took her for a spin through the

harbor

with jack's approval before we knew it

the dinghy was ours and we were motoring

it to the nearby boat ramp

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now it was time for the real challenge

we planned on spending one night in

santa barbara before heading north

so we had to make sure that the engine

would fit below the bed so we still had

a place to sleep for the night

all right we fit it into

the space below our bed in the van

just barely fit in there

okay now the hard part hopefully we can

get the dinghy

up onto the roof of the band

and then we have to really strap her

down so she doesn't

go anywhere when we drive up the coast

again

all right we'll see how this goes you

guys who knows

this might be a total dinghy fail

we'll see

how do you think

where the hillbillies live

we definitely got a couple of funny

looks at the boat ramp

but as sailors we know how to tie a knot

and we figured we'd be nice and secure

what do you think it'll be good

i don't think it's gonna move around

very much

we had a cozy night sleeping in the van

in the tiny town of carpenteria before

starting the trek home

where are we santa barbara trying to

find food in a ghost town

we're not in santa barbara oh we're in

carpenteria

trying to find food in the ghost town

everything is closed

and everything just says we'll be open

this weekend

but it's wednesday today so

that's not really an option for us but

we're gonna head up to santa barbara and

see what we find there hopefully we can

at least get some coffee and some

breakfast in us

and then we'll head back up the road

back north

with only a quick pit stop along the way

for some lunch

we made it back to emeryville excited to

have a sweet new ride to go on more

water-based adventures

we decided her name would have to be

carla as we had brought her

strapped to the roof of our car all the

way up from l.a

all right we've got her out of the van

back together

all right we are home with the dinghy we

just launched her at the ramp and we're

headed to our boat with all of our stuff

can you tell he's excited

catch us next time as we head up river

to the sacramento delta for some fresh

water fun

we are headed up into the delta for a

week

we introduce our newest crew member as

she gains her sea legs and enjoy the

highlights of delta life

swimming fishing and of course we deal

with a couple of

exciting boat life moments and we got

back to the boat

and it smelled like electrical burning

and then all of a sudden we heard our

anchors start to drag

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