big thing uh when you're out here on the
water or you living off the grid is
power and uh AC power requires the
inverter which sucks up power so to
charge your phones and other devices you
I picked up something like these I have
uh uh one in the helm that's cigarette
lter size and got this one I just found
on Amazon and this is a flat one has two
USB and one USBC this nice little cover
a little uh I guess to keep the water
out I don't know if I might use that cuz
these are going to be inside may use it
and then some screws to screw it down I
don't know if I want to screw it down or
just glue it down but when I get there
I'll get there but uh I'm going to run
it basically over in the salon but uh
since I disconnected all this propane
stuff yeah that's my uh nice little
fridge uh solution I made up y' can go
check that out um yeah I'm going pull
out behind there and get to the propane
wires so I can wire this up on its own
breaker and then I can wire lots of
things up because it's 20 amp dc and
these don't use 20 amp I think uh with 3
amps maybe yeah 3 amps so yeah nothing
so I'm going to get this installed but
uh you know power is an issue you know
go check out our I keep going back and
check out but our solar install where we
did the Bish panels great panels really
uh uh you know upped our game as far as
our power and not having to run the Jare
but we still you know we have that power
constraints because the sun's not always
shining uh we had three four days of
just nothing but clouds and I was
kicking on the generator a few times so
you check that out but we're going to
install this so what we got here is see
this fancy little thermostat gauge I
made for my freezer and fridge this is
my freezer temperature which
is8 right now cuz it's I ain't got it on
turbo mode if you go back and look at
that video I have a turbo mode on this
so I can hit turbo mode but it uses more
power and then my fridge so this is
spillover fan for our fridge and uh with
turbo mode on it's it's cool enough
right now it's you see it's off the
freezer is still on because it's got the
lights on but I'm going to take this out
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and this was the uh old uh propane
control we're all electric in this house
now so we don't use
propane but uh it worked really nice
it's all aluminum took a while to cut in
my gauges but works
right that was a long screw used a long
one for that
one okay let's pull this out
don't look at my messy wiring it is a
mess so I finally found the wires I'm
going to use these are my LP gas wires
which this boat is complete electric 13
volts that gives me the voltage I need
to power one of these and fact I could
power a lot of these but uh I'm trying
to get as much of the boat I can on DC
so I don't have to run that inverter and
suck up all that juice wasting you know
wasting a few amps
there okay I got my wires Ran So I ran
from here up here in this uh AC I'm not
going to drill it in yet I'm just W to
see how it works ran through this uh
vent here I think this is like a fake
vent cuz there's no I don't know what
the hell this is but it's got no vent uh
uh thing in there no clue up through
here and then down through that hole and
uh yeah now I just connect them together
and good to go all I got to do is do a
little stripping so on here I'm going
with a the car autum
of uh positive and
negative and this wire is not very high
gauge it doesn't have to
be okay and already have a connector on
this
one
so if you
uh also you need need to get you one of
these uh crimpers these work great so I
just pop in
here pop it the right way in here so
it's got beveled on one side crimp on
the
other and you pick your color we going
with uh blue here cuz that's the one I
originally had on
here this wire doesn't probably need
blue but
and there we go give it a good tug I was
going to use these pink ones on the
other side cuz this gauge of wire is
small now I have to take and disconnect
this one so I'm going have to cut this
off and uh I don't think I have to cut
it off I just have to pull it off on
that
side yeah I crimped
it or it was crimped but it wasn't crimp
good
there we
go trash over there oh this is still
working because that's running from my
power on my
uh
compressor use the blue one here
again
so hold on somebody's out
there okay so I'm back I got all this
finished I'm going to heat shrink this
later I'm going to test it of course on
there before I lock it down but yeah
that was just some boers coming by and
announcing that we can go rob their boat
now but no they're to they're going to
be off their boat so y'all out there uh
looking to Rob sailboats or
motorboats Community watches each
other oh also I may have not mentioned
that three 3 amps or 3 amps that's fast
charging so now my tablets and all my
stuff is going to charge up fast pop it
in 55% fast charge 32 minutes till full
yeah baby so I'm going to get
uh some heat shrink
shrunk because uh I don't like wires
pulling
out and this is another reason why you
need lithium on your uh boat is cuz you
can power High out but things like heat
guns so let me heat gun this
up and that's
hot now let me put all this stuff back
together
again okay got this grill right
here got this is going to go up in
there so
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I wonder if this thing will go below
zero while I'm put this
together let's turn that to Turbo it's
at
three turn it back on there and we'll
put this back
in the vent to nothing
my there our beautiful vent of nowhere
and I think I'm going to leave these out
for right
now I may pull it
now so if you look here I've got it
mounted right there and I got the cover
on it looks looks nice it's out of the
way and I didn't put the little plastic
cover on it but now that I'm saving all
that power I can turn that fridge or
freezer on turbo look at that it's
already down to
1.9 so this will save me in uh of course
right the the Inver which uses about 3 3
and 1 12 amps and uh you know I can save
that in gas so that's a good thing cuz
our battery is at 72% and it
is about two 2:00 so we may make it up
to almost 80% today that'd be awesome
and uh cuz we started out at
50 55 so that's good
recovery okay guys here's just some of
the meat we're getting for the
Bahamas we got
chicken
steak ground
beef food in what's here got over here
got more meat and eggs over here and
there's veggies and some cheese and
butter and yeah we're
going I
B my babies say she's filled up the
freezer all the meat and everything is
done on yeah it's it's
full we learn not go through this in a
month half a month no so this is the day
before we leave for the
Bahamas and are we ready to go babe yeah
I've been asking for you to put up your
crap I'll put it up I'll put it up no it
doesn't go there no it doesn't go in
there I'll put it up it's been sitting
here for 2 weeks I'll put it up
baby but this is uh the last of the food
we have to get
up we've got uh $300 in meat in the
freezer and uh yeah we have to also set
up these uh life jacket thingies figure
out how they
work and my house is dirty and the house
is dirty she says it'll get clean in the
Bahamas okay before we leave for the
Bahamas which is here soon tomorrow
hopefully uh got top off our batteries
which got the J run and I'm also
checking our linkage for our steering
connection make sure all that's good and
I'll show you what I'm looking at so
right here here is our connection you
see it's right here here's the helm but
I just took the flo pan up and man it's
nasty in there so but I I'll clean that
up but yeah everything's working looks
good uh I'm glad it's a uh solid
connection like this versus a cable
that's awesome and there's our autopilot
right there so that's good and there's
the floor cover I took off right
there okay it's our last night in the
anchorages and wife got all the gear
cleaned up we're ready to go got safety
gear cleaned up and uh way you check
these if it's green you're good to go
that means uh you you can self-inflate
I'm not going to pull this thing oh gosh
don't do that yeah that would get th
than I am we have two brand new ones
that don't have the tanks in them
yet and we have these but we also have
uh proper um safety lines so these are
the ones you can pull quick release so
if you get uh overboard
and you're dragging underw you can
release yourself and then they of course
tie onto the boat but uh I'm not going
up there
no no but I'll show you what we got
upstairs and uh and then uh it's beer30
tomorrow we're leaving morning tomorrow
morning early early I don't like to get
up that road so y'all y'all stay with us
and you know we we we get to the Bahamas
so our dog she has her life jacket and
we have an extra uh one we could
actually tie her on the boat but right
here I have this line tied all the way
to the front and yes that is that is a
good knot I'll probably uh adjust it a
little bit but it is a good knot that's
a
a uh
bowling and of course I have my life
jacket and I'm strapped in strapped onto
this right now so this thing this is
slightly stretchy I just knocked off my
mic so it's slightly stretchy so you
know got some elastic so if I do fall
off it won't be a Sudden Impact but this
is what I'm talking about this right
here you can just pull that and it comes
off so yeah need
that and then my babe she cleaned up our
Windows there he they look all
seethrough now and uh she cleaned our
winches
we still have the hole in the roof got
to fix that
someday and then back here got my Deanie
tied and uh yeah we'll go back here
and move
this let me go out you can't move this
from side to side so we'll see how that
runs but uh if not I got enough line I
can tighten it up some more and then got
my my fenders in there in case I need to
use them in the Bahamas
okay guys so tomorrow me and my babe
babe down there looking for stuff to eat
we're going to figure out we're going to
figure out what we're going to eat in
the Bahamas tomorrow so what do you
think of that
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babe I haven't processed it yet I don't
know it to me it it just seems like you
know it's been a year
we were supposed to leave through the
Bahamas last year at this time I don't
know eight months ago yeah last year at
this time so so I don't even know how to
process this yeah I guess when we are
like crossing the waters and I see the
the waters changing colors I'm going
like oh okay yeah this is happening I'm
going s her up front with the camera so
she can record the wire changing colors
I'm not going up
front no I'm not falling off I tied a
line and everything guys she'd be safe
I'm going to be if I fall off you're I'm
going to be having to wait for you to
turn around the boat to come get me and
I might have been already flown I might
be like towards Florida already y you're
not going back to Florida we're going to
bahas we're doing the b b baham mamas
yes that's what we're doing so yeah it's
uh it's been a journey it has and uh and
a lot of money so if y'all think that
doesn't cost money to live on a
boat it does yeah get ready eventually
we'll um I'm slipping but eventually
we'll we'll we'll go over what this
actually takes to do this and it ain't
cheap guys so I don't but it depends on
what how you want to do it of course of
course we we've made our boat like off
grid yeah so that costs a lot of money
yeah wire maker solar batteries all that
stuff so we' made it off grid and if you
don't want to make your boat off grid
and you're like Marina people yeah it'd
be cheap which is fine we we've lived in
Marinas here and there maras are
nice um if you want to be off grid they
going to cost you going to cost but I'm
going to let her get back to dinner and
we're going to uh we grocery shopping I
got some lettuce we'll uh see you on the
water tomorrow
guys
yep guys I think I hurt my toe this
morning getting the anchor
up yeah I didn't know I was bleeding
that
bad wasn't supposed to be yeah two
months
bye Lake
Sylvia we stayed here for two weeks and
we wounded up staying for 2 months a
little longer than expected it was a
nice stay though yeah it was got a lot
of stuff done and we were pretty
protected we did get some pretty gnarly
winds a couple of times but um other
than that we were pretty protected so
yeah yeah we had a hard time getting our
anchor up it was so stuck oh yeah it was
stuck was Dug Dug deep now we're trying
to get through here this is all that
right there really shallow and you have
to come in close on this side you'll see
on the charts here to avoid all that
shallowness so yeah we're squeezing on
through here and we're going slow we're
doing 1.9 knots two knots just to so if
we do uh nudge something well we're at
low tide so the tide will only go up for
from
here 10 back behind me yes so we're 10t
deep back behind me that's Lake syia
entrance and that is where we're going
right there to
dannyland I didn't want to get up no she
didn't I still don't want to be up she
said the sun is not up I'm like it is
peeking it is peeking he's sathing no
sunrises at 7 but the sunlight happens
earlier plus the deck is all wet oh yeah
I slid bad messed up my foot oh it hurts
but we're getting through here don't get
yourself garine or anything yeah it
stopped bleeding so I'm good I need put
some peroxide on no yes okay we'll fix
that later once we get out of here okay
so we're going to m is and you need to
be rushed to an emergency
room we're going to uh put down the
camera so I can navigate these last uh
this last crooky area cuz they're
getting down to
8T and then we'll get out of
here okay guys we nudged ground there a
little bit but we are out so we're going
back up we're at 7.6 ft and getting
deeper and uh yeah we're just going to
start turning out into this canal but
yeah that was that was fun so we touch
bottom this is our fourth time to touch
Bottom
now yeah we need to get into some deeper
waters
a little shallow
here babe cleaned the window yesterday
now she's drying it
today yeah so we can see a little
bit and now she's getting the front we
don't have defrosters on the boat
I wonder if that uh what What's that
called the the stuff you spray down
the water beads
off rainex
rainex thank you very
much okay we're leaving out of here and
the current I wanted to get out of here
earlier I think 30 minutes would been
better but now we are we are just
crashing in these
waves
woo my wife is probably hating life
right
now our puppy is not liking
either don't don't it your
butt also I think we're going to have a
oil tanker come up behind us so we got
to get out of this Channel and we're
doing
about 5 and A2
knots let me show you up front again
eyes
the
plans sou the we just pass pretty rough
out here right now this is all caused by
these currents a um deceased manity
floating right behind a celebrity
Beyond okay we're almost
through this is I wouldn't even want to
be on haul out hul over what that uh
that feels like this feels pretty rough
out here
oh
wow we got some air
there currently uh 26° 5 minutes1 153 is
a tanker over there 06 over there we're
going to get out of here I'm moving past
it I got a haul out to catch but
it's 100 y out of that position see how
the water is
it's pretty rough they're tied on to
that that buoy right
there why I don't
know we're trying to get out of this I
mean it looks c yeah it's just not right
here
nobody said this
part how rough it is to get
out okay so the weather said it was
going to be one to twoot waves and
uh an Eastern uh basically an Eastern
Breeze the breeze is correct it's not
we're not
getting any kind of Breeze but we are
getting a a good bit of sweat my baby's
not liking
it so that it's going to make me hate
voting but
uh yeah uh right now we look to be
getting into 600 fo water and I'm hoping
cuz right now where it's a where kind of
shelves so I'm hoping it gets smoother
the deeper we
get at least not as uh more period
between these waves cuz they were
supposed to be you know 6 second period
1 to
2T and uh yeah it's
uh sliding
around I'm stopping okay guys so me and
my wife are just sitting here there's
baby right over there she's just sitting
there we uh you know Lessons Learned
From
Yesterday me I have to look at the wave
direction and the wind direction it's
very important that they're not going in
opposite
directions or that leads up to a very
confused
sea which scares my
baby and uh our
dog and uh bust my toes so don't need
that but uh yeah Lessons
Learned and uh today I'm just just well
I had to fix the dinghy cuz uh I left up
there and at C State over rocked it and
it uh kind
of it uh kind of the transm was trying
to come off so I had to reglue
that and uh I'll show you all that in
second and I had to replace duck valves
in a
toilet and uh the fan in the fridge one
of my fans stopped working so it was a
eventful day and uh now it's beer 30
right babe
no no not yet no it's got an hour till
be be 30 but uh let me show you this
ding okay Decker you may remember this
deck War Adventure he came out here this
was coming off so my transom was coming
off right there you can see I didn't
align it completely right but I glued it
and now I've got this uh tie
strap tensioning down on this to hold it
together and it's holding this which I
reglued and that together and I just
reinflated once I got the glue in and
then ratchet it down and we're good
hopefully we'll see how long that lasts
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