After being on anchor for 6 months we decided to move the boat around to Stock Island Marina just before Hurricane Irma hit the Florida Keys. Being on the ru...

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as many of you know the eye of Hurricane

herma directly hit the Florida Keys our

boat was at stock island marina in Key

West Florida and Key West Florida as you

can see there it got the western wall of

the eye so the most intense part would

be the Northeast the plan was to ride

out the hurricane in st. Petersburg

we're good friends Gary and Barbara

lived but the hurricane changed course

and we were forced to evacuate that's

where John and Chris come in they had a

condo in Largo with hurricane windows a

little more northeast which was in a

safer place

we had fun it was an adventure thank you

yeah you guys yeah their place was

really solid we hardly we hardly lost

power last night but you can see the

extension cord here coming from their

neighbor's house and she made us coffee

as well

I know wonderful neighbors yeah and we

ate really good amazing days we had fun

nights thanks a lot appreciate it thank

you to Gary and Barbara John and Chris

and then I met many other friends of

Gary and Barbara and and it was a good

time we're on our way from Largo to

Tampa

gary has volunteered to drive me to

Joyce's house where Joyce apparently

needs some help in her yard I was

telling Joel you know I think one of the

biggest regrets that we have is not

getting into the boating life and that

and that lifestyle where you're

independent and you're challenged and

you learn things when the kids were

smaller so that we could have raised

them in that environment to be more more

independent and just experiencing things

I mentioned a Joel that when Barbour and

I got married we were in that mindset of

you joining a company you worked there

for 30 years to get a gold watch and

you're CRO and we've not I think we've

had a 180-degree turn from that so it's

not too late in life to change a change

your way of thinking we're just glad we

did it I mean I wouldn't be here today

and I wouldn't have met this this fine

young man he he was invaluable in

helping us get prepared for the store

helped save her beau

and I'm sure we'll cross paths again

Joyce's house held up really well the

inside there is no flooding her powers

out everyone in this area has no power

you can see she had a tarp there thank

you Gary for getting me the choices I'm

gonna help Joyce try to clean this yard

up her son Tony came into town and we're

gonna just do a little cleanup then I

think I'll be on my way back to Key West

hurricane water it's what you do when

you have no power no water

Marn and Joyce how you doing I'm doing

okay I'm just thankful everything's okay

thankful you're here awesome looking

sharp this morning Joyce got me this

outfit because I was wearing the same

clothes for a few days I think she went

thrift store shopping which she does so

well she got me this shirt and these

shorts and so I decided to change for

her Warren and Darby I was at Joyce's

house for about one week it was another

amazing experience you know Joyce you

know that lake house is it epic and she

makes great meals every single day

awesome while I was at Joyce's I I

noticed there were she has a feeder

outside and there were animals birds

mainly and squirrels coming and going

all the time blue jays Cardinals and so

I've had some time on my hands decided

to film try to catch some of this action

and I made a pretty awesome video so

enjoy this

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I had exploited Greyhound bus airplane

hitchhiking was my number one option I

was pretty sure I was gonna hitchhike

and then jillie-pillie 14

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a huge thank you to Tony my brother

another fellow bum you might think he's

out of the picture but without his help

shock mattei would not have had a spot

here at stock Island marina and there's

no doubt being able to be docked here

saved her life and you can see there's

some damage here this was about the only

damage I was able to find and she took

on some water

so thanks Tony can done it without you

also a big thanks to my legendary friend

Holly she stayed behind here in Key West

at the marina and after I had left she

added four more bumpers to my portside

as well as about three more lines coming

off you can see they're my stern to hold

against the north wind which was the

strongest there they said it got up to

140 miles an hour here

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jill was so helpful and made this the

best possible experience

she helped me reassemble the boat she

brought tons of water and sandwiches

really delicious pre-made sandwiches and

meatballs all sorts of goodies and she

was awesome

Thank You Jill

you know that means don't you

she's ready to fly

okay so pulling out of the dock was a

disaster

and I think subconsciously I somehow

just deleted that I was converting the

footage and I definitely saw that clip

there Jill had her head cam on and

filmed the whole thing and it was kind

of a disaster I wasn't very informative

you know I'm kind of taking control of

everything and I'm trying to tell them

what to do but I mean I'm still learning

myself

oh yeah and pull pulling into the field

doc I you know I thought maybe there'd

be somebody to throw blinds - well there

was nobody to throw lines - so you know

on the fly I figure to be no big deal I

tell him Erina to go up grab the bow

line Jill I gave her the stern line said

when I get close jump off and put him

under the cleat and you know I didn't I

figured we just go for it I wasn't I

didn't give clear enough instructions

and

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so we were in the marina for 13 days

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Jerry Toni and I we all met marina in

Cuba and so she showed up the night

before we left we're on our way back to

Fleming T we're gonna try to anchor same

way we we had it before the hurricane

and the cell over here I pulled up the

main and pulled out the jib mainly just

to just to see the sails see if

everything was operational I don't think

I had the self set perfectly so for

those of you who are more advanced

sailors you're probably watching these

sail settings and scratching your head

maybe the wind was at her back off her

starboard so I think I needed to let

more of the jib out and probably

honestly we were almost on a wing on

wing situation but I didn't want to try

to take that on more or less by myself

with two people who were not very very

experienced themselves and I was not

very helpful when I try to give

instructions I'm still learning so they

did it made it amazing and dealing with

me for that patch is holding of course

it's not taking on too much weight at

the moment

you can't even really tell

hundred

yeah I was

not the Android CSUN and he was doing

fine

what are you inspecting

whether

what a different views then ten days ago

I was back that way about a thousand

yards we're gonna go check out some of

the wreckage

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as you can see it was a beautiful sunset

followed by a beautiful sunrise followed

by a beautiful sunset water was amazing

you know you feel very lucky you feel

very happy you have a great company and

food and at the same time you're torn

between enjoying yourself and then you

look out and you see devastation and you

know that each one of those boats has a

story behind it with most likely one or

multiple people who have who have been

severely put out and are in a really

tough spot and it's it's um interesting

you know it's it's kind of weird do you

have fun you're you're kind of happy and

you want to celebrate because somehow

you made it through but then at the same

time you see so many others who weren't

so lucky

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