The family came all the way to the Dominican Republic to visit for Christmas and brought with them a valuable care package. Doug, Michal's dad, couldn't wait...

Closed Captions (CC):
and it seems like you should hook black

to black but when I turn the key on that

one gets hot but look at the difference

in the battery post here where I cleaned

[Music]

in this episode Michaels family visits

us in the Dominican Republic for

Christmas they all arrived wearing bums

on about t-shirts and even had an extra

for Michael tonight

an epic care package was also brought

over from the states including a

camcorder we ordered and a drone which

was a Christmas present from my brother

Tony and sister-in-law Maria these items

would have been tricky to have shift

into loop run Michael's father and I

knock out some boat projects and we show

Michael's family the beautiful Dominican

Republic

[Music]

so this line right here isn't always hot

I found it ground down here to use that

one so that that pink and blue isn't

always hot okay

everything else is cold that wasn't

always hot I can't read but it might say

battery it doesn't that's cold that's

cold but watch this one when I turn the

key on that one gets hot when I turn the

key off that one goes cold so mainly we

have the blinking light that's always on

he was saying it's got to be drawing a

little bit see that light right there

and so he's trying to figure out how to

get that to stop blinking constantly

because it's draining a little bit of

our battery constantly so that's what

he's been working on yeah so and that's

a low oil light mm-hmm

the engines not running and you said

when you start the engine it goes off

and oil pressure comes up yep yeah but

it shouldn't be blinking if we have this

instrument panel cold so that's what I'm

going to try okay let's switch it to

that that one portion of the key switch

that gets hot when we turn it to the

first position do you call all the green

underneath this that's all from the salt

water these things should be shiny and

that means you're getting good contact

if you're on shiny mmm like I'm saying

you really need some sort of a product

that's going to minimize that corrosion

battery product of some sort but look at

the difference in the battery post here

where I cleaned versus where I didn't

you can even just clean it with a knife

just bring it down to that good lead

color get rid of that corrosion mm-hmm

and then you've got good conduct with

this black all this black here is

all corrosion and it's gonna

you know wreck your your connection like

this the white should always be neutral

or negative and it seems like you should

hook black to black but this black in a

2 wire system was the hot wire same

thing in a house you got wires then your

wiring and analysis of black white and

usually a a copper that's unshielded and

so this is always your hot this is AC

type and this is DZ but it's just get

the whole damn thing covered so that it

doesn't ground out on something you know

particularly in and of itself if these

two touch because you don't have them

well wrapped you'll have a short issue

and you won't be generating power ok you

won't have spark so we talked to Mike in

the bar at Wendy's and he's the previous

owner of the wind generator and he

explained to us exactly how to use this

switch more correctly than we had it we

had the power going through the switch

but we didn't know to put the negative

through the switch as well and it goes

to the battery and you can actually just

kill the whole thing by turning it to

the off position I wrote him a little

note up here and that that will help the

thing to slow down he said in high winds

and not generate any power and it'll use

the brake to to slow it down position

where it actually grounds the whole

thing straight to the battery Mike said

and that's ok

apparently I wouldn't have guessed that

but once you ground the whole thing

straight to the battery it cannot create

electricity and actually forces the

thing to slow down in high winds it was

up to six harrybo's again thoughts

after cleaning all the terminals up we

installed a fuse for the wind generator

and then we use the stuff we bought at

the auto parts store and just sprayed it

all over the terminals just to battle

corrosion so this is what the batteries

look like now and here's the wind

generator coming in here and there's the

30 amp fuse here and that blackish

purple stuff that's what I sprayed on

there and all these connections are nice

and clean now

[Music]

the Schuster family vacay so we got to

hold the baby there hold the bungii of

course the grand the grass

there's Doug and Suzanne's right there

Michael and I are on that and Marshall

and Aaron are in the margarita cart

how's their aid

Levi

[Music]

this view never gets old

[Music]

what's been your favorite and what's

been your least favorite part of the

dominican republic visit so far my

favorite part is the weather back home

favorite part for me has been the

scenery styles of life and the least

favorite part was embarrassing myself

trying to ride a motorcycle for the

first time no crashes near crashes and a

lot of perky go

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

many of you may not know that sailing is

in Michaels blood and I'd like Suzanne

there to tell us about your childhood

maybe a little bit just a little your

sailing experience so I grew up sailboat

racing in Portland Oregon on the

Columbia River

we started off learning to sail and I

was about 10 on a node a 22 and then we

moved up to a Santana 27 and then the 30

we moved up to a Jay racing boat we just

raced from March to November doing a

weekend races of up and down the

Columbia River from between the i-5 and

the i2 a vibrant family hobby so this is

a tip most of you might know but how

about your job and how you lined up the

little streamers and how you get the

most performance out of your sails used

to help with the jib sail and so the red

yarn on a on a sail in order to get

maximum you know speed out of your sail

you want to adjust the sails so that the

yarn on both sides of the sail are

completely lined up and going straight

back and so when we got to a bigger boat

then I did that on to me it's the same

thing when you're when you're sailing

you're constantly adjusting when you're

race you're adjusting your sails to get

the most speed out of it and you by

looking at the yarn

to making sure they're completely

streaming back and a question for

marshals if somebody was thinking about

visiting the Dominican Republic what

what should they expect how should they

prepare bring a lot of clothes to be

very warm and make sure to have the

correct currency Jasper pesos you might

get Mexican pesos you need what the tide

here Michael let's let's ask Joel what

his favorite part about the Shuster

vacation

excellent question oh man I really

enjoyed working on the boat what's your

dad I think I learned a lot and it was

fun to watch him just get in there and

see what it naturally is and how his

skills transferred over his mechanic

skills you know working on diesel and

farm equipment he can come on a boat and

just tear it apart lease every part of

the hughster vacation ever far all right

cliche by how fast I went by aha I guess

it just it seems like it's over and it

just began so

and maybe I guess the least favorite was

the weather could have been a little

more cooperative but it was pretty great

it's just a little rainy and muddy and

maybe I have to change my favorite part

to transporting the suitcase on the back

of a motorcycle with your dad and that

was probably my favorite part of the

season yeah we successfully did that I

think we have a picture we can show cuz

we didn't get it on camera but I'll try

to pop a picture of what we're talking

about over this cliff next time a

mattress a mattress yes and then a

fridge

[Music]

these are the tales of Bob

[Music]

Oh

a baby

[Music]