Follow me on my journey to live on and sail "Hushpuppy", my 1974 Cal 3-30 sailboat. This is the first video basically introducing Hushpuppy and I. Cheers! =]

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I'm taking off to Louisiana running home

but don't you think an apartment it's

not a house actually it's a sailboat

it looks like get from my friends and

family I tell them my plans well they're

exactly what you would think they would

be good I owe it all to the wind I'm

forty-five my kids are grown

I'm a year and a half removed from

battling cancer and I'm single again

absolutely nothing to lose my dad bought

a sailboat years ago but dreams are

selling to the Caribbean and beyond but

it didn't work out for him in fact he

never really made it out of the Gulf of

Mexico when he told me he was planning

on selling the boat I couldn't let him

do it it's not my boat I'm sinking all

my hard-earned money into it that boat

will hit the water again and hit the

water soon but this time she's gonna do

what she was intended to do I have big

dreams of living on the hook seeing new

destinations just getting out of here

for a while and that's exactly what I

plan on doing there are a lot of great

YouTube channels of people selling

around going from place to place living

on their cell book and now well there's

one more my name is Leon and this is my

journey

welcome to hushpuppy my 1974 Cal 330 my

new home

so it looks like we're going to get the

engine fired up today I got to replace

the oil pump a few filters and see what

happens so wish me luck we'll be working

on it with my dad very psyched about

that he's been helping me out a lot

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okay so first little snafu is there's my

fuel pump that boat came out really

terribly easy the problem is the boat on

this side

because the to get to because you

can't get a wrench on it and there's not

much clearance to get a screwdriver so

I'm have to find a stubby screwdriver so

you want to see it kick in the ass here

I got this

stubby which I thought was gonna work

perfect and look it's too short that

shaft is too short man so a regular

screwdriver is too long and the stubby

is too short time to go to plan B C or D

or whatever it is now so this is the

ratchet that saved the day awesome

tada one fuel pump out and this is my

new fuel pump I'm just comparing the two

right now

it looks pretty much like the same part

to me this is good okay

so what I'm doing now guys is I'm taking

the little gas nozzles off this pump the

old pump both sides and putting him on

my new pump then be able to reset this

thing and hopefully have good fuel

pressure we'll see

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so yeah after a ridiculous amount of

time trying to figure out what was wrong

it was just air in the lines we've got

them all cleaned up we're great and now

under new projects

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that's about all I could do this week I

gotta get back to Houston that's my job

obligation this to get to and order

these parts for the boat man time just

flies look at how much puppy but she'll

be in the water quick enough heading

towards anywhere but here

then I can't wait I still have plenty to

learn in this new lifestyle so please

leave a comment or private message me I

love to hear from you thanks for

watching everybody tune in next time

when I get one step closer to my dream