Welcome to the second season of Sail Mermaid where I introduce my new crew member Megan! Megan was sailing with me for a little more than 3 weeks this summer...

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sir hey the other ladoo

welcome to another season of sale

varmint this will actually be the start

of a brand new season the reason for

this is that we are done with the boat

shopping process I've done my first solo

sale have done some maintenance on the

boat and now the fun parts begin and

that's where Megan comes in she's my new

crew member for three weeks

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and who are you yeah my name is Megan

I'm 23 years old I come from San Diego

California that's where I grew up and I

was lucky enough to attend Stanford

University in Northern California where

I studied marine biology so she's not

just the crew member she is actually she

knows a little bit about the ocean and

what I don't know I make up and she's

good at that too well I hope that Megan

can learn a few things while she's on

the boat as well like maybe how to tie

knots that would be nice I can learn a

lot from her

we have been diving together which was

very brief dive for me but I hope to do

more of it so yeah but how did you end

up traveling halfway around the world to

meet a total stranger outside with him

for three and half weeks right right

much to the horror of my parents and the

surprise of my friends so being from San

Diego I grew up on the water snorkeling

kayaking paddleboarding and then my

sophomore year of college I started

scuba diving but bro that I've also done

a little bit of sailing and I live on

the East Coast now and was kind of

getting the travel fever of it and

thought sailing would be a great way to

see the world and heard of this site

called khru Bay so I made a profile and

it's boats that are looking for crew

members crew members who are looking for

boats and that's where Roger and I

connected yeah yeah your parents were

terrified when you went I think that

they were I mean obviously they were

concerned it's just the two of us on the

boat

and I'm an only child so as I said they

only get one shot and yeah I think that

they were concerned by this isn't so

abnormal for me to do and I think it

really helps actually that you have a is

system so they could track our progress

as we were sailing and moving around the

world whatsapp is awesome for letting

them know that I'm alive and not dead

yeah so it's been great yeah you don't

seem sketchy usually actually I do but

I'm not a sketchy and you actually

didn't think I was gonna show up no I

actually didn't think Megan was gonna

show up because I've been emailing with

a lot of people who wants to go sailing

and those who are interested in sailing

they are emailing maybe twice a day or

three times a day or they're being very

enthusiastic and I heard from Megan

about three times a week every other day

maybe yeah no I'm not that often more or

less yeah but yeah I don't know I was

tendering offers from a couple of

different boats and this just seemed

like the best fit and so I think that we

hadn't talked in a couple of days and I

just sent you a message I was like

alright we're should book my plane

tickets to let's do this

and literally bought the plane tickets a

week before I was supposed to be there

so that I ended up being a little bit

more more expensive than I would have

liked because it was so last-minute it's

still not bad and a week later we were

meeting up in Malaga yeah in the airport

I was actually being delayed back from

work so I should be on the boat two days

before Megan was scheduled to arrive and

I had a few things to do with the boat

but I was delayed from work so we met in

Malaga and we took the same plane over

to Malaysia yeah

I crossed the border into Morocco all

about this in the next episode

yeah yeah yeah yes I want to see the

bigger cities where my stay on the coast

by the mawkish mawkish we were never -

Marcus no I would like to see yeah we

were visiting lador we were visiting

penny Assad we had I had the boat lying

in much chica thank you very much thank

you very big have you seen your keys Oh

give me a break

she's always after me because I tend to

leave my keys or I can't find them and I

always I always tend to hide things that

I don't want to lose in good spots where

I will never find them again I can't

give you too hard of a time I have to

say Rogers been incredibly patient with

me I am would say I'm a very

enthusiastic crew member very eager to

help but I think sometimes my help

create a little more work

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yeah I don't know I don't know I mean

you have to you have to practice your

notes a little bit I yes

today's the second day in a row actually

that I have lost an object off the boat

because of in effective knot-tying

yesterday it was a fender and today it

was the inflatable don't I yeah that we

easily spent half an hour trying to blow

up which costed me a Bluto hard to walk

yes but that's fine in not trying I hope

I make up for in something else

absolutely we are right now in a bitsa

and we will show you all about the

travel here in a later episode but I

must say the crossing over from Malaysia

to Ibiza was I couldn't I would not have

done it by myself

I probably could but I would not having

Megha Nam was fantastic we had someone

to talk to someone not to talk to

someone to keep half an eye open while I

had a little bit of sleep yeah we show

you everything about that in another

episode yeah it was a great passage we

were expecting more wind we didn't get

to sail as much as we had hoped for so

we we motored quite a quite a bit but

still it was a good passage hopefully

we'll be able to do a little bit more

sailing when we cruise over to my harp

in a few days

that's a health fingers crossed yes yeah

what else is there to say about Megan we

have covered your we have covered your

education mm-hmm what what about this

you're educated as a marine biologist

yeah my degree is technically in biology

but I did a specialization in marine

biology and I looked a couple of

different species of corals that you can

find around American Samoa and how they

react to it changes in water temperature

and why that's important or relevant as

we discuss issues of climate change and

just general stress caused by humans so

the tourism industry the fishing

industry and other kinds of

anthropogenic changes so with all this

background what do you think about all

these yachts in the Mediterranean and

all over the world that is enjoying life

like we are doing right now is it a good

path I think that's hard to say you know

cuz you talk about fuel consumption

greenhouse gas emissions things like

that if people aren't keeping their

sewage in tanks I can cause algal blooms

or disrupt the ecosystems at times but I

also think that one of the best ways to

get people invested in the environment

is for them to go out and see it you

know if you see something that you like

I think you're more likely to protect it

so I think it's all about just being

responsible in your travel yeah and I

can say from my experience now I haven't

been sailing for a long time and I

haven't seen all of the world yet but

I've never seen as much plastic waste in

the waters as I did in the North Africa

the beaches around Malaysia and Morocco

there were sometimes crowded with

plastic that's that's kind of hard to

see because we know what impact plastic

waste does from fish and bird life and

locusts and we also know that parts of

it also ends up in the food chain and is

what we are eating

so I also seen la paga bond has been

pushing this issue in some of the recent

videos that's a good thing I'm not the

I'm not the environmental guy who goes

crazy over everything but just plastic

in the ocean I think is really important

issue just yeah I think anything that

you can do to cut down on your single

look these plastic it's great and I see

a lot of push for using for doing

reusable straws like these little metal

straws when we were buying groceries we

did end up with a couple of plastic bags

but we've tried to reuse them as ash

trash bags throughout our trip so that

we can then take the groceries out of

them put trash into them and then once

they're totally full then we can dump

them off so at least hopefully we're

getting a couple of uses out of yeah

just doing what we can to I think in the

long bond they also said it's hard to go

to cold turkey with it so just doing

what you can to reduce your single-use

plastic and reuse sounds good so what

are your future plans when you are done

with this sealing you wanna you trying

to give me an anxiety attack Wow

wouldn't I like to know it's gonna be

funny looking back at this in a year and

seeing what I actually do so right now

I'm a teacher in Connecticut and I have

at least one more year of teaching ahead

of me

but I'm kind of unsure about my plans

after that maybe going back into the

marine bio world and pursuing a masters

or even something beyond that or

potentially going the nonprofit through

and combining my interest in education

with my interest in marine biology this

is really cool project called the

billion oyster project and I'll give it

a little plug because I really want a

job there but I would love to do more

sailing so and I would love to do more

travel so maybe I think the ideal if I

could pick like anything that I was

gonna be doing it would be traveling

scuba diving doing environmental service

yeah I think doing a couple of years so

that would be really nice especially no

time like the present

yeah now we have to secure the camera

because now we have one of the taxi

boats coming our way and they're almost

heading directly at us when they pass by

in a normal speed so I think it might be

a game for them yeah I think they like

it they they tried to pass one boat on

each side of us simultaneously so we got

ok here we go so you asked me how I felt

how my parents felt about me sailing

around the world with a stranger how did

you feel about bringing a stranger on to

this is truly your home it is well I

have two homes right now and the wall is

the main one is the sailboat the other

home is a Mercedes Sprinter whatever

gets you here

welcome to my world what the thing is

for me is if you're gonna sail around

all by yourself

that's lonely it's boring and I'm the

kind of guy who sometimes needs push to

do things more than just come to the

harbour and sit in the boat

so I have been planning on taking people

on board and of course I tried to choose

people with similar interests and people

that I think that I can get along with

but I have the privilege of doing

something more or less more or less

within those interested in selling with

me

I can I can pick from that like I knew

we were going to pizza I wouldn't want

to same three bits of it someone who's

older than me and probably not

interested in gold clapping at all

great yeah so I can I can choose a

little and I will be doing this again

Megan has been a success I think yeah I

will be doing this again and I have a

lot of friends who said they want to

come sailing with me but it seems to be

a whole lot of talking and it doesn't

happen too often so I'm open for patrons

everybody to come come sailing with me

and that is another thing

now that season two is started this is

also when I will start my patrons

program I have spent a whole lot of

money on this boat lately test two that

I have seen I've seen the amount of

money that's gonna go this boat in this

this what's truly a passion project

right now yeah

the recent thing that costed a lot of

money was the new outboard that we

bought today we had two outs and none of

them was working and they both needed a

lot of work and we needed enough for now

so I bought a new one might be a silly

thing to do but that's the nuts life I

needed something more reliable

and that this project is starting to

cost me some money

so if you want to help me continue this

project then you're welcome to do so

through the patron program and I will

try to make a few extras so that there

is something in it for you as well so I

I will I hope I won't be taking too much

I don't want to be a beggar but if you

feel that my videos are interesting if

you want to see more of what's going on

and be support my project and they can

also add up to you coming to join me on

permit and sale for a while ten out of

ten recommend really ten out of ten oh

that's good legging yes okay okay yes so

I think that's pretty much it

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show them all the adventures we've been

going on yeah super fun in the next

episode you will see Megan on the foot

market of Penance or Morocco I was in

love and we are taking mermaid on shore

and giving her a bottom clean oh yeah

I've worked hard for my keep yeah you

should see what did phenomenal so if you

want to see me doing manual labor tune

in next episode

it's not very impressive I will show you

mine I promise okay

see you thank you for watching bye

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