We escape winter and slip down to Cayo Coco for a week of beach, snorkeling and sailing on a catamaran! (no we're not going to the dark side) We're invited t...

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and where are we here you go Coco Cuba

yeah we are getting in some sin

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hey remember remember he's recent in

Canada not here the King arrives for him

let's see again

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long winter still got a lot more to go

back home yeah votes still under plastic

and back in Halifax it's snowing today

probably frozen in taking a little break

getting some Sun in yeah we'll be back

there in a couple days we got a big

announcement to make

we're planning on sailing to the Bahamas

next winter that's right we're gonna

spend possibly up to six months in the

Bahamas and avoid the Canadian winter so

all of you guys who've been watching and

telling us to get the hell down there

we're listening yeah listen to you guys

we're hearing your calls and we're gonna

try to make it out there that's right I

mean there's a lot of things can go

wrong we're gonna try our best I mean

you know we got some things to change

and fix on the boat and get ready and we

have to find people to go with and make

sure that you know everything's safe so

you know there are some things could

happen and in miking it might not happen

last winter there wasn't much of a

window for many sailors to head out no

so we're hoping that this winter we will

get that window and we will get down

there and yeah make it there safely yeah

exactly yeah so yeah fingers crossed

stay tuned really great stuff coming up

so before we go to the Bahamas we have a

lot of maintenance to do so this is what

you got to look forward to in some of

the upcoming videos we have we're going

to be reading a port light we have to

rebuild our anchor win list because you

know it's been kind of rusty and it

worked okay last summer but you know it

really needs to be rebuilt to rely on it

for you know what we plan on doing here

we have to remove our mast in order to

get at our keel boat washers plus it's a

good idea to remove our mast anyway

because we've never had it removed and

we want to see like you know how the

rigging is but the keel boat washers

that that's holding our keel on they're

wasting away and I just I want to

replace them with stainless steel that's

a big job so we'll show you that and we

have to haul out and we have to remove

the rudder we got to completely rebuild

the rudder we didn't show you guys this

last year but the rudder is actually wet

yeah we ended up having to let it sit

there and drain for a few weeks and even

then it seemed like there was still a

bit of water trying to get out of there

yeah so we're gonna have to fix that one

up before we head out the danger is if

the metal inside the rudder broths or

rusts away the rudder could fall right

off the boat and we're gonna cruise for

six months we want to make sure our

rudder is solid we got to do planning we

have to do provisioning and all kinds of

things I'm sure we don't even know that

we have to do you head push it's a big

trip so wish us luck

keep it accident all right so we're back

in Halifax and the first thing on the

list is to rebid the starboard side port

light first I just want to apologize for

the noise that's the bubble maker here

at the marina and when that's running

like it keeps the water from freezing

you know and it's all good but it's loud

today I'm taking a look at one of our

port lights this is the only leaky port

light we've got and obviously we've been

trying to deal with it by putting tape

around in the tape did work for a while

you know but it's not a permanent fix

and before we go south this is something

that I need to address so far I've

removed the glass

and I've removed all the bolts so now

I'm at the point where I'm going to

remove these plates and will rebut it

and put it back in so in order to remove

this first flange on the outside I use

this carpet knife with the blade

extended and then I just ran it along

the edge like this just careful not to

mess up your gel coat when you do and

eventually it just kind of slid down

into that groove and I was able to cut

all along yeah it's a little tricky down

here at the bottom so you want to get a

lot of blade out but you can do it get

this flange off it's pretty dirty here

which means it's been leaking okay so I

was successful in removing all the

caulking around the edge here and I

investigated in here to see if there was

any pore and gay no pore so the window

is all cleaned up and through been in it

now I used this product at Sikaflex to

9/5 UV resistant adhesive and sealant I

put the window in from the back I did a

bead of caulking all around the edge and

then I cleaned it up with a popsicle

stick to give me a nice perfect bead and

then I just bolted it in a couple places

just temporarily to hold it in place

while it dried so I just took this bolt

out already in this bolt and what you do

is you put caulking on this side and

caulking here put it together and make

sure that the screws and where I

countersunk these screw holes has plenty

of caulking in there because that's a

point where it can leak as well Sikaflex

is a little hard to work with you have

to clean up with mineral spirits if you

want to save yourself a lot of work you

can tape around the edge with masking

tape or painters tape and when you're

done just peel away the tape and no mess

it's really important not to tighten the

screws and bolts until the caulking has

dried also the screws should remain

stationary while tightening and only

turn the bolts otherwise you might break

your caulking seal all right that's it

all done now the flange is on it's just

drawing now and should be good to put

the window back in tomorrow thanks for

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