Cruising (a.k.a. sailing around the world) is half-jokingly defined as fixing your boat in exotic places. It feels like we’ve been cruising this whole summer...

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it's good to be alive

you've seen that we have the boat in his

driveway and the kids cleaned it it

looks a lot better there's a lot of

stuff we got to do to get this thing on

the water

number one was cleaning it I think it

still got a little bit of work to do

there

step two is probably fixing our drain

holes I don't think I have all these

orders right but another thing we have

to do is we've got to make sure we seal

all the hatches with new rubber and the

companionway hatch has to be sealed with

new rubber we got to create a new

companionway hatch door because our

proposal gotta get the keel looked at

because it's been off the water for 11

years and it go out in the lake and we

let the keel down there's a potential

that the keel could rip off the boat

it's like 650 pounds and then it goes to

the bottom the lake your boat will flip

over and sink so that'll be really bad

we got to get the mass attached to the

boat which means positioning it right

over this companion post and you see it

moves so I'm not exactly sure what that

means but I've got a bolt that sucker

down to the roof and then we got to

figure out all of the rigging for the

mast the metal rigging this they

standing standing rigging then we got to

get all new running rigging which are

the lines what most normal people call

ropes so I call it a rope oh I think we

have to look at some of the electrical

stuff if we want a sail at night so I've

got to make sure the lights work which

means installing a battery and checking

the wiring

and then learn to sail it which he's

doing teach me

depending on his boat

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it seems like there's something else we

have to do oh oh and the leek lovely oh

yeah absolutely King up so I said first

okay trailer needs to be done so we got

to make sure the lights on the trailer

works so we can be legal I got to get

that thing I gotta get that thing

registered and get plates on it and make

sure I've got an adapter my minivan will

get a hitch Tuesday now keeps getting

delayed

it was supposed to be last Monday then

sale and then sail and the outboard

motor and okay lastly all right let's do

this gonna put on your boat but it's the

top of the boats and it'll still float

with shifting a lot yeah I've got two

big Tubby's on here boy it's pretty I'll

be ready to drill a hole in my palm

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very close

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at the MassDEP mounted to the boat now I

can raise my mast let's open it up I'm

doing no neither clearly what's this

thing do all right new plan we are gonna

do the absolute minimum to get this

thing on the water which means get my

trailer lights working

no you haven't seen it clean yet that's

true rain happen in the board that'll

ripped out

so which one's this this is the

connector that goes to the vein plugs

into the lamp

anything but do we have water nuts but

you can harness I get sweet really good

cheerleader Kelly she's excited to get

on the water favorite you can swim right

second barely needs me swim float least

parts for Susan swallow okay here we go

yeah let's test it

alright let's figure this out now I see

nothing

Oh about your brakes well that turned

right Church you caught me on no all

right so nothing works

we got nothing like you're getting a

drill bit because my trailer has a hole

it's too small for my nuts and we got to

fix this drain that leaks water into the

hole so we put on the water without

fixing that it'll just flood my hole I

don't know all right all right we're

headed to Home Depot

what were your concerns yeah so

how in the world and that pipe gets so

blown out like what was rubbing against

it how did it I mean how is it I can

trot it's plastic so I don't know how it

got this way hopefully took 20 years to

get that way and we only need it for a

couple years you know it kind of looks

like an alien creature like a centipede

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Pinchas oh this can't be that rare of a

thing

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nope nope nope nope nope nope

have no idea what I'm looking for yes no

no no he's gonna help me out just how

can this be not to be childish

come on Internet

come on Internet darn it help people

you're gonna fill out this too

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gotta get the motor working so we can

get it on and off the trailer okay so

we've been trying to figure out the

fastest way to get this boat on the

water

well fastest and cheapest and we were

looking at electric trolling motors

turns out electric trolling motors are

about 250 bucks plus marine batteries so

I'm thinking it might be cheaper to try

to get this outboard running but to get

this outboard running I need to replace

the cables so I can control it from the

cockpit you can see them right there's a

control cable and that sheath right

there is destroyed it's supposed to be a

solid sheet so that this cable can move

inside that wire which enables us to

control the throttle and on this side

you got the shifter cable it has the

same flaw right there it's not supposed

to be that way at this point I'm

committed to fixing this outboard

because I spent 300 bucks where the

parts gas can battery and how to repair

an outboard engine

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I like it we decide to do our first dumb

thing and I'm doing doing it well that's

why it's supposed to because I'm the

smart one you can't do anything stupid

I'm the one that does the research

before you you're shaking it off to you

when I make them decisions right fat

fingers are in the way

all right once again whatever been used

that looks like a brand new one doesn't

it

I see a little bit of she'll right down

the bottom here I don't know a little

wet there go forward on the boat this

thing pops out every time I can't even

get the clip in and stand pressures do

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pop we can take off the old cable cable

cut it or something and then just

manually pull it to get the I do like

that noise okay

PSB yeah those three things we got to do

don't taste like gonna touch water I'll

jump on if it does I don't know what

I'll do then though it's in the water