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