80KT WINDS UNDERWAY IN THE BAHAMAS!! Severe cruising weather on a boat! #250

today is definitely not the best weather day get that of cre so we decided to cruise that was the plan we're going to cruise because the weather's not good to go into land it's not horrible but we're going to go down to a a different location down here see the AC's been on in the boat and so now the camera lens can't get uh it just it can't get clean it's just fogging up like crazy so we're going to cruise today it's only about 40 50 mil and then we'll be there simple Cruise all right so last night we were expecting thunder lightning a big storm so I didn't hose down the tender these decks are super salty I'd like to hose these down obviously we don't want to hose anything down cuz we don't want to use the water cuz then we have to make the water and it's um just more effort that way right so we're hoping nature would take care of us but it didn't rain last night unfortunately which is no Thunder no lightning um which is good but let me tell you another problem that I have okay so you might have heard this is the other issue that we're having is that see this uh windless here okay so the windless um we greased everything up got it all service got the Hydraulics end of it Service as well um the problem is is that we rely heavily on the Chain counter and that chain counter um there's a magnet in there and it's probably just a little bit too far apart so it can't read the Revolutions of the Gypsy wheel here because it can't read the revolutions it doesn't know how much chain is out remember the episode a while back when we flipped the chain well we didn't paint the chain when we flipped it um I we did it all on the deck obviously we didn't want to paint um we were we were being a little bit quicker than Maybe we should have been and um we've always had that chain counter so now we don't have the chain counter and so the the solution is is the pull the windless up and try to make sure that that magnet is properly um distan from the from the two magnets are properly distanced from each other so um I have this theory that if something's not completely broken and it works the way that it is even if it's just a little bit of a hassle you probably shouldn't take it apart when you're in the middle of the Bahamas um I like to do that kind of stuff at a dock I could um put the put the Bridal on um attach the chain to these Center cleats down here put the chain stopper on and we could take apart the windless and we would be okay and the possibilities are is a part drops in the water something doesn't go on properly something corrodes and breaks off this all shouldn't happen but the theoretically it could right and everything seems to happen like that when you're out in a beautiful place like this so and then I don't have a windless at all and I'm hand craing my anchor up the likelihood of any of that happening is extremely low but the windless works really good right now the only problem is is we don't know how much chain is out so you might have a bunch of different ideas of how we can figure out how much chain is out in the comments I'm going to do the easiest idea possible and I know that the change just colors at about 200 ft so I know I have out about 200 ft and what I did is I marked it right here so we have these zip ties that are on there and we know that that's about 200 ft now you guys are going to tell me no red is not the 200 ft Mark um or is not the proper Mark for the amount of yards or meters that you want to measure um I understand understand that this is just for this trip these zip ties um if you've ever used these zip ties they only last so long anyways um and so they'll be on here and we'll just cut them off when we get done get the chain counter fixed and we will properly Mark the chain um the ideas that we came up with I felt like I was in like a a tech company interview uh at the bonfire last night we could shock the Gypsy wheel and calculate how many times it measures we could put out a a a 10 m rope and then let that extend fully out and then count how many times there's all different measurements what we did is we took the anchor chain out we've blown to the end of anchor chain and we just measured on the charts how far we are I'm sure there's a lot more accurate ways that we can come up with uh ways to measure how much chain we actually have out right now but um this is the one that I like the best it's I know it discol at 200 ft it looks like we have about 200 ft out we're going to go with that [Music] [Music] and for the cruise today we going all the way to your Samson key see that turn marked up right there Sam [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's raining on us and apparently there's lightning out there haven't seen it luckily [Music] the radar ising shell but like hug definely so we have a bad lightning storm one is just to the starboard forward of us right here and one is um right to our starboard out towards her Stern a little bit um Brook hates lightning like absolutely hates it so I'm up here and she's downstairs and um she said that there was some dramatic lightning event when she was like a little kid and she has never been able to like like ever I don't know overcome her fear of lightning which is valid I mean lightning it doesn't feel good when it hits you and it never really does uh it's never really a good thing so I I get it but there's a lot of lighting out here I'll try to film it hey Mike how you doing good we're just pulling out of the uh anchor got a little bit of a light show going on huh yeah yeah for sure is it okay yeah what did light say oh you said they're getting a little bit of a light show what getting a light show at not [Music] [Music] sure 6 [Music] well we're getting I watch thanks no I I wanted a crunch fire [Music] hey R you can can you guys make me some egg bites [Music] [Music] drop for this little storm is coming through it's not really a little but um we're getting through it it should be gone a little bit [Music] here oh my [Music] gosh we almost remember when I told you that um I was sad that we didn't get any rain last night well I got it there's no more salt on the boat after this um yeah it's blowing pretty good it was 77° when we left want to see the temperature now it's 68° now 68° that is a big temperature drop um almost 10° temperature drop for this little storm that's coming through it's not really a little storm though but but um we're getting through it it should be gone a little bit here Stella Luna Stella Luna this is the lady Ken want to go 14 14 yes this is Stella Luna uh Stella Luna this is the Lady K we're well off your port side we're kind of uh just hanging out out here while this goes through I'm not sure if you're calling us for another vessel Lady K thanks for reaching out know it was a small fishing boat that wasn't answering the radar that pass about 10 ft in front of my bow over oh copy copy all right all right um well enjoy the weather hopefully this will get past us shortly sounds good thanks Lady K you still Luna we are you know probably going to cross somehow close to you are you uh are you are you coming out and going to Port are you going south I am going South I'm going to make a port turn now over okay copy that we'll stay on our heading we'll pass you star starb thank you we thank you lady stand by 16 and 14 um that was Mike on the radio uh trying to get a hold of a fishing boat fishing boat out here in this weather it's um not not normal but a fishing boat that came about 10 ft in front of his bow Mike is that's the second time a couple days ago Mike had a problem trying to get hold of a catar and I think it might have been a charter cat um the problem is that for the catamarans and they have a really really shallow draft so a lot of the bahas is just clear sailing for them but Mike who has a larger draft on his bigger boat um he has to stay in in some cases pretty tight channels because it's not um there's not the depth in other areas and sometimes he can't maneuver around the sailboats um because he can't leave the the heading that he's on without potentially going ground um the sailboats don't understand that and uh all he's asking a lot of times is I don't think the sailboats understand that but a lot of times he just wants communication from the sailboats anyone wants communication from the sailboats so that we know even if they're under sale where they're going when they're going to attack what's going on so he can know do I slow down do I need to speed up how do I how do I position around the sailboat here and um he's just had no luck getting a hold of of sailboats on the radio um I think that there just inexperienced maybe barebone charter boats and uh maybe just people that don't have the radio turned up loud enough I'm not sure malcol was turning cuz he was going through about 60 knot winds all right so we little update on the story here let me see little update on the story here um we we're fairing okay um the sway Coast is is only about two nautical miles behind us and we're in 18 knot winds he's in 60 knot winds right now he's so bad that he said he has no steering because the wind is so strong so he's had to turn up into it so right now now he's going like towards I keep on looking down cuz I'm looking at the charts right now he's almost like headed towards nasau um going two knots um just so that he can get a better ride and not get pushed into land um Stella Luna um behind is here they they um they got out of there and they had that close call with the with the fishing boat and um they're also in the thick of it and it's a very very powerful storm just back there they're just a little bit farther back maybe about 4 miles away from us and uh Unfortunately they just um they lost their dingy um they have a smaller dingy and then they have a really nice dingy but they lost the they lost the smaller dinghy um with the outboard on it um it's just kind of a Runabout uh boat but so we're going to have to figure out I haven't gotten any word back on on what we're going to do on that but obviously we're not just going to let that let that go so um uh more to come Lady K Lady K tell Luna I just wanted to give you a heads up that by the rocky bars um I see you're going into Highborn I had I lost a tender so that what I was Towing it's certainly nowhere where you are but if you happen to see something when you're going in um on the on the rock or anything like that um I could give you my sale number if uh to let me know over so the forecasted winds were about 20 knots that that we were expecting um in the Bahamas you can get unforecasted wins pretty pretty easily but um they're about 209 so it wasn't anything out of the ordinary um and Luna was have any issues uh the 80 knot wind 80 knots they were showing 80 knot winds and all they are is 4 miles behind us were you towing a tender as well over oh she's talking to another boat that that we see all the time it's called Lady K and hoping that maybe they can find the tender um the tender did the wind blew it over and it flipped um before Mike was able to turn up into the wind there's no one was no one was thinking that the winds would get that high and so the tender flipped and um of course he could try to retrieve it but he has a whole family on that boat radio and he he had another boat that he was um he had another boat that was coming close to him um so he was worried about this a center console that went within like 10 ft of his bow and by the time he looked back that tender had flipped and he had no choice um there was really it would have been dangerous to try to retreat it so we cut it loose so now we're trying to see if um Lady K is going to be able to find it which um where I know there's a bunch of Lady KS but I've definitely I think it's the same lady K that that we've talked to before in Southport um so I hope that someone can find it and I hope that it's not I hope it washed up on the sand and not on the beach the outboard it's probably gone but maybe the boat's good our flag is hanging on by a little bread all right after all this we are coming into the Anchorage oh we went to Big Majors so we didn't do any of the old stuff I don't know if I talked about where we went before but we're going to Big Majors one of the cool things about big Majors is a lot of the big boats are are right here and it's cool to see all their setups I I think it'd be like a LoveHate relationship being on a crude yacht I think it would be amazing to be on there for like maybe a week but not very private there's so many people on those boats I would be interested to see how an owner's perspective they get tired of having that many people around them all the time if they ever just want the place to themselves or maybe it's so private that you just get used to it I I have no idea so there's good cruises and there's crappy cruises and today was a crappy cruise see how red my face is it's just from being stressed it was blowing one boat saw 80 knots um our two buddy boats lost their steering because it was blowing so hard they had to just point into the wind and just kind of wait for the cell to pass we're down at Big Majors I've been promising Leo Piggies Piggies on the beach and so he goes Piggies like that every time so we're going to take him to see the piggies and hopefully we'll have some weather a couple days of good weather before it gets bad again on Friday just boating but it is harder right now I feel tired I still love it but I'm tired anyway we made it in we're anchored peace [Music] water what are you taking we were like a mailboat for people we're bringing everyone's uh stuff over someone shower broke shower bag is going to pack and play we someone got a sink but no one's claiming it oh and brush heads which we oh show us show us show us these are all the things that no one's claiming got brush head I think these are like pasta strainers pasta strainers emergency pasta strainers that someone needed but no one has told us to who ordered that did Malcolm get this he said no it's a shower head yeah and there's another box I don't know what's there's a fro in there someone got a fro that's Malcolm's he got a fro that was the emergency delivery we going to call him out on that one cuz it's hilarious okay um there's a storm right there I don't know if that's coming this way or not but we should probably hurry H in and then I'll hand you a Leo okay hey guys you want to help what do you have pen what's your delivery uh milk the milk boss the milk boss the premium milk boss the electric milk B I think he had a handle I think that to the premium milk boss the Elric can you get a [Music] live you guys are going to lose your flag you're going to lose your Texas [Music] flag making dinner yeah I'm making a salad so fancy tomatoes and carrots and avocado and Cabo whatever veggies we have left we're really tired it was really long day had some mishaps some 70 knot wins luckily we didn't really see that that was um our friends that were cruising behind us get up the stairs but yeah some days they're just kind of like crappy on the water he's cing me these are the days that uh these are the dinner table stories for every I know I know you remember them but they're like really exhausting but it's okay we're good just going to eat we have pizza in the oven just like frozen pizzas tomorrow we're going to take Leo to see the piggies we've promised him and we're going to go to Sandy key which we hear is really neat it's where all the superyachts go um and drop off their guests so it could be kind of a fun scene to like just check out bradden loves those kinds of scenes and then we have another big storm coming in 2 days so we got to figure out where we're going to go we'll make it work we'll figure it out that's really it just wanted to close out the day with some pizza and salad yeah thanks for coming along for these crazy Tails all right we we frequently get the question um would you ever consider another boat other than a Nord Haven and the truth is that um not as of now no and I would like a faster boat I would like that but the the reason that Nord Haven is is um I think the brand that I would always choose is because you always find other nordh Havens in an Anchorage like this a lot more than you see any other tler and I'm just going to go and show this is not this is not just this area right here this is this is going to be I mean obviously there's a lot of boats in this area but this a lot of different places when you go down on the Caribbean and everything you're going to see similar turn off the sound machine here you're going to see similar things so here here we go look there's an there's a Nord HOV in there there's a Nord HOV in there there is if you look up there there's two one there and one there and if you look out here see that one right there that's a Nord hob in there dad you have a baby crawling up the stairs behind [Music] you well we had big plans to go in and see the pigs and do all the things but looks like we're just going to stay in for the night and we're going to watch Ary I guess a movie and make a treat and I promised Ry we would paint our nails so that's what we're doing tonight and then we're going to go to bed the wind should die down through the night so we'll be able to sleep good and then we should have a good day tomorrow which I'm really excited all the right words so we are at Sandy key right now by big majors and I don't know how we've missed this in the past but it is unreal this Sand Bar is crazy pretty so I'm glad we I'm glad we hit it up along with the pigs but this is amazing tell me no lies tell me no li la la Lae tell me no tell me no La let's talk about your let's talk about your baby I'm in 100% we've been a [Music] year the baby this is Rooney's Heaven back there look at her there's like 15 little piglets back with her what's back here [Music] guys you want to grab one [Music] over or am I going to be I can feel your heart I take a but [Music] [Music] [Music] I me Li me no tell me no Li tell me no Li la la la tell me no tell me no la la la let's talk about your ex

Channel: ABOARD MERMAID MONSTER

Views: 19,769

Keywords: nordhavn, mermaid monster, yacht, yacht life, boat, boating, cruiser, underway, travel family, travel, ocean boat, blue water boat, blue water cruising, Brooke palmer, braden palmer

Id: FGh-Y-Ti6C8

Length: 28min 39sec (1719 seconds)

Published: Sun May 12 2024