OH SHIP! There Goes the ENGINE __ Sailing Rangiroa Tuamotu French Polynesia

Hello friends and welcome back to the stunning and remote world of Tiki. This magical little ring of coral has tingled our taste buds for the Tuamotus with secluded serenity above sea level and deep blue expeditions. We've met all sorts of creatures floating around in this not so far away galaxy. It's been nothing short of glorious sunsets with almost no motivation to move on until now. Sorry it is not a good morning. The I don't know if just the wind and swell picked up it's not that windy out there but man I just turned into total crap. I don't know if you can hear all that slapping and slamming but that is the waves hitting the side of the hull and it's been like that all night long and we have been rocking and rolling. It's felt like we're at sea so it's pretty ridiculous. Anyway we are going to hopefully move to Regoroa today but I don't know because it's the swell and everything is like that and we're on the inside. The outside could be pretty nasty. I have no idea what the past is gonna look like. I don't have any big expectations for today that's my point. It didn't start for us the other day so. I'm gonna have trouble at the starter again. Again. I think this is gonna be a wonderful day of sailing. Good morning. It's sarcasm here. Sleepy sarcasm aside the weather is the reason for our departure today and not just because of the rolly anchorage. The forecast is predicting high winds and storms starting tomorrow which means the narrow passes in and out of the atolls will become too treacherous to navigate and we've only heard at least a few dozen horror stories about how dangerous this dangerous archipelago can be. Geez we are flying. Yeah. So you wouldn't want to come in at this time? Uh no and I'm not feeling super memory in it. I don't have a choice. Potter is angry. We all survived the pass. Everyone's excited. Yes. Very excited. Yes. And you? Yeah I'm much better now that we're out of that. Not much current pushing you. If it decided to send you one direction to the other it would be a battle to get out. Picking up the anchor chain with the floats on it was kind of a it's a new experience and the way the leopards set up it kind of makes it a pain in the butt to pull it up but it wasn't that difficult. Getting out definitely stressful and all this before 6 a.m before any coffee it's like as a sailor you have to be ready to get up before the sun and get out whenever the tide is just like when it's at its best and we also have to consider when we get to Rangaroa because that tide is supposed to be even worse and that current is supposed to be even worse so we have to be there like perfectly at slack tide and now we're going to be beating against the waves and the wind so it's like my heart's pumping and we've just left we've got like 10 hours to go oh man it is a beautiful morning though just freaking beautiful not good the port engine will not start it started whenever we left and then we were sailing so we it's the starter we thought we had originally fixed the starter because we took it out cleaned it all up put it back in it's been working like a champ until now of course of course we really need the second motor because we're fighting a headwind and a current we might not make our destination time if we don't have the second motor because we have to enter at a certain time or otherwise we're gonna have to spend the night out here so that we can wait for the next slack tide in the morning to enter the pass anyway things are not looking good and it is pretty much Jason's worst nightmare because we're beating into the wind it's nice and rocky and we get to work on the engine on a scale of one to ten how bad does this suck for you right now like my sailing nightmare it could be worse i mean it could be like 20 foot seas instead of just eight foot seas yeah it's like a mini nightmare now i know it sounds a little grumpy but let's just take a second to appreciate the magnificent invention that is the modern sailing catamaran when faced with these dangerous challenges we always have options we can change course and sail even if that means choosing a new destination or arriving a day later we have two engines and even while one isn't working the other is and we're still en route while troubleshooting the same problem on a different vessel and our frustrating inconvenience would be a much bigger problem that's the culprit all that dirt so apparently it's like carbon buildup and that's what causes this thing not to turn because it gets stuck on all that crap that's also what caused our fire well our smoke we didn't tell people about that oh we didn't know so when we tried to start it the trick is you hit it with like a hammer you hit the side of it with a hammer and it can loosen up some of this carbon and that'll allow the thing to spin so you can get it to kick on when it doesn't want to kick on but i hit it and it kind of started to turn over and it started smoking so apparently like it uh the carbon will cause it to ground itself and create like a little mini fire which is not good and that's dangerous that's why we haven't tried to start it again and that's why we're disassembling it to try and clean it yeah i wiped it pretty good but here's cross this does the trick 86 degrees that is the temperature of the ocean 88 degrees here in the salon 90 degree temperature outside and how hot do you think it is in there 110 degrees the engine is still hot are you ready to give it a go yeah i gotta raise my hand so i can have a camera down here okay all right the starter is installed again that's this thing right here tell me when you're ready ready here we go damn it i saw the amp meter come on started it's so loud up there yeah go again okay damn it amp meter technology come up and that's just because i turned the key on auxiliary or whatever okay here we go can we try again okay so we saw some like ball bearing looking things which we assumed were probably bits of solder that probably connect the electric connections of the starter which means since it didn't start it's probably poked completely trashed yeah but we have a spare um that's coming in rangaroa so we'll get to replace it but it's uh well right now we're doing okay on speed and time but if the wind or the waves get worse or we slow down for any reason then we really risk not making it at the right time so i think we'll make it in as long as nothing else goes wrong knock on wood i'm gonna get to do something that i've never done before we're running low on fuel now it's okay the first time i've had to fuel up in seas that's exciting see how that goes yeah it's uh we've got three hours and 40 minutes till we get to the pass so in that time frame yeah things should get well i just yeah i told you it was gonna be a fun day five gallons should get us about five hours and we got about five hours left it's not even a drop spill great job this is where having an old school style jerry can with the vent on the back and the flexi bendy hose is like super awesome because the the new style ones they have like these plastic things you have to push down there's no vent there's no way with those new jerry can styles there's no way i would have been able to do that um i do think i'll probably end up buying one of those electric pumps because that looks badass you like stick on a thingy down there and it like literally turns into a pump like you're at a fueling station so i'll probably buy one of those next time we do a a mule run but success that's my one-handed got plenty of lights i think your timing should be okay like to get there there we go that's the pass right there we're up the main sail to hopefully help steady us give us a little extra oomph how you feeling gabby i don't know it's looking a little rough over there i'm not gonna lie but you got this it's a good boat she's gonna take care of nothing like nerves and the unknown this is what happens when i listen to too many cautionary tales and let me tell you some sailors are excellent at sharing fear or you know cautionary tales and well we're not all the way through yet but so far not too bad we're fighting probably about a one knot current so nothing too bad at all it calmed down big time in here a little shelter from the wind is really nice and we've got this little bit to keep going through two churches and one tiny pass well that's not nice the water is rushing through and i can see how poor planning and a dash of bad weather would make this a nightmare but we did plant and it's no biggie even with one engine down i like the turtle slow and steady i was all worked up for shouldn't let those stories get to me rainbow yeah look at that 30 knots of wind holy crap well apparent still 27 26 yep oh man we made it feels good what a long crazy day uh it is 6 30 managed to get anchored with the one engine always fun because you're gonna wait drop a little chain wait drop a little chain because you can't really back up straight uh with the one engine we're always a little bit squirrely but it works and we're here i don't have a beer that pass better be badass it's not raining a row his fault no no but i'm saying we're here freaking hammerheads we came for hammerheads that's why we came that's why we went through all this it didn't wait for the perfect weather window for one for internet because we need connectivity can't survive without internet unfortunately and two it's hammerhead season which ends pretty soon so we had to get here gotta get here we're here yeah it's the ledge network though i thought it was gonna be 3g i did not uh but it's beer time oh and cleo's ready for sundowner time to yes meow meow thanks so much for watching if you've never been to our website before you should check that out click the square icon this look right here or if you want to keep watching videos check these out