Summer Boat Life _ Sailing With A New Crew Off-Grid

I'm going to take my shoes off. Get in, Joanne! Okay, ready! Ready for the push! Push! Woohoo! We're off to see the observatory. Well, we're... how many meters do you think we are away from the boat? 100? 150. 150 meters to go and we will be back on the boat. I'm so excited. It's actually been a couple months since we were last on it. Longer than expected, but as per usual, things happen. We had a really nice couple months in the van and kind of working and also exploring some of the interior and some of the more land-based activities that we just can't get to on the boat. But we're back. We're back now and it feels so good. We have an extra crew member on board today. Hello. And we're actually going to try and do some fishing. We have a crab pot and a fishing rod and hopefully we might even be able to catch dinner. It's technically an engine. Yeah. Joanne, I think this thing works. Yeah, is there any bird poo? No. Like, where's all the bird poo? Yeah. That thing did miracles. That boy's looking a bit rusty. Oh no. Oh, I stopped. Jonas, that's not a funny joke. Home sweet home. Jillian, your plant is alive. No. Oh my goodness. Come look at this, Andrew. When we left, it only had one leaf. The avocado plant is flourishing. So you're saying it does better without you here. It does. It probably was just so humid. Wow. Yeah, I could get it from the air. These little guys are not doing well, but what can you do, right? I mean, it's like a little greenhouse, Jillian. They just need water, though. I guess it is. Oh, I love this boat. A little dinghy that went out going for a sail. I think one of their stays came off somehow and they dropped their masts. So Jillian and Jonas are just giving them a tow in. Very nice of them. Great day for a sail out. We might take the boat in a bit here. Oops. That was my hand. Hello. We just did our first boat rescue of the summer. There was a couple dinghy sailors. I think they were in a laser, too. And their mast, I think one of their stays gave out or they lost a pin or something in their mast. But the best part is, we were just talking about this, our little dinghy engine has given us lots of problems, but when we need it, it always pulls through. And this was a perfect example. We haven't used it for like two months and it started up first pull like butter. One pull. Covered in barnacles once again. Okay, I think we're ready to make sandwiches. Huh. Never cut tomato this way. No, I thought I'd try something different. So before we left last time, we put up this line over the boom to keep the birds out and it seemed to work. Because normally we would come back to poop everywhere, but there was nothing this time. A couple dead crabs, so we'll be doing this again. Just a little barnacle cleanup. Sails are up. We're actually having a bit of a tough time. For some reason our halyards keep slipping. So if anyone has any advice on that, we keep... Yeah, I don't know why it's happening. So we're going to have to figure that out for next time. But it's beautiful. We've got some actually good wind for once, which is amazing. Okay, we eased the jib in, raised the halyard again, and it seems to be sticking. So maybe we solved the problem. We will fill you in later. But that's way better. There's no crinkles in the sail. Because the idea is that if you have horizontal crinkles or horizontal wrinkles... Horizontal crinkles! If you have horizontal... If you have horizontal wrinkles in your sail, it means it needs to be tightened. The halyard needs to be pulled out more. If you have vertical wrinkles in your sail, it means you've over-tightened the halyard and you need to loosen up a bit. But our halyards seem to be slipping just a little bit. Although it's holding now. A fast tack! We basically stopped. A little rusty, a little rusty. That's probably partly my fault. I'm pinching. There we go. We've got a pretty good feel right now. All the way up. Diving! For the first time ever, Blue Moon is going to catch our dinner.