Assessing the Damage | Can We Fix It?

In the beautiful anchorage of Grandele, Ricky decided to head off for a morning hike with Marty before our morning free dive to see what lies underneath our boat. Our little hike that we decided to go on this morning ended up taking me and Marty all the way up to the top of the hill on this mountain and I'll show you what this mountain looks like afterwards but there wasn't a viewpoint so we missed that and then in Ricky fashion we decided to take a little stream down so we're not even on a path but we're going down the mountain through a stream and let's see where it takes us. How's it been so far Marty? Pretty smooth. Pretty smooth so hopefully the sky will lead us down. There's a there's a little red mark someone's taped it. Where? Oh yeah yeah or is this the mark? Oh that's the red trail. Yeah this is the trail. We bought an old abandoned Canamaran, spent two years rebuilding her and embarked on a 7,000 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean to our dream cruising ground, the beautiful Caribbean. Subscribe below and follow the adventure as we explore our way up the Caribbean chain of islands to the beautiful Bahamas. Once Ricky came back from his hike with jelly legs I managed to convince him to climb in the water with me and explore what lies underneath our boat. We saw turtles and a bunch of reef fish which made us super eager to scuba dive. The following day we popped out our torn asymmetric to assess the damages and take measurements for a new asymmetric to be sent off to Olman sails. We're out here in the anchorage and you can see there's no wind it's perfect conditions to kind of show you guys what happened with our sail and obviously this is what our sail looked like when we left South Africa and this is what it looks like after the Atlantic crossing now granted the sail did sail a lot it got wet sunshine every day the sun baked on it it really abused it and it also may be an indication for you guys that are looking at getting a new asymmetric not to look at certain colors like we love the luminous day glow colors and they freaking awesome for that and especially when you put a chute out they're beautiful but this is what happens with time to them like all the color is gone this used to be pink you see the pink runs through here this is what it looks like now and this is the blue the blue is super strong so this is like a solid color to go for and this is actually what we've asked our new asymmetric to be in because after all of that it's still good but i'll give you the same example i'm so there's the blue section and i'm going here to the yellow section and like i can do the same to this and won't break and i'm not going where it's reinforced i'm just going with normal material and that's purely only color difference and it just keeps on tearing and if i tear it along this line it's literally nothing like i cannot tear the blue still so even though these materials are all the same age that blue survived way better so maybe something for other people to consider and also the lesson learned for us is um get a darker color from what we heard from the guys at allman was the dark colors and non day glow colors last way longer and then also i think white and black are like super stable colors black might not be the best color flying at night if you do that um for long passages like we did we flew a day and night and we just watched the radar for for squalls but um obviously you've got the risk of flying a shoot at night but it's not the point the point is these colors are way more stable something dark solid color that material is still good so what i'm going to tell simone to do is whip out the sewing machine and she'll start sewing all the good colors back so we can have a little patch so we can still sail with it what do you think hun? no i like being a pirate with shattered sails. Simone likes sailing it like this like she thinks she's um the black pearl not the black pearl what's the other ones? no the black pearl had bad sails yeah and the flying dutchman the flying dutchman yeah had bad sails but this is the condition of our sails you can see she's still good for another six months like this is part of character now so you want to fly it this will hold very good shape in absolutely no conditions at all so yeah the long and short of our sails is she was poked and it wasn't something that we did wrong which at first we thought oh maybe we did overload a little bit there was no wind yeah looking at it like this i mean there was 10 knots of wind that react 10 knots apparently but the sail's just falling apart man it's just toast but yeah surprising how good the blue still is are you playing the funeral song? yeah to our sail. so yeah let's get the sucker bagged up we might keep this soft like if we find a secondhand spinnaker for downwind. I'm spending more money on sails no second hand like if someone's giving something away if they're giving it away it's because it's toast babe. that's also true. we've found a few dive spots in this bay that ricky wants to check out he made a valid point that while we have good dive spots we should make use of them since this is the best diving we've done since we got to the caribbean so we're definitely gonna go check out a little dive spot my ear is feeling a little wonky but hopefully it's good so we're doing turtles and a little sailboat trick. yeah turtles and a sailboat trick while we're exploring the waters below be sure to click subscribe if you haven't already and click on the notification bell to get notified every time we upload a new episode and don't forget to leave us a comment below in the comment sections it's a free way you can support our channel Ricky would get excited every time he saw feelers sticking out thinking we had dinner sorted for the night but every lobster we picked up was small. the amount of little lobsters we saw while diving was incredible Ricky and I spent most of our time on this dive trying to free the fish that got trapped in the lobster cages but unfortunately it was really tough trying to free them out of there after Ricky and I's little scuba dive Ricky went to get the tanks refilled so that he could do a night dive with Marty and Michelle from Sailing Vessel Omagog we haven't had many opportunities for night dives so we're rigging up for a night dive well you're going, I'm not going. Simone's staying but I'm going with with our friends Marty and Michelle and it's a beautiful coral dive hope to see some fish but there's a lot of coral in this spot that we're going to. I'm just going to take this and my dive torch and then we'll put a surface light on the dinghy facing down to help us have a little bit more light on there. I'm not going because my ear has been wonkers. I went diving with Ricky today and it was fine until I came back up and then it just hurt. Check what we got. Lumos dig. You're not supposed to light it up immediately. We've got 12 hours oh yes. I'll tie this up onto my at least my my fellow divers can see me. As you can see it was extremely dark that evening but Ricky described it as something absolutely unreal. Definitely will be doing more night dives and he managed to finally see the squid in action. We're heading off to the next bay Anse de Foix or something like that. Felt like we've dived the crap out of this bay so on to the next next spot We say bye-bye to this anchorage. This is a really nice anchorage very very very nice. What would you rate that anchorage? Very nice. It was a good one. Just the part that the cell signal sucks. Yeah. So to get work done it was all frustrating but we'll see how it is at the next bay. Anse de Foix and Anse Noire are right next to each other separated by a cliff of houses. Anse de Foix is your typical turquoise waters with white sandy beaches and Anse Noire is a volcanic black beach. Although Anse de Foix looked gorgeous the holding at Anse Noire seemed to be better according to a wood island book. After setting anchor we hopped on the dinghy over here from where we anchored. I think we're going to go fetch the dinghy and just bring her around. And swim. Bring our snorkeling gear. Swim. One dollar snack shops. We're good. It's not one dollar it's like it says one dollar sign on the navigation book. It's cheaper than the two dollar signs. Yes. Let's go. Stay tuned till next week as we explore the underwaters of Anse de Foix and Anse Noire. Don't forget to subscribe below if you haven't already and give this video a big thumbs up. See you guys next week.