102: HIGHS & LOWS of our FIRST WEEK living ON OUR BOAT; St. Lucia

I can act like we know what we're doing but she'd find it out anyway so I'm just gonna just tell you right now. We're on a boat and we have no idea about anything. Everything's just a little more difficult. We've had every bit of pride stripped from us. Every bit. We're a couple. Sunshine. Wow so it's been about a week that we've been on the boat and uh. Has it been relaxing? No it hasn't been relaxing at all. I know I know none of y'all are feeling sorry for us but we've never worked harder and been more tired at night. We've never been so challenged uh in one week I don't think ever in our lives. Oh definitely not this has been unbelievably uh exhilarating and frightening at the same time with a learning curve that is just so steep. It's uh it's amazing. A week ago we moved on the boat and SunSail brought us out here with all of our luggage and uh it was really exciting. We are the last uh slip in on this super yacht high security. Also I'm a quarantine doc. We moved on and they took off and they just laughed and said see you later bye. Suckers. So we moved on to the boat and and we had no idea what we were doing. We're on the boat and we have no idea about anything. You gotta start somewhere. Oh scary. I mean simple things like cutting on the gas. Yeah on the stove. There are all these safety things on the boat that you have to make sure you've done before it'll come on. This morning we are trying to figure out how to make a cup of coffee. How to get the propane started. As you know coffee is a necessity. You making progress honey? Basically we don't know what we're doing. I can act like we know what we're doing but you find it out anyway so I'm just gonna just tell you right now. And the fright wig I'm sure is beautiful. Well we gave up on getting the oven started and decided to use the microwave because we could figure that out. Like pumping the water out of the shower. It's below the water line so you have to pump everything out. You gotta find the knob. It didn't seem like it was working but it was working. It was really slow. It was working but we just had to hold it in but we didn't know that. I mean you don't do that at home. Right right. We take so many things for granted at home that you can't here on the boat. In the middle of the night the air conditioning stopped working and started blowing hot air so we woke up completely sweat covered and had to learn how to remedy that situation which we did the next day. What else went wrong? Oh the fridge was freezing. All of our salad materials, thank goodness they're good salad materials here, were just frozen and ruined. Everything was frozen solid. Yeah pretty frustrating uh but we ended up getting that fixed but that took an expert and it took him a while to figure it out. Probably three or four hours and fix it so there's like no way that we could have done it. Yeah. So babe tell us about your first night on the boat. Well there definitely wasn't a lot of sleep. It uh you know it's just it takes getting used to. There are so many new sounds and squeaks and the the fenders rubbing up against the cement wall. See here the squish squish. So not a very good night of sleep. I'm sure it'll just take a little bit of getting used to. Yeah and so the mattresses are not known for being super comfortable on these things. They're rather thin and they've got these dividing sections so that you can pick up the mattresses easily to get to the storage areas underneath them but because of that you you know could have in the middle of your back or or the lower back a crease that you try and sleep on and that just doesn't work very well. Anyway these are high class problems to have. Yeah minor problems obviously but it's our world now. And everything's going on at once. That's right that's right. Yeah I think that's what it is is you're multitasking with men on board from eight in the morning till five o'clock at night doing things that you're totally unfamiliar with and you're being humbled at the same time and you're relying on people and then a bigger issue came and that was that we had accidentally filled the black water holding tank and the black water holding tanks on these are really small. They're like the smallest they can make them and still have them pass regulations. So if you're pretty aggressive with the toilet it's all going to be stored in the holding tank and that thing can fill very quickly. Yeah very quickly and when you're in the marina you have you can't let it flow the only time that you can release well you can have it pumped out but we don't have a pump here on the quarantine super yacht dock or you can go out at sea and release your holding tanks and that's like one two miles out but the problem is we're our insurance company will not allow us to take our boat out by ourselves so we had to get a captain it's like we're little babies and can't do anything for ourselves so Cosmo the captain of the 58 Leopard catamaran here like the top gal on the totem pole is taking the councils out on a poop run. I'm blown away how exciting is this on a poop run out on the boat for the first time since the sea trial. when we wake hear the birds and see the sun side by side our fears are done okay we're going in to drop the black water uh right now get the action shot hope I don't screw it up too bad it's up so now we have to flush the toilet right here it's going to get water flushing through the system and help clean out the tanks all the good times just begun we know well let's hold on tight found what we're looking for in life call us crazy but things are finally right with you and I the future is bright so we pooped up but exciting things happened this week as well aside from all the upgrades and fixes we actually signed our name onto the boat or tagged the boat I'm not even sure what the proper terminology of naming a boat is and getting the signage on but um and we have to have that done before we leave because you can't be sailing without a name and identification on the boat grant gunther was our designer of the logo the logo we appreciate it grant great job and uh yeah and then the rest of it um brown you picked out the uh the font picked out the font and so we have that printed and then um they came and and we paid them to install it because you mess up you have to pay for having the the decal reprinted well ironically they put on one of the decals completely crooked and had to take it off and reapply the next day so I'm glad that we used them and then you also had to determine which port that you hail from and so you could kind of pick anything you want to so we thought about high point or new york new york or even chapel hill but heck you can put whatever I mean where can you just put wherever you want to so we put key west florida because it just seems like a really cool place I've always enjoyed visiting there yeah we love the keys we look forward to returning there so that's why we I mean you know you just can pick whatever you want to that's why we chose key west yeah so we had to negotiate with the locals that's I think been the hardest um hardest thing for us to do because we don't know what things cost we don't know what labor costs around here when we ask people are uh they're non-committal and uh so that has been a bit of a challenge um and when a local walks up to our boat this is you know our dinghy is more than that person probably makes in a year they try and charge more I mean I kind of because I mean there are some outrageous prices that you think are normal but they really aren't and they're looking at your boat and you're in a 44 foot yacht and they're thinking well you've got the cash and everything but Eileen and I the reason why we're able to afford this is because we've been very frugal with our money and everything that we buy and so this is no exception and getting to the true price is something that you have to check with locals you have to shop around we found that even when you settle on a price there's lots of negotiation afterwards yeah thank goodness and still they're getting a really good rate but the key is is finding somebody who does a good job because you do not want shoddy work on your boat because that could leave you in danger later on and it can really affect uh the the price of this great new investment another exciting thing that happened this week was our dinghy arrived our brand new beautiful dinghy you all have given us some suggestions on what to name her we have we have not decided yet still considered it we appreciate that everybody all your comments yeah but she arrived and it was really hard to try and find a time to get away to learn how to use the dinghy but we did and before that we have to figure out how to attach it to the boat and then you've got to do these custom wires and there's the davit system and then you have to brace your thing on the davit so it doesn't move around while you're on pass because there's so many little things that need to be modified and fabricated in order to customize your dinghy for your boat there's nothing standard about it yeah it was it was almost a full day of work to get the dinghy set and it's not we're not finished yet well the day our dinghy arrived we learned the that the night prior four dinghies were stolen in the marina we had asked about dinghy theft in the marina and everyone said the marina is really safe lock things up but just know it's very safe well the four dinghies were stolen the night before and then our dinghy arrives and we don't have the proper cables to raise the dinghy in the davits so we had to tie her up and leave her overnight in the water two nights two nights yeah with a um and we had a cable lock but i can tell you we did not sleep well because we were nervous about uh her getting her getting stolen from behind the boat well and if it gets stolen we'd have to get a real small dinghy and a small engine things are limited here on the island and we ordered those way ahead of time so our replacements not only would be losing all that money but our replacements would be uh would be inferior and um also the longer you leave the dinghy in the water yeah barnacles and growth starts growing on it so not only did we think it was getting stolen but i was thinking man there must be barnacles the size of basketballs growing on that we got to get that out of the water quick but the dinghy was there that's the good news brown has been doing a great job learning how to run the dinghy and we uh to provision the boat but i was but i was scared to death the first two times getting on it it definitely is nerve-wracking um so we didn't learn this until just a couple days ago that we had been provisioning by walking the i don't know it's about six tenths of a mile to the grocery store and we could only we were limited to only what we could put in our backpack to carry back and we learned a couple days ago that you could there's so one of our biggest accomplishments this week was getting into the dinghy and taking that over to the supermarket to the dinghy dock okay we're doing something we have not done before we are taking the dinghy for the first time to go to the grocery store oh my goodness this is a big moment we successfully well we didn't know it's a lot better than walking some guy tied us up thank god because we still don't know how to tie our knots do you remember we will learn starting monday but for now we rely on the kindness of strangers and there is the mall it's amazing all right successful trip to the grocery store for the first time yeah it was just incredible going to the grocery store by dinghy and not only that we could um provision much more we could carry more because we didn't have to worry about walking you know a mile back half a mile back sure but it was a 45 minute trip in the in the supermarket with a lot of angst just wondering if our dinghy would be there when we got back and it was we've learned a lot we've grown a lot we faced our fears it is an incredibly steep learning curve it's daunting at times but if you're not afraid to ask for help and if you are not afraid to fail at something and you just try you know we just we've been okay and we believe that that's going to be the case in the future with everything that we're um we're going to learn so we've had every bit of pride stripped from us every bit we are humbled yeah we're humbled and humiliated completely but you know what we're exhilarated that we have gotten this far we now know how to do a few things and if we can learn a few things every single time something goes wrong one of the reasons why we started doing this is so we can learn new things and it's just a whole new world and we just can't wait to see where we're at this time next year and just count all the things we've learned and laugh at all of the mistakes and stupid things we did awkward situations yeah but we're thankful for you all thanks for following us we really are we love you guys 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