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Salty Podcast #26 | ⛵Dreams of Sailing South to Warmer Waters on an Island Packet 27⛵

• Capn Tinsley | Ryan of Island Dawg • Season 1 • Episode 26

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Join me live as I chat with a passionate sailor who owns an Island Packet 27 and dreams of navigating from New England to the warmer southern waters. Discover his adventures, challenges, and plans for the future. Don't miss this inspiring episode of the Salty Podcast!

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SALTY ABANDON: Cap'n Tinsley, Orange Beach, AL:
Oct 2020 to Present - 1998 Island Packet 320;
Nov 2015-Oct 2020; 1988 Island Packet 27
Feb-Oct 2015 - 1982 Catalina 25

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Capn Tinsley:

Good evening everybody, and welcome to the Salty Podcast. This is episode number 26, and where it's always a great day to talk about sailing. Tonight's guest is Ryan. I'm not even going to try to say his last name, but the name of his boat is Island Dog. So I'm going to go ahead and bring him out, and here he is. Good evening, Ryan.

Ryan Lapoire:

How are you doing Tinsley?

Capn Tinsley:

I'm doing real good. I'm excited to hear about your adventures and what you got coming up or what you dream of the trips you want to take. So the name of this video is setting something to the effect of setting sail south dreams and adventures on an island pack at 27. I think actually changed it to a dreaming of sailing to warmer waters.

Ryan Lapoire:

So tell us.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, yeah, so tell us where you are right now.

Ryan Lapoire:

So I live in Boroughville, rhode Island, which is about 20 minutes north of Narragansett Bay. My boat's in Warwick, rhode Island, in a little cove in Warwick, rhode Island called Greenwich Bay, and they do a lot of racing and everything like that in that little bay. It's tucked up to the top left corner of Narragansett Bay so it's kind of like a playground down there. It's really nice.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, there are a lot of sailors up there, right A lot of sailors.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yep, now would you say, there's more sailboats. Yeah, where I am in warwick there's a lot of.

Capn Tinsley:

There's a good mix there's a real thing yeah well, it's kind of like the mecca up there, isn't it? I mean?

Ryan Lapoire:

that's what they say that's where it all.

Capn Tinsley:

That's where it all started, right, yeah, yeah, well, at least in this country, right? So tell us what you have.

Ryan Lapoire:

I got a 1987 island Packet 27 and she's been a good boat so far. She's been a real good boat.

Capn Tinsley:

It is a really nice boat. I'm going to see if I can share a picture here. I should have had this ready. But what are you going to do? We're live, we just, we go with it, right? Yeah, ok, so here.

Ryan Lapoire:

There once was a ship that put the sea in the name.

Capn Tinsley:

All right. So here you are sailing and I want to show You've got a really nice enclosure, it's beautiful. I want to show oh there, you are Right there.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, that's me. That's me in the boat, probably the second night after I bought the boat.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh yeah, probably right there.

Ryan Lapoire:

That's, me, that's me on the boat, probably the second night after I bought the boat oh yeah, probably it looks real cozy in there it is cozy, I love it there you are sailing, a little motoring, or where are you right there? That's new york city, that's in manhattan going through hell, oh wow yeah the sails look like they're in really good shape. You know, and it's the original mainsail.

Capn Tinsley:

Wow.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

She looks beautiful.

Ryan Lapoire:

She's a good boat, you know, and I you know. It's funny. When I bought the boat it didn't come with a headsail. It had been torn, it was not repairable. So I went on Facebook and I ended up scoring one. I typed an Island Packet 27 under the marketplace.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah.

Ryan Lapoire:

Lo and behold, someone was selling one, along with some seat cushions and all the white leather cushions for the inside of the boat and everything like that.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, wow.

Ryan Lapoire:

And a fully battened mainsail. So I said, all right, I'll get the headsail to start. So I got the headsail. They shipped it up from Florida and it's what the heck's the name on it?

Capn Tinsley:

Not Thruston Sail, it's one of those sail makers that are down there, in your area though. Oh, in Alabama or Pensacola.

Ryan Lapoire:

I think Pensacola area yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, oh, yeah, okay. So I have some envy here on this enclosure. I have enclosure envy. It's a huge help.

Capn Tinsley:

I sailed up from uh from new york in november and a t-shirt in that right there yeah, yeah, and when I go across the gulf and it's like december, yeah, this would be really handy right here because the gulf is cold in those months at night. So, all right, so I just wanted to kind of give people an idea what you have. You have a really nice island packet 27, which I used to have, hayden and radian used to have. Yeah, so, um, let me see if I can get that off the screen now. So how long have you had her?

Capn Tinsley:

five years oh okay, yeah, you sailed quite a bit, mostly around the north new england yeah, yeah, I've, uh.

Ryan Lapoire:

So we sailed her up from staten island, new york that's when I went to helgi and everything like that and then, um, the engine stopped twice running on the way home, stupid things. One was the electric fuel pump. One of the. The wires came off the electrical fuel pump in the middle of the night, so we just sailed on. And then the other one was the uh, the gasket on this on the strainer, on the water strainer, had a leak on the lid and I stopped spitting water so I had to shut the engine down and uh, you know, and were you able to fix those things?

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, nice yeah.

Ryan Lapoire:

It was very easy fixes, but it was like you know you start thinking about all the little things that can happen out there and you know, sometimes they're just like stupid little things like that, like a rubber gasket. Yeah, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

It helps to be able to look at those things and be able to fix little things on a boat. Yeah, so you said you bought her at Staten Island.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, Staten Island, New York.

Capn Tinsley:

Wow, I bet that was some ride back to Rhode Island. It was great.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, I did it in three days, so it was nice, and when I bought the boat she came with a slip, so I was driving down from Rhode Island to Staten Island Every Monday and Tuesday.

Capn Tinsley:

I would go down there, and how long does it take you to get from Rhode Island to Staten Island?

Ryan Lapoire:

With traffic, maybe like four hours.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh wow, that is a long way.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, it's a long way, you know.

Capn Tinsley:

So have you been? How long you've been sailing?

Ryan Lapoire:

So I have a sunfish. I live on a lake and I've had a sunfish, so I started sailing out a little bit before and I've been on sailboats and I've I've uh always just loved sailing. So that's when I've been looking, and looking and looking. But then I watch your videos for a long time and then, when the you know, I knew what an island pack of 27 was. And when she came up and I found her on facebook as well and uh, so so salty band, and maybe you know it was a big influence.

Ryan Lapoire:

I'm an influencer.

Capn Tinsley:

That's awesome, yeah, and I still have that, but we were talking about that offline. I'd still have the IP 27 if it hadn't been for hurricane Sally. Yeah, but now I'm happy with what I have now. Yeah, so do you do most of your sailing by yourself? I do yeah, so that's where the 27 is. It's a great boat for that.

Ryan Lapoire:

It is, yeah, the 27 is perfect for it. You know, if I could only figure out something to get the main sheet to the steering wheel a little bit better, it would be. Oh yeah, it's way up in the front, that's what autopilot's for? Yeah, I've never been on autopilot, I've got to install one. Oh, you don't have an autopilot, no, that great enclosure.

Capn Tinsley:

There had to be something missing, right? Oh yeah, you've got to have autopilot. So it is a great boat for by yourself, but if you have somebody come along there's still enough room for two people. That's what's great about it, yeah. So where all have you sailed within the last five years? Where have you anchored? What are some of the local trips you've made?

Ryan Lapoire:

Prudence Island, which is an island right in the middle of Narragansett Bay. There's a cove called Potter's Cove. It's excellent, you can go in there, you can anchor up, hang out. There's a, there's an island. It's uh, it's very rustic. There's no restaurants or nothing on it, so a lot of people go in there. Uh, you got newport, we got block island, we got cuddy hunk island, which is in the elizabeth islands, a little bit south of motha's vineyard. You got the vineyard, you got nantucket. Um, but honestly, I mean you can spend all summer just exploring Narragansett Bay. Right, there's so many nooks and crannies you can go and have fun. And you know so I haven't taken it out of the bay probably in like two years, just because you know there's good wind in Narragansett Bay. It comes up from south a little bit most of the time. So that's about it for right now little bit most of the time.

Capn Tinsley:

So that's about it for right now. Well, that sounds like there's plenty of places for you to to hang out and get used to the boat. So what do you? What are your dreams? Where do you want to go? What's, what's your first big trip gonna be?

Ryan Lapoire:

I assume you have a job yeah, I got a job, unfortunately, so it's holding me back a little bit, but I'm trying to get remote so I can just work on the boat like all these other lucky people get to do. I'm trying to get it to Florida. I'm trying to get it to Florida. My family has a condo in Naples.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, yeah.

Ryan Lapoire:

So I spend a lot of time down there and I'm like, why am I putting this boat up on the hard oil winter and we could get it down there and then sail. You know it doesn't make any sense. So that's the ultimate goal this year. Maybe not, because now, you know, because of the accident that happened. So I'm trying to rework everything and get it back to where she was.

Capn Tinsley:

But yeah, let's talk about that. Let's talk about the accident. Let me show that picture. But yeah, let's talk about that, let's talk about the accident. Let me show that picture. Oh boy, oh, there she is.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah right, oh yeah, what a sight. To walk into the marina and see that.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, that's. I'm trying to figure out what's happening exactly in the picture, because I don't see like. I see that mast on the other boat, but where's your mast? You said it got knocked down right.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, because it was a deck step mast. When that Beneteau fell over, it took out my backstays and when that happened, yeah, so each spreader with the welds going around the mast just buckled it, didn't it just like that, like buckled? So my mast ended up falling onto the very expensive yacht on the side of me. Oh no, oh yeah, there were four boats involved in that accident and, yeah, I lost a mast and the enclosure did get Some holes in it. So, but I will say, progressive insurance Wonderful to deal with.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, okay good, and hopefully they'll renew you when that comes.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, we'll see how that works out. I got the longest.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, so what exactly Blew that boat down?

Ryan Lapoire:

I win. They said it was God.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh my gosh, An act of God.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, an act of God, I know.

Capn Tinsley:

And so this was 13 weeks ago. So when was that? That was like three or four.

Ryan Lapoire:

It must have been early December, yeah, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

We had stuff happening here early January and it's like my boat's been damaged twice. It's not even hurricane season yet.

Ryan Lapoire:

So I'm going to.

Capn Tinsley:

I'm going to move it for two months, July 16th, to the wharf. I'm a little more protected during hurricane season, the peak of hurricane season okay but so um did so, you got that fixed and you said it happened in december and it was fixed by pretty quick. What did? What did you say it was?

Ryan Lapoire:

yeah, I mean I got her in the water. I think it was two weeks ago. I uh, we got her in the water. I had the. My marina that I'm at doesn't step mass. They don't have a crane, so we had to launch the boat, put the mast across the whole boat. We went next door, a few marinas down, and I stepped in. That was about two weeks ago now, so you know I had to do a lot.

Ryan Lapoire:

I had to take the sail track off the old mast because there's one of those you know the plastic sail tracks that goes up, so I had to exchange that over. I switched over all my wiring, I put all new lights on the mast.

Capn Tinsley:

You know you do this yourself.

Ryan Lapoire:

I did that all myself, yeah, so I had to move the gooseneck. I had to tap the mast and thread it, you know, and move the gooseneck. I think I had to move it. Oh, I had to move it off my old mass onto the new mast. Okay, Did that, and uh how are your chain plates? I'm hoping they're good.

Capn Tinsley:

How do you inspect them?

Ryan Lapoire:

If not, I'll just buy the externals and, uh, that'll be the next project, like you did.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, yeah, and it was actually Hayden that said just take the money and buy a bigger boat. And I was like I don't want to buy a bigger boat.

Ryan Lapoire:

But I did. I would have done the same thing, but there was no hull damage to my boat at all, it was just the mast, that's it.

Capn Tinsley:

You know, what did it for me was that they said the insurance company was doubting the rigging and the chain plates because they had, like a, an expert weighing in that new island packets and I had the external um supports what do you call it? The braces that I had put on, yeah and um. And so the guy I saw his opinion and said she probably has never had those replaced because she's got the external things on there and so I don't. I was getting the feeling that they would. They're not going to pay, they're not going to insure the boat after they paid me, and so it was like I finally got to that point and just decided to move on.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

And so I see here yeah, you said here do I take the insurance money and upgrade to an IP 31?

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, I almost did.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, I think Hayden would tell you a 31 is not the way to go.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Did he tell you that? No, I didn't ask, but it was a good deal and it was down in Bukihaba. Oh, Bukihaba it was down in Bukihaba, oh Bukihaba, I couldn't pass the deal up.

Ryan Lapoire:

But I was like you know what I mean. If there was any other damage just besides the mask, I definitely would have done it. But in the way that the mask broke, like I said, how it buckled, I'm pretty sure it didn't do anything.

Capn Tinsley:

No, stresses at all to any of the rigging you know, to the chain.

Ryan Lapoire:

Did you have it inspected? No, of the rigging, you know, until the chain, did you have it inspected? Uh, no, what are you gonna do? How do you inspect the chain plates?

Capn Tinsley:

they're all embedded don't they have those things there they can see through? Oh, the x-rays yeah yeah, they could you know well, okay, before you leave on a long trip, you need to call a rigger and tell them to put up a mask and do the whole deal, that's what I do every time I leave, because it takes a lot of beating out there.

Ryan Lapoire:

I'll tell you what riggers are not easy to come by up here. It's amazing.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh well, Not many riggers.

Ryan Lapoire:

It's not like Florida or down there, where there's a lot of marine stuff Up here because it's so seasonal it's tough.

Capn Tinsley:

That's crazy. You were telling me that.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

There's not a lot of people to fix boats, and I just think of it as the Mecca up there.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh yeah, Everybody loves to work on outboards. There's a lot of that kind of marine tech stuff, but like. I said a lot of these guys working on the you know, on the sailing yachts and stuff.

Capn Tinsley:

They're all getting older and not a lot of people are stepping in to replace them right, you know yeah you know, unfortunately that's something I was talking about on my real estate podcast is the baby boomers are all retiring or dying and so all the blue collar jobs. But he wants to do them. So if you're a young guy and you can get into one of these skills, I think you can make a lot of money. Whether it's fixing boats, cars, plumbing, hvac service you know all that stuff, and apparently there's a need for riggers.

Ryan Lapoire:

I mean I've tuned the rig myself you know what I mean with the loose gauge and I've done all that Like. I mean, you know, I'm pretty pretty, you know it's not a big boat with ice. You know what I mean. It's not a huge boat.

Capn Tinsley:

So yeah, you know well, maybe if you do go south you can stop. I don't know my geography up there stop in annapolis and have it inspected I think that's where my top was made originally or you could go further down until you find a rigger and have it inspected down your way to the Keys or something.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Anyway, we're going to talk about you getting to the Keys. When do you think you can make this happen?

Ryan Lapoire:

I'm thinking two years. I'm going to hang out here, maybe another year. I've been looking at houses, but up here it's kind of impossible to buy anything. Right now. You're in real estate, I mean. I don't know how it is down there, but up here it's like you know, two bed, one baths going for like four hundred and fifty thousand. So I might just have to live on the boat for a little bit, which is OK.

Capn Tinsley:

There you go.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah so.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, I encourage you to to make that trip. I know it's further for you, it's it's actually not. It's kind of far from me too, because I I go, I go.

Capn Tinsley:

I got to go east and I don't go straight to key west because if something goes wrong with the boat I can't fix it. You know it depends on what it is. So I I try to stay. You know I go about two days offshore across, you know, the the big bend of florida, but I try to keep it to a minimum how far I get offshore yeah and then it's so much fun going down the gulf coast it's beautiful.

Ryan Lapoire:

I love it too. I mean, like I said, we spent a lot of time in naples and it's like, oh my god, macaulay island, that whole area, you know, I'm sure you've been there right.

Capn Tinsley:

I know all that area.

Ryan Lapoire:

I really will.

Capn Tinsley:

And then the Keys.

Ryan Lapoire:

I've been to Key West like five times. I know all about Key West. I love it. I got to get the boat down there, so I don't know if I'll take it through Okeechobee and go that way or if I'll do the whole thing around.

Capn Tinsley:

I think you should go right on down to Key Biscayne, hang out there and then go down to Key Largo and then Marathon and there's just so much. So many cool places down there to anchor and hang out.

Ryan Lapoire:

I'm going to probably bug you to death until you do it. Okay, I need the motivation.

Capn Tinsley:

Well so tell me, tell me some about some of your adventures that you've had on the motivation. Well, so tell me, tell me some about some of your adventures that you've had on the boat Mishaps have you gotten stuck?

Ryan Lapoire:

Have you? What kind of who goes with you? I touched bottom one time, luckily that's it, and it was nice and sandy and I just and right off.

Capn Tinsley:

you know, that's it, that's the only time I touched bottom. You've never been stuck.

Ryan Lapoire:

No, scares the hell out of me with that encapsulated keel.

Capn Tinsley:

It'll happen.

Ryan Lapoire:

Do you have CTO? Oh yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

I have both. Do you Tobo US and CTO, because they're not equal everywhere. Really yeah, they're not equal everywhere, really, yeah, yeah, like you might, they're all franchised. So if you get somewhere and they say I'm not coming out there, you know, then you call the other guys and between the two of them I can get a hold of somebody.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, yeah, that's good. I mean we're Block Island up here is kind of like the Mecca to get out to for sailing. I don't know if you've heard of Block Island.

Capn Tinsley:

Let me look it up.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, it's right off the coast of Rhode Island. I think it's 13 miles offshore. Oh, 13 miles, oh yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

That's no joke.

Ryan Lapoire:

No, you can see it. I mean, obviously you can see it from shore. But Kenya. Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

I guess Rhode Island Okay.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, it's right at the tip of Long Island, in between Long Island and Martha's Vineyard.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, okay, so it's almost in Long Island Sound. Well, that's probably further than it looks.

Ryan Lapoire:

They call it Block Island. Sound in between. Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Let me bring that up. We can sure we can learn a little bit about your, your geography, here.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh, it's absolutely beautiful.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, so here it is right, here so this is Long Island right. This is Long Island sound, is that right? Yep, and that's right where I took the boat up, right here. So this is long island right. This is long island sound.

Ryan Lapoire:

Is that right? Yeah, and that's right where I took the boat up. I went through hellgate, new york and then we went through long island sound and, you know, shot right up and around point judith and uh, yeah, it's pretty cool sailing in there in the, uh, long island sound so you can get through here to go and you go up this way. Yes, correct.

Ryan Lapoire:

And to yeah, right past Rikers Island, so in Hellgate, which is right here, you gotta time it just right With the currents and everything. So that's when you use the, you know.

Capn Tinsley:

Hellgate. Where is Hellgate? I've heard of it it's in manhattan.

Ryan Lapoire:

Basically it's in the east river. East river yeah, I think I had uh island dog going about 12 knots through hell gate or something like that. It was crazy. Wow, yeah, we were ripping.

Capn Tinsley:

Is it up here or is it down here?

Ryan Lapoire:

It is. There's LaGuardia, throgs Neck Bridge, there's Manhattan. It's right in this little cut, right on the right of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, right here.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

You're going up through here Right there. Okay, right there, and the current goes really fast through here.

Ryan Lapoire:

Right, yeah, right there, yeah, right there.

Capn Tinsley:

And it's the current, goes really fast through there.

Ryan Lapoire:

Super fast. Look how narrow it gets. It just rips through right there.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, yeah, yeah, and then you go through here and then you're in.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yup, you can go right past Rikers Island, throgs Neck Bridge and then boom, it spits you right out into the bottom of Long Island Sound, right there, yup.

Capn Tinsley:

You could do a lot of sailing without actually getting out into the Atlantic, but it probably gets pretty rough right in here, doesn't it? It's a big body of water.

Ryan Lapoire:

I sailed through there. I think it was like all night. We sailed all night through there, so it was beautiful. We had the lights on the left, long Island on the right. It was probably about 1 in the morning, 2 in the morning, 3 in the morning, 4 in the morning, that kind of thing. We were sailing right through there. It was really pretty. A lot of crab pots and lobster pots though.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh yeah, you get those in the Keys too.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh yeah, there's a lot.

Capn Tinsley:

And so what is this place like? This is Block Island.

Ryan Lapoire:

They call that the Bermuda of the North. It is absolute paradise. It is so beautiful out there. It's surrounded by bluffs. There's two harbors on the island. You've got the Great Salt Pond right here. Right here, yep, so you can see the little spot that goes in Yep, and then this oh yeah, that looks like great anchoring and you can see all the boats right there. Yep, yep, there's your boat. Yeah, the town has a bunch of moorings. There's private moorings. It's absolutely beautiful we're going out there on Saturday on my buddy's boat actually.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, this looks like a great place.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

I think I saw a picture of a beach On your Instagram. I'm not sure if this is it. Those are bluffs right there.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, those are all bluffs. Wow, we don't have bluffs right there.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, those are all bluffs. Yep, wow, yeah, we don't have bluffs on the Gulf coast, so here's a Marina and resort, so there's like restaurants and stuff.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh, yeah, yeah, so everybody, I mean that's kind of the spot, the main spot, where everyone tries to get to on the weekends or the holidays. You know that most boats are headed out there, so that's, that's a big destination. Like I said, we're probably we're going to head out there on.

Ryan Lapoire:

Saturday, I think on my buddy's Beneteau and um, just cause I don't have my sales up or anything yet, I'm still tweaking everything. And then this little island right here, right to the right of where you're looking, right where your arrow is, see that last island in the chain, right there.

Capn Tinsley:

Martha's Vineyard.

Ryan Lapoire:

Right northwest of that, right here, all the way to the bottom, yep, that little last island. Zoom in on that. This is my second favorite place to sail to, that's Cuddyhunk Island.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, I know nothing about these places. It's so beautiful, oh, you can get in here.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yep, there's a little channel that goes in, which is a little sketchy getting in. Look how narrow it is.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah.

Ryan Lapoire:

But you can see all the moorings that are in there too, look at all the beach. Oh, it's beautiful.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh yeah, see the moorings, nobody's there.

Ryan Lapoire:

Probably November, December this is great. Yeah, that's a beautiful spot to go check out.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, show me where you live.

Ryan Lapoire:

All right, so zoom out. If you zoom, go up into the bay In this bay, nope, narragansett Bay, right by Providence.

Capn Tinsley:

Uh-oh.

Ryan Lapoire:

Up here, yeah, go west.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, there's Providence, yeah, providence. All right, zoom in on.

Ryan Lapoire:

Providence. Okay, yeah, providence. All right, zoom in on Providence. Okay, I'll show you where my boat is right now. Go down a little bit South, yeah yeah, south, south, yeah, you see Greenwich Bay right there on the left it's a little bay within the bay, a little bay within the bay, a little bay within the bay, a little bay within the bay. Yeah, and now if you go to the right, you can see that channel goes in all the way to the right. This one, yeah, okay.

Capn Tinsley:

It's like the last marina up in there on the left. Here Yep To the right or all the way up, all the way up here.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, that one right there. Yep, that's my marina.

Capn Tinsley:

Ah, and how far do you live from here?

Ryan Lapoire:

I live maybe like 20, maybe 30 minutes Traffic. Oh, that's a long way.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, traffic makes it a lot you know, oh, I see your power boat.

Ryan Lapoire:

If you zoom in on that, the second dock all the way to the right, see the one with the red top right there.

Capn Tinsley:

Right there.

Ryan Lapoire:

Nope on the side. Yeah, that's a sea ray.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Ryan Lapoire:

Okay, that's my buddy Ryan's boat Right on the right when. This one Right there, yeah, oh it's a little hazy but that's her. Wow.

Capn Tinsley:

There it is, that's her. Yeah, wow, there it is. That's her. You're uh, you're uh. You're like at my marina, surrounded by a bunch of power boats oh yeah, nothing like backing an island packet out, you know yeah, I bet you've gotten good at it, though I can get out of any situation now you got a bow thruster on yours. No, heck. No, I was talking to some people with a 485. They have a bow thruster but he tries not to use it because he likes to be a purist, just like me.

Capn Tinsley:

I'm not a total purist because I run the engine when it's not convenient, I'll go ahead and run that engine. I'm not opposed to that.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, you got to run it, you know.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, so you live, just point me in the general direction.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, if you zoom out more, zoom out to Rhode Island, don't kid yourself. I mean, remember Rhode Island. You can drive from one end to the other in 45 minutes, you know.

Capn Tinsley:

I've been there once, yeah, but Rhode Island, you can drive from one end to the other in 45 minutes.

Ryan Lapoire:

I've been there once. Oh, really Uh-huh yeah, so if you go I was there for a conference.

Capn Tinsley:

There's some conference center there. I can't remember. It's been a long time.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

All right, we're-.

Ryan Lapoire:

I'm in the top northwest corner of Rhode Island, bordering Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh yeah, that was supposed to tell me something. Alright, where is it? Where are we?

Ryan Lapoire:

There's Boston. Yeah, top left, zoom in above Providence To the northwest of Providence. Yeah, right there Over to the left, you see that little lake right there that says Glendale.

Capn Tinsley:

This one, oh, over here.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, I live right on this lake, right here.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, and you have a sunfish there.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, Actually it's a mini sunfish. It's 11 feet, not 14. It rips.

Capn Tinsley:

It's 11 feet. I've never really been on one of those.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh, my God. I'll tell you what It'll teach you more about sailing sailing one of those things than anything.

Capn Tinsley:

That's what I hear. You know because you learn everything about the wind. Right, that's what they say. That's what they say, okay, so yeah, this looks like a fun area. I just wouldn't like the short summers, tell me about it and long winters, yes, and you can't leave your boat in the water all year long. When I bought it, it was warm In Naples you'll have a whole other set of problems because there's hurricane season.

Ryan Lapoire:

Tell me about it.

Capn Tinsley:

I know that must be nerve-wracking as heck it is. You kind of stay in denial Every time.

Ryan Lapoire:

They're like, oh, this year's gonna be the worst, and he's like, oh, no, no, no, no, they say that every year you know, I was just at full miles beach, maybe like a month ago, two months ago and I'll tell you what I can't believe the destruction's still down there right now, you know oh, yeah, yeah, I was there the next, the following year, I was there the same year before, and then, wow, it looks different now, doesn't it? Yeah, it looks completely different. It's sad, you know yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Even when I was there last year, I stayed at a dock they didn't tell me this, but no power and no water. Stayed at a dock. They didn't tell me this, but, um, no power and no water. But and it was july and I was like I was just glad to be tied up, you know, but they still charge me full price I go oh, why do you plug? In. Oh no, we don't have power.

Capn Tinsley:

I'm like it would have been good to know you know, I stayed, I stayed and they were supposed to water but it wasn't working on the dock and they never did get it fixed. But I stayed two nights and sweated it out and that was okay. I like to ride my bike around and explore and go buy T-shirts.

Capn Tinsley:

I got T-shirts at every place. This one is Indian Rocks Beach. I got a T-shirt from everywhere. That's my goal. I go into every port and I get my little fold-up bikes, not an e-bike. We need to move, we don't need to be riding e-bikes. And you had a little biking accident, didn't you?

Ryan Lapoire:

I remember on the video from a while ago, right?

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, it was bad.

Capn Tinsley:

I don't remember off the top of my head what happened, but I do remember that yeah I was in key west yeah, is in my same little bike that I have that I've put hundreds of miles on and I was going I used to ride every day and get sun and listen to stuff on my phone and I looked at my, I had my phone clipped to the handlebar and, um, I took my hand off the handle, the handlebar, and was messing with it, you know like, and I went through this center spot of a speed bump and I looked at it. I was like, okay, I got it and I took my eye off of it and I had my hand off and I hit it and it jerked me to the left and I recovered. But then there was a parked car and so I had to decide do I hit the car or put the bike down? And I put the bike down and I had flip flops on and my foot went from here and it bent that way and the bone was popped out and it was broken in three places.

Capn Tinsley:

I saw bone, yeah, I was like oh, and so I looked at it for a second and then I quit looking and I closed my eyes and somebody stopped and I had my eyes closed. I couldn't see him, but I heard his voice and he goes. I saw the whole thing. Just don't look at it. I go, I've already seen it and they had to fly me to Miami because they couldn't. It was too. It was. I mean, the bone was sticking out. You know they couldn't do that in Key West and they flew me on a helicopter.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh, my God.

Capn Tinsley:

And Scott just happened to have been there and he was supposed to leave the next day. So he gave me my computer because I had 14 listings under contract and so I had to have my computer. Give me my computer. I have my computer. Give me my computer. I'm laying there. Give me my computer. This is what pays for everything. It's still going to work. Yeah, and he gave me my computer and my phone and you know my purse.

Capn Tinsley:

And then they came and put me in an ambulance, took me right to the helicopter pad and flew me there and took me straight to surgery. And then I had surgery again two days later and Scott had to lock up the boat it's not, he'd never done that before and he drove the rental car up there and they wouldn't let him in cause. It was COVID. And finally, five days later I was able to go home and I just had someone look after the boat and I finally got someone just to bring it home. That was in April and August. I flew. Days later I was able to go home and I just had someone look after the boat and I finally got someone just to bring it home. That was in april and august. I flew, I drove down I was. I couldn't put weight bearing on my no weight bearing for nine weeks and so I went hobbling down there. I had a little park decap, I had one of those little parking things for handicap and I realized how many people take advantage of that I was like limping.

Capn Tinsley:

I was out there, I go why do they park there? You know, get out of the car and and so finally I just hired someone to bring it home. Yeah, and I had just gotten the boat like four months prior or eight months prior by this time and um, and so as soon as I was able to, I got right back on the bike and I had Scott kind of walk next to me, cause I knew I was going to and I ride that bike all the time now. I mean, when I'm on the boat I have a regular bike, uh, but uh, yeah. So it's it's kind of like um Easter egg hunt for me. When I go into port I go and explore many of these places. I've been to many times. I go look for t-shirts and I buy them for a bunch of people.

Ryan Lapoire:

That's fun.

Capn Tinsley:

You got to have a goal in life. I like that. You got to have good t-shirts.

Ryan Lapoire:

A t-shirt.

Capn Tinsley:

When you go, are you going to be by yourself?

Ryan Lapoire:

I don't know, that's a good question actually.

Capn Tinsley:

I recommend it. I probably a good question, actually. I recommend it.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, I mean, I probably won't go by myself. I'll probably have you know, my girlfriend will probably come with me, or whatnot.

Capn Tinsley:

So try to get you know.

Ryan Lapoire:

I got, I got to get her sailing more and more and more, so you know she can.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, let's talk about that. How does she feel about it?

Ryan Lapoire:

Loves it.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh really.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, because I go down to my marina usually and it's a bunch of, you know, poor guys sitting on their boats because their wives don't want to go down to the boat I run into those guys all the time I'm lucky, you know, she loves it, so it's, it's really good, you know so you are.

Capn Tinsley:

You, is she in a position to kind of take off for a month or two, or?

Ryan Lapoire:

I'd yeah, probably yeah, and she can make it work, yeah she can work from.

Capn Tinsley:

Anywhere yeah, yeah oh well, you need to get starlink. If you're gonna wait two years, you got time to get starlink it's not that expensive I thought it was more expensive than that no online I was like oh, that's really nothing.

Ryan Lapoire:

I thought it was gonna be like, you know, four grand or something like that you know?

Capn Tinsley:

no, it's 590. Well, it was 599 for the box yeah, and then uh, 150 a month, and with that package you can turn it off and on yeah you can go month to month if you need to, but it was a game changer on my last trip. I was able to anchor in the everglades, where there's no cell service and uh, and still stay in touch. You know, I was able to keep my cameras going the whole way. I've've got the Google Nest cameras on the boat.

Capn Tinsley:

And they could. Just they're programmed to the and I could, so my husband could check in on me. You know, he's the only one that has access to him and he could. He could see me sailing, he could actually see. I got one pointed to going towards the front of the boat and he could see the pretty water and where I was, yeah, so that was kind of cool, but it's a game changer. Yeah, and that actually works at the Dry Tortugas.

Ryan Lapoire:

Works anywhere, right, I think it works pretty much anywhere.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, the $150 package works. Works, I think, up to 40 miles offshore oh, okay you can get it anywhere if you upgrade to 200, but you can go back to the 150. So if you need it for a couple of days, yeah you're going to be offshore, you can go ahead, but if you're kind of close to shore you don't have to worry. You'll get it, you'll be fine, yeah so I mean this.

Ryan Lapoire:

I think my next big project is, uh, solar. The boat doesn't have solar, so oh yeah, I gotta get like, maybe, like I mean there's not much on the 27 to power. You know, I mean I gotta what is there really? You know the interior lights and I got a little tv.

Capn Tinsley:

That's kind of about it well, if you have a fridge, there's no fridge.

Ryan Lapoire:

That's another thing I'd like to get you know you gotta get a little box yeah, yeah. So I gotta get that.

Capn Tinsley:

I mean, I right now I just bring a cooler and put it in there, but you know, well, if you get the, the, I think I had like 125 watts or 130 watt panel on my 27, it came with it the guy that had me, hey, huh I said, that guy who did your boat before you bought it did it up.

Capn Tinsley:

Good, that was nice, you know yeah, I did a video when I first bought it and recorded him telling me about it because it was it was a little above my head at the time and so I'd have to go back. And what did he say about that? He said no just leave this on and just this you don't have to worry about, and that was really handy when you buy a boat to do that with somebody.

Capn Tinsley:

And he had it set up really nice, and so when I got mine I had to go and make all that and more. Make it even now I have two 375 watt panels.

Ryan Lapoire:

You're all set yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Two lithium batteries, wind generator, and my other boat had a wind generator and I added the Starlink. I added the Waste filtration system. Do you know what that is? No, okay, so I forgot how the 27's got a. He had upgraded the holding tank before I got it, but I'm not sure where the original one was. Where is? Do you know where the holding tank is?

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, they're underneath the V-Birth, super easy access for.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, yeah, yeah Okay.

Ryan Lapoire:

And I replaced mine with Durowell plastic tanks from Florida. That was one of the first things I did when I bought the boat.

Capn Tinsley:

That's what he did.

Ryan Lapoire:

I took out the aluminum and put it in the plastics.

Capn Tinsley:

That is one thing I did, which is pretty good. Well, what I did was, since mine was leaking on this boat, it's hard to get to. It's underneath the floor, underneath the V-Bird, and there's no hatch there. So you'd have to go through the fiberglass, create a hatch and then somehow take it apart, have somebody go in there and take it apart and pull it out. So my guy goes okay, let's talk about a couple other options. Compost I voted against that because you've got to have the little pee.

Ryan Lapoire:

The little pee bucket that you dump out every once in a while.

Capn Tinsley:

I'm not doing that. We're going in the wrong direction here. So the waste filtration system I think it was like $2,300. The labor was a little bit, but it brings it in there, it cleans it and expels it from the boat. Okay, and it's clean. It's US Coast Guard approved. Wow, it's a smaller version of what I think the big yachts have.

Ryan Lapoire:

Okay, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

He said it's so clean that you could go out there and swim by where it's kicking it out of the boat. I haven't done that, but I never have to worry about a holding tank anymore.

Ryan Lapoire:

So it goes directly overboard every time you flush.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, well, the first batch every time you flush. Okay, well, the first batch when you flush will go into this little chamber and it puts all this bleach with it. It comes with. You have to put these little bleach tabs. You got to change them every couple months or something and so it like it grinds it up, just like we're talking about some good stuff here, aren't we always on? You hear all this on the Salty Podcast and it grinds it up like a grinder, like you're, like a home one, right, and then the next time you flush that gets taken out of the boat and then the other one comes in and does that same thing. So I guess it cleans it for a while. So I'm probably not explaining it right, but I'll send, send you a link it takes in the seawater still it uses fresh water oh, so it's okay.

Ryan Lapoire:

So it takes out of your freshwater tank yeah, yeah and um.

Capn Tinsley:

I think I could still rinse with the seawater because it's not my manual toilet yeah um head and but I just use from the shower. I'll just go ahead and rinse it out and then, when you hit the button, it's using fresh water, which I think that's better, because I think the seawater makes things smell more.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah. When I bought my boat that was one of the things I had to replace was the tank had about a thousand, not a thousand, probably like a hundred little pinholes in it. In the aluminum it corroded right through.

Capn Tinsley:

That's mine yeah.

Ryan Lapoire:

So that was one thing and then, because that happened, it got under the water tank and it did the same thing to the water tank. So, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. I just replaced them both right away. That was the first thing I did.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, that's cool. I think I saw a picture. You had it posted, I think.

Ryan Lapoire:

I think so, yeah, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, you have replaced both. That was cool, yeah, so what else are you going to do to it?

Ryan Lapoire:

We'll just talk about year and I got the dingy davits off of an Island Packeteer, sv Paquito Tim. He came up from Puerto Rico and I saw on the Island Packet Facebook group that he was going to be coming into New London and he was getting rid of his dingy davits because he was going with an arch. So you know, I'm only maybe 45 minutes an hour away from New London, so I got in touch with him. I went down there. You know he sold them to me.

Capn Tinsley:

You got a good price on it.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh yeah, I got a good price on them.

Capn Tinsley:

So now, yeah, and he was great.

Ryan Lapoire:

He's a great guy, tim. He's got a little sailing channel too, tim B at sea and and so I drove right down there and I picked them up from him. We went out to dinner and then we came back the next day. So he sailed up from Puerto Rico with his island pack and he put it on the hard up in New London for the winter and he was going to do some work to it.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh OK.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, but he was getting rid of the dinghy davits. He was going with an arch.

Capn Tinsley:

So you know he was getting rid of them. So what kind of dinghy out is it? The key keto? Yeah, that's what I have, and I, I went and took them off my old boat, um, and put them on my new one. Yeah, I was like I'm taking these with me.

Ryan Lapoire:

These were expensive that's why I've been holding off for so long getting them. I was like, yeah, do I really need them, you know? Now it's like so, yeah, it's great.

Capn Tinsley:

So like I don't know how much you're allowed to take off the boat, but I went and took a bunch of stuff off of.

Ryan Lapoire:

I was like I paid for all this, you know, yeah, I learned a lesson about um, and when you put stuff on your boat, you need to raise your insurance oh yeah so I've done that twice on this new boat yeah, I assume I'm gonna have to go get an appraisal done, I think, you know, because they've, uh, they've knocked me down to liability. Only after they, you know, because they totaled the boat, my boat I had to buy it back from the insurance company.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, you then. Ok, so you were running into the same thing I was running into.

Ryan Lapoire:

That's what. Yeah. We don't do salvage titles in Rhode Island, though it's not like Florida or anywhere down there.

Capn Tinsley:

Salvage titles.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Because it's considered a salvage.

Ryan Lapoire:

Well, when they total the boat, they'll give you a salvage title that you have to buy it back. Yeah, they don't do that up here.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay, so you can only get liability on it.

Ryan Lapoire:

For a year, I think it said oh. Yeah, I think it's just for a year.

Capn Tinsley:

Well then they didn't make you because I was interviewing a rigger down here in Pensacola and he said that sometimes they won't insure unless you offer them an inspection of the rigging.

Ryan Lapoire:

That's what I mean. Yeah, yeah, I might have to get an appraisal done. I mean, I don't know, I had progressive, I had Geico before progressive, that's what I have now.

Capn Tinsley:

You know I mean, so I don't know, you probably have to get a survey.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, if I want to get. I don't know how it works with that. I don't know if there's some database that all these insurance companies go through. I don't know how it works, you know, but you know.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, I can tell you, I got the initial survey and then I had all the work done. And so then my surveyor came back and did an addendum. So they allow a certain amount of time, you know, to use the initial one and then they'll allow an addendum up to a certain amount of time. So they did it, and then I had her come again, because I added a bunch of more stuff and they made an exception to add the second addendum without me getting another survey. Now I doubt I could get it done again, but there's like a there's a timeline that they allow, and they, they went to talk to whoever and got an exception made for the second addendum. So I learned the lesson on the first boat, because I didn't get paid for I felt I was underpaid, you know, and I realized it was probably my own fault.

Ryan Lapoire:

Did you have actual value or the you know, because there's the two. I had the agreed hull value on mine.

Capn Tinsley:

I had a certain amount that they agreed to do when I first got it.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

And then they do 10% hurricane deductible.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh okay, what a ripoff. I mean, the hardest thing with my boat was trying to get a quote on a mast, on a new mast, after my mast snapped. No one could do it. And I finally talked to a spa craft in North Carolina and I talked to one of their reps and I'm calling him on the phone. They put me in. He turns out he lives right in Rhode Island down here.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh good.

Ryan Lapoire:

Okay. He ended up being able to get me a quote on a mast $25,000 for a mast.

Capn Tinsley:

don't stop your mast is that what you ended up paying, or the insurance?

Ryan Lapoire:

so the story with my mast is we got a little salvage place up in Quincy, massachusetts. It's south of there yeah, so there we go Facebook. One day I'm on Facebook and something pops up.

Capn Tinsley:

You're a smart fella, I'll tell you what.

Ryan Lapoire:

The same boat, another 27, and they only made what? 243 of them I think. One was up in Boston. It came off its mooring in some heavy winds. The mooring chain let go. Something happened. The boat went up on the rocks, put a big hole in the keel of an Island, packet 27. So they were stripping the boat. I drove up there, I took every piece off that boat that I could fit in my car and, uh, I got it all in my garage, you know, for spares and stuff. So when this happened, immediately I was like call mass marine parts, they must have that spar, they must have the mast. He had it just sitting on a rack over there. He's like, yeah, $1,500 with no furler, $2,000 with the furler.

Capn Tinsley:

Wait $1,500 with no furler.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, and $2,000 with the furler.

Capn Tinsley:

What did you do?

Ryan Lapoire:

Went and got the furler and the mast and everything. It cost me almost as much about half just to ship it down here, though, because it's a 36-foot mast I it cost me almost as much about half, just to ship it down here, though, because it's a 36-foot mast. I couldn't believe that I was like all right, it's 36? 36 feet, mine was 42. On the what on the island pack at 27? Oh, maybe it is 42 then, are you sure? No, maybe it's 42 above waterline with the hull, you know what.

Ryan Lapoire:

I mean the mast itself is 36, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh, with the, with the. Okay, you know what I mean. The mass itself is 36, yeah, oh, okay, yeah, you know what I'm saying yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.

Ryan Lapoire:

And then I got it back. We rigged it up and plopped it right on deck. Everything lined up perfectly. It's got all brand new rigging on it because I knew I talked. I talked to the owner of the guy on facebook and he said yeah, I just went through that whole boat. He did everything from new tanks, holding tanks, water h, water hoses, everything new standing rigging. Everything was brand new on the boat. Then two weeks later it broke off the mooring.

Capn Tinsley:

Mike Wack. This is Mike Wack. He's local here. He had an Island Packet 27. He lost his.

Ryan Lapoire:

St Tomahawks one.

Capn Tinsley:

Here he is. Storm damage is complicated, but getting fair value is all that counts. He got way more than I did. He's got great insurance. Okay, and here's another comment. He says I received really fair value after Hurricane Sally, but I paid for good hurricane coverage.

Ryan Lapoire:

Ah, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

I know hurricane coverage down there.

Ryan Lapoire:

Hurricane coverage down there. I know there's all stipulations to it.

Capn Tinsley:

I mean, we don't have that up here, you know. Yeah, you don't have your 10%.

Ryan Lapoire:

No, nothing, you know. I just had an agreed whole value that you know we agreed on. After I had the survey done, I sent the insurance company the survey and you know I forget what they, I don't know. I think I did it for like twenty four, twenty five thousand. I was just like you know what.

Capn Tinsley:

Just in case I hit something.

Ryan Lapoire:

I would never think in a million years another boat would fall on my boat in a boatyard. You know what I mean. I was just getting that insurance for my own stupidity. You know if anything happened.

Capn Tinsley:

So you know I've seen it happen here during Hurricane Sally, boats fell off their stands. You know, I got, I heard one that was 40 foot. A 40 foot sailboat fell off the stands in Hurricane Sally.

Ryan Lapoire:

Now I just can't, I mean yeah, if that can happen, anything can happen. Yeah, that Beneteau that hit me was 38 feet, you know. Wow, yeah, so I mean I'm just lucky it didn't knock my boat off the stands, you know, because if there was any more damage it wouldn't have made any sense to keep it, you know.

Capn Tinsley:

I kind of wish Mike decided to go with the 29. He went from the 27 to the 29. I went from the 27 to the 320. Hey, mike, you got anything else to say there? Mike, he's always up for good things to talk about. You saw the video where he and what's his name? What's his name? Oh, he does have another comment. They went to. Where'd you go? Crystal Springs. Biggest problem now is all the marinas want $4,000 to go on hurricane pullout list fare for $2 million boat, but not a small packet.

Capn Tinsley:

Not all of them are doing that, though, because I've been to plenty.

Ryan Lapoire:

Four grand to go for a hurricane pullout.

Capn Tinsley:

He said can I call in?

Ryan Lapoire:

We don't really have capability of calling in, but you can comment geez, if you live close enough to the marina, you might as well just haul the boat back to your house, put it on the lock crystal river.

Capn Tinsley:

I keep calling it crystal springs. Yeah, crystal river, um, but mike is um, he. That was his first well long trip in that direction. He's been in the other direction, been back to Mississippi and Louisiana, I think but he's talking about taking a trip this after hurricane season to the Dry Tortugas or to the Keys, and I'm going to hopefully do that too. I'm going to wait. I've been somewhere. I've been. I've gone south every year since 2016 and, uh, I'm trying to. I need to make some money, but I'm hoping to go like in november, and he's he's gonna do it too. You need to meet us down there I'll come down, yeah I'll be gonna're going to bring old Island dog down there.

Ryan Lapoire:

We'll see. I wonder how long it's going to take me to get down there, probably like maybe a month and a half, I'm guessing.

Capn Tinsley:

It's a pretty long trip. You want to leave before. Yeah, oh wait. Key West 17 minutes after hurricane season ends. I go during hurricane season.

Ryan Lapoire:

Because I don't like it. I was talking to this guy in Newport, rhode Island. He took up his Lagoon catamaran From Fort Lauderdale to Rhode Island in seven days On the outside no intercoastal. I was like, wow, that's.

Capn Tinsley:

Seven days.

Ryan Lapoire:

I was shocked. He said that I was like wow, seven days.

Capn Tinsley:

That's aggressive yeah he did it on his own too, solo well, I do all the solo stuff that's you need to autopilot if you're gonna do that, though, definitely and I just uh, I just uh, sleep in the cockpit and nap.

Capn Tinsley:

you know it's harder to go down than go back prevailing winds. Are you talking about for him or for us? Mike, we'll let him answer yeah. So what about this fall? I'm kind of pushy this way, I'm pushy. Are you going to meet us down there this fall? I'll come down, but I probably won't have the boat, unfortunately, maybe I'm pushy.

Ryan Lapoire:

Are you going to meet us down there this fall? Oh, this fall.

Capn Tinsley:

I'll come down, but I probably won't have the boat, unfortunately. Maybe Maybe I don't know what if we get Jamaica's Challenge.

Ryan Lapoire:

I'm thinking about temporarily just buying a boat for Florida. You know what I mean. You can go buy a cheap boat, you know what I mean.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, why not yeah?

Ryan Lapoire:

If you could do that. Not another Island packet, of course, but you know you go buy Another, like you know a little Catalina 25 or something sure. You know I was thinking about.

Capn Tinsley:

Okay. So Mike is Saying for Orange Beach, it's harder To go down than go back. So you're saying that there's there's northern Winds going down? Is that what you're saying? That there's northern winds going down? Is that what you're saying, mike? He wants to call in. He's got a lot to say. I don't really have call-in capabilities here. We could call him on the phone and just put him up. Challenge accepted.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

Absolutely. Challenge accepted, you'll go to the Keys.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh yeah, I'll be down. I'll be on Key West, oh definitely.

Capn Tinsley:

But you're going to fly.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, probably, unless something miraculous comes up and I can get down there with the boat, you know.

Capn Tinsley:

We need a forum of Florida Keys Marinas and the Keys for the winner. Okay, well, I can tell you all about the marinas. Uh, in the keys I've become an expert. In my mind it's a bookie bookie.

Ryan Lapoire:

So everyone keeps telling me to go.

Capn Tinsley:

You gotta go to bookie yeah, if you don't want to, if you want to pick up a mooring ball or you can anchor they, that's a good place. Um need a pool with great amenities. I can tell you where to go for that. You're gonna pay um, and that would be faro Blanco, on the north part of Marathon. They have a great pool and great amenities.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh, the northern part of Marathon. Okay, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

It's just right across the highway from Marathon Marina. I've stayed at both of those. I've never gone on the Moran Ball there. I just go to the marina, hang out by the pool. They have a like a really nice restaurant there and everything.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

So but yeah, I'm your, I'm your expert there, mike, you know that.

Ryan Lapoire:

So how long does it take you to get to Key West from from where you are?

Capn Tinsley:

I'm good to go 50 seconds, seconds after hurricane season it's getting shorter, okay, so what I do is I don't go straight across. Yeah, main thing is because what I've learned from people is that certain people have told me on this podcast that they, they'd rather go across the atlantic than the gulf because it can be very rough. And I have gone across and going, oh my god, um, some days it's like a lake, but you, just, you know, you can plan it and plan it, but things change at the last minute. Um, so what I'll do? Um, if scott, my husband, comes with me, I'll go from here to destin. That's a day trip and then two days across to clearwater and then, um, I like to hang out at each place, you know. And then I'll go to gulfport, hang out there, short trips after that, and then, um, bradenton and venice oh, I love venice you hit all the destinations and that's oh yeah, that's nice and I can tell you different marinas.

Capn Tinsley:

I've stayed in those places and I love to um go to pelican bay, which is kind of near. It is south of I'm losing my it's down by Pine Island. They got that got really hit hard in Ian.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

But okay, met Mel Fisher. He found that, yeah, I know who he is. Do you know who Mel?

Ryan Lapoire:

Fisher, is you met Mel Fisher?

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, I was going to say you know Mel Fisher. He said with his New you know who Mel Fisher is. You met Mel Fisher. Yeah, so you know Mel Fisher. He said it with his New England accent. Oh yeah yeah, mel Fisher. Yeah, mike, you'll have to come on and tell us you want me to send you a link. All right, hold on, let me send him a link.

Ryan Lapoire:

Before he found me, I told you Biggest shipwreck in Florida history, right Biggest value.

Capn Tinsley:

Mike, right, biggest, yeah, biggest value. Mike, I'm sending you a link. See if you can. We can pull this off, this impromptu guest.

Ryan Lapoire:

Okay, mike, is up to you so is he close to you because he's yeah, he's.

Capn Tinsley:

I just sent you a link, mike. Check your email. You're coming on. Yeah, he's in Orange Beach. He actually found me through the channel.

Ryan Lapoire:

Okay.

Capn Tinsley:

And it was before he got his. He says he says oh. He says okay, okay, all right, check your email, mike. And so he didn't have. He had had boats before, sailboats before, and he found me on the channel and he contacted me and said, hey, I'd like to come see your boat. I'm in Orange Beach too. He lives on Ono Island, which is in Orange Beach, and I was like you know I've had people do this and you know you got to be careful. But he wasn't a freak or anything. And he came over and he wanted to measure and everything, and because he has a boat slip, and he wanted to measure and everything, and cause he has a boat slip and he wanted to make sure it fit, you know, his, his, his slip behind his house, and, um, he got it, and then we both lost them and and then, um, I got the three, 20 and he got the 29. So we've been keeping up. He. No link yet. Oh, check your email, mike no link yet.

Ryan Lapoire:

Oh, check your email, mike. Um, I remember seeing his boat on on on with facebook or something I forget where, but his boat really got beat up.

Capn Tinsley:

He found it. It was like a couple miles away and he got. It was all flooded and everything I going to send you another link. Mike, I'm sending you another one. He spent four hours on it and got it going. It was flooded, it was ruined, but he got it running and he drove it home.

Ryan Lapoire:

I've seen the video of him coming back with a mask and the sails and everything.

Capn Tinsley:

He got paid good bucks for his. He's a retired banker banker. I don't know he's smarter than I am. He got paid like almost double of what I got paid. No kidding, huh? Come on, mike, check your email. He's not the most technical guy, but he can fix. He can fix stuff on boats yeah, yeah, sometimes it's not the same.

Capn Tinsley:

Sometimes, guys that can fix things can't operate their phone. It's this craziest thing, but I can't fix things. But I can operate electronics, um, but anyway. Uh, yes, that's me. I found my boat. You check your email, mike? We're really we're going off the rails here, aren't we? I'm supposed to be asking you questions. What do you want to tell us, ryan, while we're waiting on him?

Ryan Lapoire:

oh, I don't know, uh hopefully the weather's good this weekend, because I want to go sailing. Me too, I've been itching to go sailing yeah, it was really, really blowing today.

Capn Tinsley:

So I went, checked my boat and I I did hire somebody to do the teak. Oh, you did. I know that makes me a wimp, a wimp, but he fixed it and I said, well, why are you doing that? Go ahead and do the whole. But you know, go ahead. He fixed the problem with that, with the damaged teak.

Capn Tinsley:

But I was like and he said he has some special for this much money. He would. He would go ahead and I don't know what he was going to use, but then I have to come back every six months or so. He said this other sealant stuff would keep him from coming for like a couple years.

Ryan Lapoire:

A couple years.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, I paid a little extra for that, so we'll see.

Ryan Lapoire:

That's a long time, even for the sun down there Always beating on it, you know.

Capn Tinsley:

He said it was going to seal it time, even for the sun down there always beating on it, you know, he said it was gonna seal it.

Ryan Lapoire:

no kidding we'll see, mine came with this tall on it and I've still been in the process of slowly getting it off what, and I think I had that before.

Capn Tinsley:

What do you not like about it?

Ryan Lapoire:

well, I'm trying to get it all off. So I can you know you gotta take it off with a heat gun and everything like that and a putty knife. It just takes forever to get it all off. So I can you know you got to take it off with a heat gun and everything like that and a putty knife. It just takes forever to get the stuff off. It must be pretty strong, though, I mean, you know. I mean it seems to cover it pretty good. I've already redone my steps on the on the ladder and I've done my seat, and now I got to do I reseat all those.

Capn Tinsley:

I don't know. You know well. One time I recently posted on the island packet facebook page and I said what do you guys use? What's the latest and greatest? And someone said just let it go gray, that's kind of tempting.

Ryan Lapoire:

I was thinking about just oiling it you know doing just the regular oil, like they used to do, you know yeah, but you still have to keep it up, right? Yeah, you gotta oil it every two months probably go re-oil it you know yeah, that seems like a tall order, doesn't it? It looks beautiful when you get it all done, though I will say yeah, and that's whenever I come into a marina.

Capn Tinsley:

I don't know if you've experienced the island packets always get attention oh yeah, they do.

Ryan Lapoire:

I wish mine still had the beige. You know the tan color, but she's all white.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh really, she's been painted.

Ryan Lapoire:

I don't know if she's been painted I think it's just from the sun over the years.

Capn Tinsley:

I think you know, Well, when I just had had, you know, the gel coat fixed, I um, I had the whole fixed and he said, uh, your boat's been painted, mike, it does link. He said it doesn't link, um, and I said really, and so, um, I had Bill Bolin on the podcast. And he's like that historian guy.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, he knows his stuff.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, he was able to look up the history that it had been damaged in Marco and it had been brought into the factory back in the day. So I learned about it and he was at let's have fabulous, fabulous raft up in the keys this winter. Okay, mike, you need to click on the link. Come on, you need to help me convince this guy oh what is he doing it through facebook or something?

Capn Tinsley:

maybe he's on his phone I'm emailing him and he is on facebook yeah all he has to do is click on the link and, just like you did, right, yeah okay, um, but yeah, I found out that there my boat had been painted and had been damaged, and so I think if it hasn't been touched it has gel coat, like a thin layer of gel coat yeah but if it's been damaged, it's been painted so.

Capn Tinsley:

But I had the guy take out every perfection. You know it's a 1998 boat, so it's it's got little nicks here and there, and the latest damage that I had oh, look at mike. Captain tinsley is an inspiration to so many. You smooth talking. Click on the link.

Ryan Lapoire:

We're gonna have to get off mike if you don't hurry up that's pretty cool to be able to look up all the information on your boat like that, that's yes, but only if it's been to the factory is that what it is okay?

Capn Tinsley:

there's no like car. I'm in my camp in the swamp no wi-fi, nothing. Except you're on your wi-fi, aren't you? Uh, you're on your phone-Fi aren't you. You're on your phone, okay, we'll leave him alone. Kind of pressure him into it, okay. Well, we've been on here for an hour or so.

Ryan Lapoire:

I guess we should probably end it.

Capn Tinsley:

I appreciate it, yeah. So I would like to encourage you to try to make that trip soon, because we don't know what tomorrow will bring. Right yeah so just kind of maybe consider the fall.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

And your girlfriend. She'd probably be all for it. You're so lucky because I meet guys all the time in my sales and they look at me and go, how come I can't find a girl that wants to do? And I'm like, well, my husband is not crazy about it either, so I understand. But we've worked it out. You know where he'll come when he wants and and, uh, you know he could be the kind of guy that said my my wife isn't going on a boat by herself. Yeah, that wouldn't work.

Ryan Lapoire:

I'm walking down the dock, it's like hey, hey, hey, and it's just a bunch of guys sitting on their boats by themselves. I'm like, oh man.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, and I've run into guys that live on their boats and they really wish they could find a woman.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

But for some reason I don't get it. But, but for some reason I don't get it. But women just don't want to do that.

Ryan Lapoire:

I got some older couples in my marina too, you know. I mean they're probably like late 60s, early 70s and they're on trawlers and I'll tell you what a lot of those. You know they're both gung-ho. You know they make a great team. You know one of them's driving the boat, the other one's jumping off, dying up the boat.

Capn Tinsley:

I'm like that's how it should be, that's nice, that's how it should be right Beautiful. I've had them on this channel on the podcast. That's cool. There's quite a bit of them out there, so it can work. But yeah, a lot of sailors seem to end up moving towards a trawler when they get to a certain age.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, I wouldn't mind dabbling in the trawler thing, maybe later on down the road, but I think they're really nice, they're good.

Capn Tinsley:

It's like a one-bedroom apartment.

Ryan Lapoire:

They're beautiful, a little diesel engine just putting around, it's okay.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, and you go where you want to go, no problem. If I ever did do that, it'd be fun to do the American loop, the Great Loop.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, I got a boat in my marina, that just came back from doing it. A looper, yeah, yeah, and they put a How'd they like it. Apparently they love it. But you know what I noticed? A lot of people that do trips like that. They'll buy the boat, they'll do the trip, they keep the boat. You know they do it.

Capn Tinsley:

Some people will do the Caribbean and do the same thing. Then they move on to an RV or something. Yeah.

Ryan Lapoire:

I'm like huh that's interesting.

Capn Tinsley:

You know, I don't know, I'll probably die on my boat.

Ryan Lapoire:

My boat don't owe me a dime now. So it's like you know what I'll just keep this thing for as long as I can. Right, right, I'll just keep buying a lot of money into it alright, ryan.

Capn Tinsley:

Well, this has been fun. I sure do appreciate you coming on. I'll have to have you back and get an update, because you're going to get some solar panels.

Ryan Lapoire:

You're going to get the satellite the starling solar dinghy davits coming on and I'll get the solar panels I'm going to mount on top, is that? Where you have yours on top of the dinghy davits right now, or yeah, I have.

Capn Tinsley:

I had an arch built. Uh well, they built it when they installed everything at saint um in saint pete, the yacht riggers, they did all that. They did the fabrication. It's beautiful, it's. I did a beautiful job. And then the guy here added a, a matching setup for the Starlink. He kind of just mirrored it, made it all go together. It looks like it was all built together.

Ryan Lapoire:

Nice. So, oh, that's good.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, yeah Is the.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yacht Ranger, the ones who did the exterior chain plates. You had on your 27 too. Okay, yeah.

Capn Tinsley:

They were the ones that introduced me to it and they had guys from the the um the factory that worked there that knew they did it like they were moonlighting. They were putting external chain plates on boats and they weren't doing it for the factory because I don't know that they would recommend that, you know, like the purists and everything. But they knew. So the yacht rigger got these guys to show them because they knew exactly where to drill to hook into the other, to the original chain plates. So they showed them to do it.

Ryan Lapoire:

Now they've done many, many boats yeah, you know that's probably my goal is, once I get it down to florida, I'm gonna have the exterior ones put on.

Capn Tinsley:

You know just I don't know if max max um what, that mac guy what? Yeah?

Ryan Lapoire:

the interior ones, you know what I mean, yeah really crazy about spending more on the chain plates than the boat's worth. So it's like, well, you know, I don't know, I just I do exterior.

Capn Tinsley:

Yeah, you know yeah, and mike did two boats like that. Mike, mike did this boat and the 27.

Ryan Lapoire:

He did it that way. Did he have the outrigger do them?

Capn Tinsley:

No, he had it done here in. Pensacola, there's a guy here Zurn, not Zurn Rigging. Yeah, zurn Rigging.

Ryan Lapoire:

Okay.

Capn Tinsley:

He says I cannot connect. I'm in the swamp in Louisiana. He's got a camp there. Cell phone connection is one horny firefly.

Ryan Lapoire:

What cell phone connection is one horny firefly? What is that? Oh my god, we better take that off the screen. Yeah, he's a coon ass that's what they call him. It's not, it's not racist.

Capn Tinsley:

Oh yeah, it's not racist, but anyway.

Ryan Lapoire:

Yeah, so you get the boat to florida, you got all kinds of options I know you guys are lucky to have all those people that work on stuff down there.

Capn Tinsley:

It's like you know something you don't have the time to do it.

Ryan Lapoire:

You know you just don't have the time. You're busy, you'd like work. It's like you know you just want to hire people to get stuff done.

Capn Tinsley:

Forget about it. Well, I want it to be perfect. I do too. Okay, all right, we've been on here an hour and 11 minutes, so I'm going to send you a link for the waste system, the filtration system, just in case. Yeah, and we'll check back with you for the update and be planning that trip to the Keys.

Ryan Lapoire:

Okay, all right, thanks for having me on Nice talk Okay.

Capn Tinsley:

We'll keep the pressure on um. And how do we always end this? Let me find my little outro. It's salty abandon out.

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