Salty Podcast #77 ⛵ Sail Orange Beach to Bahamas | The Journey begins

The docklines aren’t off yet, but the journey’s already begun. From a quiet slip in Orange Beach, we walk through the exact work it takes to ready a 1998 Island Packet 320 for a run down Florida’s Gulf Coast, across the Keys, and over to Georgetown in the Exumas—repairs, routing, weather calls, and the steady courage to go. We start at the masthead with a rigorous rigging inspection: a too‑long Genoa luff corrected with a new head Kringle, a migrating swivel brought back into spec, aging sheaves flagged, traveler cam cleats replaced with Harken 150s, and a fresh VHF cable run down the spar. It’s the kind of preventative detail that keeps a furler smooth and a solo sailor safe when the wind pipes up.

Belowdecks, a routine engine check turns serious: a leaking fuel pump leads to a cracked exhaust manifold diagnosis and a race to source the new part before departure. We talk through why manifolds matter, what a cleaned exhaust elbow buys you, and how to choose a no‑go line that honors both the calendar and the sea. On the electronics side, a Garmin Reactor 40 gets fully calibrated, chartplotter data and Auto Guidance charts are restored, and a remote finally brings the autopilot to the helm—a small shift that pays off across Florida’s Big Bend on a long night to Tarpon Springs.

Routes and weather get specific. We lay out a realistic hop plan—Destin, Panama City, Port St. Joe, Apalachicola—then the jump across, with alternatives based on 15–20 knots on the nose and bridge clearances too close to flirt with. In the Keys, Key Biscayne becomes both staging ground and vet stop for two boat‑curious cats with their Bahamas permit, lifeline netting, and tiny PFDs. Then it’s Bimini, Northwest Channel, and south through the Exumas, with community‑sourced tips like Norman’s Pond in a cream forecast and sensible cuts to reach Georgetown.

Threaded through the checklists is the reason for going. We talk openly about loss, faith, and choosing a busy anchorage over a lonely one; about how a rigging report, a diesel part, and a handful of spares can become a way to rebuild confidence; and about the generosity of the cruising network when you need it most. If you’ve been sketching your own passage to the Bahamas—or you just love the craft of making a boat ready—this is your map, your nudge, and your weather window.

If this resonated, follow the show, share it with a sailor who’s planning their crossing, and leave a review with your best Big Bend or Bimini tip—we’ll read our favorites on a future episode.

Chapters

• 0:05 Onboard Intro and Episode Setup
• 1:08 Rigging Inspection: Findings and Fixes
• 6:27 Sail Trim, Hardware Upgrades, and VHF
• 10:56 Engine Troubleshoot: Fuel Pump to Manifold
• 17:12 Autopilot, Electronics, and Calibration
• 24:43 Exhaust Work, Elbow Cleaning, and Spares
• 28:35 Provisioning for Cats and Pet Permits
• 36:56 Route Planning: Panhandle to Tarpon
• 44:06 Weather Windows and Bridge Constraints
• 49:23 Community, Grief, and Purpose at Sea
• 56:48 Bahamas Game Plan and Check‑In Strategy
• 1:05:10 Everglades Stops and No‑See‑Um Tales
• 1:12:30 Georgetown Focus and Beyond Options
• 1:19:25 Spares Philosophy and Diesel Skills
• 1:29:50 Mail, Work, and Life Logistics Afloat

Transcript

CapnTinsley: 0:05

Hello, good evening everybody. This is Tinsley, Captain Tinsley, uh sailing vessel Salty Abandon. Uh this is uh Salty Podcast number 77. Um and it's from the boat. This is um I did the first two from the boat, so now I'm back on Salty Abandon. I'm spending the night tonight. The cat is talking. I got two cats on board. Um I just thought I'd go over some of the stuff that I did to prep the boat to go to the Bahamas. There were a lot of repairs, and there were some mishaps. Yep, that's Tuxie. You're hearing they've never been on a boat before, and here they are. So um there's so much that was that uh I had to do to prepare the boat. So let me just start off with um I just thought someone might be interested to hear, you know, like pre-trip. I got I always get when I'm going on a long trip, say I'm going from Orange Beach, Alabama, to um the Keys, or even to the west coast of Florida, I always get the rigging inspected. Um, I always tell them, I want you to inspect it as if your daughter, your mother, your grandmother, your sister was going across the Gulf by herself. And so we have a great rigger here in uh he's in Pensacola. Uh I'm in Alabama, Pensacola is Florida, and it's about an hour away, and we pretty much have one rigger around here. And so when they come to Orange Beach, I always say, I need you, put me on your list for when you come to Orange Beach, and they are great. CERN rigging in Pensacola. So I thought I'd just show you. Well, let's see how I do this. Some of these pictures that I got. Let me get back to the beginning. So when they send a when they send a report, it looks something like this. And um it has it's kind of like when you get a when you get a house inspected. I'm a real estate agent. So deck and rig hardware, most items pass with comments on glass den for chain plates, of course. Bang, goose boom, goose main cell track, and tri-sail track, and NA for spin pole track and lazy jacks. I don't have lazy jacks, but anyway, here's some interesting pictures. Now, I think the the most glaring issues have been fixed. They already came out and fixed everything. The sail is a little bit long and allows this is for the front sail, the howter swivel to be raised above the end of the foils. So here's some more pictures. Swivel coming over top of extrusions could cause problems in the future. So if you boat nerds out there, this is saying everything on top of the mast looks good as far as electronics and whatnot, except for, and we'll we're about to get to that. Good. Consider replacing topping lift, not necessary at this time. Sheath gone from VHF, keep hand held on board, is back up, and that's this right here. So that was one of the things I wanted fixed because I felt like that was important. This pen should be larger to fit the hound. Suspect sw I don't know how to say this, someone might want to correct me. Swage, sway, shank, extensive corrosion polish and monitor. This pen is grossly undersized for the hound. I never get to see this stuff up there, so uh good polish and monitor. So I think they said there was like a little bit of rust up there. This is decent. I got everything wrapped so it doesn't get caught on my sail, it doesn't tear the sail. Advanced surface corrosion, polish and monitor, no suspected cracks at this time. Okay. So I asked him, they already came out and took the um the main sail, no, I'm sorry, the uh front sail, and they they already shortened it, and they already came back out. So we have a sailmaker in Pensacola, and then we have the riggers, and they work together. So the riggers took my took my sail. Let me get this. Took it yesterday and already brought it back today with it cut. So I asked him to send me. I haven't gotten the um the bill yet. Well, actually, I did. I did pay that. Okay, so this is Jeff Cern. It's a family business. So Rick Zern owns the joint and then her his sons work for him. Just saw your text. The left on the Genoa was too long and had allowed the head swivel for the furling unit to migrate above the furling extrusion. We removed the sail, ensure sales trimmed the top, and installed a Kringle in the head to attach the swivel to. And I don't even know all these terms. We reinstalled the Genoa and hoisted the sail to confirm the left length was correct. The top pin on your inner force day was too small for the hole in the tang on your in on your mast. We used stainless steel tubing to push the hole for the correct interface. A screw had worked out of one of the joint connectors on the inner force day furling unit. We simply installed a new screw with threadlock. The cam cleats on your traveler system, those were always so hard to handle. If there was any wind, it was tough to get the line loose. Um, the cam cleats on your traveler system had reached the end of their service life. Those were replaced with Harkin 150 cam cleats. The fasteners were bedded with 3M UV 4000. So there you go. So, and they also installed a new cable uh inside the mast for the VHF. So that issue's taken care of. I wanted it to be, you know, I didn't want it to be questionable. I got a long way to go. The boat's probably gonna take a beating. Um, so before I go into the other repairs, there was a new one this morning. So um I asked uh Charlie's diesel to come out and do just kind of an inspection of my of my engine, and um they found that the fuel pump was leaking. So even though they're working, you know, two months out or three months out, they fit me in, and um they had to go come back another day with a fuel pump, and it didn't have the threads or something that's needed, and so then the manufacturer had to overnova the manufacturer's error, and so they came back and I said, please check the coolant. It's it seems to it, it keeps it's leaking somewhere. I keep having to top it off. And so this morning they called me, the girl that works at Charles Diesel and said, I got bad news. I was like, Oh, uh oh, um your exhaust manifold is cracked, and it's gonna be this much money. She said, like $3,600. So I'm like, can you get it here? And she said, Well, they're sold out in uh Florida. Let me see what I can do. So she started calling around. I started calling around. I found one that could beat her tomorrow. She found one that could beat her tomorrow. So, guess what? My goal of leaving Friday, I'm on the boat, it's Wednesday. I wanted to give the the babies, my kitties, a couple of days. They've never been on the boat before. So I wanted to give them a couple days at the marina and then um leave the dock early, early Friday and head to Destin. And um, I may still be able to do that, it just depends on when that part in my in this part of the world, Gulf Shores, Alabama, Orange Beach, Alabama, UPS and uh FedEx only come once a day. Um, and it's like that in real estate too for closings. Most of our closings are mail outs because a lot of Gulf front condos, second homes, investment properties. So, anyway, that's beside the point. So it'll be here hopefully tomorrow, and they'll install it. And um, and that was I I've never heard those words that I have um a cracked exhaust manifold. So I had to look that up, and she was right, it's not something I should have left the dock with. And uh, and if I'm going all the way to Georgetown, I I don't need that aggravation. It said that uh it could stop all propulsion anywhere. So um if I was just gonna be maybe sailing around here, it might be okay for a while, but not for what I want to do. So that is gonna be fixed. So, and I had also gotten a new autopilot. Let's see, it's the reactor 40 mechanical Zagarmin. It looks backwards, anyway. So now that was installed almost a year ago. They text me, I think the day after Scott died, my husband, and um they said, We're on your way to your boat to install it. And I was just like, Okay, I didn't even tell them yet. And I never, you know, I didn't go near the boat for a while because I was on my boat when my husband died, and I just it just these feelings, it's still I still got the feelings, but um, I got these babies with me, so that helps. But um, so I never took it out and tried it. So months later, months, months much later, I finally tried it. And um, the guy that I normally works there, he um he got hurt, and so there were other people that were working on my boat. They cleared all my settings on my Garmin chart plotter. I couldn't get the um depth back, I couldn't get the wind back, and that's problematic, obviously. And um, and then you know, my auto guidance, you know, you have to purchase either download or purchase a C a an SD card for auto guidance where it just doesn't it the the Garmin doesn't just go from point A to point B over land and everything. The auto guidance is where it makes a path for you automatically for based on your boat, and so um that got cleared out. Uh so there was a lot of problems. I I had to pay somebody else to come and help me calibrate because I we couldn't get it done. Uh John was here, we couldn't get it done. So I paid another guy to come and help me calibrate, and my remote's all set up. Um, I have a remote. Um, for the first time, my I could engage the autopilot from the chart plotter. I never had that luxury. I would always, you know, just set it and make the changes on the panel on the controller for the autopilot. It never did it for me, and so and that was fine. I mean if that's all you know. Um, but I'm gonna try uh that's gonna be a new experience for me for it to be um following the autopilot. Um, I got plenty of time to learn all this because I am I got a long way to go. So tomorrow I'm just gonna get some more stuff done. The boat's a mess because there's still some last minute things being done, so I can't totally put everything away back in the the rear berth uh because they have to get back there to install. They also took my uh elbow, they took that back to the shop to make sure that's all cleaned out, and and uh so the elbow and all that stuff also went to their shop. So I'm gonna have a new exhaust manifold, and they're cleaning out that the elbow, which is not even that old, and the the connecting parts. Um, it's probably a couple years, but it I have uh in 2023 I did go all the way to the keys and back, so it probably could use a little cleaning. Um, so anyway, let's see what else did I have done. I made a little list here. Um I have three months of kitty litter on the boat. I tried to use some other stuff that it would only have to change like every couple weeks. That didn't work out. I tested it at home and the cats totally rebelled, so I went back to the clay litter and I've got four twenty one four twenty bags, four twenty-pound bags, and one locker out there, and and then five in the other. Um, and I threw some other stuff away. Um I have these for the cats. These are little life vests. I've got a yellow one and a pink one. Um well the cat the pet I got the pet permit approved for the Bahamas, which is actually more work than the cruising permit. And I got that all done. And um let's see what else. Let me look at my list. So Charlie's Charlie Diesel, I had them, you know, eyeball that engine. Uh you know, I could I could change the oil, but I wanted their eyes to be in there. I know what totally rebelled implies. You know what I'm talking about. So I quickly gave up that plan and went back to the so I have to, you know, I've got a bag inside, I got a stainless steel litter box. That's less smells. I've got a big thick bag in there, so all I have to do is pour it in there, and when I change it, I just pull it out and it's gonna go in the trash. I might have to carry some litter in a bag around uh for a while until I can throw it away. But um, every two days I'm gonna be doing that, they're worth it. Um, they've had they've got the the Bahamas requires a bunch of shots. I didn't like doing that. They're older, they're like 12 and 16. I didn't want to shoot them up with all that stuff, but you know, they seem to do okay. Um exhaust elbow crack. Okay, uh Garmin updated. Oh, yeah, okay. So I told you they somehow it cleared out my Brownsville to Key Largo chart that had the auto guidance, and you got to pay extra for that. So um Garmin uh walked me through downloading that again, and I bought the um, and I think I used to have it, but the Southeast Florida to Bahamas. I got that one, so I'll put that in when I get down to Key Largo. Um, also, I'm telling you about all these bad experiences. I've I paid someone, I paid a company who contracted a couple of times to do my teak. And if you know, you know that island packets have a lot of teak, so I I don't have time to do all that, you know. I don't have the will. I used to try to do it, but they're so much better at it, so I'm just willing to pay for it. Well, two times it was done wrong. It was the last time it looked, it turned like milky, like white, you know, it was weird, and also some of it just it was almost like acid because all of a sudden there was the wood was showing through, and other parts it was really rough, like um, almost like non-skid rough on the teak. That was unacceptable. So they had to do that, they had to pay somebody else to come and fix it, and then they made a mess on my teak. There was drips everywhere, and the guy who's who hired those guys came and he was horrified. And he's a he's a he's a gel coat guy, so he came and he cleaned that up, and I think he's coming again tomorrow. So, um, so I got someone coming tomorrow for um to install the um exhaust manifold, and also the guys uh will be coming to clean up my fiberglass a little bit more after doing the teak. So I like my boat to look good. It's a 1998 Island Packet 320, and I want it to look good. So I've got my chart plotter all done, autopilot, and I really won't know until I pull out of here if everything's working. But I did uh last week take it out and did a little run with the guy who's helping me with uh calibration and all that. Um when I first got on here, um the cats were hiding and now they're out. They were a little horrified. Let's see what else we got. Oh, I got a I got is it Kato? Kato Davit system. I got that system, and they're expensive, you know, they're stainless steel for your Davits, and I got it. I had brought it over from my old boat before they took my boat away. I stole a bunch of stuff, uh not really, but it was mine, I paid for it. Um, but I never had that crossbar cross, so I had it, I had them tied off. It's hard to explain. But I finally bought this was months ago, got a Kato Davitt crossbar. It's a little crooked but functional. So that'll be much better for uh I hope your crossing is sweet. Thank you. We'll be watching for updates. Thank you. Um so I'm staying here tonight. I'm gonna take my car home tomorrow, put it nice and safe in the garage. I had to prepare the house. Um, I had to prepare everything for my life to be gone for three months. Um tomorrow I go to not tomorrow, Friday, I go to Destin, Harbor Walk Marina. I've been there many, many times. I'm probably gonna stay two nights because it's a 10-hour trip from Orange Beach to Destin. So I don't want to get up and do eight hours after that, which is to Panama City, and then um Port St. Joe, and that's like five hours or four or five hours, and then four or five hours to Apalachicola, and then I'll cross from Apalachicola to Tarpon Springs. Now, when Scott was with me, we would go Destin to Clearwater, and it's almost two days, but that's a little much for one. Um I don't I would just rather I need uh I usually just nap in the in the uh cockpit. Um, but I'm just gonna uh go from Apalachicola to Tarpon Springs. That's about 25 to 30 hours depending on conditions. Um I've got QS John helping me with the weather. Looks like it's gonna be 25, I'm sorry, 15 to 20 in my face till Monday. So I'll go inside route from Orange Beach to Pensacola Pass, and then I'll have to go outside because there's there's a couple of 50-foot, I'm sorry, uh yeah, 50-foot bridges. I got a 48-foot, can be rough as a cob and watch or duck. I've been there many times. Uh yeah. Um, I used to in my island pack at 27, I used to go, I could go inside the whole way all the way to Apalachic Cola, but and I had a 42-foot mast. Now I have a 48-foot mast. I that's too close for comfort for me. 50-foot, two 50-foot bridges. I'm not brave enough to do that. I know people do it. Some people say, Oh, yeah. So the the uh Destin's pretty easy, really. Um, because once you get around that sandbar, you're you know, there's a lot of traffic in there. There's a lot of commercial traffic, all the boats coming in and out. Uh there's a pirate ship in every port, including Destin, including Orange Beach, including Clearwater, uh Key West. They all have those pirate ships. Uh, what else? Oh, I'm gonna get publics to deliver tomorrow. Um that's Tuxie. So what else we got here? Anybody have any questions? For you boat nerds out there. So here's the uh here's the oh oh yeah, just pulled up predictive wind. It's gonna be smashing from the east. Oh man. So what does it say about the waves? I haven't checked. Last time I checked, they were flat. I bet that's changed. See if you can pull that up. So here's the email from Zern Rigging. Thank you for your patience while we finish noting the findings of your rig inspection. In summary, nothing was found to be of immediate issue. A few notable findings are the traveler cam cleat starting to fail, the jib furler how youard swivel is migrating above the top foil, masthead sheaves are starting to crack due to age, IFS furler top fitting is undersized for mast hounds and VHF wire sheath is disintegrated at masthead. None of these problems expressly prevent you from leaving, but should be addressed in the near future. Let me know if you want a proposal to address the above. Well, I emailed him right back and said, I want you to fix whatever you can. Uh you guys, boat people are so awesome, you know. All these people, I I had told myself, I had told myself, you know, this was a tough decision with so much emotion with me being on this boat, and it's been 11 months, but it's on it's like almost like yesterday. It's it's been a devastating thing in my life, and um, I really feel like I need to do this. I think it's really, really what are the beads and the cross on? I'm sure there's a story. Sailors always have a story. Well, Scott brought these home a lot, and I'm not sure where he got them. And so I just um it's got a little cross on there, and I've also got Saint Christopher and a cross. I figure I got everything covered. Saint Christopher and a cross. I got a little cross on my cell boat, it's so small you can barely see it. Only a couple people have ever noticed. It's hanging from the mast. Um and I I do uh I'm a spiritual person and I um I'm just doing my best to trust God that you know a lot of times I feel like my life is over, you know. And I I hate to say that. I'm not trying, I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm just telling you where I am. This is a tough, maybe it'll inspire somebody. This is a tough trip. I was at Fort McCrae once my husband, the love of my life, my biggest cheerleader was ailing, passed away. So I gotta pass that. I feel like if I get past that, it's about three or four hours from here going east. Thank you. Thank you. Goose. Thank you. Um, I appreciate that. This is just a lot of emotions. I almost I I said, I wonder if I'm just gonna be so overwhelmed with sadness. I mean, that doesn't sound fun, but I'm sad at home too. But I feel like if I just um if I'm out there and I'm changing scenery, I love being in the sun, I'll be chasing the sun. Uh it's still warm here, but um, and it doesn't get really cold here, but I I actually feel things from that vitamin D. I don't even keep my bimini over my boat because I like the sun and I like to see the sails. I don't like anything to block me, and um so that's my story, and so I've chose I here's the thing Georgetown at one time wouldn't appeal to me. All those people, now it appeals to me. I don't want to go to some lonely anchorage and just be sad. I'll be in some anchorages by myself on the way down, but I just don't want to be sad, and I figured there's a lot of distractions, there's a lot of people, a lot of activity. Um, I could do some interviews there, there'd be all kinds of sailors there. I think that sounds fun. That'll be interesting. Um, I bought some netting to put around, you know, the lifelines for the cats. Um, I think they'll once they get once they get past the weirdness of being on a boat. Um I think they'll enjoy looking at the water, you know, and the boats going by. There'll be lots to see. So um let's see what else. I got a little monitor I haven't set up yet. It's a a monitor, so if I'm away from the boat in the Bahamas, I can see the temperature in the boat at the anchorage from wherever I am. I've got another Google Nest camera I haven't set up, and I and I I had said um that I wanted to try to run the cameras while I'm sailing, you know, because that's Starlink. I haven't really set it up yet. I will do that at some point. I don't know if it's gonna happen by Friday because um I mean I've had so much to do, you know. Uh let's see what we got. Heave to sailing says I bought integrity in 1998 27 IP in Stuart, Florida after chatting with you over Messenger. That is, oh yes, yes. It's at Mac Yacht now and we'll be done soon. I'll be heading to the Keys and then on to the Bahamas this season. All right, are you going to Georgetown? Yes, I remember you. I don't remember Heave 2 Sailing. Is that a new name of your boat? Um, but I remember you buying from um Mac Yachts. I'm thinking I might on the way back. Oh, yes, definitely. We're gonna cross paths. Let's make a point of it. Um, I'd love to interview you about your IP27. That's what I had. It's a great boat, it really is. It's a it's a blue water boat. Um, it's my blog site. Okay, cool. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna start following you. I gotta follow, I gotta find you. Um I'm I'm even thinking about stopping at Mac Yacht sales on the way back and leaving the boat to get um new rigging, and then I will never have to do it again, it'll last the rest of my life. But I'm uh I'm a 98 IP, which means that was the year they changed from the old stainless to the new stainless, and it's hard to tell. I've not been able to get a straight answer if mine has the new or the old. Um, but it can at least have uh I don't know. I I think it's just I just need to do it. I mean, it it's it's a 1998. What is that? How many years is that? Uh 20 somebody help me out. 1998 to uh 2018 is that's 20. So another seven, so that's 27 years probably time. Yeah, so so and I I got my tattoo tattoo of the swallow. And below that, I know you probably can't see it. It's the two little bunnies. Scott called me bunny, and I called him bunny. And uh, oh, I lost the love of my life 20 years ago. Don't forget to ask yourself this one question. What would be what would he want me to do with my life now? Approach the future with love and faith. Things will work out. Oh, yes, he exactly. That's another reason I'm doing it. He definitely, you know, he's a man, he wanted me home, but he never held me back. He always missed me, he was always texting me, calling me. He had access to the cameras in the boat, nobody else did, and he was always checking on me, he was always bragging about me. I miss that. I really do. It's hard to see the future, but I figure I really need to do this. Um, I don't know, just um whatever. And I think I started telling you, I figured if so much needed to be done, I just figured if it doesn't get done, then then that maybe it's meant to be delayed or not meant to go for now. And looks like everything's happening, and so I'm just gonna take that as I was taught that I don't not do something out of fear, and I was fear, I had a lot of fear of the emotions, not fear of sailing. That's that's not it. It's the fear I get out there and I'm just sad. That's what I'm afraid of. But I have some great friends, the boating community has been very encouraging, and I'm doing it. So um, I'm meeting QS John. John loves to go to uh uh um Everglades City. Uh, if if you know where that is, uh it's down below Marco, it's in the 10,000 islands, it's you know it's in the Everglades, and I've been there a couple times on that last trip in 2023 on the way down, on the way up. It does shorten that trip from Marco to Marathon, so it's nice to I've I learned a back way to get from Marco into Goodland from local knowledge. Cut out about three or four hours. Okay, let me see. I'm reminded of Lynn Party. Yes, she just kept going after Larry passed while pulling for you, kid. Wow, that's great. I didn't know that story. She kept on going. She was sailing. Is she still with us? Maybe might want to interview her. She's still. I hope she's still. Is she gone? Anyway. Still is. Oh, cool. Will she be in the Bahamas? Who else is going to the Bahamas? Anyone else? I hope to see all of you. I've interviewed so many great people and learned and and I have taken my IP27 as far as Nassau. And then I just kind of ran out of time. She's still out there posting on Facebook. I'm gonna look her up. Boy, that would be cool. Oh, that would be a great interview, especially because she's she's a widow. I'm a widow, widow with two cats. And the uh the sad thing is 11 months ago I had a husband and four cats. So after Scott died, one cat and then another cat, I'm down to two. So it's all part of the the mix in the sadness, but um, you know, just gotta get up and do something, and that's what I'm doing. And I appreciate all the encouragement. And um, even my non-sailor friends have really, really encouraging me. I got people, not many people want to sail, they want to, but they do want to fly to the Bahamas and meet me there. So um, so uh I got some interviews coming up. Who do I have? Oh, if you watched last week, I interviewed Predict Wind. That was awesome. I learned so much, and they gifted me the $4.99 per year package per year. I gotta learn how to use it. I usually use passageweather.com, but I got plenty of time to figure that out. The first time I really saw what it could do was sailing with Phoenix, you know, the the link he gave out was to predict when I was I was like, you mean you can use that to track? And uh, and I learned about how to do that. You have to send them your tracking. So I sent uh predict when my uh my tracking, my in-reach link, and they and now, and I haven't figured it out yet. I got I got so many things to do. Um, let's see. I met her a few times, never saw such an odd sight. She's 4'11 and I'm 6'4, and she is just a giant personality. I'm 5'9. Wow, 4'11. That's amazing. That is little, and she's still sailing. Is that is that what you're telling me? She's still sailing. So oh, that's what I was telling you. Um, so the guy who if you watch my the interview with Predictwin, I didn't know that they're out of New Zealand. I didn't know that they're all sailors. The founder is an Olympian sailor, and I'm gonna interview him. That's gonna be interesting. I want to get the person that I interviewed, um, Karen, uh, last week, because she's been around the world, so I'd like to get her back on here. I told her I want to come her to come back on and tell her sailing stories. That's interesting. And um, and if you guys are watching, if anybody's watching and you're going to the keys and you're going to the uh if you're going to the Bahamas, I definitely want to I'd like to hook up and and meet up and all that good stuff. Dina Bryant Franklin, what are you doing? This is one of my real estate clients and and friend now. What are you doing? What you're doing is surviving through the pain. Grief will remain, but healing comes as you keep going even when you don't want to. Yeah. So proud of you. My prayers for your protection, your peace, and strength, and a special gift of a vision of Scott as you travel. You're gonna make me cry. Thank you, Dina. Um, Goose says, oh yes, on oh, that's your boat? You're gonna be down there? Wait, did you already tell me that? Did you tell me that? Are you where are you gonna be? Goose! Tell me where are you gonna be? Augustus is goose, by the way. That's why I'm calling him that. Talk to me, goose. Let's see what else is going on. Anyone else got anything? So I'll be um if it's 15 to 20 in my face when I leave Friday, I'll probably stay on the inside until I get to Pensacola Pass, then go out, and then uh then I'll go on to Destin, and then I'll just stay a couple days and just hang out and maybe at that time figure out predict when I gotta figure out my remote. Uh sorry, Cap. Uh Goose was talking about Lynn P. Oh. Oh, okay, all right, all right. Well, Goose, did you get your boat yet? I know you were on you were in recovery mode. Did you get a boat? Okay, Lynn Party's boat is Tally Son. Tally son. Thank you. Sailing with JL Lo? Where are you? Did you happen to see if the about those about the waves for Friday? I'm in Virginia. So are you gonna be sailing this winter? You're not going to the Bahamas, are you? So he too sailing. We're gonna see you. So we're gonna probably I'm gonna meet up with QS John and either Goodland or I know it's crazy to think about taking a sailboat in the in the Everglades, but we did it. It has to be high tide, local knowledge, and um uh and then we'll go we'll go down to Marathon, get on the outside, go on up to maybe Key Largo, and probably cross from Kivis Gane. I have to get we'll okay. Uh we'll be when I can, not going yet. I have a kid in high school, so I'm a few years out before I can roam. Oh man. You know, that kid would be cool. Oh, Mike Wax was a kid. Would be cool if he was uh went to finish high school on the boat. Mike Wax listening. You are going on a great adventure. Mike is uh lives here in Orange Beach, and he has a great um Island Packet 31. He's got it on the hard right now during hurricane season. November 1st, he's bringing it down. So and I'm heading out. It's still hurricane season, but we're on the downside now. I think the the height of hurricane season is September 10th. So we're on the downside now, and I'm just gonna hope for the best. QS John's watching the weather for me. QS John is a retired Southwest captain pilot and a lifetime sailor. So he's very into weather. I like to get a consensus, you know, before I do any kind of crossing. Um, that's right, Tuxie. So I'm on the boat. It's the first night I've spent the night on my boat since Scott passed. So um I'm sure there's gonna be lots of emotions, but uh I'm here. Oh, Goose says, My boy spent a few years in middle school on the boat, best years of our life. Oh man, I hear that. I I've interviewed people that have kids that were kicking and screaming at first when they said we're going to live on a boat. I can't imagine feeling that way. I someone said that to me when I was 14. I was like, Let's go. Uh J Lo. Um JLO is a play on names. First initial of my first name, first three of my last think J Lo the singer, but my name came before she was born. So is it is it just J Lo? Is that how you say it? I keep wanting to say the extra L. Okay, um, marine forecast for Saturday and Sunday is bad. Okay, well, I will be at Destin. What do you mean, bad? It's kind of broad. Was there a hurricane coming? Goose. I have to share her with her mom. I but I'd love to take her with me. Ah, I see. Well, the people that I've interviewed that have kids, and like I said, they were kicking and screaming about not wanting to go live on a boat, but now they they would can't imagine going back to a regular school. So I think that's the way I would feel if someone said to me, 13, 14 years old, we're going to the Bahamas and live on a boat. Heck yeah! I would have been all about that. I think the kids seem to come out a little more well adjusted when they're not in the public school. Just an opinion. Um, so we got about 15 people or so watching. So cool. Hope you can find a way worth the effort, definitely. Were you talking to me? Were you talking with sailing with JLo? J L L O. Um, so you just say the L once. That's right. So um, I guess that's it. Look, he wants me to look. I will look. But if I can get okay, Lloyd. J Lo J Lo. Okay. Um, so I'll if I get to Harbor Walk Marina at Destin and just need to hang out, I will. Sure wish I could go on the inside. There's a there's a bridge in Fort Walton that's 50 feet. The Destin Bridge is 50, and there's even look at Wind Finder. I will look at passage weather. I've had really good luck with that one. Uh bridges in Panama City, 50 foot. Once I'm past that, I'm good. Um, but what I'll do since I got the new boat, uh I just I'll go to uh Port St. Joe and then go the back way, you know, all the way to Pensacola. I mean uh Appalachic Cola, and then I'll go out government cut, go to Tarpon Springs. I'm gonna try to do some anchoring on this trip, um, try to save the money. Um and then I'll go Clearwater. I like to take short trips on the west coast, and then I'll go to Gulfport, Florida, and what I do there, they got a nice protected the municipal marina. There is very well protected. I've been to all these places many times, and their transient dock is a floating side tie situation, so that's a great place for me to set up my tacky cat dinghy and uh get some help getting the motor off and putting it on. And we are in caliber 33. What is this? A sister ship to your IP. We will be coming from Maryland and heading to the keys in the Bahamas for the season. Maybe our paths will cross. Yes, yes, Amy Egg. We will be coming from Maryland. When are you leaving? Oh, we definitely I need to interview you. Um, Goose says, used to love the raw oysters in Destin, I've been up north too long. Need an IV of shrimp and grits. Well, you know, Apalachicola is the home of the oysters, uh, Boss Oysters, that restaurant there that got bought out by a developer after Hurricane Michael, and they also got the old Apalachicola marina and that hotel that's right there. It's a developer. I don't know what it's gonna look like. I haven't been there in two years. Um, but I know that they were planning on building like a huge marina. We leave in November, won't cross until after Christmas. So, okay, so where are you gonna you're where are you gonna cross? You're gonna uh the Gulf Stream after Christmas. Hope I don't miss you. I um on my cruising permit, I put Bahamas November 1st through December 17th. It'll probably be later than that. Tim Lynn says, Indian Key and Shark River and the Everglades are good stops. Yes, I spent the night at Shark River by myself. You're supposed to take an easy online course to get your permit to visit the Everglades. I never did that. I even got stuck because I got uh a little what's the word? Um aggressive when I left, it was still it wasn't it was low tide, and so I pushed it. There's one little spot on in the channel where it gets questionable, and I left too early. I left everybody's city and I got stuck, and uh they and a hurricane that was going back up north and I had come south, and then I was going back up north, and a hurricane had come through. I can't remember which one, Ira or something, not Irma, but uh it's 2023, and it had changed the the uh situation in the channel, and I got stuck and I called I called Cito and they said we have to get permission from the park rangers to go in there. I was like, really? And so yeah, they came and we love that Anchorage, very quiet and great pelican and dolphin watching, and lots of no sims. Oh my goodness. I came out at sunset, was just gonna take some nice pictures. Man, I got a couple of shots and then I had to dive in the boat, and thankfully I have um good screens on everything. Man, they were fierce in there, so yeah. I didn't see any dolphins, though. That's awesome. Okay, so you're gonna cross from the key somewhere. Do you think you'll cross from Kivis Gain? So when I get to Kivis Gane, I have to get the yes, Shark River. We love that. Very quiet and oh, I already read that. Okay, um, I have to get a certificate certification, a final thing for the cats, and it has to be I get I have to go visit uh a vet within 48 hours of being in the Bahamas. So I figured that'll be in Kibis Gain. I have to they have to do a visual inspection to make sure there's no parasites and everything. So I figured that's a good place to do it uh from what I hear in Kibis Gain. And um Hayden and Rayen uh on Island Spirit, they've given me lots of good information about Kibiscain. I've been there, not on my boat. Oh, I did I was there in my island packet 27 years ago. I stayed at Dinner Key before I crossed the Gulf Stream. Um, but this will be the first time I've been on this boat, and uh, I'm looking forward to it. And I started telling you about Key West John. So Key West John's gonna meet me in Everglades City, then we'll go down. Marathon, I may have already said it, I can't remember what I've said. We'll go up and then cross. So he's gonna buddy boat with me over there, and um so I'm not a mechanic, and he likes he can fix stuff, so that's nice. But I've also been very intrigued with how generous everybody is with their time, you know. In uh Georgetown, you know, people you can call channel 68 the sail net, and if you need a part, or if you need someone that knows how to do something, or um but everybody's very helpful, and that's appealing to me right now. I ain't gonna lie. Very appealing. Shark River. Yeah, did you did you Amy? Did you experience the uh no seums? I got a great picture. I'll post it's a Florida Noceum, it'll make you laugh. It's a close-up. We will cry, we will likely cross from Angelfish Creek. Oh, yeah. We head past Bimini and check in at Great Harbor in the berries. It's about 24 hours. Overnight crossing the bank is lovely. Yes, I've done that. Assuming the weather is doing what it's supposed to do, right? We're gonna check in at South Bimini. I forgot the name of the marino. It was one that Hayden gave me. Um, that's what I put on the cruising permit. Hang out there and then go on to anchor off of um the West End. Where's your favorite spot in the Bahamas? We will leave after an Apples boat show, planning to cross into Florida after November 1st. So cool! Ah, and planning to cross into Florida after okay, so you're going to into Florida November 1st, and then where? Georgetown is where I'm headed. I've never been there. I've been to not the Exumas, but what's the other one? Forgot that other island that's a little wet uh east, that long island. Not the Exumas, but of course I've been to Bimini, North Bimini, South Bimini, Nassau. I'm looking forward to it. They have a uh Mooringfield now. Eleutra. Thank you. Oh, look who it is. The route Miami to South Bimini dock check in to Northwest Channel. But what's the name of that? What's the name of that? Um, Marina you recommended, Hayden? Um dock check in to Northwest Channel to West Bay to Highborn Key to Orderick Wells to Stan Stan Staniel Key to Black Point to Lil Farmer out to Georgetown. There you go, everybody. There's the route. How you doing, Hayden? South Bimini, only one. Oh, it's the only one. I forgot the name of it. That's what I put down on my cruising permit. Whatever the name was. So there's the route, y'all. I've done some really good episodes with Hayden and Raiding. They um we did a provisioning for the Bahamas. If the weather's creamy, hide out at Norman's Pomp Pond just south of Highborne. Okay. We love the berries and abacos, but want to get down south Long Island or similar, then work our way north. Huh. Where is that? Long Island. I'm I assume you're talking about Long Island in the Bahamas. Gemini Cove Marina. There we go. Is it Long Island Bahamas or oh here it is? Long Island. Okay. Skip Long Island. Long Island is south of Georgetown. Oh Hayden, Hayden's not he's not digging it. Skip Long Island. I see. And what's what do you like about it there? I'll be stopping at Georgetown, but what do you like about it? It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be interesting. Uh, to get to Georgetown, you're gonna go out at Little Farmers or uh out at Black Point Gallant Cut. I've done um several probably about five interviews with SV Island Spirit. Very helpful information. I gotta go back and watch that Bahamas. We did a couple of Bahamas uh episodes, Route and whatnot. Yes, it's after Georgetown. I see that. What do you not like about Long Island? I'm just going as far as Chicken Harbor. Georgetown. Long Island is after and past Georgetown. Yeah. Already said that. I got a long ways to go before that. In the meantime, I know the west coast of Florida and the Keys, I would say pretty well. I can tell you where all the best marinas with the best bathrooms and the best laundry are. Oh, okay. Alright, so Long Island is our decision point for going back north or heading to Grenada. Granada. Grenada. So what what what makes you decide? Get to Georgetown and base there, Long Island Ice. It's okay, but if you go past Georgetown, go to Conception or Rum. Hmm. I'm just this trip, I'm hanging out in Georgetown. Never know what is gonna what's gonna happen the next year. I may not even come back. So what uh what that's an interesting decision point for going back north or heading to Granada. Is that what you do every year? Long Island next off is Turks and Cakos. Let's see, I can make this show up show comments on the stage. There we go. So it's seven o'clock East Central. It's dark. Days are getting shorter. Nice. We we never know where we're going until we get there. I love it. We provision for a year, then see how long we can go. Do you really provision for a year? Oh, I did get a very good uh healthy spare part, spare part um items. I got right out route out of Grone is Turks, DR, Puerto Rico, USVI, St. Martin, and Tigo, Antigua, and then many days south. Yes. So uh I got a fresh water pump, I got an air conditioning pump. I probably don't need that. I don't I don't know how much I'm gonna be using it. Um but I've got it. I've got I can't remember what I have. I spent a oh, I even got an alternator. I bought a Balmar extra alternator. Someone said get it, I got it. We provision for three months a year, no. Be weighing the boat down. Do you really? Do you really do that? You go for your you provision for a year? I want to hear about that. Yeah, I know that when we did the provisioning for the Bahamas with uh SP Island Spirit and Hayden and Rating, that's one thing they really talked about was um you really need to take what if you got some special things you like, food or toothpaste or whatever, parts, you need to take it. Extra regulator. I don't have that. You think I'll need that? Oh maybe I can pick one up before I get when I before I get to the keys. So I was um get it in the keys. So okay, so Hayden, I don't know if you're on here, but um I was thinking about stopping back at Mac Yacht sale uh Mac Yacht and getting some new rigging there. Taking the plunge. What do you think about that? I think you told me that it's somebody told me 1998 maybe have the new stainless steel. No need. I was thinking about stopping on the way back. What do you think? Leaving the boat there. Okay, you think that's a good idea? Go ahead and spend that nineteen thousand dollars. Never have to do it again, right? It'll last for the rest of my life. So I had to set up my little podcast desk. I couldn't get the uh teleprompter on a good stand that fit around this uh I just did hope that's a good move. You just got new oh you just got oh of course your IP twenty seven. So Hayden heap to sailing just bought an IP twenty seven for From uh Colin. Yeah. Just did the chain plates. And he got him to do the chain plates. And he's gonna be in the Bahamas. So Hayden used to have an IP27 as well. The dude knows IPs. We have a spare for every pump, plus one. Plus one? You mean two? Every major electronic component, alternators, regulators, shunts, valves, macerators, and three complete engine tune-ups. We're just two people on a 46-footer. Woo! Is that what is that what you mean by provision for a year? Or did you really do you take a year's worth of food? I might be a little light on my spares. Oh and all the you know, for the the stuff for the engine, I've got all that, belts and whatnot. Oh too much. Do you really do you have two plus you got two of everything? For every major electronic component component? Fuel. Number one issue is fuel. So yeah, it just never ends, does it? I'm just gonna go. I got that American Express. You're gonna give me a diesel. Hey, I really want you to give me a diesel maintenance class. I think you should teach one. You could do it online. Everybody be doing, you know, have their own engine there, and we could do it online, and you can say, okay, now do this. Now do that. What do you think? Earn a little money. Just take an extra tablet with Navionics. Well, I got that. I can, he says. Okay. Who would like a diesel lesson? I would. If Eodi's boat wears out, they'll just build a new one on the fly. We have about 2,000 pounds of food when we leave. Everything is dated, categorized, and tracked in and out. Wow. We should do a podcast. Let's do let's do a provisioning with them. That would be interesting. I want to sign up for that class. I bet you're on a real tight budget, Eyote. Hope I'm saying that right. I bet I mean I bet you stick to your budget. What do you think, Hayden? Are you going around the world? Well, they could. Okay, let me see if I can get this straight. So sailing. Okay, Eodi. Are you you're not going to Georgetown, is that right? Haiti sailing is we stick to a strict budget. Okay, I definitely gotta interview you. Kitties look pretty relaxed now. Well, I guess we've been on here for a little over an hour. But we got we got several people watching. We got about twelve people watching. That's cool. Oh, I see you made a comment over on we'll see. I uh Hayden, you made a comment over on Instagram. No name harbor to South Bimini to Northwest Channel. Okay, that's what you wrote. So you picked it up on did you see my route? Just seeing it now. Sorry for being late. Then you switched over to YouTube, maybe Georgetown. We track every project in a can band board. Oh cancer. We'd be in the South Pacific, but cancer. I'm sorry. So much sadness in between so much sailing. Everybody's out here just doing the best we can. Where would you go in the South Pacific? Patty Pettit. Ah, prayers for a wonderful sale. Be careful. Thank you, Patty. That's a um a sorti sister of mine. Carry on. Yeah. Okay, I'm making the note here about that route. But I got a long ways to go before I get there. So I'm in Orange Beach, Alabama. My least favorite part of the trip is crossing from Apalachicola to Tarpon Springs. It's in the uh Big Bend of Florida. It can get rough out there. And it's all night. The nights are long now. So I hope it's not rough for the for the cats, especially. That's my least favorite. I love going across Florida Bay, especially when it's nice and calm. Not big waves. But the journey down across Panhandle, Florida, and um west coast of Florida is awesome. I love all of that. I love the keys, and I'm looking forward to getting over to the Bahamas. So I got some people to interview along the way. So I guess that's it. Unless y'all got some more words of wisdom, I'm here to listen. I call it the Arms of Florida. It's really cool. I mean, it's it's like old Florida. Apalachicola, Tarpon Springs, Carabel. It's like stepping back in time. Appalachia Cola is so cool. And I heard that they they've got oysters again. Uh the beds were damaged, I guess, in Hurricane Michael, which was when was that? 18, 19, 2018. I guess they're just now getting healthy beds again. Tim, where are you from? I have a nice scar on my foot from stepping on an oyster in Tarpon Springs. And that Tarpon Springs is the sponge capital of the world. I always go and buy some little sponges for my makeup, real sponges. And it's also that you could walk downtown. I was there Christmas one time and walking downtown, it was just everybody was speaking, a lot of people were speaking Greek. It's a Greek community. You're going barefoot, huh? Yeah, Tarpon Springs, Clearwater. Oh, you're in Orange Beach? Ah, me too. What where do you keep your boat? Fort Howard Beach. Well, I don't know where that is. Who handles your real estate while you're gallivanting the globe? Uh I'm a realtor too. Well, because it's uh second homes and investment properties, um, I've got a lot of listings, uh, golf condos, and um I can do most everything from wherever I am, unless someone comes and shows property. In that case, I I usually have one of the team members handle it. But I have a great assistant, and um I asked her after Scott passed, I asked her to take a bigger role. Uh she's great. And um Walker Key, I know exactly. I've sold something there. Oh, Fort Howard Beach. Okay, is where I've stepped on that. Okay, you were anchored out. Yeah, Walker Key. I've sold a condo there before. Um, she's gonna be taking a bigger, she's taking a bigger role, so I'm giving her more of my commission to help me um really stay on top of things. I mean, I'm the closer, I'm the negotiator, I'm the one that, you know, has I've been in the business for down here for since 2003. Um, was working in Clearwater and was there over the weekend once. Okay. I love Clearwater. It's gotten a little crowded there though. But I'll put my tack a cat together in Gulfport. That's what I usually do. That's so funny. We'll just build a new one. Are you still in Clearwater? Wait, where did you say you were? I'm getting confused. We got some real quality people on here tonight commenting. Virginia, but you were in Clearwater. Okay. West Coast of Florida's pretty cool. The armpit. So I'll be going from here to here to here to Port St. Joe. Then I'll go the back way over here to Alphalchic Cola. Then it'll come out government cut. This button always available to me. Local knowledge says don't do it, but it's been uh can you help me with that? Number one skill need to take apart your fuel system, put it back together, then start the engine. So this is government cut is nice and uh cleared out now. So I'll go from here to Tarpon Springs. There it is. Howard Beach, there it is. Who here can do that? Take apart your fuel system and put it back together, then start the engine. Who can do that? So Friday, I'm going to leave it first light. Got somebody I'm gonna take all the lines with me. So I got someone coming to just kind of hold the boat while I take all the lines off all the pilings. So sailing with J Lo, J Lloyd. No, sailing with sailing SVEOD. Island Spirit, you're right. My sons have a Hans Christian 48 and have had fuel system apart multiple times. I'm sure I can take mine apart. We'll see about the rest. Not tonight, though. I can't even crank it right now. So everything's all a mess because I can't store everything in my rear berth because they need to get back there tomorrow. So everything's a little disarray. But my friend Dana is really I have a really I have some funny friends, and I would say, I can't go to the boat, it's too sad. She goes, it's not the boat's fault. I had some other people say, I don't want to get too spiritual, even though Island Spirit, that's a very spiritual name. Um that I'm just gonna say it. Um, they said those feelings are not of God. So I had a couple people, a couple friends on two different occasions come and pray on the at the boat with me. Just want to remove all the negative feelings and take it back, you know what I mean. I've got some serious sailors on here tonight I'm gonna have to write 'em all down. See who's gonna be who's gonna be the Bahamas. Hayden, I wish you were gonna be there. Wish you and Raiden were gonna be there. That would be cool. Anybody else got anything? I love reading your comments. Let's see what else can I tell think I've told it all. Uh who said they were a realtor? So I've always been able to continue with my business sailing because so much of it is over the phone now. And um, I mean, I've I get I've written I've sold condos while I'm on the boat. I've I remember writing up a contract on the reef in Key West. One of my clients wanted to go see something when I was out of town, so I called the listing agent and said, Hey, I got some repeat clients who want to come see. Oh, I'll be glad to show it to them. They called me back, said write it up, and I was sitting on the on my boat, the first salty abandon. Um, a lot of that's it seems like when I go out of town, I sell something, it's a little slow right now. Yeah. But that's okay, that'll give me time to focus on this. But it's always with the ear and the phone, and always, you know, gotta always stay. That's why the the um the Starlink is so handy. Just like someone was talking about somebody was talking about Shark River. Oh that's great. I mean not great about those problems, but that you keep going. Thank you. I needed to hear that. Just keep on going. I love it. God bless you. MS diagnosis What was I saying? I don't remember. Um, thanks for sharing those stories with me. Anyway, what was I saying? I can't remember. Just gonna do it. That's all there is to it. How um I wanna ask how old y'all are, sp EOD. I hope I'm saying that right. May not want to tell your age. I'm sixty. Age check. Now sorry. Fifty nine sixty one. Ah, and fifty-nine. Fifty one we got age checks. Everybody's coming in on it now. Sweet. Hard to believe. Hey, two sailing. Bet you didn't know you'd be the baby in here. Fifty-one sounds so young now. What? Ha! Fifty-one year old baby. Anyway, well, I can't think of another thing to say, but I'm always love reading your comments, so if y'all keep talking, I'm gonna keep listening. So I stopped the mail for 30 days. What do you do about that, you guys? Um, you could only stop it for 30 days, and then there's gotta be a three-day intermission before you can do another 30 days. Not very convenient, but I do have somebody that's gonna pick up my mail and then come back in 30 days. Gonna take it from my mailbox to the inside. What do y'all do? Hayden, what do you do? You're gone six months at a time. Do you have somebody pick up your mail? Hayden. What does the odie do? What does J Lo do? Tim Lynn. Tim's like right down the street from me. Just don't pay the bills. We don't have a house. Everything goes to St. Brendan's Isle. Gotcha. Emily Burke, 10. I'm praying that your trip is exactly what you need. This is my stepsister. Well, you need that your heart feels Scott's presence as you sail, praying for you as you go. Very, very sweet. That's exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you so much, Emily. And Tim says our neighbors checked our mail and notified us if anything looked important. Yeah. And well, you know, you can look online. You get those emails, you can actually see what the mail is. Thanks, Emily. That's a very sweet message. I didn't know you were watching. I love following along. I didn't know that. Are you in Montana or are you here? Emily's also a realtor. Thanks for watching, Emily. It's a tough one. I still miss them so much. And I know you knew them. I miss uh that he was a big cheerleader. Go uh Wyoming. Okay, Gulf Shore, Wyoming may be in the fall. Okay. Well this it's the fall. Maybe. I know you want to ultimately be out there. It's a long ways away. I don't think they have water there, do they? Oh they don't have salt water. But you've been here your whole life. I'm at um Bear Point. So I'm going all the way to Georgetown, Emily. My friends just started sailing. I told them to follow you. Thank you. Dan and Val Pompel. Are they here? Very cool. They just started sailing. They get a boat. I love these stories. Oh, Cindy McGregor, um, you are an inspiration and you have a huge cheering and prey warriors supporting you. Hope to hug you before you leave. Thank you, Cindy. I appreciate you coming out that day. You really cheered me up. We rescued a bird, didn't we? I'll send you their page. Thank you, Emily. Cindy was here on my boat, and we saw a pelican get caught in a rigger uh outrigger on a fishing boat, and he was just hanging there. Like the line went around and he was just hanging there. It was horrible. We ran over there, and and then a bunch of other people came between all of us. We bent the guy's outrigger to get it down so someone could put a towel over the beak, and then Cindy cut the line that was around the wing, but he was okay. And then the um wildlife people came, but everybody felt like just let him see if he flew away and he he kind of floated around for a while, but then he flew when the wildlife guy tried to catch him. Wanted to check for I do have the footage. Cindy got got the footage, and I haven't put I thought I'd put that together. Sorry, I haven't had time, Cindy. So are you guys coming tomorrow? I know you got calls. Yeah, Emily, send me their page. I'd like to follow them. Do they have a boat? Oh, California. Oxnard, California. I want to go over there too. I would like to go. I want to probably have to work. Okay. Um, I want to go go through the Panama Canal. I don't I don't know that I'd want to go across the Pacific just because I'm not a mechanic, but I do want to do that coast over there, you know, like uh Mexico and all that. Oh, here it is. Anybody else wanna Instagram rigging together? Rigging it together. Is that the name? That's cool. What a great name. Rigging it together. Very creative. So I've I got a guy that's gonna help me out Friday. Tomorrow I'm gonna just uh I got some real thick lines on this boat. I'm gonna take them with me in case I get have to tie up really good for a hurricane. Um, my first time sailing? Yes, it was so fun. My first time sailing was on theirs, it was incredible. Their boat is old and they're learning as they go. They are so much fun. What kind of boat do they have? Well look. But I'll have lots of lines with me in case a hurricane comes. Try to find a hidey hole. Why haven't you been sailing with me? I haven't been in the best place this past year. I mean, this year I've only taken the boat out like three times. I made people go with me. I'm a solo sailor. That's how messed up I've been. I got this one friend, he'd go, he calls me T Bird. T Bird, you taking that boat out? Let's go tomorrow. Great friends. I'm here for the comments. I'm not gonna sign off until y'all quit commenting. So please comment. Emily, you'll have to fly down to the Bahamas when I get there. I guess you know my route. Nineteen seventy-eight Hudson's Seawolf. Do you know its size? You probably know what kind of boat that is. Forty four foot Wow. Well, I don't know that I'm what's coming up is forty-four foot and that looks cool. I don't know if it's a Here's one for sale in Tacoma, Washington. It looks cool. A lot of wood. So I guess I don't really have much to say, and people are starting to drop off. Forty-four. All right. Always leave them wanting more, right? Don't overstay your welcome. I probably should sign off. And I will. I wanted to go live because I didn't want to have to edit. So this is so much easier. But I'll try to do some um updates like old salty quickies, like I used to. I will update on tomorrow when I get the cracked manifold exhaust manifold fix when they put the new one in. All right. Oh, have a great night. Looking forward to your updates. Thanks, Emily. I really appreciate your comments. I really do about Scott and everything. He wanted me to do this. He was always so he was proud of me. Did they get yes? They got the stains out. He was horrified when when the the guy who hired the guys that were here, the guy the gel coat when he came, he was like, Oh my god. And what had happened was they were dripping and it doesn't show up. This is what he said. It doesn't show up until it dries, and then realize he was supposed to put some plastic down. But yeah, it looks a lot better. They left their stuff here, so they're gonna be back probably tomorrow. You see all their chemicals and everything they were using, acetone and all that. It looks a lot better than when you saw it. Okay, thank y'all for commenting and all that and visiting for a while. I really enjoyed it. Uh, I always learn a lot, I always get a lot of um encouragement from people. Thank you till next time. I can't wait to see your boat. It's gonna be a great feeling to have all new rigging. I know Colin will do a great job. Um DM me and let me know your schedule. Heave two sailing. Is that the name of your boat? Have you named it? Have you already told me that? Did you name it? Is it heave two saline? Nope. I keep it I kept it integrity. Okay, that's a good name. Integrity. That's a good thing, integrity. Alright, guys, thank you so much. Thanks for visiting with me. There'll be more. I need it. Thank you. Salty Bannon.