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previously on onboard lifestyle

we left catalina island to seek safe

harbor from a gale warning that was

issued for the region

we sailed through a sea of anchored

container ships in route for alameda's

bay we picked the perfect place to ride

out this wind event and finally resolve

our outboard issue

oh second pull

nice the crew breaks in the new engine

by exploring the canals on this lovely

bay

and we meet some local fishermen who

generously share their bounty my name's

brad and this is uh chris chris nice

meeting you guys okay so we can we have

one of these then they're all yours not

all of those we're glad to be a service

take care everybody signing out

before leaving alameda's bay we had a

few projects to complete we have been

working on our autopilot a bit at each

stop

we broke down the steering linkage to

prep it for the rudder sensor while we

were in ventura

we are on a mission aren't we teal we

are

here can you grab this

it's heavy do not drop it on me it may

kill me i got it got it i got it it

weighs like 15 pounds got it yep put

that on the table

this is crazy

we are now working

on our autopilot

that's part of that linkage

and that you hear is teal grunting

what's new

okay

actually that came out pretty smooth

just like i thought it would um

i just have to drill and tap uh the

rudder indicator into that

so that's my little project next it'll

be fine

so what's going on down here

are you done no

i'm just i'm falling

let's not have to do this ever again

every couple of years we'll have to do

it

no i'm serious

it pays off to have little teeny arms to

reach in there doesn't it

pays off for who

for me

the goal for alamedos is to make

electrical connections to power up the

unit you think you figured it out

are you just frustrated beyond

well i've narrowed it down

i've got it to this point right here

it's not working

i'm just checking all the connections

all the internal fuses are fine

there's no burn spots no corrosion

so i don't know i'm gonna i mean there's

power coming in

power is going in but it's not going out

to the display

so i've narrowed it down it goes in here

it goes up to the drive fine it's not

coming out of pin one

which goes to the display head

but i'm working on that next

i'm just cleaning this up a little a

little

so do we agree that this is kicking your

butt

we'll

have an answer for that in about two

minutes

i'm gonna try it again

it's so disappointing

i mean we didn't really want an

autopilot did we

no we love to hand steer all the time

yeah i do not want to hand steer a

thousand miles down

the coast

well we kind of did already but i don't

want to continue

so did we learn our lesson

yeah to read directions

okay

this is a 20

well probably 15 year old manual

that i didn't have i'd

download it from an old website that

doesn't exist anymore

there's no excuse there's 100 pages of

it i'm reading through this look at this

there's hundreds of pages what did you

read but did you read it though i read

certain pages

i finally read this one

this

what i'm

at least it looks like it's gonna work

so what was it

it requires a second

a secondary light duty power supply with

a one ampus

why is this so funny because you were

tearing everything apart

and you were like oh my god i went

through the process of elimination now

this unit looks good stop shaking it

you're gonna break it

the display unit i went through that

it's good

all i have to do is add a secondary

power supply

and we're golden and then we gotta

calibrate well calibrate but at least

getting it to turn on is step one

okay i'm gonna go do that

round two

there is our new

light duty power supply

complete with a cute little one amp fuse

so that's the secret huh that was the

missing missing link right here

so i'll be able to jump power straight

from this unit

fuse it

and power the head unit or the display

unit

okay i think i'm ready to try this again

do it

yeah let's do it tomorrow no okay

so i think progress and madness kind of

goes hand in hand because when teal is

doing something

he always unloads my cupboard and this

is the result i can't really complain

though because that means that something

is getting done

and it gives me an opportunity to kind

of reorganize and get things done but

teal is now

in my territory

what exactly are you doing

what exactly well

i'm mounting

the autopilot compass and gyro

and it says

it must be mounted as close to ship

center of vessel as low as possible

and you do the math that's this

locker right here you're covered

so of course it is that's where i'm

mounting it

it shouldn't be too bad actually you

know what

about done here here you go i just feel

like you're always encroaching into my

area that's not i don't encroach into

yours hey take a look at this look at

this

that is not that bad it's mounted to the

wall look at your locker you have look

at all this room

but it's mine

okay

one more connection

that's what you always say i'm close

then the electrical will be done

i'm kind of anxious to fire this up so

give me one minute well maybe two

or three or four

okay that's it for

all of the electrical connections now

i have power coming into the unit

from the fuse block it's switched

goes out

of here

to the drive

i now have my

low amp fuse going to my display so it

should be powered now

i've got that

all connected i've got the three sensors

which is my compass gyro and the rudder

indicator

they're all installed

i still have to finish the rudder

indicator that's gonna have to be a

project for uh probably the next stop

but my goal here was to fire this up and

make sure this and the display work

it's been a long time since this unit's

been on so

let's uh give it a go

okay it's go time tio is back at the

rudder making sure nothing goes crazy

and emma's gonna fire it up on the board

i'm gonna be here to make sure that the

display actually pops up so

emma go ahead and turn that on okay

this is uh exciting and nerve-wracking

because let's hope fingers crossed it

turns on

okay it's on hold on

hold on it's on it's on it's on okay

runner's not moving here

okay this is good okay don't touch it i

really want to touch it

okay we still need to the compass works

i know but look at the rudder shows all

the way over we need to do a factory

reset and then recalibrate but i can't

do that until we get that rudder

indicator on so so hurry up uh okay

that'll have to be the next stop

sorry we need a we need more steers

i don't want to be here it works that's

great high five

this just means that uh we're getting

closer we're getting closer can you just

do it today

we're leaving in the morning

next order of business compass

compass knows the drill well you know

what he knows

cement floors with a fold down table

and there's usually steel he's like oh

what's coming he's actually okay we're

just uh making sure that he is in good

health and making sure that all his

shots are um

up to date so just one more thing but it

was it was so funny though he walks in

here and he doesn't realize it for got a

good

minute or two and all of a sudden

his tail drops

mine would too

not the fold down table we just want to

make sure that he's okay

and he's gonna be healthy he is healthy

actually

what do you think compass

it's like i hate you guys

there he is

after three shots

he's been giving us the evil eye

for a while now

since we got home

poor guy

he should be fine after a day we'll be a

little sore

the things we do to keep him safe

healthy

and ready for travel

compass

compass

he's so mad at me

little does he know i'm giving him a

haircut and a bath tomorrow

the last project we wanted to accomplish

was to purchase our backup ground tackle

christmas came again

that's right in the form of ground

tackle gosh

life has sure changed for us

so we are so fortunate to be here and

have

wonderful viewers and they offered to

take us over and pick up some supplies

introduce yourselves i'm jim and this is

my wife linda hi

and they are they were former sailors

but now they are power voters which is

not a bad thing

you can get there faster than we can and

they helped us out i didn't have to

slept this a half a mile

they uh came picked us up and uh we went

and got it this is and i got cushions

you you have your toys and i have mine

so

one more project priorities

so thank you so much guys thank you so

much

well that looks good

almost done it's not what i want i'm

still missing this piece here

i'm on the hunt for it

once i get this piece i'll put the chain

stopper here i'll put a shot of chain

here

so that way we have a spare

anchor to deploy and uh

oh we'll be able to rig it up in 30

seconds

i'm just latching it here so it doesn't

move hopefully we won't need it but

well what i mean hopefully

i mean if we do though then we have it

but i'm saying i'm hopeful that we don't

need yeah me too do have to deploy a

second anchor

or peace of mind what happens if this

anchor gets fouled and we have to cut it

free then we have no way to anchor now

we do

okay

one more thing

done

off the list i still have a couple

components i still need to get

another mantis a shackle

get another chain stopper

and i'll rig that up right here

so this one's all set

okay i like it

departure day

oh

it's gonna be a

good sale heading over to

avalon we missed it because of um

circumstances well it was a full-blown

gale so it was nice to miss it yeah and

we need to get some parts so

now it's uh back to the island

and uh off to mexico off to mexico so

i'm all ready you guys ready yeah let's

do this let's go

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life is a winding road

no telling where it

driving through days and nights

won't stop for traffic lights

and i

i really want to know

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even if i'm falling down i will keep on

searching for my eyes

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you can say i lost my mind i will keep

on holding my head high

even if the sky is falling down

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here we are on the approach

to avalon on catalina island

we've got all the paragliders we've seen

those for the last five miles

we've dropped the main

and we're just flying the jib right now

winds are kind of swirling around the

end of this island

so we're catching a little bit here and

there we're only a mile out

so we're gonna power in and grab a

mooring

and we'll spend a couple days here

got a little bit of haze in the sky

still

calls for fog tomorrow morning

so i think this is the precursor to it

but overall beautiful day beautiful day

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is

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we are now in avalon and i heard there

are some cruising goods here to hang out

with come back next week to see what

avalon has to offer

see you then