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We've been in the same place for a while, and it's time to move on. Here's a recap of what happened on our adventure during May 2019. Highlights include final activities in George Town, our future YouTube intentions, and solving the anchor light mystery as we prepped to sail through the Northern Bahamas and back to Florida.
Thanks to all our viewers, subscribers, patrons, and everyone in the cruising community for being part of our adventure. We appreciate your love and support, and we look forward to your questions and comments.
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Hi, it's Clark and Emily on Sailing Vessel Temptress, and this is our May 2019 adventure log
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We're not in Georgetown anymore. We finally sailed out of there. We sailed a kind of a boisterous passage at high speed
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It was kind of fun, kind of exhausting to Cat Island. It was fun for him. I was seasick
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Yeah, a little tiring for me because I had to sail all day. Emily got seasick, and then we got to Cat Island
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We did a little hiking around Cat Island, and then we sailed to Eleuthera
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where Emily had a sore back, and I guess a little more seasick. We touched there, and now we're in a second place in Eleuthera called Tarpon Bay
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I'm exhausted. When I first get into sailing, every time I get back into it, it takes me a while to relax into the life
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I sail the boat, and I wonder, is that safe? Is this set the way it should be? Is this the right sail for this condition
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I let the adrenaline get to me, and then I don't sleep well. And the boat's moving. You gotta get used to sleeping on a moving boat instead of a boat in nice shallow water
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Yeah, it takes a week or so of sailing for this to be natural. It's not natural for people to live on a moving boat
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Emily had her own issues with seasick and hurt her back a bit, so we
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we had a rough start that way. But we're getting used to being on the move again, and we got to be on the move more than we thought because we just
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have two weeks now to get out of the Bahamas. We were planning on having eight months to stay there, but it got cut short to seven and a half
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So Emily, tell us about our budget. Our budget. We are always
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almost always, between $500 and $1,000 a month for our actual cash flow
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money going out, expenses every month. Of course, there's food that we took on beforehand
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There's boat equipment and the purchase of the boat. All that happens before we go cruising, but when we're out here
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it's between $500 and $1,000 a month. And this month it was $793. That included our normal about $350 for food, $366
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We spent about $200 on fuel this month because we had the top of our diesel and get some
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reserve fuel for our actual moving of the boat now. We had our regular communication expense for our internet every month
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We stocked up on rum and wine. Necessities. We went out to eat at a restaurant one time where we got the bill
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Trash disposal, miscellaneous, household stuff, that sort of thing. But total $793
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That brings our seven-month total since November up to just under $6,000
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And we're averaging about $844 a month as our rolling total. So it can be done fairly inexpensively
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Yeah, doing pretty well. And we had a lot of labor this month, a lot of projects. Tell us about a couple of projects. And because I'm so tired, I'm using notes
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I'm sorry everybody, but there were a lot of projects getting this boat ready to go to sea safely
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Let's see. The alternator belt on the engine. It's like your fan belt if it's a car. It had some rust and it was the pulleys were a little
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rusty so they they would cut in the belt and just destroy belts
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So I made a little polishing thing out of some sandpaper and some wood and
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started the engine and had the engine kind of be its own lathe and polish them out
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I installed an AIS system and that was pretty cool. We're really, I'm enjoying it at least
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it's something that listens to other boats electronically say where they are and then it displays on our chart plotter, our little moving map, all the other boats
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We came up here and there was a ship and we knew the name of the ship and where he was and how close he
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was gonna come to us. It's like magic. It was really cool. And while I was hanging upside down in that locker fix and stuff, I
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installed this kind of a junction box thing that lets the different parts of our network talk to each other and it worked
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So we can have like wind instrument on our chart plotter and various things now
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Generally brought up the electronics a bit. Technology. Uh-huh. We have an interforce stay. It allows us to put up what's called a stay sail. So we can have two head sails
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Well, it'd come loose. It pulled itself right up out like coming out of the deck
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We discovered it and spend a couple days rebuilding that part of the boat. So that's all set up
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Normal maintenance winches have to be lubricated, taken apart, cleaned up, put back together. So I did one of those and I keep looking here. Put new speakers in the cockpit
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So we have music outside now. There's a never-ending set of deck leaks, but we got another one knocked down I think. Mm-hmm
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Geez. The dinghy. Yeah. We only have one more month to get this dinghy to work
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We're gonna get a new one and build another one. We're gonna get another one very light much like what we have now, but this dinghy is 60 years old
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And it is starting to corrode. So I'm making epoxy and fiberglass patches to this
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Bailing it out. Bailing it out. It's running good right now. It gets us places. It's just wet in the morning
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Anyway, it's going to be retired. It's going through a retirement. I tried to fix our tablet, but that failed miserably
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We brought it out and it broke right away. Yeah, it broke right away
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I thought it might have been a battery issue. So I messed with it. Didn't work
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Cleaned the bottom again because the growth was so bad this time of year
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But dove down, gave it another cleaning and finally we fixed the anchor light
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You won't believe what it was. Last month we said like how many sailors does it take to change a light bulb
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Emily went up the mast twice. I went up once, brought it all down
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Looked it all over. It looked fine. Put it back up. Still wouldn't work
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It turns out there's a wire that goes through the bilge that had a little splice in it
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and we had taken on some water a couple years ago. It was rain water
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We had a pump fail and during a big, big, big storm
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and a couple other things had done weird stuff. So rain came in the boat
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and it went down into the bilge. Anyway, it got wet, it corroded and it failed
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It turned out I could have fixed the whole thing from inside the boat. But it's fixed now
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That's the project this week. Activities. I'm going to cheat too and use our notes
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This month was a big, long goodbye for saying goodbye to all of our friends
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in Georgetown. We really became friends with some people on land, some people on boats
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and really got to know people. It was kind of like having a family and now we're home away
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from home so we said goodbye to a lot of people. Went to Potlucks. Had people over for dinner
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We met a couple YouTubers also. We met Cheryl and Paul on Distant Shores
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They've been YouTubing and doing a TV show for a long time. That was fun to talk about
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video production and YouTube with them. Very, very nice people. We also met
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Adventure Man Dan who is pursuing another world record for spearfishing. We made a concorn
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with him and he came over for dinner. You helped him with his motor. He's a really nice guy
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Check out his channel. That's Adventure Man Dan on YouTube. We started and will release
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probably this summer a Welcome to Georgetown video that is kind of
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an introduction to Georgetown and everything we learned and all the places we found
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when we were there. So if you're planning to come to Georgetown you can check out that video for
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some cool stuff. You gave me a haircut. Yep. Can't tell but he put painter's
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tape on my back and then just took all my braids and cut them off because they were getting
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kind of long. There will probably be another haircut when we get back to Florida
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Chop all my hair off before we head out again. And we did some snorkeling
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too. That's always fun. And then we were, our other activities were all projects
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Getting the boat ready to sail, getting ourselves ready and the boat ready to sail
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When you're going to go to sea it takes a while to get everything just right
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What was the best part of this month? Well, part of it was going
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to sea again, being a voyager, actually moving. This idea of staying
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in Georgetown, we had to do it because Emily needed the internet. But she's
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got her business closed down now. We have no need for it and we can travel
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So that's pretty cool. We're a little more free. It's nice. And the worst part
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I guess was getting our trip cut a little bit shorter. We got to kind of move it. We were going to
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maybe go to Long Island, maybe go to the Jumentos, maybe go lots of places and we ended up just kind of
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shooing ourselves up to Cat Island and we're going to head up to
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we're in Eleuthera now. We're going to go up through the Abacos over to maybe like
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Freeport and then cross the Gulf Stream and go back to Florida
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Where are we going in Florida? Well, Stewart area. Up a little river. At least that's where we're going to
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start. And well, one of our first patrons, actually he was our first patron, I believe. Oh, okay
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Has his boat up there and he told us about it. So we're going to anchor
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the Empress in kind of a mangrove river. A nice safe spot
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we understand. And it's where everybody moves their boat if there's a hurricane
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So we'll already be in the safest spot. Yeah. The downside is it's three hours from our house
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So we have to drive three hours to work on the boat and three hours back. But
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the car's a lot faster than the boat so I'm sure it'll
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come out in the wash that we spend less time traveling. And we counted, what do we have
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16 weeks between when we get back, hopefully, and when we head out again. And we have a whole
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list of projects and purchases and everything. We're going to keep you all tuned
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staying tuned. Keep you all up to speed. We're so tired. That's it
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We're living on adrenaline. We've been out two seasons so we say, geez
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wouldn't it be nice if... and we have this list. We look at the list and it's got
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more than 16 weeks worth of work. There's a color-coded spreadsheet involved, I believe
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So lots of projects, lots of probably time-lapse videos of us doing things this summer
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Some of it we absolutely have to do. Some of it was we were in the Bahamas and you just can't
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get things into the Bahamas so we'll just be buying stuff to put on the boat and then do it along
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the way. Another worst thing is we lost a camera the other day
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We were hiking a long way up a tall hill the other day
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We dropped the camera and didn't pick it up and so we're one camera short
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So looking forward to getting some more camera equipment when we get back
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Let's talk about intentional living. Well, um... A lot of people have been
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burning out on YouTube, we've noticed. We know of two relationships that have
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ended and I'm sure that the stress of YouTube had a bit to do with it
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Some friends are having babies and I'm sure YouTube will get in the way of that too
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Sailing friends. It got us thinking about it and what we're going to do
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Relationships take work and living on a boat takes a lot of work
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and YouTube takes a lot of work and when you're trying to do all three of those things at once, sometimes it
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adds up to not such a great day all the time. So we've been talking about how we're going to
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manage all this work as we're moving forward and keep it going
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and keep it fun. The good answer is we've decided to keep it going
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It's still good enough and rewarding enough and we love your views and comments
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and all that. That's great and it's worth it. But we're not going to kill ourselves
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We did a lot of footage of getting here and we're not going to try to do
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as we go videos of our travels. We'll put them out in a month or so
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You'll see travel videos, you just won't see them right away. We're taking time to actually enjoy the
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trip and we're not um not to name names, but there's video
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channels out there that are doing really really well, but they need to
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do well. That's their bread and butter. And we have a different approach
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We don't have some big fancy catamaran. We have this old boat and
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we do it on a budget and we have plenty of savings to do it this way
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What the money from YouTube, from ad revenue and all you patrons that help does for us it
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sort of almost keeps up with the toys, the new cameras and things like that
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It'll still be an expensive hobby for us. We're never going to make money on it the way we're going
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I'd love to be proven wrong but we've got to do this
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because it's fun and it's like the ultimate scrapbook. In 20 years we're going to look back
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at these videos and we're going to watch them more than you guys do. Yep, so
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we've been talking a lot about that and about how we're going to do
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this YouTube stuff moving forward, but we're going to keep doing it and we're going to keep it fun
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and be intentional about what we're doing and what we're not doing
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This is the part where we say thank you to people. I want to say thank you to Blue Heavens
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and Sixth Girl and a whole bunch of other people back in Georgetown who have been awesome to us
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while we were there and helped us out with various projects and things. We've really gotten to know them
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very well. Thanks to Mike and Monica for all the music nights
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Thank you to Howard for driving us around places. Thank you to
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Jillian and George at St. Francis. There's so many people we could thank. We love
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Georgetown. We also want to say thank you to our patrons. Last month we put a new mermaid
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on the art trail on Stocking Island and our patrons had the opportunity to name it
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and we're going to name her Merdusa from Roland, who suggested that on our Patreon page. Thank you for that
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She officially has a name now and this month for Patreon we are going to send
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a message in a bottle, but we thought this might be better
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We got a coconut and we've written all your names on it
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We'll write anybody else's name who joins Patreon this month for a dollar or more
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We'll write your name on the coconut and then we're going to let the coconut
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float away wherever it wants to float. Let me tell you about coconuts
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Coconuts are migratory. They fall off the tree and they get in the ocean. They float around the ocean
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for a long time if necessary. They're looking for that perfect beach
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They find the perfect beach and the salt in the husk gets washed
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away by the rain and when there's no salt, it sprouts. If this coconut ends up finding a perfect beach
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somewhere, it's going to grow into a coconut tree. It could happen. It could happen
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anywhere in the world because we're going to probably drop it right into the Gulf Stream. It could be
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anywhere. If you want your name to travel with all our other names of our
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Patreon folks and you want to plant a coconut tree somewhere, join our Patreon
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page and we'll put you on our coconut this month and send you sailing off
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into the world. If anybody finds a coconut, send us a picture of it
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It's a big, big world out there. I guess we're going to say bye
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and take a nap. See you guys next month and throughout the month
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Thank you for watching. Thank you for commenting. Thanks for all the love
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Next time we talk to you, we'll be back in the United States. We'll be in Florida for a while
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Take care. We'll talk to you again soon. Bye
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