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We celebrate my birthday trying to relive my childhood and then I get to work on a challenge from John: to change the manual fuel pump on our diesel engine for an electric fuel pump. Letting me do it was not the most efficient choice, but the little $12 pump we bought on Amazon seemed to do the job. We also have trouble testing the fuel pump as the starter motor decides this is the time that it needs to be replaced. The job is explained as much as possible from the greatest diesel mechanic (amateur diesel mechanic) on YouTube.

Our entire trip down the US East Coast and through the North Atlantic consisted of bad weather. The only thing that kept us going was that the Bahamian paradise that awaited us on the other side of the Gulf Stream would all be worth it. Watch this episode to see if every engine breakdown, torn sail, anchor dragging and more was worth the effort as we arrive to the Bahamas for the first time under sail.

Do not ever let anyone tell you that a bimini is more important that a dodger. And that is coming from experience, because the remainder of our trip down the US East Coast is plagued by constant bad winter weather on the North Atlantic Ocean. In this episode, we take you a little further down the Intracoastal Waterway than we planned as well as share the many damages we incurred as a result of storms encountered. And we even get to see a Tesla Space X rocket launch at Cape Canaveral!

When our boat was for sale we had no idea that we would later classify it in the ‘Project Boats’ category. It seemed like a rock solid craft needing a few offshore upgrades to head south. We planned four weeks to fix the boat up on our return to Rhode Island, but instead it ended up being a full ten. However, our ten weeks meant that we tackled all of the important projects on our boat including, but not limited the projects listed below the video ↓