The Great Loop 040 Past the Starting Point
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Traveling the I.C.W. can be boring sometimes. But that is good. IF you're the captain. This leg of the journey didn't look like much on camera, but it meant a lot to me.
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Vero Beach based cruiser here, thanks for your kind words about Vero. Smooth seas and calm winds.
You’re living the dream I’m sitting here in Cincinnati Ohio on April 21 in a snowstorm on my boat I really enjoy watching your videos keep up the great work
Electric chokes are supposed to get hot. There is a bi-meatal spring that expands as it heats up. The expanding spring is linked to the choke valve which causes it to open and close when it cools off..... Now you know.
Electric chokes have a coil that heats up as voltage is applied... As heat increases the choke butterfly opens...
I absolutely loved Sebastian's Inlet when we went there a few months back, but I also wasnt in a boat. Yall have safe travels my friend, I've been keeping up with your trip every step of the way.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING! It always makes my day better
We've only kayaked Vero Beach once, we enjoyed paddling from spoil island to spoil island, the second night where you dropped anchor was Eau Gallie Causeway which is a place we kayak frequently while in Florida, Dragon Point is just north of the causeway which is the southern most point of Merritt Island.
That boat you commented on at about 8:00 looked like a Nordhavn (or a similarly styled trawler yacht). Those are actually quite easy on the go-go juice, I think even the 44's are trans-Atlantic rated.
Gettin close to Cocoa Beach, friends always go there and looks like a great place. I been to Daytona and St. Augestine but now tend to take vacations on the West Coast, not as busy north and south of Tampa. Like it that way. Islands off the coast is like heaven.
Respect your determination , motor troubles suck and you stayed strong. Well done and thank you for sharing.
Electric choke coils are supposed to heat up. Thats what opens the choke. Plug er’ back in Marty.
Nothing better than doing a bit of foot steering! A boaters special.
It's really cool to be able to somewhat come along with you through these videos , so thank you for sharing them.
Great to see you Marty! Wife and I love the merch we received from you and Mike! Post more we miss you when your gone.
Love your guys videos, August 2020 I bought my 1st ever boat, a 1985 Trojan 11m international. You have to a meet and great when you get to south Lake Michigan. Keep up the videos.
Praying that this adventure becomes more and more enjoyable for you! 👍🏻for Reese’s and coffee paring -one of my favorites
You are right, it’s always something. Rest easy Marty, it’s beer-thirty.
So true, that why i live by the motto Its just another day in paradise. Once you think you have every thing fixed some other set of issues pop up. I just go with the flow anymore
@@jeffccr3620 exactly right, Jeff! Murphy will bite, things will break or go wrong, and it comes down to how well each is dealt with. Some cost money, some cost mental anguish, but in the end you grow stronger with each. Just go with the flow, as you said.
I live in vero beach. I love the fishing around here.
Great update, Marty! Hope that the trip is still going well and that the engines aren’t giving you too many more headaches. It was great to watch your videos as you passed through Brevard county, I grew up there and have been away so it was great to see and hear some familiar places mentioned.
Love the adventure
Marty, enjoying this adventure with u guys, great update and views 👏
Living the good life! 👍
The Trip is very interesting . That was my old stomping grounds . One me and a friend wanted to walk over to the Southside instead we jumped in and swam across the Inlet . Like I said that was my younger days . Enjoyed the video
Great update Marty - good quality video too. I know you guys have been busy but please can we have some more updates like this to bring us closer to real time? Having said that, after subbing to you and other channels for quite a few years, I know there is a lot of time & effort goes into your editing. Regards from across the Pond - Stay safe & well. 👍👍
An electric choke uses 12v to heat the spring which changes the tension to open it up as needed until the engine is warmed up. That’s why it was hot. No 12v and the choke stays closed or partially closed and wasted fuel. If you just remove the wire you are no doubt running on half choke, again wasting fuel. If you don’t want the choke, you can adjust it by turning the inner part, so the spring pressure is off and not pulling the choke closed. When those heating elements go bad it does the same thing, choke stays closed.
Glad you had a good day. Thanks for the update.
Just got home from boating. Time to watch Marty boating.
Don't "curse that generator"; bless it! It is surely blessing you.
Ha! Yes, boring on a big boat is wonderful, a little boat too, thumbs up Marty!😎👌
Cool my home waters, Ft Pierce and Vero. Real quick I would like to mention since you brought up anchoring, the Florida Legislature has Bill's S1652, HB1337, HB 693, and others looking to restrict anchoring. As I enjoy anchoring in my home waters here in Florida and know many others do anyone who can email their representatives in Florida or local boating organizations would be helping to preserve this freedom. Tons of info on Facebook at Cruisers Rights Network. Loving your travel vlog Marty.
Been waiting for this update, Marty. Happy for ya, bud.
I missed the catch and cook sheepshead back in the old days.
Hello Marty Jax Beach here..nice to see new video and yall are doin well...gonna meet up with you and Mike and doggies at Hug-o-nut park sunday....
Wish I was able to see KT cruise by when passing Melbourne. Safe travels Marty.
Nice trip at the sea
Stay positive, Marty!!! 👍
Your heart is in your chest!! Lol I understand
Hey I'm with you guys ! Thats where mine is also 😎
Looking forward to rafting up with you guys one of these days!
Passed right by my place at 0:40 in vero beach. Wish I could’ve saw ya. Great video!
Mike may have some great clips of videos from your golf cart excursion. Safe weather.
Love your videos Marty! Keep em coming. Hope we can meet up if you guys make it through Gulf Shores, AL
You should tour around Bald Head Island when you get that far.
Fort fisher
Nice video,thanks for the update
Love the videos Marty 👍👍
Electric chokes are thermostatically controlled. Make sure that any temp sensors are working correctly. Good luck.
I would be avoiding marinas as much as possible as well. It will be very cool to see how independent and frugal you two can be through this journey, maybe try to coordinate with fans to use their docks for access to town, washer, & dryer down the road.
Great video I always enjoy watching them. I just wished they where alittle longer to show more of your adventure and boating life.
Thanks for the video
thanks
This trip would be so much better in 4k!
Hey Marty that big boat problem burns less fuel then you . At speeds you like to travel,a single screw diesel trawler style boat would probably burn 2-3 gallons per hour at 7-8 knots
My 40 Pilgrim with a 120hp Diesel burns 1.4 gph at 7 mph. I use miles as the ICW is in statute miles, oddly.
Hoping for more perfect opportunities.
You guys are peanut butter and jelly!
Love Vero, Nice people great town.
Keep up the great content, commenting for the algorithm since youtube deleted my last account with no warning and I can get no reason from them when appealing the deletion...
good presentation
Marty, I may have asked before , but what material did you use for your flybridge enclosure?
at 8:00 the boat you point out is a Nordhavn 50, not only for the ICW but it could cross the Atlantic. They are great. I thought the exact boat looked familiar as well, and in fact it is. You can watch here a video with a full rundown of how it's fitted and also the owners: th-cam.com/video/XlLnhMg-s7M/w-d-xo.html
I wish I could move to Tampa and buy a sailboat. It would be so nice to sail in the bay.
Just do it Brady. It's pretty crowded now, but you can get awat at the beach or on the water.....
The V8 engines dont like the low constant rpm. They like to run on higher rpm randomly.
@Zoffinger Do you have a plan for when the loop is done?
Understand your feelings of the affluent, Marty. I feel the same way. We vacationed on Sanibel for 20+ years, and I always felt a bit out of place. Right when we felt that we were “family”, things changed, condo mgmt changed, and suddenly we are on the outside, regardless that we visited every year, sometimes for multiple yearly visits, and it didn’t matter, just went away. Is what it is, but I miss the times we spent there. Family were born and grew old during these years vacationing on the island, and now that I’m in my “old age” (63?) I can no longer afford to go to where we went every year. Times change, and we just have to adapt. But when property sells for now 2mill for a lost, things change, people change. Enjoy the Loop while you can, my friend.
What is your cruising speed and what is your fuel consumption per hour at that speed? I'm trying to decide how far I can afford to go! ;-)
Marty rarely answers comments so I'll do it for him! Ideal cruising speed for what the guys are trying to achieve Marty & Mike have said is around 8 knots, and they figure on around 1 gallon per mile. You can do the math - I'm in the UK and US gallons are different to ours!
@@trampster7306 Thanks! I have Chrysler 360s so that should be about the same for me.
@@billnowlin9148 Nice! No boats here, but I have got a Chrysler Jeep WJ! 😁👍
Marty made the comment "always something". Hell if you have a boat involved it goes without saying?😉
I saw you guy's on sebastian I blowing my horn like crazy
Remember this about people that think more highly of themselves than they ought to. That they put there pants on 1 leg at a time!
Somebody needs to buy Mike a Honda
Howdy!
Update on Solar output Marty?
Roseanne Rosanna Danna was right, “it’s always something”
Hook up the choke, its supposed to get hot. Almost to hot to touch, that's normal.
Marty is lit in this video
We're all glad your heart is in your chest Marty. If it weren't, you'd have much bigger problems... :)
Who is that woman that doesnt want to be on camera? I always spot her in the videos showing the bunk/interior of the boat.
Is that your wife?
Best of luck to all of you.
Calgon take me away.
Interesting comment about people with money. I don't let that bother me. I put people into two categories. People that are genuinely nice and people that I don't want to hang around. I try to surround myself with the former. Good luck you crazy kids!! :P
Hello
No better way to eat a Reeces.
So are you leaving Florida for good just taking a trip what are you doing
If Marty drinks beer like it seems he does , how come no beer belly?....please share the secret !
Not only beer but Resse's peanut butter cups- dudes just got that metabolism of a 21 year old! Sure I could live on fast food and Busch beer in my 20's but in my fifties I have to watch what I eat. :)
doghearder right!...
Im early
I hope these engine gremlins will be a bygone sooner than later. Never a good thing having to deal with issues while on the go
B.o.a.t bust out another thousand lol
So you don’t feel comfortable around people who live in affluent communities?
Calling mike out for late videos is the pot calling the kettle black.
Nothing but mosquitoes on those islands. The river is dead in vero. The rich islanders dont give a rats ass about the enviroment. Nor do the people with the power to make changes.
First comment 😬😬😬
Na I was
@@ebolten3516 Children please! Posting "First" is not clever, it just proves you can't find anything more productive to do in your lives but wait for the next video to drop in. 🙄🙄
Trampster no I got on right as he posted
should have done this trip on your own you run out of money stop get a job then move on
Doesn’t seem enjoyable to me.
First
eh, just keep goin northish"
youll get there eventually :D