THE BAHAMAS & A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT - April 2023 Update
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- UPDATE: History repeated itself LOL. SeaSHINE sold to the back-up offer (the original folks flaked which was super frustrating but probably for the best).
Ahoy! Welcome to our April 2023 Great Loop update from Cape Eleuthera in the Bahamas. (and yes we know it is May -- it has taken over a week to get this uploaded. Starlink is on to us LOL).
Follow us on instagram @TheBoomershines / theboomershines or TikTok @MVSeaSHINE or on TikTok @MVSeaSHINE
Since our last update, we successfully made it from Key Largo, Fl to THE BAHAMAS in SeaSHINE, our 56-foot Ocean Alexander motor yacht. We have done over 5,000 miles of the loop and are still going on this detour thru THE BAHAMAS. We will cross our wake when we return to the USA.
After that, we will sell our beloved SeaSHINE. If you'd like more information on her, please contact Brent Bowlin Great Loop Yacht Sales.
00:00 intro
00:31 Recap
00:46 Ocean Alexander Rendevous in Ocean Reef
01:38 Bimini & crossing the Gulf Stream
03:15 Chubb Cay & getting stranded on a deserted island
04:25 Atlantis and surviving the big storm
05:10 Highborne Cay
07:00 Mooring ball in Shroud Cay
07:50 Compass Cay & boat wreck
09:50 Staniel Cay & mayday call
10:55 Cape Eleuthera & engine burn
11:33 BIG NEWS
11:55 Back up offer info
14:55. Back to work
15:11 conclusion
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Shine on!
The Boomershines
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Can’t wait for the Loop Vlogs!
We just started posting!!! New episode dropping on Wednesday at 5:00. Thanks for your patience :)
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Just found your channel. Truly enjoyed this video and looking forward to watching the others.
We just started posting our VLOG (finally LOL). New episode dropping soon. Thanks for the kind comment :)
This was my first video of yours that I watched. Very nice.
Welcome aboard and thanks for watching :)
Although this is a short note, It's heart felt and shared by others. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES! I'll miss all of you.
So kind of you to say Tom! Don’t worry. You will not get rid of us that easily. We have hundreds of hours of footage of the whole trip to edit into many episodes of actual boating. The best it yet to come from our channel!
Hi guys, I heard you a few video's ago saying that you are selling your boat. Can I give you some advice? Back in the early 80's we bought a 50 ft steel trawler. We had four young kids. We had the kids help as young as about 7 to 14 and we gutted the boat. This made the boat theirs. I redesigned the interior and called in the pros to do the work. I was self-employed and took my summers off to boat with the family. We did that for 17 years living all summer on the boat traveling the St lawrence, Lake Ontario, Georgian Bay, Niagara Falls to New York. It was the most satisfying thing we could have ever done. The kids bonded and we created memories. When they started leaving for college and universities, we lost our crew and we sold our Sunadan. Today the kids are grown up, have good jobs all have kids of their own and they are each other's best friends and all wish we had our boat again. Don't sell your boat, it's a really nice boat, well cared for, and will last you another 25 years and guess who's going to want to come back to boat with their kids so that they live the same experience and your boat will be a family focal point again, and listen to the stories your kids will be re-counting, Think about it. We are now 67 and also miss our boat so much that we are looking for that perfect boat again if not for the kids and grand kids it will be for ourselves.
Hi there and thanks for the kind words! Love the adventure you had in what sounds like a beautiful boat! We loved cruising Georgian Bay last year on our Great Loop. Definitely gorgeous and our kids loved it. We will not be getting out of boating by any means. We will continue to boat as a family by chartering in different parts of the globe. We also plan on upgrading possibly to a larger and newer boat years from now. SeaSHINE has been a wonderful floating home for us, and will be a fantastic boat for another lucky owner in the near future. SeaSHINE was always meant to be part of a short chapter in our lives and we never planned on keeping her long term. Thanks again! Capt. Mark 😎⚓️
Love the Bahamas videos! Such a fantastic cruising ground. Excited you have had a terrific Loop, and that you are able to find a buyer so easily.
Thank you! Fingers crossed the sale goes thru easily :)
Looks like a fun time!!🥰 Enjoy you next voyage 😁❤️😎
Thank you!
Great adventures Cinda and Mark! Thanks for the update and for sharing your journey on SeaShine!
Thank YOU for always cheering us on xoxo
Great update and love your style. Bummer on not living aboard anymore...... But, hey, the beat goes on. Looking forward to the next episode. ✨💨🛥🏝👙🌞✨
Thanks for cheering us on :)
Can't wait to see your vids.
We can't wait to have time to make them -- and hopefully see you!
So excited for you guys that you've found such a great new owner for SeaShine! Hope the sale goes through smoothly! I've been following you guys from the beginning and love SeaShine and thoroughly enjoyed it all!
Well the buyer turned out to be not so great but we did find another great buyer. Thanks for following along. We are starting to post our Vlog finally but hopefully it will be fun walk down memory lane.
Love your videos! I did that run back in 2014. Can't wait to run back there again! Loved Big Game. So many great memories.
That is awesome!
It has been awesome watching your Loop trip and wow I do enjoyed meeting you all in Annapolis! I’m going to reach out to your friend to list my trawler. Thank you!
Great meeting you too! Good luck selling your trawler :)
Wow, I have not seen you guys on TH-cam in a while now. Just saw your video and surprised we have not seen you. We did Bimini, around the Berry Islands, Nassau, Exumas down to Georgetown, up Long Island, Cat Island and have been in Rock Sound, Eluthera for the last couple of days and headed up to Tens Beach tomorrow. We are a 46 foot Maxum named Lady Bug. Now that we know, perhaps we will run across you. So far we have seen Searching for C-Shels (we have their old dinghy) and Spear it Animal.
Great update! Look forward to your videos! Hoping to do something like this in retirement!
Videos of all our escapades coming soon! And if we can do it, you can too!
Awesome
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Congrats! Hope to catch up with you later in the year!
We would LOVE that!!!
So amazing
Thank you :)
Welcome back. Missed you guys b
Good to be back!
You guys would be so much more amazing if the 'First Mate' would just be a tad more animated and excited about boating and life in general. Just kidding... you guys just compliment each other perfectly. Wish I could manage a way to acquire your boat, someone is getting a smashingly good deal to go along with all the stories. Best of luck
Awww thank you :)
Just caught up with your latest videos…what have you been doing since you sold your boat?
We are back to regular land life -- work, school, family, friends. But missing boat life so I bet we will be back on the water soon.
Amazing hearing your wife discuss slack tide, current, bouy and remembering the first launch... and she was terrified ....... circumnavigation ???
Wife here -- HECK NO to the circumnavigation. I am still slightly terrified every time we leave the dock but I have made good progress for sure. Wine helps LOL
I enjoyed your videos very much. I am happy to see you doing well. Please what is the approximate asking price for Sea Shine and rough estimate to ship overseas? If you kindly give the contact information of your broker? Thank you very much.
Brent Bowlin with Great Loop Yacht Sales has all the info. :)
Absolutely great to see you all are doing well, however, FuzzyNugget is pawing and asking how her SeaCats are doing?? Safe travels 🙏
Treat's for the SeaCats
Scott and FuzzyNugget
The SeaCats are working on their own update. Stay tuned LOL
Where did you get your safety netting? We have followed y'all since boat shopping and love your channel !!! We are Life From The Bridge 2025, looking to do the loop in 2025. We just closed on our boat....2004 Sea Ray 390....
Congratulations! We got the netting on amazon. Super easy to install and very helpful.
@@TheBoomershines THANKS !!!
Go off your stern to grab the ball, run a line through it and walk around to the nose with that line.
That does not work on SeaSHINE because we do not have a full walk around. But that would be a great approach in a boat with a full walk around. Our approach is working great thus far!
That's the way we have always picked up a mooring. It's also a really easy way to do it as a single hander. But, we have side decks.
Time flies.
It sure does!!! :(
Have you been to St. Barts?
Many times by plane but never in our boat. Docking our own boat in Gustavia is a life goal.
what's the new boat you're getting?
TBD
I can’t imagine going thru what you’ve done……and then selling it and not being on the water anymore…….
Oh, we will still be on the water. Just in different boats and in different places :). It's all good!
what year is your boat?
She is a 1987 but was fully re-powered and refit in 2008. And then we did a refit in 2022
Boat will be gone... are you guys officially homeless now? In your new home you may wonder why it's not moving no matter how hard the wind is blowing... best of luck with you new adventures.
We are back on land but definitely missing boat life. We will see how long till we are back on the water again LOL
Wait what did I miss? Why is Seashine being sold. Gagh.
We bought SeaSHINE just to do the Loop. More adventures to come but on different boats :)
Why are you selling. Was this just a one time adventure and your not really into boating all the time on your own boat. Why?
This was always the plan. We have boated our whole lives and will always be boating -- just on different boats. SeaSHINE is our Loop boat.