S2E22-GREAT LOOP-LEG 23-Farihope AL to Orange Beach AL
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มี.ค. 2024
- After the worst day we could have imagined on our Great Loop adventure....We are enjoying our three days tied to a dock in Fairhope, AL while we wait to get hauled out and start the repair process. We are having a great time with our friends on Dreamer, until we find out that things are WAY worse than we thought!
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You guys rock!
Thank you! Thanks for the comments and for following along!
Welcome to Alabama!!
Thank you Steve! We really liked it here. Everyone was so nice and helpful to us. Thank you for watching :)
Very nice job getting Andromeda in that narrow haul out slip! Nerves of steel! 🏆
Thank you! It was quite intense for sure! The nerves were SHOT! lol
Loved the dog rolling in the sand clips . . . . we had a dog that did that . . . .we called it "Sugar Coating". Good luck guys!
LOL, he does that every time!! We are SO glad we tore out the carpet before we left! Wet dog mixed with sand is a THING! hahaha
Wow! I’m not sure I could have stayed and relaxed for 2 days but we understand making phone calls and making sure you have the right mechanic for the job.
Watching you pull into the sling was a HUGE relief! That is when I finally relaxed and was able to breathe.
So glad you made it safe! So glad you had her fixed and looking forward to more of your adventures!
We actually had a point in time where one of our options was to junk or scrap our boat and we chose to fix it. I know how special our boats are and how important it is when we choose to fix and continue loving them! Thanks again for sharing with us!
It was really tough. The looming of what was next made it so hard to relax, and truly enjoy the area, but we loved Fairhope! Dealing with the insurance, and jumping through all the hoops was maddening! So glad your story worked out for you guys too! Thank you for watching and sharing your story! :)
Well getting a place to do the work is half the battle... My sailboat was down and out in Bay springs. Sucked..., Make the best of the stay on land, long showers, maybe a bath 😅. Long walks, things you had missed with boat life. Godspeed you two.
Thank you! It is a rather helpless situation....you have to try and be patient (Which was hard at times) We are thankful we landed in Orange Beach. Everyone was so nice! And it was the offseason thankfully :) We appreciate your support!
Hey sorry you all are having to deal with the damage to your boat. My wife and I look forward to watching you guys every week, as it inspires us to do the great loop in 3 years. We will be starting from Ohio, pretty similar journey as you all. Your calm positive attitude has been amazing! Through the good and tough times you always have such an uplifting disposition. We vacationed there at Gulf Shores several times, LuLu's is such a great place to eat and hang out at, so is Tacky Jacks and Fort Morgan down the road at the end of the peninsula (may make a good TH-cam show if you're looking for content while you're there).
We hope your repairs come along well and you're back out on your journey soon!
Thank you for the great comment! We have visited Tacky Jack's and love it there, they let us bring the dog. I plan to do an episode at Fort Morgan...great suggestion! All the best to you guys on your Loop! It will be great! Thank you very much for following along with us and thank you for your support!
It's a testament to how well built she is. To sustain that level of damage and still be water tight is fairly remarkable. You guys did well bringing her into a narrow inlet and maneuver her the way you did was an achievement considering the damage. Well done indeed. It is said, a true test of one's character is how they act when things are at their worst.
I truly hope there comes a day to shake your hand perhaps over dinner or an adult beverage. You truly seem to be remarkable people.
I'm so happy to have found your Channel and so pleased that you work so hard to share your dream with all of us!
Thank you David! Your support has meant so much to us! We DEFINETLY have to meet up! We appreciate you! :)
Ollie playing on the beach was like “Props Schmops” 8:34 A lot of balls in the air and you may not feel it right at this moment but you two are killing it. 13:57 Good call Captain 17:58 Nice job ❤
BellsRides You guys are the BEST! Thank you for always lifting us up in your comments! We look forward to crossing paths and sharing a cocktail someday! Thank you for your support! :)
I live on Dauphin Island. We take our 42 Grand Banks thru the ICW. Saunders is the best on the north Gulf Coast.
That must be a cool place to live! Tons of boating opportunities for you. GB42 is a great boat! Thank you for watching!
So sorry for the extent of the damages. It’s amazing that it was able to continue after impact. Your attitude is wonderful and uplifting! Prayers for both of you.
Aww, thank you so much!!! We appreciate your kindness and prayers more than you know! :)
I’ve been to Lou Lou’s. I had oysters so fresh they were still moving! Delicious!
YES! we loved it there! Such a fun place. Thank you for watching :)
So sorry for your challenges, but such a delight to stumble on your channel, and to see your highlights of our little utopia! Come back soon!
Thanks you for the kind words! Thank you very much for watching. We do hope to be back someday soon!
I’m sure there were some choice words behind the scenes, but it’s wonderful to see how positive and accepting you both are given the stress and disappointment of the situation. At least you found a boatyard to do the repairs, and made it there safely. That’s a big win. BTW, I got such a big smile watching Ollie playing on the beach…what a handsome boy he is!
Ha! We knew you would love that! Your name came up while editing! Thank so much for your support Kari!
@@cruisingandromeda We just had breakfast at Brenda’s Harbor Cafe & were talking about you; decided we need to meet you once you return to Ludville (and I will most definitely want to meet Ollie!) We’re close friends of Stan & Laurie Willson, and of course also know Adam Lamb & Lisa Hotovy.
That would be great! Of course Ollie will be there! :)
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I'm so sorry to hear about all this damage😢
Hopefully you will be onbthe water soon!
Good luck with the work that Andromeda requires. Hopefully there is not more unseen damage. All the best to you.
Thank you Michael! We appreciate your support! :)
So I get to the end I am now caught up on your incredible journey....can't wait for the next episode....
Thank you Larry! Great comments! We do our very best to publish and episode every week. Thanks for your support!
Gorgeous boat……might take a bit of time but I believe she will be solid and ready for the balance of your voyage. We love the Emerald Coast and know you will enjoy this next session of your voyage.
Thank you so much! We appreciate your kindness and support! :)
Sorry to hear about this, I know everyone says this, but it could have been a lot worse. Main thing, you are safe and she didn't sink. Glad your ok and hope she's up and running soon,. Enjoy watching your channel, Mark-Illinois
Thank you Mark! You are right...it could have been worse. We are thankful for the things that did work out and trying to stay positive moving forward. Your kind words mean the world to us, we are grateful.. Thanks!
It’s definitely a shame that it happened to you. Hopefully it all works out, getting the repairs done as needed. Good luck to you both !!
Thanks Skipper! We really appreciate the well wishes! Thanks for watching and commenting! :)
Best wishes on getting andromeda back together. Notice you are fellow Siesta Key Rum fans. It's distilled by our friend Troy Roberts in Sarasota, FL.
Ha! Good eye! I am a huge fan! Nice work Troy Roberts! I hope to visit the distillery. Thank you for the great comment and your support! Much appreciated! Best to you!
@@cruisingandromeda if you are in the Sarasota area, the distillery offers tours and sampling. And Troy comes from a boating family. His father, a retired airline pilot, owned a large cruiser.
Bummer, you will get past this! Prayers that it goes well
Thank you so much Harold! We appreciate your prayers and kindness! :)
Welcome to our neck of the woods. I'm sorry it's under these circumstance though. You had good weather running offshore to the Pass. Perdido Pass can get real nasty. Reach out if you need anything. I am down in OB a lot.
Thanks! We have really grown to love the Orange Beach area! Thanks for the kind words! We appreciate it!
Welcome to Orange Beach. Sad for your circumstances, but that's boating. Lake superior sunk our sailboat years ago.
Oh no! Lake Superior is a beast! I hope everyone was ok!? We are growing to love the Orange Beach area and all the new friends we meet. Thanks for the kind words!
@@cruisingandromeda Lake Superior plucked it off its mooring and threw it on the rocks. Orange Beach is a great little town. We spend several months here every year.
Wow John! That sounds like it would have been horrible! Lake Superior is a mean one!
Having been a multiple Sea Ray owner, they are built like a tank. Not very fuel efficient but sturdy.
You are so right! It has been so nice to have the speed when we need it, but it does come at quite the cost.....literally! LOL Thank you for watching! :)
@@cruisingandromeda best of luck to you getting it back on the water quickly but fixed properly. Can’t wait to see the videos of the repairs.
With reference t”pushing the engines “…sorry I didn’t articulate my concerns very well .
Try # 2…I would have been concerned about all the related parts past the coupling of the reduction gear (and that bearing as well )
Stuffing box ,cutlass bearing and the attached fiberglass structure …vibration is a killer on fiberglass .
I hope you will list what was damaged….
I would have sent a diver to assess the damage and have the boat towed to repair facility ,rather than risk additional structural damage,
But your call captain…..enough Monday quarterbacking
Good luck
Thanks William! I have "Monday morning quarterbacked" my own decisions for weeks now....When the dust settled I wondered if I made the right calls, or could have done something better...hindsight is 20/20 of course. Thanks for your support! I appreciate your input!
My choice would have been Bayou La Batre Alabama for a shipyard..
I hope they treated you right and didn't run up the bill on unnecessary repairs.
Thank you! That is great information for others out there. It was such a huge decision of where to haul out, and we had so little time to make it. We appreciate you watching and sharing! :)
So sorry that you struck something and I hope that it'll be repaired soon, so you can continue along your way. And no offense but Perdido is pronounced Per-di-doh. Good luck on the rest of your voyage.
Thank you for your support! We appreciate the correction! We were very lucky to be "stuck" in Orange Beach! We met SO many nice people!
Bitter sweet here. You’ve planned so long to finally get to the Gulf only to have to get her pulled out. I guess that’s why we have insurance…
It really was bitter sweet. We had that milestone engrained in our heads, I think that made it even harder. Thank you for your support! We appreciate it! :)
I binged watched 4 or 5 episodes last night, leaving this one. Oh man, I'm sorry for you. I hope the repairs are not too bad. I also wonder WTF did you hit. Good luck!!!
That is a great question....We have no clue and may never know. We think it was a stump or a log. A few of the techs working on the boat thing it was also wood of some kind...Someone also thought it may have been a metal submerged buoy/channel marker....it is killing us to not know....ugh!
Sorry to hear this. Hope you can sort it out. The submerged logs have made me reconsider this journey, that and not liking much of anything about the northeast or midwest. I'd rather go from Mobile to Jacksonville and then sell the boat. Good luck.
Thank you for watching! The rivers were absolutely beautiful....We really learned a lot, some of it was just the hard way lol. Safe travels to you! :)
Hope all is fixed quickly and completely. I am planning our loop. Big question I have is does insurance cover the damage repairs? best wishes
Great question Scott! I plan to do an episode on the ups and downs of the insurance portion of this accident. The general answer is "yes" submerged object impacts are covered. How "well" they are covered is something you should call around on and ask about. Use our story as an example and see what they say. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Is that little dog a Westie Multipoo? It looks exactly like our Maggie
Hi Larry! Yes...Sulley is a Westie. He is very cute and a lot of fun to have around with Ollie. Thank you for watching!
I am very sorry for what happened to your boat. I follow numerous loopers and this is the first time I've seen such a big hit. If I don't understand it wrong, it happened in a section with a lot of traffic for barges and pleasure boats. How has it been possible? Based on the damage observed, it must have been a rock! I don't think a semi-submerged log can cause so much damage! Did the depth sounder indicate nothing? What can be learned for the future and avoid these situations? Good luck with the repair and many memories from Spain.
Thank you Joe! Great questions! We will bever know for sure what we hit. I am pretty sure it was a log or a stump, it may have been a rock but all the other boats somehow missed it. Nothing on the depth sounder, no other indications. There is a theory among boaters that with low water levels, objects previously settled on the bottom are being stirred up and floating around. Hello to all in Spain! I have a good friend in Galicia! Lo mejor para ti y gracias por seguirnos!
@@cruisingandromeda With the problems you have on your boat and you are able to answer. Thank you, you are good people! I liked your story because it shows that you like to take care of your pet and also your boat. By the way, the SeaRay has proven to be super robust! I will closely follow the next episodes, which promise to be very interesting. I am happy about your connection with Galicia (Spain) and I send you many encouragements for the next difficult stages.
Thank you!
So this happened just before Christmas 2023 right? Are you 3 months behind on editing and posting? Is the boat fixed? Did you sell and head back to Ludington?
Very good question. Yes you are correct on the time frame. Impact was mid November 2023. Our next few episodes will bring everyone up to date and end up about 4-6 weeks behind real time. That is our goal. We try to post a new episode weekly. Stay tuned! Thank you for the great comment!
I don’t think a wood piling or tree did that, you hit something metal, like a channel marker but you never know
Thank you for commenting Mike. We also thought maybe an underwater old dolphin or dock piling???? Whatever it was it was SOLID!
Will insurance cover all these repairs??😢
UGH! Insurance...bleh! The short answer is "yes"...but we have learned so much about boat insurance and its limitations. I will definitely share pros/cons of boat insurance in an upcoming episode. We learned the hard way! Thank you so much for your support and great comments!
Do you know what it was that you hit to do that kind of damage.
Hi Lynn! We are not sure what we hit, we think it was a log or a tree stump...but we will probably never know. We are discovering new damage in each episode unfortunately....stay tuned. Thank you for following along!
Perdido, It’s pronounced locally as Per Dee Dough.
Thank you! We quickly found out once we arrived :) Thank you for watching!!
Hi. It's pretty dangerous to let your dogs play next to the water there. Lots of hungry gators about.
Yes! You are correct! We still have not seen a gator. We would love to just see one. We are taking caution with Ollie around the wetlands for sure. Good advice!
You seem to be pushing the damaged engines pretty hard ….why ?
Good question William....not really. The temps and pressures were all well below any "pushing" threshold. The RPM's were using were far from anything extreme for these big Cummins.
We wanted to make sure we were making way and not fighting current and wind, which will drive up what we need from the engines...so we found a sweet spot where the engines sounded really smooth and happy and all the gauges backed that up.
Did I miss what caused this?
Hi Shawn!...We don't know. The previous episodes talk about the impact...but we will never know what the object was. We think it was a tree stump. Most of the techs working on our boat think it was wood of some kind...but we will never really know.
@@cruisingandromeda I’m sorry to hear it. Get all excited and then this.
I could riht a book about this, butt well Perhaps, take a step back you have missed a lot, or you (ARR) WELL APRON STRINGS shit happens mother duck the sibling follow 6 becomes 3 mistakemade become mother slow down do not follow>>> after this you will go slow be youre own captain do not folow , lead
Thought the same Grant.
See above Patrick....I agree with the thought...but wrong this time
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for commenting Grant. Any other day we may have had the lead and Dreamer would be following....or somedays it a large group/ flotilla following each other....maybe 5 or 6 boats. I appreciate your approach and agree with philosophy of be your own leader....but speed and following someone just are not part of the equation here.. thanks anyway though! Thanks for following along!
What a bugga, bit more than the duct tape required...sorry for you guys. I does beg the question as to why over there with so many talk of floating debris in the waterway and IPS drive now so popular..... a mistake I think, could you imagine the damage. I think your drive system saved much more drama that could have been. Take care and be safe. 🫣🍻🍻🫶
Great comment Mark! There is a theory that due to low water levels the river traffic, especially the powerful barges are churning debris that has been dormant or stable on the bottom. Just something I have heard a few times...not sure. Thank you very much for following along, we appreciate it!