WEBVTT - “I’M STRANDED ON A BOAT” 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:04.880 Hello, Hi, how's life? 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:05.680 It's good? 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:07.440 Oh my god, I'm so happy I got through. I 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:08.440 wanted to talk so bad. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:09.680 What's your name? 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.320 My name's Claire, Claire. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.000 Yes, what like the store Claire's. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.319 Yes, like the store Claire. I actually love that store 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:21.960 growing up. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:23.640 What's up, Claire? How's life? 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:23.920 How? 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:29.240 How can I be be on the phone with you today? 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:32.400 Well, I would love to talk about what I'm going 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.080 through right now, and you are streaming and I'm currently 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.519 kind of instill a whole bunch of stuff. Sorry if 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.840 I'm a little bit shaky, I'm really excited to talk, 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:46.600 but I I So, I'm on a sailing journey right now, 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.040 my first sailing journey. I'm kind of I've been refitting 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.199 my boat for like two and a half years, and 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.960 it was finally good enough to like go in the 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.960 middle of winter, like like two months ago, and so 0:00:58.040 --> 0:00:59.760 I decided to just go and do it and figure 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.720 shit out as I go along. So I've been figuring 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:04.600 shit out as I go along and teaching myself to 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.959 sail and learning a whole bunch and it's actually been 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.920 really nice and like beautiful, and like there's been dolphins 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.600 and seashells, and it's me and my dog and I've 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:19.800 been having a great time. But like two nights ago, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.160 I sunk. I half spunk my boat. I was I 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.920 was on a sand bar and my boat was completely 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.480 tilted to the side, and I woke up to like 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.720 water streaming in my windows and half my boat was 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:46.000 full of water and it was really scary and I 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:53.440 got out of that situation and I kind of got 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.960 to safety, but my boat literally like it was fucking 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.440 like filled with water. It was half flooded, and and 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.560 now I'm trying to figure out how to get out 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.680 of this. I've been trying for two days to get 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.000 my engine fixed, and I've gotten it fixed a little 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.480 bit and then it cuts out. And I'm currently fucking 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.840 like my engine cut out at like midnight last night, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.200 and I drifted. I threw my anchor out real quick, 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:25.040 so luckily I didn't ground again. But I'm kind of 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:30.120 just stranded in the water trying to troubleshoot shit, and 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.760 I've I've kind of got to the end of my 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.720 particular knowledge on things, and I'm trying to google and 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.120 get myself out of this situation. But it's crazy because 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.000 it's like it's like only me who can get myself 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.560 out of this situation. And it's kind of terrified because 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.440 like I don't know if I could do it or not. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:52.520 But I'm trying. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:58.040 Okay, I'm I'm struggling to understand a few things. Where 0:02:58.080 --> 0:02:59.760 where are physically are you? Right now? 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:02.320 I'm in North Carolina? 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.360 Okay, you're in North Carolina? And are you? 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:06.600 Like? 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.919 Are you? Where are you? 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:13.320 So? 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.640 I was traveling on the Inner Coastal Waterway, which is 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.560 kind of like it's close to the ocean, but it's 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.000 like in the coast a little bit, and it goes 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.440 down pretty much from Norfolk, Virginia all the way to Florida. 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.200 And that's where I've just been kind of traveling down 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:38.440 the Inner Coastal and that's where I grounded. On this 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.480 particular leg that I'm own right now, there's just no 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.880 anchor spots. It will be like twenty feet deep on 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.880 like a channel that's carved out, but on either side 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:56.960 of the channel is like like three four five feet, 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.960 which is which is why I grounded. So right now, 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.720 I drifted a little bit out of the channel and 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:09.480 I've like anchored myself just in the middle of the water, 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.920 like I can see there's land not too far from me, 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:15.880 but I can't really get to it. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.599 Yeah, so you are on a boat right now. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:21.919 Yeah, I'm on my boat. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.440 But you said the boat. The boat doesn't work. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:33.720 Yeah, my boat the engine my engine cut out and 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:39.240 I don't My engine has been broken, and I'm not 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.520 quite sure what's going on. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:42.800 It's kind of weird. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.880 So, yeah, I'm stranded. I've been stranded for like a 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.839 couple of days. And yeah, every I don't have food. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.479 Everything's wet. All my tools are wet, my bed is wet. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.680 Everything is like molding and rusting. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:55.160 As we speak. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.440 Okay, so what's your name? 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:02.160 Claire? 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:08.200 Claire? So you are on but do you do you 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.080 see any land around you? 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:17.680 Yeah, there's land around me, there's I see houses. So 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.880 in case of emergency, I could like get to land. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.680 I have a dingy, which is a small boat, but 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.040 I only have paddles and there's high winds right now, 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.640 and I just I can't really paddle very well, and 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.919 my dingy takes on water. So if the winds died down, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.720 I could get to land and go through people's houses 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.479 and try to get somewhere. But it doesn't really solve 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.960 the fact that my boat is still here and still broken. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.200 Okay, but you you are not like in immediate danger 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.640 right now, are you of like being like no, lot, 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.359 I've been like like like drowning it in the middle 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:56.960 of the ocean. 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.320 No, I'm not taking on water and I'm not an 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:06.160 immediate danger. I threw my anchor out, and there's land 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.280 just over here. If I have to get to it, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.960 I can call somebody to pick me up. It's fifteen 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.720 hundred dollars, which I don't have, so I could call people. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:20.080 There's also people who drive their boats cross across the 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.680 inner coastal, so if I need to, I can also 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.080 flag people down to get a ride into land. So 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.760 I'm not in like any immediate danger. I'm just kind 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.000 of trying to figure out how to get myself out 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.520 of the situation. But I'm pretty stable. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:42.600 Okay. Uh, why don't you call somebody for help. 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:49.600 Because I have I have a boat tow USA thing, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.359 which is like free towing, but because I grounded and 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.880 took on water, they don't cover free toes anymore, and 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.719 so help would be at the very minimum fifteen dollars, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.920 they told me, and it can go up as much 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:09.720 as like ten grand, depending on what I need and 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:10.720 where I need to get to. 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.840 So so, okay, you are in a boat, how do 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.240 you charge your phone? And shit? 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.280 I have solar panels which charge my batteries and it 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.760 charges my phone and like puts life to all my boats. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.960 So I do have I have like my phone, and 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.400 I have lights, and I have batteries and stuff and 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.360 they didn't get too damaged in the water. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.720 I'm trying to I'm just trying to get like a 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:42.080 picture of your surroundings right now, Like how far away, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.440 Like could you swim to where the land is? 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:47.400 Is it just some land? 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.200 Yeah, I guess swim It's not super closed, but like 0:07:52.600 --> 0:08:01.320 it's there's people's backyards. Maybe I don't know how to 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.440 gauge distances, but like I can see the stripes on 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:05.480 their American flag. 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:12.120 Okay, I'm curious again how you got into this situation. 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:13.480 How long have you been at sea for? 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.440 I've been traveling down the Inner coastal for two months now, 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.080 and I like, I'm not like. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:25.040 I'm not. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:32.400 Fairly proficient, not super super proficient, but I refit. I 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.240 bought this sailboat like two and a half years ago 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:40.280 and I've done a total refit. So I know, I 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:46.760 know a singer two about a singer singer two. But yeah, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.880 I guess I got into it because I've been traveling 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:55.000 and then I grounded, and when tide went out, that's 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.760 when the water came in, and that's kind of what 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:58.800 started this whole thing. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.959 Hmmm, Well, how has it been traveling for the past 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.400 two months? Have you been, like, is it been lonely 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.800 at your You're literally alone at sea. That's like the 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.679 most uh isolating thing you could do. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.760 Yeah, I've been going. I've actually I've had a really 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:23.240 nice time. I was really scared because I bought my 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.760 boat two and a half years ago, and I bought 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.640 it thinking I would just go off into the grade unknown, 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.439 go to the Caribbean or whatever, and I kind of 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.800 accidentally have put two and a half years of my 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:39.120 life into this thing because shit just keeps breaking and 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.280 I just keep having to fix it. So I was 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.840 really scared when I started this journey that I would 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.439 get on the boat after spending two and a half 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.960 years of my life on this and hate it. But 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:58.199 I kind of too, It's twofold. I've been having a really, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.360 really nice time I have my dog with me, and 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.679 I've just been like, I have to bring him to 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.560 shore all the time, so I like I get to 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.080 explore beaches, and I've been meeting lots of really nice people. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.040 I've been having a lot of really cool experiences. I 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.120 will say that I was kind of hoping to meet 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.600 more people my own age and like party a little 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.760 bit and like have that sort of vibe. And most 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:22.760 of the people I've been meeting have been like older 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.319 or like not quite my vibe, so I haven't really 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:32.520 found my people yet. But it's been really nice spending 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.960 time with myself and being happy with myself, because like 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.280 in everyday life, I really distract myself and I look 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:40.679 at my phone all the time and I listen to 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.760 podcasts and I don't give myself like a spare minute 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:48.520 to think or be or exist. And it has unexpectedly 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:54.240 been really nice getting to know myself and relying on 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.240 myself and knowing that I'm the only person who can 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.120 get myself out of a situation. I've liked that. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:02.400 How old are you? 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.800 I'm twenty seven And when you. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:12.080 Say most people, well, I guess a few questions. How 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.520 are you exactly meeting these people and what is it 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.280 about them that makes you say that they're not your vibe. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.760 Well, it's not that they're my vibe. I've actually had, 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.320 like I've had a lot of really genuine relationships with 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.720 people who are kind of outside of people I would 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.480 normally hang out with, because, like I mean, I would 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.440 normally hang out with like just young creative people, like 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:40.040 artsy kids and like like hippie circles and stuff is 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:45.320 my normal friend groups. And the people I meet a 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:50.280 lot of old dudes, which is like good and bad. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.840 Some people are really freaking creepy, especially to like a 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.920 young woman doing this by herself. I've had a love 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.640 like creeps, but I've also like made really genuine friendships 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.560 with just people worlds away from me that I would 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.520 never have the chance, Like I met, I pulled into 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.240 this marina one time to like outweigh there was a 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.320 storm coming, so I pulled into this marina and it 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.120 was in the middle of nowhere, like I thought it 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:20.599 was abandoned, and there just happened to be this retired 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.600 New York taxi driver who had like the thickest New 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.920 York accent ever, and he like just bought that Marina 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:33.080 and recently divorced, and just he was telling these crazy 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.920 stories about being a midnight taxi driver in New York, 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.720 and I'm like, I would have no other reason to 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.840 talk to this man at the grocery store, but because 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.880 I'm in need and trying to down this storm, I've 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.240 met this man in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, North Carolina, 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.520 and it was just such a giguine interaction that I 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.720 never would have had otherwise. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:06.000 Yet building, you know, I think that a very rich 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.200 life is filled with a lot of those moments where 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.600 you're in a weird situation meeting a person that you 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:17.080 just never would have come across in your daily life. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.480 No, definitely, and this this lifestyle has been really good 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.320 for that because like it's like I feel like I'm 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.000 in a constant stage of like kind of vacation mode 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.240 where I'm just like ready for like any like weird 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.120 thing to come my way. But I'm also like in 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.520 need a lot, Like I'm in need of a run 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.640 to the grocery store, or I'm in need of like 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.559 safety from a storm, or I'm in need of help 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.440 with a repair, And that kind of motivates me to 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.080 like ask around and like create these connections that I 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.160 normally wouldn't have, and it's just brought like a lot 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.520 of really cool things into my life that way. I'm like, 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:04.240 I'm kind of shy normally. I guess like it's I'm talkative, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.040 but it's hard for me to like just create connections 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.920 like in the wild. But I've been happy that I've 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.719 been able to do that because of the circumstances. But 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.400 I'm own on this boat. 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.720 It's interesting, Uh what So I was wondering, how are 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.240 you meeting all these people because you're on a boat? 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.280 Is it like where are you normally docking this thing? 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.520 There's like so the inner coastal, there's like there's kind 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:35.120 of like hubs. It goes all the way down the coast, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.400 you know, from Virginia or maybe even before Virginia, all 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.000 the way down to Florida, and there's kind of like hubs, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.440 like I think Savannah, Georgia is a hub, and like 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.960 like Saint Augustine is a hub. And there's different cities 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:49.960 along this way, and the cities are kind of built 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.920 around the fact that they're owned the inner coastal. So 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.840 there's tons of merry time and there's there's lots of 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:01.320 boat people, so I've made I met these people. Whenever 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.840 I anchor or like pull in, I'll pull into a 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.840 free dock occasionally, or I'll anchor out and then I'll 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.800 go into the city and I meet these people because 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.120 both people are really friendly and usually they would have 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:20.600 seen like either like what happened with the marina with 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.560 Joe the New York bus driver, Like I was directly 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.080 pulled up at his place and needed help from him, 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.920 so I went and like started that conversation. But I've 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.720 met people at like other places because I've like anchored 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.720 and then come in and needed something, needed help, needed groceries, 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.720 needed to find resources, or they've seen me pull up 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.560 in my boat and they just come up to me 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.120 and like start and I have a dog and stuff, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.800 and so like people will just come up to me 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.720 and be like, hey, I just saw you anchor there, 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.880 Like what's your deal? Like are you by yourself or 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.520 what you're doing right now? So people have like people 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.720 have kind of come up to me more so than not. 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:03.960 What kind of dog do you have with you? 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.000 I have a boykned spaniel. His name is du Radley. 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:12.360 He's super cute, And how do you like, do you 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.000 have money? How do you like afford food and dog 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:16.840 stuff and all that. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.880 Well, I I left right after I got my tax return, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.520 so I got like fourteen hundred dollars that I've been 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.600 living off of, and I'm almost out of money, actually, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.400 which is why I can't really call for helpering. I 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.160 got like three hundred dollars left, so I've kind of 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:40.120 been living off my tax return. But it's lasted a while. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.760 Because I have I got food. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.680 I got in food stamps before I left, so I 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.600 haven't had to pay for food, and I make my 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.800 own electricity, I get water for free. I'm pretty self 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.720 reliant apart from a couple of beers when I come 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.640 into shore and parts and stuff. So it's been all right. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.800 How long had you planned on sailing for. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.280 When I left. I've never really had much of a plan. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:13.040 I've just I like quit my job, and I know 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.240 that I want to make it to like the Caribbean 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.080 at some point, and like, honestly, like someday i'd like 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.720 to go like really really far. But I knew that 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.760 this is going to be like a learning experience. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:25.600 I knew that. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.119 I wasn't sure if I'd make it to the Caribbean, 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.560 or if I would just make it a couple miles away. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.600 I wasn't really sure what would happen, so I didn't 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.640 have much of a plan going into it other than 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:44.600 just go south and see what happens. With everything that's 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.080 happened now, I live in the Outer Banks and I 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.239 have a lot of like, I have people that I 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.119 know that I can call for help there. So I 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.639 think my plan now is to try to get my 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.600 boat going and then try to get back to the 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:05.879 Outer Banks and fix a lot of stuff has been broken. 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.240 I've lost all my tools and my fridge and a 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.200 lot of stuff is broken right now, so I need 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:13.359 to go fix stuff again. 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:14.560 Mm hmm. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.800 What are you going to do about this engine thing? 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:30.200 I'm not exactly sure because I actually I just kind 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.640 of got to before you called. I have been I've 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.080 been working all day on it, and I just got 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.760 to kind of the end of my own personal knowledge 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:49.320 of how things work. So my next steps I'm I'm 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.680 gonna go on sailing forums. There's a lot of really 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:57.199 good information in sailing sailing forums, and I'm gonna look 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.400 at my manual and I'm gonna see if there's more 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:05.920 trouble shooting things that I could do that I haven't yet. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.720 It could be it could be like a million things 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.080 going on right now with the salt water. 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:17.480 Hmm, what's to deal with? Like your friends and family, 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:22.040 are they like concerned about you being out at sea? 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.360 Do you like? What do you what did you leave behind? 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:28.879 I was living with my parents. 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:29.320 I moved. 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.560 I moved from Nashville, where I had a whole bunch 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.720 of friends and big friend group and stuff. And I 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:35.760 moved from Nashville. 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:36.720 I bought this boat. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.000 Kind of I had like a little bit of like 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.840 a mid twenties crisis sort of thing, or I didn't 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:44.080 know what I was doing with my life. So I 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.199 just bought this boat, and I was like, fuck it, 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.200 I'll do this for a while. So I've been living 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.399 with my parents while I've been refitting this boat for 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:59.120 two years now, and they generally have a lot of anxiety. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:07.000 And actually I when I first, like when I first 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.440 learned what sailing was, I was kind of like being 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.000 like a hippie and just doing like traveling stuff. And 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.679 I had ended up on boats in Florida and I 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.720 was lost at sea for or kind of quote unquote 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.080 lost at sea for a couple of days. My parents 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.359 thought I was lost at sea, and like the coast 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.639 guard was like looking for me, and it was just 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:32.159 a really scary incident. And so my parents when I 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:36.320 decided to do this again except by myself, they have 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.119 a lot of anxiety about it, and I feel bad 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:45.000 about that. And and my dad's grandfather was a merchant 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.440 mariner and he was lost at sea when my dad 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.760 was like twelve, so my dad knows what it's like 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.120 to have a close family member be lost at sea. 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:58.200 And I do feel a lot of guilt about doing 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:02.240 that to them, But at the same time, like I 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.040 want to do this because I just want to know 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.040 what's out there and what this lifestyle has to offer. 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:14.919 And I wish that they took it better, but I 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.240 can't really hold myself back for that. And then my 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:19.480 friends are pretty supportive. 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:26.320 Yeah, you know, that's a tough thing to kind of like, 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:28.360 especially if you're like lucky enough to have a good 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:33.760 relationship with your parents, like kind of the line between, 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:38.439 you know, I want to be around my folks and 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.040 I don't want to worry them, but you also have 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:45.680 to go and live your life. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:50.360 Yeah, and yeah, and it sucks because it's like this 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.439 is more so than like they're just really like sweet 0:21:53.560 --> 0:22:00.600 conservative Christians, like wholesome family, and I feel I feel bad. 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.439 It's like I got tattoos and it made them like upset, 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:05.159 but it was kind of like, fuck, it is my body. 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:07.439 I can get tattoos, but this one does make me 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:12.040 feel a lot of guilt because it's like it really 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:14.160 is a life or death sort of thing. Like if 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:18.040 the silver lining to what happened when I sank was 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.720 my windows leaked, and a sailboat supposed to be a 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:26.200 completely enclosed vessel, I should be able to go upside 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:30.159 down underwater and be able to like right myself. And 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.320 I learned when I ground it, and luckily I was 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:35.800 on the ground, so I wasn't gonna lose my whole boat. 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:38.480 But what I learned was that my windows leaked to 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:40.960 the point where it filled my boat completely, and my 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:43.720 bilge pumps, which pumped the water out of my boat, 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.280 my bilge pumps would not keep up. So if this happened. 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:51.520 Even even if this happened, like if I was in 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.359 ten feet of water, I would lose my boat. If 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.119 this happened in twenty feet of water. If I didn't 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:02.840 have land access, like it could be deadly. So it's 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.199 it's very real shit out here, even though I'm not 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:07.600 in the ocean right now, it's very real shit that 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:08.480 I'm dealing with. 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:13.280 Are you staying safe? 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:13.800 Yep? 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:15.560 I mean I'm. 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:16.160 Staying staying safe. 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:18.760 And that's that's why I'm on the inner coastal and 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:21.800 not like in the ocean, because I didn't know how 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:26.040 to sail like going into this, and so the inner coastal, 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:29.399 you're always in sight of land, like sometimes it can 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:32.639 be farther than others, but I'm always going to be 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:37.480 inside of land at any given moment. So this is 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:43.520 kind of like a step towards just getting to where 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:49.840