So Much For Paddle Boarding + Hurricane Dorian Update | Sailboat Story 129

A few realities of cruising: Inflatable paddle boards will leak. Sand from the beautiful beaches gets tracked everywhere. The salty air will corrode all your metal stuff. The sun will burn and wrinkle your skin. The weather will often keep you stuck on the boat.

Speaking of being stuck on the boat – this is usually the case when a cold front is rolling through. You stock on supplies, find shelter, and then pretty much bunker down for anywhere from a couple days to a week. Yep, not all that much fun but it’s one of the many not-so-glamorous realities of the cruising life.

We anchor the boat at Royal Island which is located a few mile West of Spanish Wells. It’s a very protected anchorage that will take care of us through the front, and also in the general direction that we wish to go. Ultimately we’re looking for a weather window to make the crossing to the Abacos. Hopefully our chance will come after this front blows through.

Our PEAK paddle board has been very temperamental. Even right out of the box it leaked from the fill valve. A bit of petroleum jelly on the seal would help it hold air for a little while. Unfortunately the glue began to fail along the side of the paddle board which created another leak – which we patched… then another leak occurred. To be fair, any inflatable board lives a VERY hard life in the tropical sun, but we were quite careful about keeping it covered, half-deflated, and also treated it with a UV blocker. Despite these efforts the board still leaked. It leaked so much, in fact, that we dubbed the board our “Leaky Peaky”. Thankfully PEAK did the right thing and set us a full refund even though the board was well outside of it’s warranty. We definitely appreciate the gesture on their part, and we’ll likely give them another shot in the future, but perhaps we’ll go for a fiberglass board instead of the more vulnerable inflatable. We’ll see.

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HURRICANE DORIAN UPDATE: We’re safe and the boat is safe. Thanks for all of the inquiries regarding our safety during the storm. Apparently you guys care about us? 🙂 We’ll be creating more real-time updates in regards to our plans once the videos are current, which shouldn’t be all that much longer. In the meantime, just keep enjoying the videos and please also do what you can to help support the devastated people of the Abacos. A good charity that we did our due diligence on is listed just below…

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | https://wck.org/
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