Thank you, Luis, for being an angel for Uma! ❤️

I must admit that I don't watch your video's to see you sailing and touring the islands. I really watch them to see the work your doing. Not only is the work very well done you have done the research. You really have master the skills. As a retired boat builder I'm still learning from you.

Dan & Kika - you share your stories with wit, charm, grace, and honesty. Your creative skills are remarkable and inspiring. "May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all your heart might desire".

Wow Luis is an angel ! I’m so glad a compatriota like Luis was able to help ! Boricuas have a big hearts!

The pulpit actually fit the dingy perfectly. If it didnt work on Uma, you could have had the safest dingly on the face of the planet ;)

Dan gets 'er done! These two neat humans are the most positive, hard working and thoughtful people I have yet to find! And I love that they fully support each other.....so many older couples would do well to watch, listen and learn from them.

My new love/addiction is vintage tube equipment. I'm not a sailer any more, but I can still cuss with the best of them. But between the genuius engineering design and the Spielberg like editing... Your videos are somthing to behold. I learn things from the both of you that have not much to do with sailing, yet are inspirational to anyone attempting to lead a decent life. And the entertainment... Priceless. Thank you very much for sharing what you both do. :)

I think your dinghy has the nicest pulpit of all I've seen. Keeping up with the Jones's? What a great guy to give up two days of his life to help strangers. Looks like you forged a great bond. Humanity rocks...Fair winds!

Angels are also here on earth, & Luis is one of them.❤️

Luis is so kind 🌼🌸🌼 Dan your attention to detail is next level, bet you're a phenomenal architect 🔎

What a world it would be if we were all like Luis! I tip my hat to you Sir.

I started watching your videos a month ago and i got impressed the way you doing things and rebuilding Uma and solving daily issues and new projects. Congratulations .... so i decide to watch all your videos from day one and subscribe and catch up i also share your channel and videos with my daughter who is an architect too. All the best guys.

Nice fix! Props to Luis! The people here are the reason I moved to Puerto Rico! They are awesome!

Three Cheers for Luis. Uma looks great again.

Dan has awesome handyman skills.👍You always make repairing and/or creating look so easy. Thank you!

Welding and working with metal looks like a lot of fun! I decided to change my profession at age 34 and started to train as a carpenter last year. It's a very creative and fun process to work with different materials!

Don't bother fishing in less than a couple of hundred feet of water. Ain't no Barracuda out in the blue. Plus, because you can't attain normal trolling speeds (8 to 12 knots), use skirted lures with a fat head to generate a bubble stream. Live or dead bait are impractical in your situation but you can get some very good liquid scent in a bait shop to stink up your lures. It really helps. Your scent trail could stretch back a couple of hundred yards and Mahi, Tuna and such will follow the trail to your lure. This lets you cover a lot more water.

It’s cool how the pulpit rail fits perfectly in the dingy!

I took 2 semesters of welding in trade school in my electrical apprenticeship. Welding is an art. Some folks can do it and pick it up, others (like me) can barely put two pieces of metal together and make it look half-decent. You guys did great. I'm impressed. Welding stainless is a very difficult.

Superb videos, Great Content and Lovely personalities!!! Please don't stop!!! EVER!

You did really well with your pulpit. I am a steel fabricator by trade and if you think things through and plan every task as you did, you can do anything. Practice brings perfection. Keep up the good work.

When the apocalypse comes I want this kid on my team. #awesomeengineer

You guys meet such beneficial and positive people along your path. Its a joy to see. Lots of karmic harmony at play. Thanks.

Save yourself some trouble and just buy tiny dyneema for lazy-jacks. It's not strechy and it's VERY slippery. That's what you want for lazyjacks. I think in the end we paid about $65 for the dyneema for the lazy-jacks on our boat and the stuff slides past itself land the boom fairleeds iike butter.

Great to see your electric system in operation. It's super interesting.

Really nice shots and sequence of you backing down on the anchor 😏👍👍 That was really cool!

Great video guys and we spotted RAN at anchor in the end of the video :) Looking forward to the next step! :)

Guys, chapeau for doing it all by your self! Finding your way in fixing whatever it is makes you the real specialist.

What a wonderful story..... Love watching your stories

nice work Louis!!life is good.

I have jack lines on my boat and I love them. They keep the mainsail under control when short handed. I''m glad to heard and think its very smart of you to do a prototype with the cheap line and plan to replace it. I use this same type of line on my winter storage cover tie downs. I have get new almost every year. This HD stuff have no UV protection and even in the winter there is enough UV to deteriorate the line. In the tropics, I doubt they will last more than 3 months.

If you are fishing in shallow water close to shore as others have mentioned you will catch cudas. I wouldn't stop fishing because you can pick up grouper or amberjacks but you will need a lure that is a deeper diver. Use a wire leader so you don't lose your lures to cudas and don't use skirts because cudas will tear them up. At slower trolling speeds use a Rapala. Switch out the treble hooks for single hooks so it is easier to release the cudas when you catch them.

Thank you some much Luis... Just shows the working man shares not his wealth but his knowledge ... I learned to weld working at the shipyard,, isn't great when you pull down your mask and your in a world unknown to many. Welding is an art... nice job Dan...

you two are fantastic, only found you a couple of weeks ago, doesnt sailing keep you fit, i used to be slim when i sailed, would love to try again one day xxxx

As usual - wonderful video! I really appreciate that you two are so resourceful - custom fixes, custom solutions, all engineered by yourselves...it's amazing!

that was some excellent job planning! Well done.

I follow Ran Sailing and you guys. Can't wait for the next video where you two hang out.

Excellent video you guys, very inspirational! It's so cool to see you handling all kind of issues and then putting together beautiful footage :)

Your craftsmanship and ingenuity are remarkable.

Binge watching......like the music choice on this one!

ive underated your videoshow, its so nice and positive. good job on the anchoring clip!

great video! about the baracuda problem: there are the obvious choices: try different lures, variation in depth ( by adding weight or special diving plates for fishing lures or just by using deep diving lures) and also longer lines, some fish are too cautious to attack a lure that's too close behind the boat. BUT....trolling is NOT your only option! why don't you guys start to set lines whenever you're at anchor? natural bait like squid (stays on the hook very well, my favourite!), shrimp, minnows and mussels work very well. check if you're allowed to use circle hooks where you are, the fish hooks itself and you can just leave the lines out. attach the hook to about 50 -150cm of strong carbon leader, then a swivel, then the main line with a sinker (weight and shape depending on the current, just make sure it can move freely on the main line). i find this way of fishing so much more exciting than trolling bc you can catch many more different species! another tipp i have, and it's not very novel either, is just to look at and ask what local fishermen do. fishing techniques and lures are different for every area and whatever i or someone else tells you here, might have worked for us but it doesn't necessarily work for you or where you are at the moment. locals know best! fish like underwater structures like rocks, cliffs, reefs etc.... they want to be able to hide and that's where they find food. if you find a place where the depth suddenly drops from like 5 m to 15 m or more, that's where you'll catch fish! and finally: catching a fish on a line is only one way to get food from the ocean, my experience is mainly based on the mediterranean sea but i know there are other options all around the globe! in areas where the water is clean you can collect clams from a cliff and they are delicious! i have seen people catch an octopus in a vase, with a chicken leg and i have caught many with a spear gun...you need to beat them on a rock so they become tender and you need to cook them for a long time (and the smell is not the best) but a salad made from boiled octopus is one of my favourite things in the world....my mouth is watering now. calamari (squid) are easy to catch in some areas, some smaller sorts of crabs make excellent soup or spaghetti sauce and some italian people (and i think asians as well) love to eat urchins.... don't limit yourself to just trolling, there's plenty more (fish) in the sea! and even if some pelagic species like bonito are not endangered, they face a lot of pressure...by broadening your menu you might help to take at least a little of that pressure off! have fun and good luck!

You clever bugger, nice repair!

Hey Dan, As a partially disabled sailor, I can understand wanting a lighter weight motor. Although the 4 cycles are more desireable, I bought an older Mercury 3.3 hp motor that was in brand new condition. A friend of mine took it replaced the carb with a different carb (which he found instructions for on KZfaq) and shazam she's a 5 hp motor that only weights a very manageable 38 lbs. Since it's a smaller motor it has an internal fuel tank, once less thing in the boat and to go wrong. If I start the day with a full tank, I've never used more than a tank in a day and that's with the kids playing with it all day long. Although I like the idea of going old school and rigging a sail some times it's just nice to have a motor. Also with as light as your boat is a 3.3 or 5 hp motor should push it along just fine! I picked my motor up for 100.00 dollars. The previous owner bought it and decided he wanted a bigger motor so it sat in a garage winterized for 4 years with only "he says" less than 10 hours on it. It looks like show room floor condition so I feel I got a good deal. Good luck and thanks for another great video. I could watch you guys work on your boat all day long! You are definitely a cleaver couple and you both work so hard it just inspires me! So keep the videos coming we all love em!!! Bill S. s/v ODIN

Enjoying watching your journey through life !

Awww, you didn't stop at Vieques? Bummer, it's amazing. I had the absolute best time there.

Thought I was impressed. NOW I´m impressed! (2.0)

If you wait until your boat is perfect you'll never go sailing! Kind of like life

Great job fixing the pulpit Ben. Worth every penny of the 500 dollars Kika dragged out of the guys who wrecked it

You are so amazing, is there anything you can't do? The sailing montage to Culebra is absolutely beautiful! I think I'd pick a rolly anchorage over a crowded one.

Great effort from Lois on your adventure. Kin of person you would desire to befriend on such a voyage. Never been to Dominican Republic but your portrayal is beautiful..

We loved Culebra, we went to a historical museum there, where I found out about a light house on a small island Culebrita... Supposedly the beach there is far better than Playa Flamenco... It is on my bucket list for the next time.

Louis god bless you are a good guy

As you found out, stainless can be tricky to weld but good job in getting the pulpit straightened back out and installed back in place!!!

You will love having Lazy Jacks. I installed some about a year ago. Makes a huge difference single handed. I just slacken them right off before I hoist the sails and tighten them right up before I drop them. They work perfectly every time.

Fishing tip to not catch barracuda is go to deeper water. Say 100ft or more. if you're less than that you'll catch barracuda all day.

You two inspire me!. I purchased another sailboat last week (Precision Seaforth 24). See you on the water one day.

Big UPS for Luis and helping you out!

PR the Best good lock

I see sailing doodles there too! Keep up the cool vids. Marko from New Zealand

Luis is the Man!!!

I understand that you guys are like a couple of episodes ahead, but what you can do is when you catch a barracuda again; cut it up into a bucket, chum some of the water all the while utilizing some of the barracuda as bait on the end of your hook..... if that fails you guys will have to purchase a rubber squid looking bait hook. Shinny silver preferably.. Good look...

Thanks for sharing 😎

9:55 SV Delos shirt!

little 2 and 4 no motors are light and surprisingly powerful

TIG is great! While trickier to master, I love the control you get in return, and the ability to work with so many types of metal. Glad you got a chance to start learning TIG. (Though, it would have been better if it didn't involve a wrecked pulpit).

It's amazing how accurately you were able to put that pulpit back together. Did you make a template, or was it just very good measuring?

Handy dandy Louis.....nice welding job..must be satisfying

Good vid guys... God Bless :-)

Ijs...when you guys go in to anchor drop a trap,the next day or a few days later pull it see what you got,youll have to study up on locsl regs unless you drop it outside whatever territories your in but I think the fish and shellfish you pull might be worth it?I grew up in the Keys and its how me and my brothers fed ourselves..wishing you both full sails and clear skies,Cheers:)

Good job on the pulpit. Be sure to passivate the stainless steel to keep rust from forming on it in the future.

Tag is fun. keep the argon flowing inside the pipe.

Big bait means big fish and get a gaff. Trail a bucktail hooked into a sassy shad about 6 boatlengths back.

That trimaran looks like it might be a Neel 45. Stunning boat, if so.

100 points for Luis!!!!

great video, again :)

Luis is a Legend, should invite him to sail. What’s Wei g with barracuda ?

Another amazing video, as always. I'm trying to catch up by binging and have been meaning to ask: what is that hanging from your boom? A bottle opener? 17:21

If you can find some lighter line for your lazy jacks you'll get less windage - I'm using 4mm double braid on a bigger sail and it copes just fine.

God bless Luis!

Cool video, as far as the barracuda it is the type of jig or hook on your line. Try to get a variety so you can switch it out to try different ones. If you have ever seen a commercial tuna boat they use jig poles to troll for fish. It is extremely effective way to find fish. Rather than using rod and real. I have thought this type of system could be used on a sail boat in a smaller form. It is very fast to retrieve the fish, with less chance of loosing it.

Nice guys!

looks good yall are instiring to us hopefully one day we will have a sailboat to by watch yall we will know what to do thanks for the video be safe . torrie and chamion

I was Wondering just yesterday when or If you had fixed that. 5:15. Bow line yet. 😱👍😎 I did some Hili-arc welding in the Navy, at least that’s what it was called back in 1969 & 70 It was just like what you were doing and Yes, Stainless is hard to weld, so is Galvenized steal. But you’d look good. 9:39. After cleaning... ✅

Great video

great video and best bet once u catch the baracuda move fish somewhere else

All welds are good welds if they hold together.

Looks like Luis did a great job on repairing the Pulpit. Was the cash the Whale Tour company gave you enough to cover the expenses? How is the new Anchor Windlass working out for you?

You should have done an electric conversion to the dingy outboard.

Fish tip. I am not a fisherman, but I've noticed fish swim around the light at night, maybe use a floating led light out on the water a night and catch them easier. Idk just an observation, curious to see if it works and helps.

Have you thought about a small trolling motor as used by fisherman. Runs off batteries which you could recharge with solar.

I always walk the cup

Ooooooohhhhhhh a Neel trimaran in the wild! Was that a charter or privately owned, did you talk to them?

Great work on the pulpit with a little help from your friend ! How's the new fridge working out for you ?

You should have built some stancions and install some life lines on this tub!

Been "Binge watching" all your videos. I wonder if someone not as skilled as Dan could try an adventure like you... I dream about sailing around the world but feel that not been handy would be a major issue. Love from BRAZIL

Is the Lazy Jack the same as using a Stack Pack ? Will you be making a enclosed place for the main sail to drop into when you lower it?

Buen trabajo

You should send Luis a set of drill bites if you find a deal on them like there is in the States.

Angle grinder and paint make me the welder i ain't 😂