Why didn’t you purchase the boat? Can I ask what your offer was? Thanks

I’m glad y’all didn’t pick this one. Lol😂 When think of Viking, it’s a Sport Fishing Boat. It looks like they tried to combine a Sport Fisher with the yacht and failed. Y’all’s final choice was a winner.

Thanks for sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly. Keeping it real

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Good stuff as always ya'll. Very funny, entertaining, and informative. ❤❤❤

Hey y'all. Really enjoying your videos. Next time through that area you can split up your route so its not such a long run. A good halfway point to anchor is behind St. Catherines Island or if you want a dock you can go a couple of miles up the Medway river to Sunbury Crab Co. Good luck going north!

Really enjoyed this one. Great to see your family support. Shine on !

My wife and I are enjoying y’all’s vlogs. We’ve gone back and watched the older vlogs. Y’all are getting close to our home town of Charleston, SC. Waiting for the Hilton Head episode to come out. Hey Cinda, you mentioned that you had plenty of stickers during the vlog. I would love to get one if you still have any, so I could put it with my Scho and Jo stickers.

The intro got me thinking about Valerie Bertinelli. Oh, thanks a lot......

This part of Georgia trip is thic with horse flies.

In this video you have a chart book you were using. Can you share the name of the book and where you got it

I notice you are staying at yacht clubs. Do you belong to a yacht club and are you taking advantage of reciprocal agreements? Are most of your yacht club nights docking free?

Love watching your adventures. I’ve got nothing like that here in Denmark. One bit of advice don’t play music on the boat then when you’re edit the film put another kind of music on it’s very confusing listening to kinds of music

Well folks I just started following your Great Loop "Adventure" So far You have been under The Roosevelt Bridge in Stuart Fl. that my brother Kevin was a structural superintendent on you also passed under the Evans Crary Bridge in Stuart Fl. that i was the structural superintendent on . Now on this episode you are where we were raised in So. East Georgia. Keep it real like you guys are doing ! Your doing Great. Safe Travels

my 24-foot Yamaha jet boat draws 6 inches at speed. Anything less than 3 feet you have a chance of vacuuming the bottom which cannot be good. My worst experience was leaving the Meldahl Lock on the Ohio River at no wake speed and sucking a walnut into an impeller. Anything over 2,000 RPM and I had severe vibrations. We couldn't find the source until we started taking the jet apart and solved it with a long screwdriver and a hammer to punch out the walnut. No one had ever jammed nut in the jet. Usually, it is the nut at the wheel. My boat is often used as a Coast Guard Auxiliary patrol boat upriver from Cincinnati. Hope you had good experiences with the Coast Guard on your voyages.

Great update as always.

My money’s on you not finishing the loop

My wife and I have been on board our 50 foot trawler since '17. Our first few months were punctuated by several episodes of "for sale sign fever". It is a steep learning curve especially if you've never had a larger boat but really does get easier and a lot more fun. Hang in there. I would not trade the life for anything at this point. Best of luck and keep the videos coming!

I feel your anchoring anxiety pain...lol been there. We are in Florida anchoring so wind and solid anchoring are absolute! Here is what I did to help me feel better when the winds are high or expected to pick up. I upgraded our Chartplotter to enable mirroring to a tablet as well as set anchor feature. As soon as the anchor drops, set anchor on the chartplotter, put out your scope yadayada, and set the distance parameter on the anchor alarm i.e. how much drag before the alarm goes off. When you mirror the Chartplotter, you will see your chart on the tablet, including the anchor alarm circle and the parameters. If your other electronics are newer and NMEA 2000 compatible, you can also show your windspeed on the Chartplotter. I put the tablet close to the bed and set my alarm to wake me up at least once an hour (more or less depending on the situation). Every hour I wake up and look at the tablet chartplotter to see if we have dragged. Go back to sleep, rinse repeat. If the anchor is set solid usually it will not move, the biggest risk is if the wind direction changes and unsets the anchor. Our old anchor just wouldn't reset if the wind changed and unset it. Eventually, we got a different anchor sized up from what was recommended for our boat. It has worked really well so far. I know many folks use an anchor alarm app but I like integrating the chart, windspeed, water depth, and alarm in one using NMEA 2000 and casting to my tablet. Just some options! Good luck and welcome to boat life.

I am enoying the episodes! Any adventure has its ups and downs. My wife and I are planning for the Loop right now, your experinces are very helpful. Thank you for sharing!

what? I thought you were done and sold your boat?

I hope you guys got to go the Bahamas at some point? For your first week you guys did well. Looking forward to the next boat adventure? Caribbean???

Thank you for the great awesome videos! We are leaning a lot!

New to your channel. Admiral your infectious optimism is phenomenal. They way both of you communicate is epic. Working together will get you through. Your huge smile in trying times will pay you dividends. It's very enjoyable to see happy people. Well done crew. Girl power!😊

I WAS SO AMAZED THAT YOU THE CAT THAT VOMITED TO SOUND THE BOTTOM ,,DID YOU TIE A ROCK TO THE CAT AND GIVE IT A HEADSET ????..LOL,,,

Buy a gb150 lithium jump box it’ll jump an 8l diesel

You can probably get general liability insurance and self insure the hull

LOL. Y'all worry too much. Adventure is never easy, but it is fulfilling.. Do better. ;) - Sincerely from Motor Yacht Ramble On - Currently located in New Bern, NC. Relax. Everything is fine.:)

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I've been in a lot worse seas then that in just a 26 ft cabin cruiser , when i was just a teen . You should have no problem in that big boat . I've been on a 100 ft vessel completely disappearing in the waves . Yall will be OK.

Interesting. You have my sympathy of course... but if my wife told me she couldn't do it one week in (and after buying my dream boat for significant money just 6 weeks before)... I think I'd be like.. Hey! She was just on the deck a minute ago! - Kidding aside, I have to say it's still a bit baffling. The excitement and build up during the loop boat search, coupled with the excitement of getting a boat... then caving so early? Wow! *Serious high five to Mark for reeling that one back in!*

We are so glad that you sucked it up and now are sharing

Wonderful video! Where is the Crew located now?

Maybe it is for the best. Your reaction to minor mishaps, incidents during a voyage, and living on a boat, cruising says all one need to know You are not ready for this life style.It was never meant to be easy. It is supposed to be enjoyable however adventurous. If your break even point of fun and pain crosses over the , “not worth it”…you may as well hang it up. This life style is not for everyone. You have proven that. Not only you were not well prepared for this, neither was your boat. If you have to run the generator to charge your starting batteries says your battery bank is not up to task for live aboard cruising life or you don’t have separate starting batteries for the engines. You will be happier on land.

As lifelong boaters my wife and I are enjoying your videos, but I can tell you before we would even take a one week vacation, my priorities would have been new batteries. On our F 32 Trojan I put 4 new batteries in there every 4 years. You were very fortunate that they crapped out at the end but I couldn't sleep at night with bad batteries. I like the headset idea of communicating during docking instead of yelling back and forth.

You guys are so amazing! Two takeaways. Remember that Bob app if we ever loop, and the sagest Mom advice passed down for centuries: "Everybody go pee!" My mother's voice came back to me in that moment. So glad that Cat could help you. These videos are wonderful and I will be rewatching them if we are blessed to do the loop in a few years.

There’s heavyweights lithium starter packs for diesels, just like the ones you can have in your car but meatier . I have one on board just in case l I check it’s fully charged every couple of months , all good in the year I’ve had it, haven’t needed to use it

I get where you were from a "novice" perspective. But you were kinda concentrating on the negatives. The first proof that your equipment was doing its job was the amount of effort it took to raise the anchor. Second, was the fact that your on board systems were able to charge the starting batteries and you got going again. The only thing it cost you was time. The learning curve is steep, awesome that you made the climb! Great series, and great reality check!

Don’t stop. You killing it. And you’re so real.

There’s a whole bunch of wonderfully real-life stuff in this episode! 😍 I never got too concerned that you’d actually quit, since we’ve all had a major spoiler alert knowing that you did, in fact, FINISH the loop…but it was interesting and inspiring to see you get to rock bottom and then find a way to pull yourselves back up again. Great video!

No you don't sound rediculous, or crazy, or etc. You sound like any other person that doesn't handle certain types of stress well. Me I'm much more like Mark. I seem to have gotten all the self control in the family. If *I* start "freaking out", it's time for everyone to join. But I have family members much like you so I'm quite familiar. It's perfectly normal. We all have our ways of handling things, our limits of what we can handle, and our way of expressing to the world that we're approaching or have passed that limit.

Cinda you are a great Mom and such an admirable Admiral. ❤ Every day on your journey I pray all of you will grow, get stronger as a family unit, and overcome issues as they arise. 🙏 Every redwood or giant sequoia tree started from a tiny seed..... Even Captain Mark started as a tiny little seed and not only did he win the race(one in a million), it looks like you have found one in a million in your Captain and life mate. Catching flying kitty diarrhea bare handed is no easy task ma'am. If anyone says it is make them prove it to you because I call shenanigans on that hoopla. Heck that alone is something most folks will never get to accomplish in their entire lifetime. 😹Boat Captain of three and cat daddy of two here so I know what I'm talking about my good people. Now keep you heads up high because ya'll are doing the dang thing.... Not for us, or for views, But for this right here. One day when your kids are seniors and sitting in their rocking chairs on a front porch somewhere they will look back and think, mom and dad did it and we had a blessed life beyond belief. Post partum loop syndrome is no joke I'm sure. More people climb Mt Everest than complete the Great Loop every year and never forget that. It's gonna get easier Cinda. Edit when the time is right. We are here and every episode is a TREAT so no pressure. Just feed of those positive cool headed Captain Mark vibes, laugh your face off when you want to cry, and keep on keeping on. Until next time my lovely people..... BE GOOD OR BE GOOD AT IT AND MAY GOD BLESS YA'LL ALWAYS. 🙏🌞🏝️🛥️👨‍👩‍👦‍👦😺😽❤

Great video guys, well done!! 😎🦾

A car carrier sank in that inlet a few years ago

Hang in there. I guarantee it's going to get better. One year cruising around and the next thing your purchasing a Cat and crossing Oceans.

Many cudos to the Simplicity Cat for being willing to take you under virtual tow. Wish more of the world was like this.

There is an interstate marine battery dealer in Savanah. They will probably deliver.

And Savanah

There is a west marine in Brunswick.

Golden Isle Marina? That's where my dad put a 39' Marine Trader sideways on the finger of the slip. Thought the Harbor Master's little hut was going to fall off the dock. Coming in w the tide. Not good. Normally I'm waiting for videos to end. Wanted this one to go on and on. I'll watch to the end, even if it's an hour or more. Not being sarcastic.