Delivering a 1965 Cheoy Lee Sailboat from Marina del Rey to Los Angeles Harbor

We would like to thank all of our patrons for your continued support. Hello friends, we're on board a boat that's very near and dear to me, the Black Lotus. You guys have probably seen a video of me sailing this before. It's a 1965 Troy Lee Frisco Flyer. I used to help skipper this. And recently my former boss texted me and was like, we can't keep up the boat anymore and we want to give it to you. So I believe in old boats and this boat needs a lot of love. So I said, OK, I'll take it. And my good buddy Dyer was looking for a project. And this is the perfect project. Gorgeous boat, solid bones, but needs a lot of love. So we're here in Marina Del Rey right now. It is January something, do you know what day it is? 24th. January 24th, 2020. And we're going to be moving this to Newmarks. 26th. 26th, there you go. We're going to be moving this boat to Newmarks. And Dyer got the slip right next to me, which is cool. Then we can be working on projects together. We'll have all of our tools kind of centrally located so that, you know, we can get both of our boats kind of dialed in. So Dyer and his girlfriend Kristen live in San Pedro. So it's real close for them, and it'll be easy for them to hop out and get to sailing. So excited to see this boat come back to life. And it's time for us to get this boat delivered. Super stoked. That's good, and the lines are in there. So that's good. This is the foot. These are called hanks. Bronze. This is a hank-on sail. You're hanking the sail on. He's got a shackle here, which is nice, like a snap shackle. So mine has, like, a proper regular shackle that I just do, but... And you always want to work from the bottom up. Sometimes you get in the process, you're like, oh, you want to get your halyard on, and then if you're trying to hank them on from the top down, it bunches up. That's how I would, like, try to do that. And someone was like, do it from the bottom up, you know, fight yourself. Oh, that was weird. And this sail on the bag says it's a Genoa, which means that it's going to come past your mast, which means that my guess is it's probably, like, 125% of this space. So that means it's 25% past the mast, and that's like a light wind sail. A jib fills up 100% of this, so it's 100% called your working jib. But once it goes past the mast, it's called a genoa. We'll look through. There's some other heckles down there, but where we sail, you will definitely want 100% because the winds are way stronger than here. This will be, like, good for light wind days when you're going to Catalina, but, like, we rarely ever use our genoa, right, baby? Yeah. Okay, so your sail's hanked on. See? So right now I'm up at the spreaders. We're just checking out all the hardware, looking at everything. There's a little bit of rust, which is not a concern for us today, but it's a concern, like, kind of long-term. But there's no cracks or anything in the tangs. So now we're going to go up top and see what it looks like up there. So I'm up top at the masthead. Everything looks pretty good. No real issues with the rigging. Everything seems stable enough for us to move it today. Camille's downstairs with Steady and Dyer getting everything ready. And now it's time to go down, start the engine, and make way. Looks like the fog finally burned off. We had a lot of fog this morning. We're getting a late start on purpose because of that. And, yeah, we're stoked. So time to get this boat moved. That's called easy access right there. Oh, my God, I wish we had that kind of access. There's a little bit of water. What's it look like, Camille? It's pretty ******* dry to me. Show them this seacock. So that's the only seacock, like, I'm kind of bummed about. But we're going to be fine today. But that's something that should be addressed. Let's go ahead and check this fluid here. We checked all the other days, so we know that's fine. Fluid looks good. Full of Mountain Dew. Put your key in. Make sure our kill switch is off. Okay, now turn it once and then push the glow plug button. All right, try to start it. Stop. Now hit the glow plug again. Hold it. Okay, try it again. There we go. Let's check the aft. Got water? Winnie might want to bring the Yeti on board. All right, looks like we're almost ready to get out of here. Take this boat to her new home. Okay. You're going to walk us back? Yeah. Okay. Oh, we got to get this ready. Where's out of the way? I would put it all the way forward. In the v-berth? Yeah, like, even on the floor in the v-berth. And then we'll move our cabin cushions out here. So, had a nice passage today. Sun's going down. We are coming up on... Oh, you can see Angel's Gate. There's our lighthouse. That's where we enter at. Let's see how far it says we have to go. So, Navionics says we've gone 23.9 miles. I know that we have, like, 30 miles total to Newmarks from we did, like, a route earlier. And been consistently doing four and a half, five knots. We have kind of large swales rolling behind us and taking us to, like, six knots at times. So, we've made good time and had really good fuel consumption the last half of the trip. And, yeah, about ready to round the corner. Coming up to our last mark, right? Yeah, coming up to our last mark. Round it. Head into the lighthouse and cruise home. The Black Lotus is going to be living in the slip right next to Tritea, which I'm stoked about. So, yeah, it's been chill, right? We've done that before, and it's not ideal. We dodged a lot today out here, so... Yeah, pretty boat. Ready for it. Steady was chill all day. He smells some stuff. We're a little bummed because, like, Harbor Breeze Cruises, one of the local whale-watching boats, was, oh, look at the cruise ship. We're a little bummed because Harbor Breeze Cruises was a couple miles offshore, and on their Instagram account, they've been seeing sperm whales every day the last couple days. I've never seen sperm whales. So, it was torture, like, seeing them sitting out there knowing that they were watching sperm whales. But it would have taken us, like, an hour and a half to get out to them, and then they would have probably been gone, so... We're just making our way. We're going to get this boat home and get it right, and then we'll be doing a lot of sailing in this boat with Dyer. And Kristen coming up. So, here we are. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a like, subscribe, and leave us a comment. It helps us a lot. Thanks again to all of our patrons. Your contributions help us get the boat ready for big things. Until next time.