The cruising and live aboard community is wonderful. This is one of the weekends we had recently where we got together with the other live aboards and cruise...

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he'll here at the sailing vessel

dreamchaser and I think I've shared on

these videos before actually traveled

quite a bit for work you know it's not

always the most glamorous thing in the

world having to travel around for work

but my job is tremendously flexible and

it's what allows me to live on a boat

travel around a little bit and really

affords me the ability to kind of do

what we do without having to quit my job

or frankly be retired so for what it's

worth every once in a while I spend I

spend an evening or sooo actually

editing videos and prepping for for

whatever the next week's YouTube video

is going to be in this particular case

I'm actually recording it in the hotel

as well which I don't often do most of

the times I and record the videos at

home all the clips so I or aboard the

boat and then I take them all with me on

a little Drive and and put the video

together while I may be on the road or

on an airline airplane flight or

something like that every once in a

while if you listen carefully on the

voice-over you might just hear a lot of

background noise not been uncommon that

I've recorded the voiceovers wall on an

airplane and then use the filter to hit

to pull out some of the background noise

no for what it's worth that's what

that's what I end up doing in this

week's video I want to show a little bit

about what is it like living aboard a

boat and in marina it's an amazing

amount of camaraderie that happens in a

in a marina especially amongst the

liveaboards because we all spend so much

time there at the you know at our boats

where we keep dreamchaser we're kind of

at the end of end of a finger pier and I

say this is it's an interesting setup

it's kind of like a drive down island

with parking all on the outside of it

and then boat slips along the outer edge

of that island so most of the boats back

right up to a parking spot we happen to

be about five boats five sort of spots

away from actual Aeneid parking but what

it's nice is right near that area it

affords us a nice little green area

where we have a picnic table and we

actually went together with a couple of

the other liveaboards there and just

went and bought a cheap little gas grill

and put it over there so we can all cook

out from time to time and one of the

guys it's a few boats down for me he put

a little chimenea out there so when it's

cool we'll sit in our chairs outside and

a

little grassy area with a little fire

going and it's really it's really nice

and you know it's not often that you

really bond with the people around you

or your neighbors right I know when we

live in our house you know we knew some

of our neighbors but not all of them we

know all of our boat neighbors really

well whether they happen a little bored

or they just come in on the weekend so

there's three or four of us we know

within about ten boats that all live

aboard and we you know we're pretty

close we hang out do a lot of things

together have meals together a couple

times a week and then there's others

that just come in on the weekends but

you know we're just as close with them

so on a Friday or Saturday we just have

a bigger crowd and it's really as a

blast I started filming out the window

because I could feel just how much the

boat was moving I thought you'd find

this kind of interesting just you know

you look out one window you see things

just go buy back and forth quite a bit

you'll hear a sailing vessel dreamchaser

and today we're doing a crawfish boil

with all of our boat neighbors it's a

good day 70 pounds of crawfish 30 pounds

of shrimp sacks and sacks of potatoes

rum and beer welcome to dream chaser

Harriet all right you got it I got my

little helper here she's gonna help me

clean the crawfish prep them

you're in a calm baby

not yet come here we can't come here

yeah i'm looking forward to turn it on

that's fine i just need to get my

fingers and around this mesh stuff here

oh yeah I wonder why that is Dan Bob

then again

I'm gonna need the other

you got it good girl

he was gonna get sprayed here

some people recommend that you go ahead

and sprinkle salt on the crawfish and

then put water in them and the salt

supposedly helps purge out essentially

their digestive tract to keep that nice

we didn't do that what we ended up doing

was just using fresh water so we'd fill

up each of these buckets put a lid on

the top of it and pour the water out and

we did that until the water ran out

clear as opposed to muddy just trying to

get the mud out of all the flaps on the

other side of the tails we ended up

buying one of these hundred and twenty

court yeah 120 court pots I could

literally sit inside of this thing it's

just monstrous with this to turbo jet

fuel deal at to heat it up but you know

this thing will cook about 35 or 40

pounds of crawfish at a time it's pretty

amazing so we had some fun with that it

was just a good time one of the other

guys brought a pot that's a probably

about a 30 quart pot so we did the

shrimp and that did multiple multiple

pots of it at the end of the day we had

way way way too much food you know we

were inviting anybody who happened to

drive by or you know drove in on a boat

were like hey come on over have some

crawfish have some free and we still had

a ton of leftovers and you know I think

all of us had sore fingers you know

what's up through the next day of

peeling all these crawfish tails and

packing them into bags were for keeping

later

325

I'm sorry

hey when do we need to put the potatoes

in

where the boring

now it was time to set up the spread and

let people come help themselves and help

themselves they did as you can see in

this little fast motion video here one

of these tubs has crawfish in it the

other has shrimp we actually ended up

with two of those bins full of crawfish

so I hope you enjoyed kind of seeing

what it's like with the crawfish boil

you know like I said it's a great

camaraderie and for anybody that has a

boat you know this about your marina

neighbors if you're in a marina if

you're a live-aboard it becomes an even

more solid sort of camaraderie and if

you happen to be a cruiser where you

travel from place to place and somebody

comes in with a new port a call at the

back of their boat you know one of the

boats in in our area says Anchorage

Alaska on the back of it right so it

really is cool to meet people that come

from all over the place and have sailed

their boats long and far to get where

they are and most of the time they're

only staying for a short amount of time

and they're heading to whatever their

next destination is so it's really a

neat camaraderie i hope you will get to

experience that the other thing i wanted

to show you was a little bit of a

product review that we're going to go

ahead and do i posted this up the other

day i put it on our youtube channel but

honestly it was really designed to go up

on on amazon as a video review deb has

found a couple of organizations that are

willing to give us a fairly good

discount that in some cases free for an

honest assessment review of their

products so it's been kind of exciting

to do we've we've several more to put up

there and this is the first one

ironically enough the first one was not

a great and real positive experience so

you know hopefully we'll still get these

product reviews and people do truly want

your honest feedback that's what that's

what you'll see and this is video review

so i'll go ahead and show that now too

you'll notice this kind of a full and

complete video because that's the way

we're putting these together but i'll

just kind of transition into it and let

that play through

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dreamchaser yeah Dean popcorn ok let me

my teeth yes it's so cool

I thought I'd do a quick video review

for this particular product this is the

gorilla case the world's first

glow-in-the-dark waterproof case for an

iphone 6 or 6 s so it's about thirty

dollars on amazon and i thought it'd be

handy for when we go out to dinghy or

something like that so we went ahead and

picked it up i guess if you're only

going to use it for rare rare scenarios

when you need to do a short amount of

time in a waterproof case maybe it's a

decent enough option so some of the

things i do like about the case are the

there is actually a touch ID can be read

right through the the case and it still

maintains its water proof i believe up

to six feet yeah 60 waterproof so the

touch ID still works that's kind of nice

you can still use the screen so it's

it's fairly good from a touch

perspective i will say that it's a

little bit darker when you look at it's

definitely not as bright as it would be

otherwise and i typically have one of

those thin film kisses over my phone

anyway and it doesn't have that same

effect this one definitely makes it a

little darker another kind of neat

feature is the back is supposed to be

glow-in-the-dark i don't know i guess if

you lay it down somewhere that could be

handy haven't really noticed a whole lot

of need for that but those are kind of

some of the nice things the other nice

thing is it's pretty easy to get it out

of the case and this is shockproof so it

says it can withstand drops and I

suspect it would certainly help with

that as well now the cons however

there's quite a few and what I what I

didn't care for about this phone is like

I said one of the

screens a little bit darker than I'm at

least used to so you'd have to turn your

brightness up but for sure when you're

looking at the screen in any kind of

light you will notice your reflection

you can see a reflection pretty good at

it the other things a little bit

discouraging is you have no access to

any of the ports on the bottom which I

guess is a waterproof device that would

make sense there's not even a flap that

you can close on it so in order to

charge it you do have to actually take

it out of the case of set you do have

access to the button on the side so I

can click the button on the side to turn

the tire off I can also click the button

on the side to increase the volume or

decrease the volume ironically enough

i'm going to try there is the low volume

high volume and then there's the little

switch that you would think you would be

able to switch up it down for the little

multifunction switch on the side of the

iphone 6 turns out you can it actually

doesn't doesn't allow you to do anything

with them so I'm gonna do is I'm going

to take this off so you can kind of see

how it works so to take it off it's

really pretty easy you just you just pop

this thing off the black cover sits

inside of a small groove with in the

lower cover so it's just yeah it's just

a two-part cover pretty easy to get to

and what I'll do is I'll kind of show

this so you can see the difference here

so you can see the brightness of it here

and the brightness without it I do think

that there's a pretty significant

difference

so the phone just pops right in and out

of the back case so again pretty easy to

use you just pop this thing into the

back case of the device and here's what

I was referring to before so there's a

cutout right here on the side of the

device that gives access to the volume

up and volume down buttons but if you

can see the actual multifunction switch

is behind the edge of this so the cutout

goes to right here see if I can zoom in

on this the cutout goes to right here

and that multifunction switch is right

behind that so really has zero access to

it same with the charging port there is

actually a there's an opening on the

lower case for it but there's not an

opening in the upper case to be able to

put your charger into it one of the

other things it's a pretty big con on

this particular device is you know they

did a good job of putting this little

circular thing in the middle so you can

kind of see the apple logo and then also

there's a small section right here for

the the LED flash and the camera so when

you put your iPhone in the case the

camera lens does line up to that the

downside however is the picture is

horrendous horrendous so that's what it

looks like of me there and just to give

you a compare and contrast I'm going to

take take that back plate off you can

see just how clear it really is so you

can see how clear it would normally be

and then on the case despite the fact

that it's designed to be doing

underwater photos and whatnot you can

see just how unclear that that is it's

really pretty horrible because of that

it makes it

essentially unusable essentially

unusable for that particular function so

all in all if I were to rate this i

would say i would only buy this if you

wanted to keep it like on a boat or in

your car if you ever walk it in

somewhere and you know it's going to

rain and you just want to protect it you

could pop it into here you'll have to

take it off of whatever other case you

have pretty easy again there's just a

groove here so you pop this thing into

the groove and work it all the way

around and then you push this into the

groove itself honestly I was a bit

disappointed in this so I was reluctant

to actually put this underwater with my

phone so instead what I'm gonna do is

I'm going to take my phone out of it

close it up and put some tissues in it

and then I'll just submerge it in a

bucket of water in the sink so I can see

just how waterproof it is before I risk

my hump my iphone 6s I went ahead and

just stuck in a napkin down inside of

the device itself and snap the case on

good and tight and we'll see what

happens here

the good news is i don't see bubbles

that would have me pretty concerned

pushing hard but I'm rubbing along the

front as you might if you were using it

I went ahead and dried off the outside

of this and I want to see what it looks

like now inside I'm just opening it up

so I will say to its credit this is

completely dry so from waterproof

perspective it did seem to work so won't

be my everyday carrying case but it is

something I'll probably keep in the

dinghy and I can pop the other case off

and put this one on if I happen to know

that I'm going to be getting pretty wet

or frankly risk maybe you know weather

gets rough maybe fallen in so you know

at thirty dollars there's certainly a

lot of other dry storage bags or let

cheaper west marine and Academy sports

and whatnot sell some for about ten or

twelve dollars but it's almost like a

little ziplock bag type of thing you can

pop it in that would certainly do the

same thing and honestly give you a

little bit of a picture as far as the

the ability to take a photo under

underwater at least in wet conditions so

there you go there's the review all

right I do need to let everybody know we

did receive this product from the

manufacturer at a discounted rate for

our honest and unbiased review of the

product so you know in in some cases

we've done these before and the reviews

have been phenomenal in this particular

case I think the product it does it does

what it needs to from a waterproof

perspective but I wouldn't necessarily

say it's a great everyday carrying case

because it's rather inconvenient for for

the things I highlighted a bit earlier

but I did want to make sure everybody

does know that we did receive this

product at a significantly discounted

rate for our unbiased and honest review

for this in the spirit of full

disclosure I wanted to make sure

everybody was aware of that

I