Entering the Chesapeake Bay can be ROUGH. We waited out a gale in Hampton, VA, and did some boat maintenance while searching for a PERFECT WEATHER WINDOW. Everything was going fine until we heard a smack, opened up our hatch, and saw a river of water going into our bilge pump. It was seriously stressful, our boat was taking on water entering the Chesapeake Bay. Watch along as we are hit with more "boat life" and have to figure it out. Thanks for watching! Cheers from the Loop, Jennifer and Elliot #greatloop #boatlife #travel 🎥 Episode #251 | Filmed on May 14th, 2022 🇺🇸 America's Great Loop | Hampton, Virginia _______________________ BLOG https://schoandjo.com/blog ☝️ Read more and check out behind the scenes at the blog _______________________ AMERICA'S GREAT LOOP CRUISERS ASSOCIATION Join AGLCA for information on planning and completing your Great Loop adventure. Visit https://www.greatloop.org/ _______________________ SUNDAY SUMMARY We send out a weekly email with our travel updates 📧 - https://schoandjo.com/sundaysummary/ _______________________ SUPPORT Free and Paid ways to help support our channel 🙏 - https://schoandjo.com/say-thanks/ _______________________ GEAR From camera gear to travel, boating, and hiking must-haves, it's all here 📷 - https://schoandjo.com/gear/ _______________________ CHAPTERS 00:00 Upcoming… 00:14 Who we are 00:44 Beautiful Morning in Hampton 01:43 Plan for entering the Chesapeake 02:43 Taking on Water 03:14 What happened 04:00 Trying to diagnose why water is coming in 04:51 Dropping Anchor to Research 06:24 Researching what is a PSS Dripless Shaft Seal 08:18 Deciding to continue into the Chesapeake 09:44 How we navigate in the Fog 12:16 Beautiful Weather along the Bay 13:02 Entering Deltaville, Virginia 13:31 Dropping Anchor in Deltaville 14:10 Engine Off 14:53 How to Plan the Weather for the Chesapeake 17:23 How a PSS Dripless Shaft Seal Works 22:56 Trying to fix our Leaky Shaft Seal 26:02 Taking a walk around town 29:31 Gorgeous Chesapeake Sunset 29:55 Jennifers Behind the Scenes “REAL LIFE BOAT LIFE” 31:10 Wrapping up the Day 32:06 Bloops _______________________ MUSIC We get our music and sound effects from Musicbed and Epidemic Sound Epidemic Sound 30-day free trial here: 🎧 - https://bit.ly/sj-epidemic ________________ FRIENDS + Blog: https://www.schoandjo.com/ + Facebook: https://fb.me/schoandjo + Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schoandjo/ + Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/schoandjo/ + Twitter: https://twitter.com/schoandjo + TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@schoandjo ________________ ABOUT US Hi! We are high school sweethearts from Atlanta, Georgia who decided to take a year off to travel around the world. Together we decided to create vlogs for our journey as a fun way to remember it. On September 15, 2019, we left Atlanta with 3 bags, 2 one-way tickets, and 1 goal of traveling for a whole year. Little did we know, 6 months later we would find ourselves in a nationwide lockdown in India. After spending 5 months in India, we came back to the United States and decided to purchase a 34’ Trawler, dive headfirst into boat life, and kick-off America’s Great Loop. The good, the bad, the ugly – and most importantly, the real and real funny. We’re not here to tell you “how it’s done.”, just how we’ve done it. And that whatever it is that’s calling you - the way you’ll do it is much more attainable than it may seem. Thank you for following us along our journey! ________________ Note — Some of these links are affiliates. We recommend stuff we love and if you like it also they might give us a small kickback. Thank you!