 When we saw you guys coming over the horizon It was oh God we've been saved. It was the most amazing feeling because We honestly did not believe that we would survive another 24 hours in the current situation We had no idea what to expect, but when we saw that big gray ship coming it was just Relief it was We thought I we had it bad during the entire trip and then that 24 hours of being towed Kid you not that was the scariest moment in the entire trip And when we saw you guys it was like are we gonna be saved? Because it's been a couple hours and when we saw you on the horizon. We're just like yes And then when we heard you and you're like see them see them We're just like can you hear us? Can you hear us? And they're like yes, we can we're just like we're being saved And then you kept going past us and we had to call your bridge and say do you realize that? We're in your stern starboard and you have passed us and they said yes, that's part of our procedure Okay, we're gonna make it because after so many times of having people turn away from us after hearing us We're just like please please please please realize that we're still here and when it was confirmed We're just like, okay Eternally grateful We started in Honolulu, Hawaii We started in Honolulu, Hawaii on May 3rd 2017 And we planned a roughly 18-day moderate cruise speed trip to Tahiti, Moareia and Papayate and from there we wanted to actually just travel around the 20,000 or so islands in the South Pacific We expected the trip to take roughly six months because by November you have to leave That area for hurricane season so we knew that we would be back in Hawaii by October The first night the first night we got into a force 11 storm and It lasted for two nights and three days and when we were through with that We were empowered to know that we we could withstand the forces of nature the boat could withstand the forces of nature and We decided not to return back to Hawaii But to continue on in our journey because we believed that everything quote-unquote shook out And we'd be alright The spreader actually The bolt holding the spreader to the the root collar at the mast vent We realized that it was starting to shake and about 700 miles away from Hawaii. It finally went clinked and I said, okay, we can probably nurse it You know down to the next major island in Kiribati And we'll be able to stop there and seek safe haven And get up on the mast and fix it But when we got to Kiribati the boat was too big to get into their lagoon So we decided to continue to travel south. We were a little We were more than 600 miles off course at this point. So we decided to go to the cooks and upon entering that area we found ourselves in a 10 knot current going west With only the ability to sail at four knots going east. So we were traveling backwards and We knew that most of those islands in the upper chain are small atolls reefs But we decided to turn around and go back north Whereupon we became got into a white squall and it was a pretty serious around the end of May 25th and the storm was Had dropped copious amounts of water and it flooded the cockpit Which actually ended up flooding the ignition and the starter for the boat so we no longer had that ability to start the motor and We got pushed into what's called the devil's triangle. It is an area 160 West and about Zero degrees at the equator where boats go in but they very rarely come out and if they do there are no people on them And we learned that that was a a tiger shark Location and the tiger sharks figured that we had entered their living room and we were not leaving fast enough and They decided to let us know it was time to proceed forward But us being the landlubbers that we have been in the green horns in the sailing world did not understand their language The 10 knot current before we turn before we turn around to come back. Yeah, yeah Still in May when I went all night pointing east and going west and she was like We're not going to right direction and it wasn't until her shift when she was during the day and she was like We've been pointing east this entire day Going west and I was like, thank you because I thought I was going crazy he had Two water makers and the first one failed And we put the second one in and then ended up cobbling pieces from the first one to make the second one work And we had been told by people who had sailed this route before That you could run into some serious problems And if we thought we only needed a month of food to pack three and we figured we might need three months of food So we packed at least six What I thought if we judiciously spared our supplies with last a year and we've used 90 percent of them in six months Yep Yeah, dry goods. Yes, we found the cans don't work so beef jerky oatmeal rice pasta dried fruits nuts Pretty much so a vegan and vegetarian diet is what we survived on. Yes We did run out of dog food and the dogs turned out to really like human food a lot How do you describe the color blue to a blind man? and elation And joy and utter sadness because that was our life that was home. She built that for the last two and a half years it was a brief bow and she Made some made oh My hair in your mouth. What are you eating on me? everything But Okay, like I was saying she spent two and a half years building that boat and Everyone was laughing at her saying. Oh, this is not what you do, but she knew in her head. It's like This is mine. This is my life. People told me throughout my entire life. I couldn't do anything Here I am like She couldn't like Okay, don't go there She took something that was broken and made it whole It saved our lives multiple times throughout this whole entire trip and The utter despair of having to leave her So, yeah, we were really relieved that you guys were here, but Nymphy was a baby and She's strong and we have the bill John and we're just hoping to get her back We weren't sure if we were gonna get Reveley at 0600 and have to stand up and and do jumping jacks and run around Or if we were gonna be quarantined and do a tiny corner We knew that we'd be the new kids on the block and that everybody would know who we are We don't know anybody else and we don't know the rules or anything And we knew that stories would fly that had nothing to do with the actual truth and the people would come up to us You know, it's kind of sideways and be like we heard you're from China. No But You guys opened your arms and your hearts to us and gave us things like toothbrushes and And and and helped us figure out how to get from place to place on the boat and you're so human and Impure and clean. I mean, yeah, wow, I've never seen anything. Well, okay, okay My bathroom on the boat is as clean as yeah, but just about nothing else in the world is yeah in a million years I Was joking with someone about 10 years ago and they said what happens when you go out to sea and you get broken And I said oh the Navy will come save me No, like It really happened and then it happened and we were just like wow We saw that a jacket away We're so grateful humble