But with unwanted stowaways challenging the crew every step of the way. Huge seas and whipping winds accompanied Kai and her crew for the next seven days. Sleeping was nearly impossible. All the while the five sailors were nauseous, exhausted and unknowing of when it would end. He pulled the whole jib out, got the staysail up and reefed the mains and they started doing knots.
Two hours later, the auto pilot broke. Intermittently, Justin, Tyler and Teddy were able to rig it up to give them a reprieve from manually steering the ship through the intense conditions. Because Kai was heeled over so much on one side for so many days, salt water was coming in through the air vents.
It seemed the whole boat was leaking and, eventually, salt water started to seep into their drinking water supply. The electrical systems flooded, leaving them without AC power.
And everything was wet. Charter Kai arrived in Puerto Rican waters late on the evening of November 10 with an exhausted crew, a soaked interior and many, many mechanical and aesthetic issues to fix before the filming of the video.
From the time they dropped anchor in PR, the crew had approximately 60 hours before they would need to move the 6o nautical miles south to St. And there was a lot of work to be done. Dooley would be flying back to St. Thomas in order to return home to St. I flew into Puerto Rico that afternoon to meet Teddy in order to help bring Asante home later in the week. When I met my boyfriend and dear friends at the dock in Fajardo, their energy was low and they all wore the signs of exhaustion.
The boat was musty and damp inside. But, first they had to fix the halyard. So, while anchored in winds nearing 60 knots, they hoisted their youngest mate, Tyler, up the foot mast to replace the halyard with a spare that they had on board. When the halyard snapped and the sail came crashing down, it, unbeknownst to the Captain and crew, had broke an assortment of attachments to the mast.
And so, during the repair process, Sarah and Dooley started to hear a small noise coming from inside of the mast. She recalled it sounded like pebbles dropping. Moments later, the line holding Tyler snapped and the young sailor fell several feet from the top, leaving the safety line to catch him and save him from a treacherous fall.
After multiple sighs of relief and a ton of man and woman power, the halyard was repaired and the main sail hoisted. A few hours later, the winds dropped to mph. Excited to read the rest of the story! Thanks so much for sharing! Makes me appreciate the song that much more! I am a huge Kenny Chesney fan and have been ever since his first song was released. When I first saw the video for knowing you, I thought it was filmed in Rockland, Maine at the l light house there.
Reading how it all took place and came together is wonderful. The USVI has a couple icons in music.. After two years of dating, the couple split up officially in the wake of Chesney ' cheating rumors with another woman. Thomas home. Michael Jordans humble vacation home on the island of St. Madonna and Michael Jackson are neighbors. The video was filmed in the Bahamas and features shots of beautiful clear, blue waters as Chesney sings about saving his sadness for a rainy day.
It's his first new music since 's Songs for the Saints album. Country music star Kenny Chesney , who lives in St. John in the U. Virgin Islands when he isn't on tour, started sending supplies and helping get people off the islands and to the continental U.
He also established a foundation called Love for Love City. Tickets for all dates will go on sale next Friday, October 4 at 10 a. Sara Evans is a country music singer and songwriter, in the same business as Chesney.
Nevertheless, Kenny understood that this was no time to care about his privacy. Kenny said that there were people in desperate need of his help, and so he would do everything he could to help them. Chesney wanted to make sure as many people as possible knew how badly hit the Virgin Islands had been after Hurricane Irma. He did whatever possible to draw attention and took to the news stations to make his foundation known about.
Whatever money he could raise was going to help the people who lived on the islands, no matter how big or small the amount was. The area is still recovering from the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma, and the effects are still apparent on the islands. For years Chesney had owned properties in St. John, but right after the storm he said he felt helpless.
Chesney said he had never been to war, but he could feel the total devastation that had been left by the hurricane. The singer got stuck in and helped clear out fallen buildings. Chesney explained that he spent many years on the island before he ever became famous. He says he has many friends on the island who knew him before he had all the fame and money.
Those friends are so close to Chesney he even considers them like family. John who were affected by the storm, there were many animals also struggling due to the damage caused. Chesney confirmed that just days after Irma came through St. John, his dog Cookie passed away. She was 18 and had lived her entire life on the island, but Chesney wanted to help as many animals as possible.
Chesney felt the island was no place for dogs for a while and helped relocate over 1, dogs to the mainland to find new loving homes. Kenny had spent quite a number of years getting to know the people of St. John during the times that he stayed there for vacation. Nevertheless, the amount of time and energy that he put into fixing the community after it had been so destructed by the hurricane really embedded Kenny even further into the community.
By helping the locals get access to supplies, saving their animals, and rebuilding their homes, Kenny fully asserted he was committed to the island — officially a member of the St. John family. After the country star had helped as many people as possible on the Virgin Islands, he turned his attention to his own home. Every part of the house seemingly came down, and the only thing left was the foundations. This is where Chesney took some time to reflect on everything that had happened, not only to his home, but to the people who lived through the terrible storm.
Although this Chesney property was in St. Chesney was safe and sound at his home in Franklin, Nashville when Hurricane Irma ravaged parts of the United States and the Caribbean. Here he could come up with a plan of action to try and get to St.
John as soon as possible. Chesney wanted to leave Nashville as soon as possible to get to St. John but was told he had to wait until the runways were cleared of debris. The singer may have been too preoccupied to enjoy the luxury of his Nashville home though as he worried about his friends on the Virgin Islands.
The power lines had gone out, and Chesney had no way of checking if they were alright. The home offered amazing views of the water, but reports claimed that it was prone to flooding. The water level had reached beyond the ground floor, and this was possibly the first house Chesney lost to Mother Nature. Naturally it is close to the water, and in fact, it seems to back right onto the beach.
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