Tarek El Moussa Returns to Boat Where He Hunkered Down After Christina Hall Split

The HGTV star shared an inside look at his boat day in a series of videos shared to his Instagram Story on Sunday

Tarek El Moussa is enjoying brighter days on his boat after a couple of "bad decisions."

In a series of videos and photos shared to his Instagram Story on Sunday, The Flipping El Moussas star, 42, shared an inside look at his day at sea aboard his boat, Bad Decisions. He was joined by his two children Taylor, 13, and Brayden, 8, whom he shares with his ex-wife Christina Hall, 40. Friends of the family also appeared to join for the ride.

“Little boat day here in Newport. Gorgeous out, if you like chilly weather,” he says in one clip while the boat cruises through the water.

In another clip of Taylor walking away from the boat after it docks, he adds, “I spy a teenager. She hates when I record her.” He then pans over to the vessel’s name and says, “Bad Decisions. Dana Point Harbor,” referring to the Southern California location where he docked the boat.

He also shared another video while they sailed by Newport Beach, Calif. as blue skies started to peek through the clouds in the background.

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The name Bad Decisions was given to the vessel in 2017 following his divorce from Hall. It’s the same boat that he camped out at after the pair split in December 2016 (at the time it was named after the exes’ HGTV show, Flip or Flop).

In his tell-all memoir Flip Your Life (released on Feb. 6), El Moussa described the dark period after the highly publicized 2016 gun incident that led to his split from Hall. He recalled hiding out on his boat and drinking himself unconscious to cope with the downfall of his marriage.

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The HGTV star writes about how quitting the anabolic testosterone he was prescribed in the aftermath of beating cancer twice combined with excessive drinking led his friends to find him “passed out” on his boat one day.

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE in January, El Moussa revealed how the weeks immediately following the split were “physical and emotional hell” for him. He ended up checking into a rehab facility where he spent two months being treated for his testosterone addiction.

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While his boat may have harbored some bad memories in the past, it also opened a new chapter in his life. It’s the same place where he met his now-wife, Heather Rae, in 2019.

On the Fourth of July, Tarek was hanging out on his boat with some pals in Newport Beach when Heather hopped on after spotting a friend of hers. Once he saw her, he quickly went over to talk to her and ended up asking her out.

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Tarek popped the question a year later and the pair tied the knot in October 2021. They welcomed their first baby together, a son named Tristan, in February 2023.

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