Episode 4 brings us back to the south of France. The furthest south possible, as we have rendez-vous with several brokers in coastal towns just across the Spanish border. A beautiful region lined with long empty beaches which must be packed with people in the summer. On the agenda were several boats of different styles. We got a happy surprise in the form of a Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40. You'll just have to watch to see where my Winded Voyage takes us.
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LOR MARINE
Quai Arthur Rimbaud Villa Salix
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Zone Technique Portuaire
Lot n°13
11430 Gruissan
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Quai Arthur Rimbaud
Résidence le Yachtman
66750 ST CYPRIEN PLAGE
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I'm gonna head south the South of France
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with my brother Stefan to go look at the
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more boats I went back to the South of
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France or some help and high hopes my
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brother was the help and I was soaring
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on hope that a certain boat called in
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the petunia would be my future lady
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we have so far south in France that we
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had to fly to Barcelona and drove two
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hours north to southern France
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our first destination was absurd a
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snowman in a meeting with Marko his deal
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Pelican a charming 34-foot world Voyager
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the owner had made several Atlantic
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passages with his panel team as he
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called them
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so tricky could be forgetting an account
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book it was a charming book and solid
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cruising both will be probably a French
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episode it's just too small for my
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height frame being tall is a real
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problem in the whole world
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but yeah in Italy - at this Yonex
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the cook baked fresh bread every day on
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a transatlantic passage he said it was
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an absolute necessity we then headed up
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the coast to the town of look at and
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just out of curiosity I had decided to
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see a boat that was much too big and
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expensive for me our broker lor cannot
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meet us to see the boat but a young
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shipyard hand named Nikola readily
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approved what we saw really surprised us
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jános son fist forty not only that it
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seemed almost knew it fit the girl is
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perfect a solid build from 1981 powerful
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fifty horsepower Perkins with 4,200
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hours in its clock inside was a new look
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in Bimini top roof Dodger and the
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spinnaker we look for problems and found
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a few but just a few no prom with the
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porthole a bit of rust here balcony
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posed to reattach some water under the
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engine but it's fresh water so a small
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leak from the deck an awful lot about
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for around forty thousand euros
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negotiable
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sai-san phase 40-foot so now we're gonna
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go to the la melena eta is the Evelyn we
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had more votes to see and a meeting with
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every English song just a little further
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up the coast
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ah they showed us a jean OEt Oh almost
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identical design with the Sun Fez except
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for its right square angled cotton
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this girl needed cosmetic attention on
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its deck but it had a brand new engine
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but only six hours on it was good we
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arranged with Herve to see some more
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boats from his listing tonight
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I had a slight hangover that morning
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from the local wine we drank dinner last
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night cold wind quickly remedied this we
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went to see another Sun fizz and it was
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really interesting because we could
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compare Sun fizz and Sun fizz and the
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difference was pretty striking same
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boats same price very different
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condition elevate seemed almost
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embarrassed to show this boat and he had
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some serious issues with seller and his
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price
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then la was really proud to show us in
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the next boat a Beneteau first 42 a
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really popular line of yachts ranging
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from first 18 to 50 tools and still in
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production it crews a racer with a solid
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reputation worldwide it out of here
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the owner worked at the local boat yard
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and really fixed up his boat to extreme
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cruising and comfortable living there
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cat was called come home or cramp on the
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meaning is clear we later talked to
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Seema the owner and he explained how he
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had rigged his boat for he and his
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family's needs
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he also explained why he chose Benneteau
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first mainly for quality construction
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the first is a serious contender for me
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for many reasons but every wanted us to
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see something very different
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Celt
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oh all right
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it's artists get ready it has been
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absolutely clear at sailboats from the
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late seventies to early 90s or the
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best-built the reason is that back then
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raw materials were cheaper so they could
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really pack it in and they made boats to
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last a lifetime
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unlike today where everything is made to
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be disposable this is indeed a different
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boat and also 10 grand more expensive
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the boat had a really good vibe it was
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cool but the Headroom just too small for
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us
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we had one more boat to see the
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Neptunian 33 and this was my choice but
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we were so impressed with the sunset is
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40 that we an start boat broker to see
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it a second time she was kind enough to
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meet us at the boat just after
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commenting on the hospital so we went
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through it again
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and it's superb the owner is a
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professional skipper
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and he'd equipped his girl from Atlanta
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and back the lady is just perfect I
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spoke to him later on the phone and his
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stories and testimonies reassure me the
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boat was going to be my future vessel
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we had to see the Neptune
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so we met per sheet from Brigitte my
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songs she had an interesting story as
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she lived most of her childhood on a
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sailboat in a Caribbean the Neptune was
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everything she'd promised in what I
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wanted
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there was just one thing wrong with it
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its size me and my brother felt like
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Gandalf in a hobbit house the boat was
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so cool so British with great details it
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was like a miniature big boat but for me
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to fit in there would have been like
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trying to fit into Cinderella's glass
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slipper possible just not the right fit
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in French I can speak English Eugene
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alright it's so cool if I was just well
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a little bit disappointed in this
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wonderful boat that's just too small
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like a giant in fact I feel like a giant
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j.r.r tolkien so we drove back across
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the French and Spanish border zipping by
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the huge line of traffic trying to get
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into France just a few days after the
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Paris attacks and we flew back to
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Switzerland really confident we had
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found the vessel for my windowed voyage
Uploaded by:
Alexandre
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Category:
Sailing Trip Events (Recreational, Cruising, Concept, Thematic, Disabled, etc)
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Added on
09 June 2016
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Location:
Montreux, Switzerland
Description
Episode 4 brings us back to the south of France. The furthest south possible, as we have rendez-vous with several brokers in coastal towns just across the Spanish border. A beautiful region lined with long empty beaches which must be packed with people in the summer. On the agenda were several...