In Episode 6, me and my brother start sailing school to get the maritime license. A requirement to register boat under Swiss law. Meanwhile Galopin awaits its new sailors, so we go down to the south of France for a few days to clear out the boat and spend a few nights on board. It's a good start, and we learn things on a real vessel that compliments what we are learning in class.

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Boat shop and naval yard:

Technique Plaisance

440 Quai du Pla de l’entrée
Zone technique du port
11 370 Port-Leucate

Du mardi au samedi
De 9h à 12h30 et de 14h à 18h

techniqueplaisance.fr

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so it's become our Thursday evening
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special dinner come here and have
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awesome burgers before we go and learn
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how to sell our first night was mostly
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informative the information being in a
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thick binder Atlantic channel Almanac
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and the questions to be passed in the
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exam as well as chart reading
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instruments not the ones needing any
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electricity obviously it all looked a
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bit daunting to me the others will have
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to speak for themselves
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there's a lot of importance put on math
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calculations and I was never great at
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math but I have a pretty good sense of
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direction which will hopefully help to
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make things a little more challenging
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the course was in French
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I mean marine language is rooted in
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English and I really wished we were
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talking to Queenstown right now
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thursdaya class is over it's all in
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French
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the real pain in the ass to deal with it
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it can be very interesting very complete
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everything looks mathematical first day
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because I give you a main 1864 Aleutian
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permit which I get some latest whisk and
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exhaling the mathematical but that part
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of radius in the paddle and I find that
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my foot is moving about one and a
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quarter meters per second 14 weeks of
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this until the transmission now
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understand I'm not knocking mathematics
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just that learning sailing in a
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classroom is like learning the physics
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of riding a bike in order to ride a bike
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and I'm more visually oriented
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so I did a lot better at this charting
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exercise a couple of days later you
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drove to Gallup on the real thing no
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theory the first thing we did was go
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through everything make our beds and
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make it just comfortable so we've just
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had a really nice dinner at Casino
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valiant here and look at but they're
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forcing us to watch the Lyon and
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Marseille soccer game so we're forced to
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watch this we're just waiting for our
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dessert and they're sick and oh Jesus
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they're so hungry I could almost eat the
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whole thing over again
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yeah but second time here we are in the
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boat in the gutter pond we just had
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dinner at the casino about yeah it was
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not bad you know no so we're just we
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brought some takeaway pizza which they
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won didn't want to give us but they did
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give it to us
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and we're gonna watch here we go let's
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go Brady Brady yeah yeah England
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Patriots against the Broncos and we're
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hoping the New England Patriots gonna
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win unless that he wanted the Broncos to
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he was born in Boulder it was almost as
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if we were at the stadium it was so cold
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in the cabin we could actually see our
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breaths well as they say in Boston it
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was colder than a witch's tit
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we slept well and woke up to undergo
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more projects we're replacing the 2013
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with 2020 so and we're gonna replace
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this so that's what we're gonna do cross
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our fingers we have some heat and some
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gas tonight in the stove so we can make
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some steaks and some breakfast tomorrow
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and dry it up a little bit cuz it's
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really cold and you in here as you can
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see just kind of a fog and humid and
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apparently it's coming from the
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Mediterranean which is over there twisty
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knife blades awesome well we're gonna
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keep these things tighten the tube these
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are pretty handy rather than the screw
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things this we need to get rid of this T
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done now I just need to get the the tube
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that goes inside to the stove we need to
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get it out it's kind of snuck in here
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so this tube has been replaced this is
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latched in and then we're gonna put in
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the hinge door until now you will see
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the functionality of project number one
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what all things so important for it to
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work that is beautiful that is beautiful
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that means hot coffee tomorrow and hot
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food today and warmth in this little
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that could be relatively problem but we
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have our emergency blanket in here well
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I think we we fixed our first project so
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we replace the tubes were supposed to be
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replaced in 2014 and now they're good
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until 2020 also replaced and affect the
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coupled gas cans so now we only have one
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gas can which is to the norm to the
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original specs of this boat I'm pretty
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pleased with myself that's right pretty
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damn pleased all right okay good my
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first project gas man we're celebrating
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with some Four Roses bourbon coca-cola
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niebaum glass know if you can see it so
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I need Brad quick mo
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celery salad I love the show
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gender so my mouth is like literally
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watering like salivating can't avoid
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that one more desirable and whatever so
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we got a bunch of bunch of cheeses to
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try so we're still waiting for the
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batteries to charge up there only 19%
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charged it up take a while as you can
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see 28 hours left only 19% and we've got
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no lighting in here so we've kind of
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making do
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I'm just off to go evacuate some of the
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last night's celebration festivities
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cheese fest so I'm all equipped to go to
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the bathrooms of the marina here with
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the book owners shocked and South my
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glasses one can read the book
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Hey
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cigarette that helps the whole
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digestive system kind of acts as a
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laxative sorry um
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so I'm going on going out by the way I'm
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learning a San Francisco 49ers fan I'm
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not a San Francisco 49ers fan I like
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them but I just happen to have this hat
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and it's cold so you know chilly
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so I wear at least it's not a Jets fan
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or something like that I'll show you
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what the bathroom facilities facilities
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look like all right let's go that's
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where we slept for the past couple
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nights oh it was really nice Sun fist 40
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we saw a bellows type bulb over there
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the amount super Marimo solar facilities
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here big barbecue
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these are the facilities on the extreme
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end of the marina much nicer but a bit
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further too long - it's been four days
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I've taken a shower
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I feel like Ernest Shackleton and his
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adventures in Antarctica those guys
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hadn't showered for several months and
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I've been living on seal and albatross
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and penguins it's pretty similar to to
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us having a chart for four days and
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mostly eating stuff we bought at the
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store any cooked in our own in our
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little getup on a sailing vessel maybe
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it's not quite the same but you know two
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sailors like so I don't know how they
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went to the bathroom but I'm gonna go in
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here
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very nice facilities and I'm gonna read
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more of Ernest Shackleton's adventures
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this behind me is a amount super Marimo
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it's the kind of boat that the Della's
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cruise is sailing on the French boat and
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it looks like there's a pretty nice one
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here so just kind of caught my eye I've
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got a great boat and now we can see
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exactly what it looks like
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you know life because it's right in
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front of my feet and right in front of
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my face and it's live instead of on the
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YouTube screen from dedos so now I'm
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just going to get a couple hinges for
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this little gas Locker that we have that
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holds our propane gas and I'm going to
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the store they're nearby
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I guess iaj diffusion and they have also
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done marine that's way too
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expensive but I need to buy that's made
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of stainless steel or whatever so here
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we go
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well very nice steffie's project today
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to screw the number plate back on my
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beautiful handiwork very happy stainless
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steel so mr. Christian you can see that
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thing is now perfectly set there's no
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more coupling so that's all good and I
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just so project number one done awesome
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cool case on my friend long giving me
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it's already filled up pretty well need
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protector so we had David come by local
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guide from Perpignan they have a wicked
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cool French accent when you speak like a
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Southern drawl when I picture that that
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trooper young people anyways he went
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through a bunch of stuff that we needed
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to have looked at number one with the
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battery situation a bad reason dad dead
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plus more than dead couldn't charge and
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apparently that could have been
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an issue so he's coming in tomorrow with
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a couple new batteries and it cost us
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about 270 euro each plus for him to
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install them and do some metal checking
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on the electrics not kind of projects
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that I want to undertake right now
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because I'm not confident enough to do
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those kind of things and I'd rather then
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have them done correctly and then can't
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watch him how to do it so right now I'm
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clearing out stuff and I've cleared a
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bunch of stuff already in the past three
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days I've made some room and all the
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storage I found a bunch of stuff I found
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lately some who know fishing rap one
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bunch of fishing water so I'm gonna go
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through that they're just everything so
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much is hidden in these trunks tons of
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life jackets there's harnesses there are
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tools I found a carburetor for the
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two-stroke a bunch of filters and other
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stuff amines a bunch of candles here
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there's a bunch of used up flares anyway
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so besides making some great meals and
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really enjoying our life here as
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liveaboards for the past few couple days
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or three or four days we have been
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making progress to make this little bowl
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but now it's got to be navigable so
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that's the most important thing
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so there's problem with the hot water
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heater that we may get replaced there's
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some water problem because the pump has
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been going on and off so they're gonna
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come and replace some of the tubing
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again stuff that I try to do but I'd
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rather have some value do it really well
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you don't you pick it up pump you know
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we all know what that will ship for
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passage I our 80 municipal so I have to
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be back soon but this is just all part
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of my winded way
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you