In this episode we are sailing through swells of Swiss bureaucracy. And that's just the information we need for the theoretical exam. You'll get a good idea of what Swiss sailing class is all about, and learn about "The Rule Of Thumb", which is an actual nautical rule. Finally, we'll go out on my boat for a late winter sail on Lac Léman, better known as Lake Geneva. Boy we needed that!

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yeah Stefan and I are sailing through
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the swells of Swiss bureaucracy
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right now we have so much paperwork to
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read to fill in to learn and that's just
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the information we need for the
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theoretical exam we also have to
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register the boat where there's more
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paperwork like all the repair
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requirements as per the surveyors report
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we have to check by the way this is
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another part of our winded voyage is to
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go through the entire expertise report
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that mr. Christian Luna has put together
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there's like 57 pages or not right
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so we're going through the stuff right
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now and watching scheming at the same
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time because Stephie used to be a
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professional skier almost and you just
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can't you know not do without this fill
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of skiing every Saturday morning so we
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are going through this it's just part of
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our winded voyage lest we forget
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the additional cost of traveling down to
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Leggett open as part of our windowed
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voyage is paying for all the young the
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speeding tickets that we've accrued from
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the dear French government thank you
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very much
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we got three yeah in the day three for
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the moment maybe more to come who knows
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we know there's more on the way back but
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we haven't received them yet and God
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will be sailing and we won't be able to
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be charged for speeding yeah there's no
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radars out the middle of the ocean oh
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that's true they're armed radars we're
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gonna have to turn off the radar new AIS
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so nobody can see us
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the other thing I don't
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want to neglect in this whole process of
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buying a boat as the that Stephie
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is going through to register the boat so
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we still have to go through all these
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paperwork this is a part of a window
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voyage I don't really want to deal with
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thank god he's here so thank you Stephie
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for doing that and it's still not over
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dose of the ball completely ready for
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freedom this has passed this one observe
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sabotage only Latino along class II
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don't know vessels are coded
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we're in a landlocked country therefore
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the open seas are in a way formed to a
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Swiss yes but we are required to
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navigate safely and in security by the
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Swiss authorities so I need to
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understand and forecast tides that's
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right
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this is what this exercise is all about
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when it's presented for the first time I
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was completely confused and overwhelmed
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I'd like to win homework I'm starting to
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get it
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so it's Saturday morning I'm here was
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Steffi at the school to learn more about
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tides so this is all that's gonna
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be done on paper and will be interesting
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to someday test it out for real in the
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waters so it's a rainy day it's really
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cold outside and nasty and kind of cool
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to be here to do this in the one so that
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is a may see you actually do good
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in Turku tonight edges of psychotic
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happen
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I know this information is valuable
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beginning to understand the fundamentals
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of oceanic navigation but this class is
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almost like being in Merchant Marine
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school or something so much to take in
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we are pretending to understand what's
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going on that we don't know what the
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going on it's pretty complex
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Kuzon is always Sebastian
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not easy and I'd love to see this
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applied really on those northern seas
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there in France holy
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we all want a shot no we all want to
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drink a jet one wants to think
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that fun wants a drink and Sam over
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there she's planning on this phone but I
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think he's an engineer so he'll probably
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magically pass the test it was one
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awesome and simple rule we learned was
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the rule of thumb when size of a thumb
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which is 250 for so you need to have a
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huge number
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well you put it on the map and you
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should not get closer today I have a
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thumb between Adam in the rocks you just
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put your thumb down on a chart keep your
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ship at a thumbs distance from the
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dangers have known this expression
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forever but never knew its true meaning
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sorry we are Saturday number two
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we're going to study coastal navigating
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coastal navigating in northern France
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here we go Saturday number two hopefully
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this afternoon I will go on my real boat
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to get some practice on the real water
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with a real craft because the theory
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stuff is on paper it can only go so far
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and you have to get in the water
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sometimes it's a nice day today
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so here we go there's nothing like the
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environment of the real thing to to
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really be out there and after being in
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class and during most of this winter
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besides being on Gallup I just needed to
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get out and on the water and this is the
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next best thing that I've got here is
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this absolutely amazing
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astonishing Lake and today on this sub
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March Saturday afternoon there's a tiny
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little breeze but just enough to get me
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going
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Oh on the water out of the books and
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papers and theories and calculations
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about stuff and tides and directions and
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stuff like that here on this lake you
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can't hold a straight line because the
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wind just changes all the time now mind
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you this is a boat that has absolutely
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no instruments whatsoever
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besides the wind indicator the Juliet
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and I've always done everything just by
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deal like you know like riding a bicycle
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I just know how to ride a bicycle I know
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how to sail the main thing that you got
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to look out for is some the strong winds
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and strong storms that might come around
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but now this is just
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whatare this is Francis this is my
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little my little ocean and I'll miss it
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I'll be so happy to be getting on Gallup
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I'm going on my next ocean into the
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Mediterranean
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well as you can see here this little
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boat is nothing like gonna pop I'm gonna
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take you inside the cabin and I'm
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standing in the cabin so the cabin is
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tiny I can just barely have Headroom
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here so you berth here this little boat
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is nothing like gallopin but nonetheless
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it is a boat and any boat is better than
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no boat at all so this is my galley I
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think kind of messy in here because I
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haven't been in here since last summer
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and it's my first time out since the
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winter and that's about it
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here's the back cockpit front deck this
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is there's a bumper I found floating
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once in a in a lake so I recycled it but
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that's it I thought it'd be fun just
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take it out
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and get some fresh air and do some
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actual sailing rather than studying
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about sailing this is it this is my
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little baby little Lake boat I'm sure
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there's some crazies out there that pray
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take this out to sea but maybe you could
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do it I don't know if I dare to I'll
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take you out that'll front deck here
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there it's been months since I've sailed
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and after all these paper sailboats and
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theory and theoretical class like any
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addict I needed a dose of the real thing