We leave the Crinan Canal and go to Largs to see Saturn Sails to get a small repair done before it becomes a big repair, but on the way we dodge storms, see ...

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if your dream is to go cruising type

ebonite then the one thing that you

really need to have to do is to just

enjoy the same thing just enjoy the

silence the quietness and not have to

have 900 no no things that men at once

to be excited just to just sail

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well they're salty laughs she has

completed her challenge which was to go

through the grinning canal and I tell

you now she was absolutely filthy

Beverly took all day mush didn't take

all day

she took a couple of hours cleaning her

on the outside because she was just

covered in lots and lots of slime and

green when I was Beverly was most

insistent 45 degrees so Beverly wanted

at 45 degrees so that she could control

about forward and backwards as well as

side to side if you have it further back

where the canal people tend to put it

yeah they tend to put it much further

back you've got a lot of forward and

backward motion but you've got very

little side-to-side motion and to

control it side to side you have to put

a lot of strain on the ropes and on the

cleats and on the cleats so that's why

Beverly wanted it 45 degrees so one of

the things that we Beverly and I found

really handy was our walkie talkies

which we got for less than 20 quid from

Amazon but it means that we can chattel

these quite gaily to each other about

what we're doing with regard to ropes

etc without clogging up marine radio so

they're quite useful the absolute must

and I've lost it already cuz I didn't

know you were going to use it I was

gonna use it on the tow

the other essential thing that we found

really useful is tea tree oil because as

you go across the critic canal the midis

are absolutely horrendous

but midges and noseeums I think is what

the Americans call them really can't

stand the smell of tea tree oil so

basically we just sort of like dabbed

that on our clothes and it really kept

the midges away that's really good idea

well this is the last lock or is the

first lock if you're coming if you're

going no but this is the last lock for

us after the lock you have a bridge in

the gap navigate which does get moved

for you and they're salty less over

there she looks good as she is looking

really looking forward to going to sea

because the sea beckons

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so then gain it where are we and why

well we're in luck

Tarbert one of the many doctor bats that

there are in around Scotland but this is

locked harbour in Upper Loch Fyne luer

lock finance lower lock fine lower lock

fine but anyway yeah we were doing a

beautiful little sail gorgeous sail uh

looking really forward to a good long

sail but then the wind just came from

nowhere I just went ridiculous we've got

into a force 8 and because we could run

for cover

we did do and what was our moment of

glory can you recall I think our moment

of glory was having a reef in the

journey and sold in six knots oh yeah

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Bev and I decided that we were going to

have a little treat today I know what

salty water I've no idea oh is that why

we're having a treat that we're on back

on salty water but I have to say these

steaks from the local butchers in tartar

one of the timers one of the many

targets this is the lower Loch Fyne

Talbot the looker laughs dinner oh my

goodness what is go Jess I'm the more

observant among you wouldn't notice

people come back to the old fashioned

method

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well we just left Tarbert where we ran

to in a stormy weather which is over

there and Tarbert lovely little marina

we really enjoyed it

everything all closed in a nice it's a

much better day today and we're able to

get seals up quite quickly and we're

making a very very pleasant 5 knots down

loch fyne

so boat is just sitting nicely and we're

just going

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after a really nice sale and we did a

cracking sale a rough when we sailed

back tide which is about six hours and

we're now in logs which we came to when

we were on our boat search the port we

looked up still here for sale okay so so

one of the boats we looked at with is

still here I'm one of the ones that was

for sale and truing is here and I -

slips up from us but yeah so we're

hearing logs and the main reason come

here is I have got a tiny tiny rip in my

genoa it is about two inches long I

reckon but we're going to get it fixed I

have to say I feel like we've getting a

quite a good deal and getting it fixed

for 20 quid plus VAT so as far as I'm

concerned that's a heck of a good price

so basically two thousand quids worth of

sail 20 quids worth or repair yes

Brina it's not very it's not very big

rip I admit that oh let's do it now

well it isn't very big rip we dropped

our Genoa and used to halyard to lift it

into a trolley and wheeled it and our

spur sales up to Saturn sales so Beverly

and I have just had our sales our spare

sales checked out and what did you find

about our spare sales relatively poor

condition and serviceable sales so

usable as a as a spare as opposed to an

everyday sale useful to get yourself out

of a pickle or something tears the

material quality maybe wasn't the best

but that kind of worked as a spare sale

as opposed to what we would discuss in

the mainsail and we were you were

basically just saying that maybe ditch

that one so what's the reasoning for

that then I think the but the most was

probably the poorest to condition out

the two of them generally what you find

is if if you tear a sail the worst piece

happens it's normally in the worst of

conditions obviously changing a mane so

or doing any work like that on a rig is

not something you're going to undertake

in in bad heavy weather conditions so

worst case now if you do tear a main

sort it usually gets dropped onto the

boom tied up and wait till we get to a

poor somewhere and then you can actually

do something about it whereas if you

have a spare head so that is something

that could be changed relatively easily

and it's probably more useful less risk

involved in using that as a spare sail

than there is the amount of work

involved in changing it and then some

over especially yourselves that you have

a full band mates which just adds to the

Bolton

yeah so basically it means that for us

that we're gonna ditch our spare

mainsail and give ourselves a bit more

space fit more space in the lockers yeah

well that sounds like good advice so if

you need spares just go for a spare head

sail absolutely you just want to keep it

there yeah right and that sounds like

good advice to me okay thank you all

right thanks to fast service from Saturn

sales we hoisted our genoa back onto the

further that night and left for our next

port a big thumbs-up from us for the

guys from Saturn thanks fellas

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