Sun, Sun and more Sun! It's Hot! OTB 153
We make it to Marmaris and catch up with David and Caroline.
A few jobs to do before we set sail again along the greek coast towards Bodrum.
The water maker gets a new control panel. We fit a mast pad eye for the whisker pole and we go over the solar and lithium performance.

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in this week's video we continue onwards
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from seagull bay and go check
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and we have a look at how the solar is
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performing in fact it's performing
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just outrageously good
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we put a new pad eye on the mast for our
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whisker pole
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and while we're doing that we also
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finish off or partially finish the water
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maker it's almost all done now but at
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least it's working stay with us enjoy
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the video
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last week you'll recall that we left
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keck over and headed west and slightly
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north
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up towards cash
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and then passing cash
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we went on to go check
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i managed to do this in one day and was
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motor sailing most of the way as the
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wind was on the nose the last couple of
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miles into go check we did manage to get
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the jib up and do a little bit of
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sailing into seagull bay sea gone bay is
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located near go check
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it's in the far western corner
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on the south near the peninsula and it's
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sort of round the corner and in and it
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affords some fairly good protection
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other than in strong northerlies
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the other side of the peninsula there's
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another anchorage
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the restaurant and landing pier at
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seagull bay are back in original
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ownership again and
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the things have changed there it's now
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quite expensive to stand the pontooner
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as it used to be free as long as you had
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a beer in the odd meal
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now
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it's damned expensive in fact as
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expensive as one of the marinas we won't
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be going back
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but it is beautiful there and it's
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certainly worth anchoring and tying back
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here we are a year later that uh
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say going by remember the um
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remember the video we did
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i think it was last september
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almost a year ago
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and some drone footage as well
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um
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things have changed
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but not
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awful lot
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it's a lot busier here
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the cicadas are
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just as noisy
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some looks like
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caravans been turned over
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quite literally
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it looks like things kind of being
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tidied up a little bit
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when we first came in it was really
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windy
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now it's died down a lot
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despite the tidying up the place has
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changed and we don't think it changed
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for the better we liked it rough and
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ready
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from the drone footage you can see
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there's been a lot of changes and some
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of the pine trees have been attacked by
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a pine weevil they've had to be filled
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but
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it still is beautiful
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so
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so
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so
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do
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do
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from seagull bay and go check
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we headed to ranch
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which is just south of marmarus
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it was here that we met up with david
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and caroline who've been there a couple
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of days
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okay this is trunch
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there is
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a cave over there that you can go inside
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tourist spot
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lots and lots of hotels
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and some big mountains behind
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there is no anchoring
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to the east of that boy there it's
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actually a special mark
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you can see that
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can't really see it
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um
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but there's a lot of submarine cables
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go through and they go through just
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behind where this cat is or just to the
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right of this cat
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so there is a german
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bavaria
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anchor there
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there
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um he's actually
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on top of where the marine cables are
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marked on the chart
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so i expect he'll get a telling off
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later the place to anchor is right out
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the front
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of this uh
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big landing stage here which is all
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concrete and that's where all the pirate
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boats come with their
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disco sounds and jukebox jury and
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all of that malarkey
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but it's sunday today so uh all the
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grockles are sleeping it off
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because they were partly into the wee
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hours last night we could hear them
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so that is to ranch
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lovely so it's a one one horse town as
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they call it
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one one road in one road out
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and um one road down the middle with all
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the uh
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facilities
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ishmael is a little bit bigger
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and nearer to marmaris
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there you are that's what the place
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looks like
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we stayed into roach last night which is
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near marmaris we caught up with
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david and caroline who were anchored
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here
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quite a bouncy night in fact
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really bouncy um
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we were side on to the swell and i
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couldn't get swell bridle on
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um
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simply because it was uh
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too lumpy to do so and i got thrown
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around in the bed a little bit
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not good for my chest
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which is still recovering but anyway
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enough about me um we are now
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heading around to ishmael
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which is
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just around the corner here
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and
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it's a lovely sunny day we're putting 57
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amps in
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the
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lithium
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on charge in fact i'll put some uh
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i'll put some stuff up on the on the
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screen for you so so you can see how
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we're doing lithium-wise
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really really pleased with it
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um and we're specifically giving it a
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hammering to to see you know what it's
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capable of anyway
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yes ishmael we're going to go around
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there
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and apparently you can get an english
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breakfast and we haven't had one of
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those for
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um
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over a year i'm guessing a year
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something like that
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so that's where we're gonna go and the
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grand prix is on today davey wants to
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watch that
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so we'll say
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goodbye to tarrant
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we've managed to come out
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across the beach we're moored
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way out there
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we've come up the river
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put the tender there locked it up
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we could have gone a bit further up the
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river we know
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that you can get up the river further
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but we'll have to have a look and see
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how deep it is when we get up there i
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wanna cook breakfast was fine
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let's have a look at our solar update
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and see how we're performing
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well as you can see here we're producing
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a hell of a lot of power in fact
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7.4 kilowatts in the last two days
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on sunny days we take the opportunity to
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charge up everything and make water
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so here's the update on uh solar we've
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now been at anchor for two days
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we're down to 65 on our solar we were up
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at 100 last night
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we've had the fridge and freezer running
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constantly
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our ac load is at the moment 69 to 70
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watts that's 230 volts 0.3 of an amp
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we're producing 390
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uh watts from our pvs they're actually
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got the sun on the wrong side of them at
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the moment so only about half what they
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can put out normally
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we've got our water maker running which
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is drawing about 22 amps something like
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that
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so that gives us a net of
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8.78.8 amps
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and we've got our inverter running the
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inverter is run is charging a
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ipad
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a tablet
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one phone and two cameras
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so that's how we are
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as soon as i turn one pump off on the uh
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on the two pumps of the water maker
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the situation will change quite
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dramatically be another 10 amps going in
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we're actually in the marina at the
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moment aren't plugged into anything
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we're running from our solar and lithium
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i've just turned the hot water on
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so our clarifier through its heater
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element at 240 volts is running
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from the inverter and it's dragging
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no there we go
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wrong way uh it's dragging 920 watts
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that's a few other bits and pieces we're
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producing early in the morning here very
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reasonably early 366
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375 what's in total
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that's being converted up through the
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inverter
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batteries are at 96 percent even without
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heating our hot water so while we're in
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the marina we have to pay for the
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electric
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and um
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we're actually saving ourselves
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a few quid by using our excess solar
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to heat our hot water rather than paying
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for electricity from the mains grid they
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are another money saving tip
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don't say we don't save your money here
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on impedance
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so actually doing some major electrical
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work here today
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um
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i've got all our crimps ferrules heat
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shrink i've got my mat out
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solder i'm just about to get my
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soldering iron out
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getting on with the
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jobs in
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hand this is the um
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this is the next job and this is a
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switch panel for the water maker
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so pump one
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led indicator light pump two
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and then this uh
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12 volt outlet there
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so that i can run a
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lead lamp or a fan or anything i need to
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down
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inside the lazarette where the
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water maker is
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on the inside
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i've got gotta do the wiring yet
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and that's just what i'm getting on with
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at the moment
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while i'm sitting here in
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40 degrees of
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heat
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yeah sweating like a goodness absolutely
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and the wind is blowing and you see the
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enzymes moving there but
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it's like somebody putting a hair dryer
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on you
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really warm can understand why they get
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forest fires here every year
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yeah
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it's one
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so even anchor we're working i've had
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all the tools out some cable there i
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needed some spare cable
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um our gas has come out of the locker
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because i have been down in here
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and i am just
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climb down again
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now on the three cabin version of this
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boat
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this locker is
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um
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another broom
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and let's show you what's going on
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let's move
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this out the way
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so i've got a little fan here that i can
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run
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in this locker when i'm working because
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it gets really hot in here
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let's turn these two off so now
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let's start with
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let's turn those two off
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the water comes in
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through our seacock which you saw as fit
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before
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comes
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up
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is a u-bend behind here
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which is behind this
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bulkhead here
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comes up into this strainer
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from this strainer i can actually turn
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that strainer off
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and that strainer allows me to put fresh
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water through to purge the system or
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flush it through
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um and that fresh water has no chlorine
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in it to get the chlorine out
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i have a charcoal filter here which is
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fed by our mains on the boat the boats
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actual
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tanks are full of water that hasn't got
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chlorine in them now
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and it then goes through a secondary
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chlorine filter charcoal filter
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and i can turn that one on by
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simply just
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turning that
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like so
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and closing that one
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and it feeds it through
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this then water then comes down through
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here
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into pump one and into pump two so i can
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run either both pumps or one pump at a
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time
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for economy
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um and then goes through the sea water
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filter which is five microns
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um
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they get a lot dirtier than this this
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one's quite clean
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um well relatively clean
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from there
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the water goes up
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and
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through this piece of kit which
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maintains the pressure
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goes through the clark pump which we
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showed you how that works before
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clark pump takes it up to about 800 psi
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at which point it then goes through this
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which is our
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big membrane that we've just replaced
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and then the brine
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which is marked there
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tape doesn't do very well in salty
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atmosphere um this then comes out of
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here
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and out over the side and then our
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product water comes out the other end
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and out of this little tube here which i
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can shut off fire that valve and we can
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then test it for parts per million or
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put it into either our forward tank or
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our half tank by simply doing it
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manually
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the reason we
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we've got all these manual valves is it
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makes it really simple to work and
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maintain
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and of course it makes it really cheap
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when something goes wrong it's easy to
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find out what's gone wrong and how to
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fix it
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so there we are
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um
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pipework needs tidying up i'm going to
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do that this winter but
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we are up and running i made this little
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control panel in here a couple of relays
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and some bits and bobs in there
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so i can turn
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one pump on
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or
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two pumps on
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and i've also put a little five out amp
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outlet so that i can run
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a
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i can run a
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lamp in here or something off that
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cigarette lighter type thing quite often
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need to find some power in here
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so if that's it done
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or temporarily done or nearly done
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um
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works in progress one could say
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let's
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leave that on for a bit longer
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and bring the pressure up
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there we go
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now this pressure gauge is actually on
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the low pressure side so
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it goes up to about
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six bar something like that seven bar
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before it goes into the clamp pump
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again these are all bits bought from
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ebay
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nothing really expensive
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here we are in uh
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sunny marmaras
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fairly early in the morning while it's
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nice and cool
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a couple of big yachts in there
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one called nautilus
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can't see what the other one's called
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and what we're going to do we are going
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to put
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a hook on there
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we've had this made
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custom i said look sid
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had this custom made
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yesterday day before yesterday
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extra strong three millimeter stainless
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got the right curve on it and everything
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just got to put it on there
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so that we can put that
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on there
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so that we can uh
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use our whisker pole downwind all right
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let's get on with it
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hey here we are at marmaris and we're um
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not really sitting out a blow
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we could be in the marina but we're at
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anchor
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um
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just drying off the towels from swimming
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and um
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i wanted to get this
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piece of uh iron work
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put on there so we had this custom built
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um and
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this was one of the places that we could
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have it down at marmaras a three
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millimeter stainless steel
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polished finish
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um
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we've got uh
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stainless steel rivets in there as well
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and an isolator pad between the two
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actually they're mono they're not
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stainless steel but um
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i may take these out
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and
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put
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some roof nuts in but basically our
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pole that we made the other week hooks
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on there
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so the pole is down there
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cindy is uh
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out shopping at the moment and one of
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the things she's going to be looking for
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is a nice piece of line to go across the
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bottom of that pole
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because when the pole is disengaged
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either at this end
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or at the
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clue
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you uh do that by pulling that string
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and it's just at the moment a piece of
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white string quite literally a white
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line
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um i'm hoping that cindy's gonna be able
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to get something nice
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or make something nice maybe plat a
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piece so that it uh
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it gets a bit more decorated
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so we've got
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55 meters of chain out which is out
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there
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we're in 11 meters of water
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next nearest boat is
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probably this little blue one here
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he's
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20 boat lengths away
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so
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we've got plenty of swinging room
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back at sunny marmara it's almost the
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same place as we were last time
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um
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we're in among the charter boats
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i'm just going to take our rubbish in
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check in
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uh put some money on our dongle for
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electric and water
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because of course it's extra here even
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though we're on the mainland
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and it's one of the most expensive
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marinas there are
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yeah
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hey ho
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so
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cindy's grabbing all the rubbish
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we've got the scooters ready
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both wearing dark glasses
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let's go
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well i'm kind of hoping that uh
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the microphone's picking this up
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but
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we stayed in ishmael last night
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sorry
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i'll start again i'm kind of hoping the
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microphone's picking this up
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we stayed in
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to brunch last night which is near
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um
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marmaris i'll start again we stayed in
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toronto last night which is near
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marmaris we caught up with
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david and caroline
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do
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you