Come along for the ride as we travel from Myanmar back to Thailand to get our visas and seafaring documents in order and eat more delicious Thai food. Then, ...

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in this episode we get the necessary

travel documents together before heading

to the bustling city of Yangon we visit

the giant golden pagoda and then get

started overseeing the final refit of

the schooner

that we will be taking command of by far

the best smell shoes off

and this is as far as we'll take you

it's a mess in there

so it's breakfast time

and this is our selection get the one

with the quail eggs see pick as many as

you wanted these things we got all the

things this tea trying to eat a quail

egg with chopsticks so I think you can

use your ports only acceptable to use

importance well now you're gonna go the

other Thailand classic in order to leave

me and my on a new boat

we need seaman's books so we attempted

to get some Canadian ones but it

actually doesn't matter what country

they come from so we are here at a

deep-sea fishing port yeah do you get

some Thai seaman's books the Canadian

ones we will eventually try get that

they're a long process so we've got two

locals helping us out for the day you

know what they're doing my job yeah so

step one was getting a medical which we

did this morning yeah

looks at my eyes looked at my ears

listen to my heart and my breathing and

put a stamp on it and good to go so that

was step one and step two is we have

passport photos and then we're gonna get

the official bumpkin fill out the

application so we're just here filling

over Stephens documents okay so after

one little bit of year it's just a few

signatures we're gonna get ty seemeth

books so we've done all the paperwork we

just have to go over on and get one more

piece of signatures and then once we

come back those will be officially

stamped at our pictures putting them and

we're done here we are at the high

immigration it's taken us about two days

to get the documents needed to get a

document that says that we have

residency here in Thailand which we do

and we were able to find so we have

these documents which will take to

another office which will get us the

Thai sealants books it's a learning

curve but perfect

applications just got stacked on the

fire

we finally got them after about two or

three days of driving around many

motorcycle rides several signatures

including all kinds of scrolling Roly

signatures and as you can see some

horrible photographs taken in a small

room somewhere we finally got our

seaman's books next up will be to go and

get our Myanmar visas that's still a

whole other process that we have to go

through

let me tell you about our name we

welcome this morning and spent over an

hour this office just behind me waiting

in line and waiting for a number to be

called five minutes at the desk would

leave and then we went and watched Star

Wars which is pretty cool and now we are

back so we are Bangkok right outside the

Myanmar embassy and they want to let me

in so here is my business

hold the entry visa to Myanmar and going

to Burma

see you later Thailand

this is my third time driving in yanmar

it's not bad it's uh you drive on the

right side of the road which is just

like North America but steering wheels

on the wrong side and I learned today

that an International Driving Licence

kinda works here and my Canadian one

obviously doesn't work here but I

learned today that if you get caught

driving without a license it's three

months in a Myanmar prison that wouldn't

be very good at all so that'd be some

pretty sweet videos called through a

political social exchange the Shwedagon

pagoda is a wonder of the religious

world at over a hundred metres high it

is covered in shiny gold plates making

it an amazing sight to experience after

being out to sea for so long the people

watching was also both interesting and a

bit overwhelming

okay here it is

first step onto the new boat dark but it

is sailing that's a Darlington

no there's the wheel yes darling who

under covers much right now chief mate

and he is one of about 40 buddy just

stuffed himself into that hole for a

little while

classic just working on the port double

granite countertops

starboard twin

or word head

here's the crew quarters or birth system

for the crew over the next couple of

videos I'll try and document all the

different parts of the ship that get put

back together everything from stepping

the masts to putting on teak decks to a

lot of the metalwork

that way I can document each of the

projects as they proceed from when we

put the boat back in the water to its

final launch and Buddhist blessing this

is the finished helm as you can see and

so what I thought I'd do is take you

through the making of this helm and all

the other parts I will just do it in

little segments where I show you

we're basically where something was made

all the way along from scratch to finish

and I think that'll be an interesting

way for you to look at how this boat was

put back together the helm started off

as a full-size makeup by the carpenters

in the yard to position how big it

should be as well as all the electronic

equipment that needed to be put aboard

each piece was then glued together solid

raw teak glued together into form boards

and then the boards were assembled into

the final product

the metal binnacle had been assembled

and all the wiring was run before the

final product was put in place all the

appropriate holes were cut in places

that they needed to be and then the

wheel was installed into the gear

mechanism after a final coat of varnish

or more like seven coats of varnish the

helm was finally installed and bolted in

place

finally the folding cockpit table was

made from scratch and bolted to the

forward end of the helm

every day we go to work in an industrial

shipyard where our vessel is unique

amongst the massive freighters and cargo

ships there are a lot of stray dogs

running around the yard some are more

friendly than others but one day a small

sickly looking pup who is far too young

to be away from her mother turned up at

the boat this is just one of the little

dock boat yard dogs and we're gonna call

this one button because he's sort of the

Curious Case of Benjamin Button with all

these wrinkles sort of like prematurely

button yeah you grew up you came out old

who's Christy with her new best friend

button each day button came back to our

little section of the yard her friendly

yet fearless attitude was her greatest

survival skill amongst the yard workers

and the yard dogs we bought her milk

each day and began to see healthy happy

changes in her

next time on mountain we continue to

show you the ongoing projects of the

refit we have some funny experiences in

Yangon I learned some traditional

Myanmar dishes and we give you an update

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