Here we go, Episode 1 of Winded Voyage. Launched the day of my 55th birthday. My Winded Voyage starts with me looking for my boat, which was what convinced me it was possible to get a sailboat and just go for it. Because there are thousands of boats out there for sale, many at very affordable prices but which one is right? I began by obsessively searching on-line, then looked around what was available nearby, in landlocked Switzerland. It's just the beginning of hopefully a long Winded Voyage.

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I'm looking around all over the place on
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the internet for a boat but might find
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one here in Switzerland then it's a
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matter of shipping it or just hauling it
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down to the cinema to train here to the
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ocean well look around look around find
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some boats here have a look before I
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make any decision so I'm here at the
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ball tool dapat just looking around at
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boats and seen live what they look like
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as opposed to you know in pictures has
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not been taken out yes there's moles and
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moths everywhere it's too bad I'm also
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pretty happy because I have a my tooth
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is fixed temporarily funny how such a
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small thing can really change your
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appearance make you look like a real
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ugly son of a with all sorts of
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strange negative connotations attached
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to a few smile and you're missing a
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tooth it's pretty bad and I have a lift
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like many times getting in it's just a
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tooth so what's the big deal
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in search of a boat my friend John here
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we're looking at a abandoned boat
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you almost got that boat over there but
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it was sold already you only wanted 12
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grand and it just slipped through my
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fingers this this boat right here
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apparently it's a 42-foot american-made
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boat and the guy wanted only 12,000
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francs for it this one might go for free
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need some help
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little work but so it's floating
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we'll see the owners under appeal they
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told him to get the hell out and he's
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appealing the decision has to get the
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hell out then he stuck he's and
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he's gonna have to do something with the
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boat that means he'll have to give it
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away this boat in which I'm sitting here
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in the cockpit is a gypsy and it's
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basically been abandoned in five years
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and nobody's been on the boat and
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they've been asked to
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leave the port get out this poor boat
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has just been neglected and I'm sure
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that if good cleanup and a little bit of
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TLC and this baby could be going around
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the world perhaps so basically this is a
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boat that's looking to this see what's
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up this boat actually looks pretty clean
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a lot of stuff that just needs to be
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live change the sheets and now you're
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gonna look into this thing well this is
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another possibility because husband died
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my wife doesn't want to deal with it and
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might be able to get this boat for a
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song the other one that I was looking at
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I think that's gonna go another way but
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this is a possibility
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just barely stand
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you have a couple inches that I can drop
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on my boots and I'm wearing here but you
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can stand here it's actually pretty good
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there is no inboard motor it's got some
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style this boat it's got a little bit of
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kind of old-fashioned sea boat it's not
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a race or modern like some of these I
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like it
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it's very cool boat I'm gonna look into
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this looks like that's the boat for sale
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that's on online not as big as I thought
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it's get along back in there could be a
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good knee worthy boats doesn't look like
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it needs much help looks like a decent
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looking boat we'll have to take a closer
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look at it it's part of the journey find
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my vessel my ship that will carry me on
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my journey I will find you a vessel