Winded Voyage, Episode 3 takes us to the south of France so we can have a look at real boats I saw online. It's about a six hour drive from Montreux Switzerland to Palavas-les-Flots, my first destination. I scheduled meetings with different brokers and a variety of different boats, from size, condition and of course prices. The selection is vast, and the only way to get a feeling for a boat is to get inside it. In this episode you get a real inside look at vessels for sale in a small part of the south of France. Will I find my vessel for my Winded Voyage? Stay tuned.

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PASSAGERS DU VENT, CAP D'AGDE:
16, avenue de la Jetée
(Face à l'entrée de la Zone Technique)
34300 CAP D'AGDE
http://www.passagersduvent34.com/fr/

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Port Maritima Ecopolis Sud
8 rue Frédéric Sauvage
13500 MARTIGUES
http://www.maritima-courtage.fr
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to the south of France from what I'd
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seen online the French had a great
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selection of used boats so I've come
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more than five hours of driving I pulled
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into my convoys I've just arrived here
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it's about five o'clock and it's pretty
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impressive everywhere
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and it's warm I just called up the
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gentleman Michel he apparently lives
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here on a boat 60-foot catch and he's
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gonna meet me here in his parking lot he
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said hey are you on near the pyramid
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building and I guess this is a pyramid
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building and so I'm gonna come and meet
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me and give me some some pointers some
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suggestions and he's curious about my
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project a very good friend of mine
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suggested I meet his friend Michelle
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who's been living on this 60-foot catch
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for years
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the government suggested I look at the
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kill you
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53 a motor sailor fit the sail with
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powerful 50 horsepower diesel engine two
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cabins and very comfortable to live on
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he was also very sure I needed a vessel
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that is at least 32 foot in length best
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navigate the Mediterranean and routes I
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wanna go Michelle is nearly 80 years old
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79 and a half he says he sailed all over
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the world and really knows what he's
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talking about he guided me around the
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marina pointing out different boats that
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would meet my needs as well as
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opportunities that could be advantageous
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like this boat which seemed forgotten
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and in good shape
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apparently this boat is a possibility so
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people next door here said this guy is
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not feeling well and he's gotta sell his
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boat apparently this thing sailed all
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over the Greek isle you could both like
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an 11 meter or something maybe not he
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also seemed to know better when I needed
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and I did to be quite honest I did not
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really know what I wanted and was even
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more clueless of what I needed yesterday
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I had the incredible pleasure of hanging
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out with Michel yay he is 80 years old
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and I can't believe it he told me
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his story about how he crossed the
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Atlantic and then went through the
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Panama and then ended up crossing the
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entire Pacific to New Caledonia took him
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three months to deliver a boat
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this is Padova they flew it's on the
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Mediterranean coast I'm going to check
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out my first boats here definitely a
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maritime little community there's kids
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over there getting ready to sail in
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their optimism
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I guess it's vacation time for the
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French
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he showed me a 36-foot general sentence
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very nice clean cockpit all the winches
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and cleats on the roof but I could just
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stand up barely being tall in this
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instance is not an advantage
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it had three cabins of the berth in a
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bow
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closets the galleys on the port side and
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just aft is the navigation table perfect
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for me to screw down a computer for
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editing films it has a big salon in two
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large F Cabot's each with a bathroom the
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30 horsepower Yanmar motor is in the
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center of the boat which allows room in
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a stern for the cabin well I just saw a
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really cool boat and I could really
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picture myself living in that boat mr.
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Emmanuel panthenol is very very nice
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very gracious he thinks that she can
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make an offer around 35,000 euros now
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I'm going to cap dag to see some other
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boats at a place called Pass vegetable
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this is the marina of cap tech I am here
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checking on another boat and I just
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walked in into a cellar
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who's gonna show me a gypsy catch catch
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many as to mass but it's pretty amazing
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that I could actually live here live
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here on my boat
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amongst all these boats these people
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here and once you pay for your mooring
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all year long basically you've paid your
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rent and you've got electricity and
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water that's all included we get to pay
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for your phone and my objective is to
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become a solid seaworthy sailor to learn
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and be one with my vessel for the winter
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months before I sail for the open waters
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starting off in the South of France is
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ideal for me plus I speak the language
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get a melody David was very professional
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and knowledgeable he explained details
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of the book which were new to me I am a
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novice sailor at best there's a three
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speed winches explained a transferable
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stay for a storm jib you unlock to stay
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from the port side clamp it to the
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center of the deck send off your storm
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tip then there's the survival life draft
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which is under the cockpit bench
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according to David it's pretty useless
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to have it there if you need to get at
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it throw it overboard apparently the
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thing weighs about 40 kilos and by the
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time get it out it may already be too
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late
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he thinks it's pointless to have it
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under there there is one important
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criteria for me very important for me to
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be able to stand up 1978 melody this
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boat had more Headroom in the Sundance
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two cabins galley etc it also had a 30
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horsepower in Mar engine which had been
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recently serviced but David explains
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basic boat buying rules when you make an
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offer it's under reserve that the engine
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is functioning properly under reserve
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the hall is solid so on and so on
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he says he would not buy both without
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getting a surveyors opinion it's worth
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the few hundred euros for inspection
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when you're gonna spend several thousand
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this vote is another possibility
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if a gypsy 3737 foot catch pretty huge
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the huge it's a pretty good condition 78
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1978 a little bit of cosmetic work
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inside which I could deal with boat that
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could probably cruise to go around the
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world amazing
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I'm loving this what comes with the boat
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is a parking spot here in this parking
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lot
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bathrooms garbage and showers that are
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cleaned and look at that right next to
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the beach right over there
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I like that boat in fact every time I
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see a boat I like it it's gonna be a
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very tough decision but this one is a
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good good deal I guess I can take that
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boat off the list that's just been sold
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she just told me now and the owners just
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accept that I guess an offer and it's
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been sold so I guess gonna have to look
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at other boats
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she had a nice selection about so she
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showed me three first it gypsy Gin Fizz
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catch then we went to see if gypsy
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masters 34 we couldn't visit for long as
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the owners grandson was living aboard it
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was another good option in the price of
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30 thousand euros was negotiable plenty
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of headroom two cabins I liked it but it
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had some elements missing such as a
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general cell and a VHF radio due to some
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romantic dispute this back here is a
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first 35 designed by Philip Starck the
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famous French designer I think the
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interior and everything is really cool
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it's kind of kind of cool design it's a
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bit more racy a bit more modern but one
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thing that's great on I can stand up in
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it need some work needs to be checked
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out
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but it's definitely good deal it's
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30,000 euros I could probably get a deal
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on it find the
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Naval Yard where there's boat to me to
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look at think I made it my last day I
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went to mock teak near Marseilles this
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was the location of a dry dock with lots
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of boats to visit very easily in one
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location apparently you can come here
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and live here on your boat while it's in
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dry dock
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so I can come here live on my boat fix
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it up until I'm ready to take it out to
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sea and when you live here you have
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showers bathrooms electricity apparently
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even internet and it cost at this it
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would cost like a thousand bucks a year
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okay so I live in a boat and I can park
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my car here and everything and live here
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in the South of France for a while so
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I'll get my boat ready here we're not
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eating macaque - a drydock boatyard
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managed by Joe Mack and obviously he's
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got a lot of boats here that are dried
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so he's giving me the keys and a ladder
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to go check out a couple boats that are
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in my budget my thighs
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we're gonna go see a Neptune 94 and a do
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fool 36 or 38 I think in my price range
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and so I'm gonna grab my ladder here
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this is a Neptune 94 so interesting
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about this thing it's only 15 thousand
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year old so let's see what we get for
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fifteen thousand euros probably not the
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same as what you get for thirty-nine
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thousand but nonetheless let's have a
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look I need to change things like this
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Neptune is an interesting option for me
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it's only fifteen thousand five hundred
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euros needs a lot of work but I could do
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all the renovations at the dry dock with
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a great selection of professionals which
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would also allow me to learn valuable
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boat knowledge
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this is really cool interesting here I
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don't know to frame the only problem
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with this boat the only other one common
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but it's got to be only what they call
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my brother got a nice galley it looks in
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pretty good shape the bilge pump going
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on and off by itself that's got a good
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amount of sales nice quote up spot and I
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love the office area here you can look
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at the engine
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this is a contest
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3434 foot up and say Dutch made boats
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yeah contest well-reputed boats they're
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solid both the Dutch make some pretty
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good boats and since they're all
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obviously didn't 800 cabin for all dude
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like me
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this contest is in really great shape
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ready to sail in obviously ready to live
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in the 39,000 500 euro price tag
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reflects the difference from the net
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tuna 15,000 or so take the GoPro to have
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a look at the cabins because it's kind
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of wide angle lens and you get a better
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perspective of things
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and contest is a very nice boat I could
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picture myself in this boat it's big a
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lot of room five storage this is this
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kind of bullying definitely my preferred
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possibility here nice big boat a contest
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ready to go ready to sail the world
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actually it's big enough the last boat I
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saw was another gypsy Gin Fizz catch
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like the one that was sold yesterday the
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center cockpit is deep in comfort which
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makes it safe and reassuring the aft
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cabin is separate good to put the guests
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in you may have come along with you and
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at 25,000 it's also possibility
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if you keel falls off you're pretty much
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up shits Creek I think I'm done with my
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research of boats here in France
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finished up with my fatigue which is
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very interesting because there are a
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Naval Yard and as you can see there are
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a lot of boat for sale lots of
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possibilities for people like me who
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want to just off get blown around
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the world now I only have one regret
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right next to the Neptune was this Chile
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a 50:33 the boat styling category that
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best fits my needs I may have to come
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back here and I certainly will come back
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to the South of France
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that's all part of my winded voyage stay
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tuned