so we had to wing it and sail where the wind took us.

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welcome back to cactus alien we're gonna

be out sailing today again of course

we're not allowed to stay overnight so

it's we made a sale again now let me

show you what we're gonna be doing so

we're here in Weymouth and the plan

today is to sail along the coastline

here and stop in war Barrow beg or mute

Bay as it's known as well

so law of Covey's just around the corner

where we sometimes go as well now

obviously with the restriction we got on

been allowed to stay overnight so and we

got to sail where we got to sail to we

got to sail back and along this

coastline we can probably get past a

canal one's head pretty easily stood

land

and Swan edge we could probably get

round there but then we've got to just

be careful about the over falls but also

making sure that we tie in a bridge

coming back so it's a bit of a bit of a

rush to get around here and then by time

we get around here we might get the

anchor down and then basically be coming

back so that's not really what we want

to be doing so we look around this coast

and obviously war Barrow Bay is pretty

nice Bay for us to stop in now we've not

been there before actually we'd normally

go to North but they've protected from

the same kind of windage as well so if

you've got anything in the south then

really you can't really stay anywhere on

this coast anyway because you'll be

blown onto a leash or so and we don't

want to be doing that so the plan is to

leave Weymouth and say along here the

wind is meant to be coming from the West

so it should be a downwind sail famous

last words

and then we'll be sailing on back upwind

as well a bit forecast is a bit cloudy

rainy perhaps but we'll see how we get

on

ok so I do believe I just thought I'd

share a bit of a tip when you really a

bit I don't know but it really is a tip

that I something I find

useful anyway so on the boat if you

could just got normal fenders like this

your white fender sometimes they get

sand and grit on the this kind of stuff

and then if they're just hanging down

the side of the boat you got that for it

and it will end up basically sanding

your topsides or your slightly your boat

down and you don't cope so you can get a

Fender Sox now a Fender Sox are

ridiculously expensive normally for one

single sock not even personalized it's

normally around twenty quid or something

like that is normally what I find for

this size fender now this material is a

stretchy stretchy tube especially to

probably call it now is it a stretchy

tube well it comes on a big role in it

yeah big a bit basically it comes on a

big roll and it's already seemed up so

it's basically just a big big long tube

and then all I've done is I've taken a

measurement of a fender and then if I

turn this quickly inside out

so I've taken the measurement of the

fender and then on the corners I've just

sewn the corners up so it creates a bit

of a pocket at the bottom so you get

this little shape by that and then on

the top side all I'm doing is that fold

it down the sides and created a bit of a

pocket here for some draw cord to go

through onto the top now the purpose of

that is just so they fall off the fender

now this in total the rope cost me about

three pounds think it was the two

material per fender it was like a pound

so very cheap when it's not signed up

and you've got quite a few to do and

obviously you can have to get the sock

sock itself in whatever pulley fancy and

if you're really good with a soda

machine I suppose you could probably

start embroidering it or sticking your

boat name on there but to bother with

that so you see what I mean that is

basically all I've done there is I've

just sewn on those edges so it creates a

nice a nice pop into it and then at the

top all I've got is my iron and draw

cords

and basically I mean I've made these

quite long because I had to stretch it

over the top of the bender and then I'll

cut those often and sear them now it's a

nice looking fender I didn't say say

myself they feel you want a drawing to

see how we've done this in more detail

check our patreon page because it'll be

up there with a couple other sketches

we've done such as the the windlass

plate and all this kind of stuff so yeah

check out our patreon and then we up

there

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so we're just waiting for the bridge to

open a lot of people go backwards and

forwards and this kind of stuff but what

we tend to do is we just tend to sit

into the wind and just let the boat

drift a little bit if you do start going

backwards then to put a little bit

forward on so what we do now the winds

going from over our starboard side so I

turn into the wind and wait for the boat

to basically hold itself where it is it

does it's about to start blowing off

either way to the wind it's about that

long but you know nyan take over unfold

like this we interesting to them how

long keels do this kind of thing I never

really sailed along keel so I don't

really know they're really know how they

handle to be honest in

we'll decide this wouldn't be no fun you

can just basically sit sit where you are

and drink plenty time

ten o'clock well originally where is it

we're going today we can hopefully get

over to war borrow a wheelbarrow a war

barracks or borough wall Barrow back or

mutilate one of those two not been there

before I know

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- sky sails up we've got about 14 knots

coming across my starboard starboard bow

pretty much we're not close hauled

almost on a beam reach but not quite and

we're doing roughly around five and a

half knots across the ground she's

fairly happy with that little bit of a

reef in the headsail just because it's a

bit gusty yeah we sailing over - like I

said we'll sail over to mute bait and

hopefully we should be there in about an

hour - worst case

hopefully the rain whole top

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well it's lemon turned a bit it's right

from the South now which means the bays

that we kind of wanted to go into

probably all gonna be a bit untenable to

be honest Frank ruining winds pigs were

a bit as well

a bit of a heel on it through the water

a bit will go a bit further see how yeah

we get on down here but it's a bit the

problem is that the Anchorage is exposed

to the south and the southwest so we

won't be able to stay in there won't be

a banker so guess the point where we

only could go so far clearly Kim Day

Sale and we kind of want to stop

somewhere

so just sailing out somewhere and and

then sailing back to ease a bit silly

really

yeah well carry on say limit further and

see what the winds doing the winds meant

to be shifting further out to the west

which we'd be coming from there but I

don't want to anchor him on a leash or

basically

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say Lenovo I don't know we've decided to

go back into the marina because there's

a bit of a score coming over wave it

raineth bay and it was a bit there's a

bit minging it's very wet it was a bit

wet we couldn't turn the boat very well

so I've gone back into shelter okay this

is nice sailing this is this is nice

saving I don't know why but whenever I

talk on camera and it sounded like a

northern man from Yorkshire

sorry 21 from Yorkshire but this is my

first time actually first second time

steering the boat anyway oh just way

that way

we decided to come back because what I

do proper research really first of all

is Anchorage were looking out because

the wind shifted around we couldn't

really anchor there because blowing it

onto the shore throughout the whole of

that south but anyway there's not really

an antenna or bait bait if the wind from

the south and also it started raining

and they started to put it down so

pleasant so we sailed all the way

Wynwood go in there close hauled and we

pretty much they all closed all going

all the way back to the wind shifts

around they're not the best weather but

we to get our sailors those so it's fine

I just I just want to get two sailors a

bit further because then we don't have

to fight with the wind either one way of

coming back it'll be better if we just

horsey

so we're just gonna go on to

just a bit early for the bridge lift so

probably gonna go and tie up somewhere

before we go through the bridge and then

get the boat back on the mooring and

before the next rain car comes in and

then buy some lunch we'll see you next

time

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