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it's outrageous in here

pins actually caught paint that's

Christmas morning

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[Applause]

the regional hub will close the width of

their pilot each area from 600 our local

time on Sunday December 2018 all ships

are therefore strongly advised to

immediately return to base or seek

shelter and be secured by the closure

time of 0 600 hours this week on seryan

you find us holed up in Trammell Bay for

an incoming cyclone we'd pack down the

Hitsville got the washing on and started

stripping down the main as we plan to

run some repairs on the stack pack

whilst we were hiding from it stormy

weather being a full-time cruising boats

are Ian gets worked pretty hard so

events like these present a good

opportunity to make repairs yeah

we're just ripping all the gear off

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a little bit of wire that's coming true

something worked at all right because

we've got a few repairs to do what

anyway so yeah it's a bit of a bit of a

process sort of taking for that half a

day to get this far anyway weren't only

done I want to start trying and I can

get the owl sound machine out and start

fixing her all up win-win well you can

see behind me that we are tucked up in

the mangroves and we came in had a

pretty chill night last night and we are

just stripping down the boat it actually

looks the forecasters slightly changed

so we've got an extra day up our sleeve

so we actually do like to come in early

because it gives us a time to do

everything properly rather than be a

real hasty last-minute movement but yeah

this cyclone as with most cyclones being

fairly unpredictable we might get to go

out without having a big cyclone watch

over us we shall see and what it ends up

doing but well it's a beautiful day time

to get the washing done

and yeah get everything tied down nicely

I go for a wander up the creek see see

how we go but I'm gonna go and have some

lunch gorgeous isn't it meanwhile Darren

wasn't expecting our boom

okay so we've discovered while we're

having a few problems with our reefing

it's actually catching on the line that

pulls the foot of the sail out the base

of the Sailor of the main song just show

you what's going on the article line had

gotten tangled making roofing a

difficult task so with a quick

switcheroonie of the lines and a bit of

persuasion they could now flow freely

when we needed to read yeah we got that

at all fixed so when you pull it out

hold tight that just pulls on this plate

here that just bolts up to there the

other little problem that we got with

this it's taken a bit of a fizzling and

air you see that pins actually caught

bent so we might have a look at see

whether we can put something a little

bit heavier there eliminate that problem

it's obviously been fixed runs before

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so Darren fit it back into place to get

on with the next job here so as you can

see it's quite easy to have a look in

your boom if you've got something going

on with your racing lines or with your

art hall now you just need to unscrew

those stainless screws from the end cap

and then risk the boom down and you can

get in there with a torch and see what's

going on you can see that we're

surrounded by a thick expanse of

mangroves which is why they provide such

superb protection during a cyclone

well it's bewitching air and the midges

are starting to come out so time to pack

things away and go and hide

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oh my honey

I was still in the head little repairs

on the outside back now just replaced

all these little these little whoops

I just integrated uh yeah shy dawning

into the sale bag nice things get a bit

busted up within the Sun after time so

we're just sticking some new ones are

those in and the new velcro are in the

front ear for the front part of the

cover and a couple of other little tears

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yeah we'll stick it back on that yeah

it's all gone really well great project

for a rainy day it is a good little

rainy day project or was right and so if

you can write to get along just fall

good radio it's time to leave this

beautiful Anchorage I mean the mangroves

are beautiful in their own magical

little way but the McGee's make it

unbearable and there has been no wind

for days so yeah cyclone Owen has abated

and turned into a low so we're going to

take our leave and pretty quickly and

the chap in front of us is very been

very good and it's going to drop his

lines because he's going to stay on

another couple of days for some reason

and he's gonna drop his line so we can

get past so yeah McDowell's just started

the engine and I'm gonna go and keep us

hovering while while Darren lits the

lines off

it's outrageous in here if you're gonna

buy a property I would say suggest that

mangroves are not the ideal destination

for your new home anyway time to go time

to go yay we quickly through the lines

off and made a run for it before the

Michi's drove us both bonkers

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here

yeah hopefully

we're about an hour before low tide for

about an hour and a quarter before high

tide so that's how we like to play it

normally so hopefully with the rising

tide and we do have it too

I'm stuck on something we'll get lifted

off

anyway I'm just following a track out

Hypatia be all good

and we'll be back in some breeze

freshen up the boat

I admit she's out

yeah

I tell you what though this is a really

secure place you wouldn't know if any

wounded near it alone mangroves are very

good for that it was a quick and busy

stay in the mangroves as luckily cyclone

Owen was to pass to the east of us as

much as we don't enjoy the midges

mangroves are an important part of our

ecosystem as they filter water uptake

carbon and nurture fisheries as well as

providing a stunning and vibrant refuge

for salty sailors I'm gonna flip it on

oh it's a bit bird anyway we'll put that

on top look at that it's Christmas

morning well it's about lunchtime

actually and we are hiding away in a bay

because it's been really blowing the

last three or four days we tried to get

down to the twine Pascal for Christmas

but no way we could make it to move

you're pounding into really heavy

weather and so yeah we're just cruising

out chilling out my honey's been on the

barbecue he's been barbecuing a pumpkin

roast pumpkin for lunch

look it pretty good isn't it babe the

old pumpkins looking great I can't wait

to get into it yep

we had been hiding out in CID Harbor

while the remnants of Owen blew over

we'd experienced 35 knots in the bay so

it was good to be sheltered away whilst

prepping for festivities yeah baby how

we're gonna give it over there man look

at that that is just so good that is

pumpkin stuck with pin wah and pumpkin

and rice

and cranberry sauce and grilled capsicum

and spinach it just looks delicious

dessert yeah I'm glad there are 20

people on board well we're gonna have

fun for the next few days we don't have

enough food here for 20 people I caught

up what I am

the news they think because a little bit

for the voice talent and

seems to be there's a groundswell for

the environment and for the world and I

really love that

and I really hope that

that groundswell equipment

I will benefits from uh speaking

I hope that all people get to enjoy

always they get to understand how

join us next week as we race south with

yet another cyclone on our tail we hope

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