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This is the story of the building of a Jay Benford designed, 31.8ft, junk schooner-rigged cruising sailboat. The videos are a week-by-week record of the build as it progresses and aim to show as much detail as possible of the various aspects of the build.

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Thank you :-)

Tony

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hi i'm tony this is sv tapatio and 2022
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so uh very very happy new year to you i
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hope you've had a great one obviously
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we've been away for a couple of weeks uh
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been a been a bit of a gap in the video
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series but we're back
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fresh
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in the first week of 2022.
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yeah
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it's been a bit up and down weather-wise
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during that time and work on the boat's
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been a bit sporadic let's be honest
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clearly we've had you know christmas new
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year's
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in the way and a family visit which was
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very nice
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and then we've had varying weather we've
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had some cold frosty stuff
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um and we've had some a few days several
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days where it's over 10 degrees so um
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what's been possible have been a bit bit
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varied you know
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in that cold stuff you can't do anything
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outdoors you can't paint you can't epoxy
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outdoors it's too cold for anything to
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to set off properly but um
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as i said a few days over 10 degrees
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where i did get some paint on and you'll
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see that soon
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and i think well certainly since new
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year's since since the first of jan
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progress has been pretty good one other
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thing of course is that you may remember
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a while back you know a couple of years
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ago
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i suggested that um
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2021 would be the year that would be
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launching this boat but
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as you may notice
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that didn't happen
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um but i should make a bold statement
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now
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i would do everything in my power
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to launch this boat this year 2022 we
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want to get her in the water and i
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should be working hard to get that done
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we're close we're close need a kill need
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to hang the rudder
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the engine needs to be running make some
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masts
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ship her up to some to a boat yard
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obviously but very very close um and
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those things will be getting on pushing
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to get that done get her in the water
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this year sometime
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well
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i mentioned the motor the fact that
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that's it's not quite ready to start up
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yet there's one or two things still to
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do and one of the things i have done is
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as you might see behind me
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i walk over
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i hope the camera stayed focused
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you might see behind me there a bronze
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through heart i see exhaust through hull
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i'll step to one side so you can see it
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shining behind me
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this is all throughout so i had to get
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the exhaust in and finally connected up
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use the lloyd's approved rubber hose as
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is standard for exhausts and we're
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coming down from the engine
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uh out exhaust manifold down to a to a
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water collector
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then up to a gooseneck muffler and then
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down so that bronze
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to that bronze through hull
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and it's gone in very tiredly i'm
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pleased i'll show you the the system
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it's very hard to film in there in the
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engine room when i'm in the engine room
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to actually film me doing anything it's
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very tricky but i'll take the camera in
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there now and show you the way it's come
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out and it's come up very tightly i'm
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pleased
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particularly in that i haven't got
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exhaust hose draped through half the
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boat which is commonly the case
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so this is a very tidy installation i
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feel
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wow
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i hope so
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got that
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yeah so here we are under the bimini and
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and a couple of things have happened in
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this cockpit area i shall
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i should grab the camera and show you
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them
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so first of all there's a flock of geese
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going over there
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um
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we live out here in in the country here
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and this you know you'll hear background
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noises tractors going down the road
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here the geese
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anyhow i'm pointing the camera at the at
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the engine control panel and you may
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remember i changed its location so that
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it's now underneath the chart plotter
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and it's in
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and
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please right there looks great
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and while we're here
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the other thing that's been finished
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look
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is the engine control lever
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got i say there are a few warm days i
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managed to get coats of paint on there
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there are
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six six coats of epoxy primer a couple
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of coats of top coat
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and it's finished and looking good
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and
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hmm
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huh
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josh very close
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ah
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there we go
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be that long there
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all right
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and i lost one
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uh
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it's just hilarious
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sitting there
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i am a tree
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um oh
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yep
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yep
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well here's the
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there's the back of the
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engine control panel and plotter
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and as you might tell i'm just starting
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to put a box around that to hide all of
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that
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um i shall save that bit of video for
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next week when it's finished and i can
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show you that in one
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one swoop but um i've got a nmea
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2000 network coming in
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the engine control panel to uh engine
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connection loom
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going in there and and much of that will
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be hidden in it in this box this tick
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box i'm making up from some bits of old
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miss molly leftover teeth
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uh but i say save that one for next week
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for you
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and behind me you'll see the the foam
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cut to shape now for the rebirth made a
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nice big rebirth in there um it is long
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enough for me to lay down in uh i it's
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even with it with the raised height that
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this phone gives because gives me room
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enough to get my feet beside the mast so
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you know it'll be fine it's comfy
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do
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do
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this
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here is the last piece of foam that i've
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just bought this will be going into
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quarter birth as you may remember i did
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already cut a piece of foam for the
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quarterback but
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it's a bit of old mattress mattress is
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very heavy and
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i'm so happy with this foam it's it's
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comfortable and yet light
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i decided to buy some more foam redo
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that bit in the quarterback
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i'd cut foam with a with a bread knife
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there's various ways to cut foam but i
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like a bread knife it's low-tech it's
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easy
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um
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some people prefer an electric bread
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knife which obviously saves them to move
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their arm to and fro but i'm happy
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enough with just a regular bread knife i
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mark it out with a marker pen it's
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actually the same marker pen set that i
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bought for the lofting lines so they've
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they've done well they weren't very
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expensive but marker pen use a sliding
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bevel to get the angles um and then cut
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those let's say with a bread knife
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carefully and it comes out well
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certainly good enough for the likes of
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me
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um
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the upholstery cloth that i i've
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mentioned in previous episodes has
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arrived
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and uh looks great and we'll be getting
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on to taking these cushions out
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individually
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and uh covering them
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soon certainly if this sort of weather
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goes on very soon indeed it's chilly
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okay that's the right color at least
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cup of
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tea
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and that's it for this week um big thank
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you to you for watching
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people who support this project to show
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you know who you are and you know i'm
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extremely grateful thank you guys
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uh we'll be back next week and uh give
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we'll see you next time have a good bye
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ah
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you
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okay
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is
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