Chris, the owner of the Coromandel 26, can be contacted via his blog, here:

https://emmelenevoyages.wordpress.com

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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Music tracks "Sit and Wonder", "Ocean View" and "The Great Divide" available on iTunes, Amazon etc. EP "Shake a Leg", album "Out of the Moloch", single "Ocean View".

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Thank you :-)

Tony

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okay
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lovely thank you
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[Music]
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hi i'm tony and this is the story of the
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build of this 31 foot 8 inch jay benford
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designed cruising sailboat
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from the lofting of the lines to our
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emerging from the boat sheds to receiver
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keel masterson all the other
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paraphernalia that make up a cruising
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vessel
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join us on this adventure as we
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build topacha and hopefully set off to
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test her out as a liverboard cruising
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vessel
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[Music]
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aisle
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well no video last week it's just too
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busy with other stuff around and about
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that i got
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such a little bit done on the boat
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project that there wasn't really nothing
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to show here
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but uh here we are another week later
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i've uh i've got on a bit now
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and we started off with the kill really
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been attacking on two fronts this week
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the kill finishing getting towards
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getting some paint on it really so i
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wanted to get some filler around the
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various joints some tape over the aft
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end
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and something that a pano from from
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arctic sea camel asked about
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last time was the holes down beside
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the kill bolts
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where they come through what i would do
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with those and i filled those with epoxy
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and to do that i
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rather like to use these little syringes
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like little big syringes
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it's a was it 60 milliliter syringe
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get them from the local pharmacy only
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cost a couple of euro
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um i think they're not even that much
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and
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very good for controlled epoxy if it's
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just pure resin or a thin thinly
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thickened
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epoxy very very good for getting it in a
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very controlled manner
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and if you give them a rinse out with a
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bit of acetone afterwards you get
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several uses out of them as well so this
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one's been used three times already and
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it's still good for another go
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really good so that's what i did there
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and then there was a major milestone on
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the boat
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[Applause]
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so i put a few little wedges in
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next to the bolts just to make sure
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they're perfectly square
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and i've done a fair bit of measuring
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and they've been very careful
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i say wedge them perfectly square
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upright and now i'm going to squirt some
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epoxy down the holes and the goal is to
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fill these holes with epoxy
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so
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so
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okay
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so
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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so
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just did that full
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forward to the frame
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hello
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then having got all that
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fixed in position
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so they're all nice and firm now those
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bolts they can't come
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wobble in the kill structure at all i
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then wanted to make up a new template to
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the bolts
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that are drilled precisely and mark the
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exact locations of bolts just to make
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sure that it lined up with the holes in
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the bottom of the boat so
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here is my template if you can see those
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holes
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there you go
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some lovely holes through there but
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marks the exact positions of the bolts
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and then i could
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firstly lay under the boat get it up in
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position which is very difficult to show
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in fact i've got a couple of screws
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through it screwed up into position
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check the hole positions under the boat
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and then inside of course in the boat
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it's very very easy just to lay it on
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and the result of that was that i took
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out some of the holes made them a little
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bigger i took them out to 25 millimeter
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one or two of them
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four or five of them i took them out a
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bit bigger just to make
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sure
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that the kill bolts would come up
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through
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it on top of two of them bolts perhaps
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[Applause]
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all right
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hopefully if you turn that over we will
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see
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look at that
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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cool method
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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so
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we've got these solid brass bolts
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and i must admit they're not the most
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expensive but they come with screws
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brass screws
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they're useless utterly useless even
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with pre-drilling they won't go through
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a bit of plywood
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and
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i do wish you may tell i'm not happy
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i do wish companies would just think
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about the stuff they said in this
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because screws that won't go through a
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bit of plywood that's been pre-drilled
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they're useless why bother somebody's
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actually produced them all they're fit
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for is throwing away and replacing with
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some better screws are they
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stupid
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one more
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[Applause]
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there we go
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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yeah quite well
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now for weeks between all that keel
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stuff
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i've been working in here in the
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electric bay
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in the engine room behind me and running
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through i've mentioned it a few times
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running through the engine wiring
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connecting up the last pieces
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i had the output wire from the
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alternator to the charge splitter
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to get in there i've got that in this
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week uh one or two other little bits a
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new wire that they did that had the
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right dimensions to the
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so the glow plugs so that went in
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and then it was time to to see about
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getting on
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starting that engine
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and so
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let's have a look
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[Music]
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[Music]
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i'll grab the camera
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so this is me now camera in hand
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showing you
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the raw water filter
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behind that diesel filter with a bit of
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diesel in it as you can see
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um and these
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this is a little
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md 2010 volvo penta engine
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they're notorious for having very weak
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lift pumps so you've got the little
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lever on the lift pump
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for bleeding through but they don't do a
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right lot
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and actually the one on hazel has got a
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yamah 2g m20 it's also not the best
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so the solution
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i did first of all
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was to fit
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one of these squeezy bulbs we've done
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the same in hazel's boat
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which allows you to pump some diesel
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through very effectively for bleeding
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things out
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and blend it through
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hooked it up and you'll see what happens
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hmm
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[Applause]
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so
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[Applause]
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press the start button oh hold on no
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net now try
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okay good press the start button that's
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the big one
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lovely thank you
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that's truly good now
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next thing we're going to do is you're
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going to give me that watering can
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because
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i have this highly technical piece of
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pipe here that was designed
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to go on there
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look
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so with a bit of luck i can feel that up
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and it leaking out all over the place
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right now what you're gonna have to do
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we'll see what happens you're gonna have
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to give it full throttle which is all
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the way down
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i'll tell you
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good that's lovely
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and then
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switch it on which it may already still
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be on is it no
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okay turn it on and then press that
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little button up for the glow plugs for
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about 10 seconds
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a little toggle switch
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good now press the stop button
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[Applause]
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oh dude
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where is it sucking the seat water from
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there
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do you have a bucket in there i've got a
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filter i'll fill that with water again
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oh see good let's do it again there we
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go
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yeah do it just in case
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of course i have to stop it with the
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stop lever which is this one here isn't
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it yeah okay i can stop it here good
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ready
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go
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yeah
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this is switch on
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yeah well pleased with that good call
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out today i think now
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well i've since replaced that squeezy
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bulb with this little manual pump that
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i'm
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showing you with the camera
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it's a it's a push pull pump
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i'm not going to pump it for you because
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it pressurizes the diesel system
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but it's very nice
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mechanical you know a hand pump and they
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are wonderful for bleeding through
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and
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hopefully longer lasting than the old
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squeezy bowl
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so that's looking pretty cool i think
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very tidy diesel system
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and i am very pleased
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[Applause]
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here
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[Applause]
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thank you
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[Applause]
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so
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[Applause]
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this is the anchor box huh yeah
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let's have a look step back okay the
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anchor chain box yeah yeah yeah looks
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nice doesn't it and then if i go up past
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here we see the bow roller
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that's all good all good
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and there
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were all the mounted up there so trying
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to run down the port side
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and around into that box we need a
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couple of bigger cleats because those
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cleats aren't big enough only
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good
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what are you lot up to
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all right
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all right
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now we slide that little plastic cover
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over that like that
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there we go
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and if all is well that should fit
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get your t-shirts
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now yeah on there perfect okay so now
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we're going to spot the alternator up
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[Music]
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like that this whole cabana goes on the
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back of that lot
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one
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two
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and three
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oh and there's one on the floor
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it really sticks out
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yes it's a lot cleaner than this
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okay so we're going to try this
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continental belt that we
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live in hopefully we'll let you fit
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let's find out what happens when we do
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this
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right okay well that continental boat
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belt does not fit
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all right let's have a look
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all fixed down i've been putting that on
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there with a loop
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fix the bitter end of the chain too
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catch on there obviously
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it's a thing of beauty isn't it
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yeah it blends in well it's amazing how
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close that color is to that color and
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yeah it's basically the same
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more about that in judgment
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[Laughter]
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and ladies and gentlemen that is it for
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this week
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working on two boats we'll carry on for
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another couple of weeks working on two
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boats
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hazel hopes to set off sailing for a
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summer cruising
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in mid-june should we say mid to late
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june
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so still got a few bits to do there
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um
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just wanted to give a shout out to for
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one of the patrons uh chris he's he's
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got a caramel 26 jungle commercial 26
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that
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is currently in northern holland and uh
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he wants to sell it so it's up for sale
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i'll post a link in the description
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maybe a picture in a minute
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um it's a vote you know i know of the
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vote i must admit i've never seen it but
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i know that he sailed it from
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ireland white area uh all the way to
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northern holland so it's clearly very
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capable
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and uh i also know that he's he's a you
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know he's the sort of guy that maintains
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a boat very well so it'll be looked
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after the vote then what is interested
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in a
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26 foot junk rigger it's one up for
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grabs
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and there we go that's it for this week
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thanks for watching
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all that youtube stuff
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see you soon bye
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um
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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is
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[Music]
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okay
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[Music]
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you