When the engine broke down en route from Newlyn to Falmouth, we were in for a long sail home with almost no wind - and all of it from the wrong direction. Sp...

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with a flight home from Bristol on

Sunday we said up from Newland on Friday

morning for a 36-mile passage home to

follow in currencies and fine weather

what could be simpler with no wind we

had to model hoping by the very powers

the vapor path would last the distance

they didn't but more on that later

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in the meantime the first hours are a

very heavy crew up on deck

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[Applause]

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my dad you

wouldn't that be ever Oh heaven just for

too

a Jew

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I in particular was in my

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hipster

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there's being an international crew

passage where was polish herring and

English today for lunch

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but why we are enjoying ourself on deck

as second split was opening up in the

fuel pipe until the one below connect

coffee Merrik decently open at the

engine compartment and we've got a

torrential shower of fuel to make

matters worse the engine wouldn't shut

off immediately and the key drop in the

solution

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we were in or alongside home with no

engine and very for lots of wins all of

it from the wrong direction but um there

is a sailing boat so all we said through

the night and into the next day

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we have tried again to the private life

but to no avail

I had a chance to practice dishwashing

skills learn from barek YouTube's

all to see them Aaron it's your fault

see washing

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- sweet

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to drift are you washing cleaning and me

household lunch

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you

Hoover engine as our only source of

charging the batteries even minimal

power use navigational light at night

and radio on low power we sailed into

Saturday afternoon with no motor or

electricity by the time we reach when

Monica's boy of helpful we will

completely become we might another day

have just waited for the wind but the

crew was tired and still had the fly

catch

so when our neighbor scorpion from harm

of heaven help us we were glad to get at

all into the harbor

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thirty three hours after reliving mewing

we east Amneris and a cell onto the wall

in the marina all safe and well and much

more experienced sailors when we had

been two days before

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