The wicked winches of the West, East, North and South. They're all around Galopin! There are 9 winches in total that needed a good service. This episode will give you a look into winch servicing. We will also take a quick break and visit the the city of Perpignan. The city is about 30 minutes from the Spanish border and is located in French Catalonia. The people here consider themselves Catalan more than French.

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Boat shop and naval yard:

Technique Plaisance
440 Quai du Pla de l’entrée
Zone technique du port
11 370 Port-Leucate
Du mardi au samedi
De 9h à 12h30 et de 14h à 18h
techniqueplaisance.fr

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so I've taken apart my winch my first
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one one of my halyard winch and I have
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two of them one there but I just wanted
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to try to take one apart it seems to be
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well I need some special grease and some
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special oil and they don't have faults
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at the stores like the wait till
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tomorrow so that's why it's all taken
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apart on the way took tomorrow to put it
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back together by him but he psyched
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about doing this project they're gonna
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put the winches greasing them up bring
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them up and so that they one of the
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things on to do tick list so plus I got
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two of them
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pretty town square here in the old town
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of pepino I guess this is downtown
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pepino we pretty here kind of quiet on
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this weekday where there's not that
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great but it's not cold walk around here
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and check out this little town it's cool
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I like it does have a southern charm
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kind of a Spanish flair to the people
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from around here the French call
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themselves Catalan so in a sense they
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are Spanish
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this place though behind me is called a
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funnel it's a bar the night bar called
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the funnel it's kind of funny another
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little small square here
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we quaint quiet and more different
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live-ins up at any time this looks like
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the musical venue Street here couple
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bars that say they have music pop music
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I'll talk about music a musical hangout
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any evening yeah it's quite tiny Bull
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Street you have to come back here with
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Stefan check it out in the evening
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all right like they like to drink here
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is bar that looks interesting
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besties although actually for me affair
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I've let Devine committee the Divine
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Comedy this looks like the wrong
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happening Street here Pastis is the
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drink of choice here in southern France
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it's kind of disgusting as far as I'm
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concerned because it's based on licorice
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anis and ever since I was a little boy
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I've hated licorice never never liked it
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so it's a liqueur that you mix with
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water so it's clear and then when you
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add water it becomes kind of milky white
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but we'll try it since up
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we're in southern France and we gotta
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try the flavors of the location we're at
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a Jewish mysticism Imelda pequeno Sam
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the vascular system in stuff
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and they have an American joint a French
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joint so I'm have to come back here and
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test it out after I get my car but this
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is my introduction so that was pretty
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cool and some very nice people from
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Avignon
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very friendly here Veronica Lita guy
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runs a Creperie like my cousin who has a
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great brain to insulin so something to
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talk about but
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I like this little town although they
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seem to be will be complaining about
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their town it's too quiet but it's wrong
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with a quiet town
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so this is the center helping you I
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guess while I was in the center of town
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the vaneck which is a big importance and
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Noble bookstore record store and
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everything I'll have to come back when
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it's all green and full of summer life
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I'm gonna go fetch my car because I
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broke a window
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and when I was taking pictures of the
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windmills
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I simply locked the keys in the car and
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the only way I could get into the car
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was to free going though
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pretty stupid I know but what the hell
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I'm gonna go get the car now my first
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winch back together because I get the
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materials now or the lubricants that are
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necessary
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Paul oil that's is that you put in a
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little Springs and Paul's that's a winch
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or winch grease and as you can probably
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hear the camel tone wind has just lifted
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up again so here we go put on a hat
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because it's kind of cold now but put
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the switch back together
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well that I think I deserve a little
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cocktail so what I've got prepared are
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take a blood orange soda
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sparkling water into blood yes this is a
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fancy little IV mom for my vodka bottle
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but it's just vodka
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Oh God hyung Karl tea is good oh thank
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goodness for that
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hmm have to make another one and
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definitely calls for a smoke
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so today I wanted to service the winch's
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but it was so damn windy that I said in
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most of the day and did computer stuff
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but the wind has dropped a little bit so
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I started doing the winches but I've run
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into a problem with one of them you can
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see this thing works really well all
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nice and smooth and then I have another
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one that's stuck this one is completely
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stuck I cannot get it out it's supposed
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to it's supposed to remove this piece
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here
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but it won't budge stuck in here so and
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ask the guys that take me presents maybe
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if they can help me it's supposed to
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work like this just like that boom see
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this one is stuck and this one goes in
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and out it's all the dirt and grime in
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there
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pretty disgusting I bet they haven't
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been cleaned up for quite a while 1 2 of
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2 of 9 so now I've got to get this
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problem sorted out this is just a pain I
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don't know what to do about this
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it's all stuck man
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you know I should pound it eat it and as
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well as this so all stuck I don't know
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well we'll see hopefully somebody can
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help me tomorrow
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you know that's what you got this has
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not happened how they are they were
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super stoked super psyched you guys
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helped me out
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Levon Luka could no way I could have
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done this on my own
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and really really cool
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so know that winch is gonna function
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perfectly so ladies watching me talk to
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myself to the camera kind of fun anyways
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I'm really happy and wait till
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everything dries up a little bit I'm
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gonna take apart some more winches I
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took that went all apart and it seemed
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like everything was going fine and then
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when I put it back on its it's jamming
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somewhere so there's a piece that might
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not be put in properly or I don't know
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so I got to take it apart again and and
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have a look at it
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rice born totally dry the bearings only
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need to be cleaned and lubed up so I've
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got a broken screw here and tell me that
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did it cuz you can tell it's rusted so
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have some more help from the bearings
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are completely dry these poles are
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supposed to move freely see how they
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stick that's not good
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so this one when completely stopping
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yourself really need to be cleaned up I
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think got a pun it's gonna be really
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pleased that I'm doing this or loosen up
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the winches greasing it are you happy
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get up huh
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I think she's happy that were taken some
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kind of bomb stawpah tonight 20 wind
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shut that's bit lazy oh yeah she's a
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happy girl fun alright well I'm totally
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screwed here the bearings in here we're
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broken so I don't know if I did it when
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I try to remove it but pretty screwed on
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this one hopefully I can find a
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replacement part these winches these are
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no longer made but hopefully there's
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some standard form
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what I usually try to see the positive
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attitude but here I'm know I'm pretty
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frustrated and pissed off wicked wench
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wicked wicked wicked wench