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I've got about an hour to kill so just

thought I'd do the story of

second-chance Eiland some a cure

again this is an ad want to do a couple

use concede saying it it's not it's not

easy to do a video just citing the

garlic out part first thing find a nice

quiet car park

this isn't don't be too worried about

people walking past and seeing you're

looking like a complete lunatic talking

to yourself muscles do that most of the

time specially dump story a second chill

sailing over all came about started off

we always said meet up at a place called

gray belly market we should sell a Fred

stolle I've got Bob just passing them

day away on buying bargains in Don's

case in my case I think I'll lose it by

bargains off there as well

none of us have been say littlefoot's on

that stage and one day Don came up to us

and he said Bob all we thought it said

Lee Barco used to buy anything

it turned out it bought about in

borrowing finesse which is about 140

miles away from Manchester so we all

decided to go out with him for a day out

and jolly boys day out and see what it

was like

so we all saw off at that time it was

Alan made on and JJ JJ JJ the clown he

was actually a clown by profession we've

not seen him for a bit lost to try

getting back in touch with him I think

he's found love

so we went down one day to Barrow and we

didn't know about the the Box Donnan say

you name it bottom

site is seen on eBay I think you paid

about five on the two of them he didn't

the first he thought was by him one bit

so died by two we got there and it was a

25-foot boat with a snap mast and no

engine the engine was an outboard on the

rail at the back of the boat it was a

bilge keel and there's no engine with it

but next to it it was what we considered

with a wooden bowl about 25 for again a

few nice bits on it big on the side of

it but in the back of it a diesel engine

now looking back on it it was an

immaculate diesel engine under a wooden

cover never seen such a clean diesel

engine cost you 2 grand Norma said we

could get it going probably about 20

minutes now if looking back the idea was

to say that engine out and put it in the

one next to it and get the mass fixed in

fact he picked up I think you pick a

musket a time cheap but it was just too

far to go if you're gonna would get a

bolt and you're gonna need to be working

on it don't get it vast distances

because you may think you're gonna have

the intentions of doing it books

somewhat crop up and you just won't at

the time and I thought most people just

spend loads of money and never ever go

sailing so it decided the best thing was

to sell them put them on ebay sold the

bill steal a good price about about 124

not and I think he got about 120 for the

one MIDI the red one was a good engine

the problem with them as well is he

worth to it they were on the beach as

such what Beryl the tide doesn't come in

very much most days and once a month you

might get it coming in full side and

whoever beats this and beached it at

front side so it was way of the beach

I reckon it was a thousand yards away

from the safe and borrow a terrible

place to go out in borrowing finesses

where they make the submarines there's a

nice channel liable again they're

supposed to even launch into submarines

they ought the comedy about certain

times of the month and then you have to

go under the bridge and that I was the

mustard actually snaps on this boat the

last owner had some trouble not called

the bridge to open and a little bridge

before they opened it I think he's

injured a gun so that was the the first

thing first time it went into having a

bowl and we never might never have much

to get out in it wasn't a feud wasn't

long after that Don came back to us

but another Bowl this seems to be a

reoccurring thing we don't well this

problem is done is he when he goes on

eBay

most people will put near his first not

done it was put sorry first the next

boat

Suzie sister Bob oh it's in Cardiff now

Cardiff 200 miles away from Manchester

no I fear American children miles is now

it's like all the shops well it's more

than what the shops from Manchester it

was a four-hour drive it's not a nice

drive it's all countess

so if plum well it turned out lead the

boat was in a marina in Cardiff Bay

County pays locked off from the sea and

the Bristol Channel his plan was to sail

it back with his cousin would take about

three or four days to come when we

decided our days come I was a nice place

for all those we've been I've got round

it so we went down there was me Alan and

donned the plum was to go down again

he'd bought the boat on eBay

I know people say you've got to see

she got know most of the times if you

getting a bargain just buy it go down if

you don't like it can sell it again

so told it to you this time we went down

with him to Cardiff and the plan was to

have a look over the bottle because it

been stood for about two or three years

in the marine are swinging more it was

gonna look over the bog you all get what

best we could

right and Dom was gonna go down a couple

days later and sell it back oh cool so

we went down we took all what we thought

might nice babe I threw petrol tools I

think we had most things anyway

so we got there and it was a marina like

I say in the baby but it was a snotty

marina sorry for any use knots that are

watching this boat were just lots of

munches dock and you take it as they are

as we are rough and ready

well rough and talk about the ready so

we got there and it was it was a really

posh marina and we seen where the boat

was and the bog was about 3035 feet away

from Thornton pontoon so we had no way

again out to it

so with all go up to the clubhouse and

ask him suit seemed alike whether we

could leave it there a few days and work

on it so we went up to the clubhouse and

this Commodore coil you know when you go

to these some of these places you've got

the Commodore and all the ones we do

think sir who think the real sailors it

turns out that most people in Cardiff

don't want up bank which is totally

earring upon basically more about that

lights off all the people just go and

sail around the bay because it's about

one or two miles across so it's nice

little place for sailing but you're

never gonna encounter anyways window

anything like that maybe a better side

when you open the gates so big golden

there's a Commodore I said any chance of

leaving it so oh yeah because you can't

just to pay a year up front soon our

free now Felton pound well I picked

Donald off the floor and he'd fainted by

then we only wanted to leave it there

for two days so we decided to see if we

get a boat going and was council

moorings one mile across the bay very

nice place

Cardiff and this really good council

Warren's it designed with a gate on him

very cheap as it turns out there are

about two to three pound a day two more

u-boat there so it's a nice very nice

stop off place so we should we said to

this Commodore any chance to view the

circuits wants to take this out to the

boat yeah no problem on go down to the

Jetta and I'll send a couple of my

men'll anyway ten minutes later two

blokes are rising a little dinga takes

us out to the boat we talk about all the

tools and things we thought we may need

it

Vince don't like as they forgot to three

years so a mean dong what me done up

well actually all of us are quite

mechanically minded they said all these

anything we couldn't fix and electric

anything anything like that we can power

on to Norma said new counters well if

somebody shows you are you on YouTube

you'll find out a lot of these things

are quite easy

there we go doubt I looked on the boat

it seemed all right it was dirty and a

lot of crap clinging to the bottom but

it was all that in one piece so anyway

we set about the engine no chance of

starting engine specialties out boards

when it been stood for more than six

months you gonna have to strip the cab

down or if you're looking also made rain

the car before they left it one thing

you don't want to do is believing these

out boards with

fuel to go stale in the cab you're gonna

go after clean now anyway clean the cow

bow and give it a few polls and it's

died but it was running rough it needed

a good needed with good run I think we'd

left a bed is the fuel stale fuel in the

tank me just topped it all again we

should we should have ended it what we

had nowhere to put the stale fuel so we

thought we'd just fell

so you'd run into me I would take over a

few pops and farts out of it

so I'll be decided right fair enough

we'll drop the strop and motor across

this Bay

it only takes about an hour to counsel

morons this stage I think we should have

run the engine a little bit more dumb

winter from the bowl and to describe

where this boat was now it's on it was

on the swinging morning 40 feet from the

pontoon with a small channel behind us

but 100 channel did was rocks the other

news channel there was freedom face away

and you could have gone out there turn

left and gone across but in front of us

they must have been 40 boats on swinging

mornings nice boats big more about next

most popular for 50 60 grand

we don't let more boats most people

mostly stop white motor boats anyway

most of the boats were 35 feet away from

us I'm swinging Morden's but it was a

gap don't forget this is my first time

ever on the bowl so 35 feet and this is

60 65 70 feet gap were querying and we

can see in from the wall there's a

couple of the mobs different levels now

when if we were a bit pushed for time as

well because it was getting late on in

the day so anyway we start the engine up

the engines running lefty tick you know

when even put it in gear by then dongles

at the front drops of morning now at

this stage you would have reversed 20

feet solid solid and gone up the channel

and gone out the easy way we don't do

things the easy way at second chance

sailing I don't think Donna dust me told

me what to do so I decided well the nice

gap there he drops the morning bangs it

in gear accelerates a little bit and it

seems to be going on I I'm sad to go

through this gap

well that's you know just before that no

no after that yeah what softened up such

go through the gap no I think a missing

a little bit yes I actually did reverse

that was thought was what happened did

reverse and I start to reverse injured

stopped and the child was taken towards

the pontoon and I remember Allen was on

the pontoon and we just floating around

there going we thought we weren't was

upon to us he went towards these rocks

so anyway we grab the rope and threw it

to Rutland and this rope was so dry it

went about 2 feet there's no chance

we're gonna get the rope to Rutland so

were anyway jump back in the the back of

the boat and I give it one Almighty pull

this engine started again so like I said

that stage I decided rather than I

didn't how long engine was gonna go far

rod and go through the channel go

through the space in the boats but the

idea so anyway so I going through this

space in the boats and it seems we going

out or going through all right and then

all of a sudden it was like a bit of an

optical illusion it's the two bolts I

decided was seem to be following us

didn't know what this time free pizza

morning chain from one or both of them

and so I accelerate a bit more not a

good idea as well anyway these two bolts

died to call my disciples to meet us

this gap got smaller and smaller and

there was a bummer almighty crush we

didn't do any damage and I think that

just the che slipped off then it must

have just been on the finger on this

boat and then we was off

it's a terrific speed across the cost

see the lake most in love it is so we

Scharf across earth two miles an hour

hour later we managed to get to the

council more into the other and

now that was a funny boat that comes

from Orleans council more than crystals

shaped in a couple of hate shapes the

floating standard flogging pontoons and

it's not all our wind in there and it's

a bit of a tide in there and the first

time cover an incident places it's not

always easy

locally wasn't any other boat sir so

Don's at the front of the ball well no

exactly halfway up he was bought at the

at the mast as we come into the floating

pontoon now I take my first time and

Eugenia isn't always easy and I actually

did a very good job for me first time

never done a good job after now I did a

very good job anyway I come slowly and

said upon to now that stage don't nobody

was read on he suddenly got a second

wind or decided he was Superman estimate

and advice normally used to do this he

picks up a rope and he went rolling

towards the front of the boat and I was

still moving towards a pontoon at 1 mile

an hour and it decides to jump off the

front of the boat onto the pontoon

trying to bomb off now danza pension

center now he jumped in jumps in the air

and one leg went over it perfectly

alright you know like just trailed there

like dead chicken got caught in the from

any when I saw what sit on to the

pontoon luckily luckily but I was that

close that he didn't get trapped or

anything I'm laughing me balls off at

this stage jim soft decided that boat

walks around the pontoon picks him up

grabs the rope size it off so that was

our first day we went out of there but

now to the gate with the number on and

as we were going up there like say he

planned to go out the next day there was

a bloke walking down towards us because

he was one bolt there and I said Gary

Biturbo it was somebody take him out

every day but the calm might want us

about 25-30 people the important it

this one was took about 200 people well

it was a ship it was 250 foot long and

about 75 feet tall

anyway this bloke comes walking down so

it's obviously a captain just like an

airline captain white shirt

flat cap I would crap on his shoulders

nice bloke we said were planning going

out of here tomorrow he said well you're

lucky not going out today said because

once you got through that lock over them

we could see the lock it was about half

a mile away once you go out through that

lock he said you're in the Bristol

Channel now he said if you've not been

there before it's that can be a vicious

place he said I was in today he says

even I won't go in that he said because

he's 25-foot waves it said so just watch

out

now that should have told so much

Saddam in the first place but we check

the engine out on on the boat and of

incan had decided to go on the next day

so I'll tell you the part to see you

soon