Shakedown. Will the lithium work? OTB 130 and a bit of Spin?

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in this week's video we give you an
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update on the solar how it's all
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finished up and we actually take it for
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a test run
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yep we get out for a shakedown but first
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we've got to clean the log and we'll
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show you how we do that we actually get
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out on a nice sunny day and we get to
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put the solar through its paces using
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the new lithium batteries and we're
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quite surprised all in this week's video
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enjoy
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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a couple you've been asking in the
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comments about updates on the lithium
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batteries it is finally finished now and
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all labelled up so
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we've put a negative bus bar in there
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it's marked up
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there's our shunt all in bolted up
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um
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a positive bus bar marked up battery to
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battery charge line
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um so that is what charges the lithium
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back to that bus bar and the feed sorry
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the negative of that is there
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um
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the battery to battery feed
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which comes that way goes into
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the battery to battery charger
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in there
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that's my box of spares and bits and
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pieces with the old kit in it
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um i haven't been able to
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find the little potentiometer on these
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two fuses and they are still reading
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uh plus point one of a volt
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on battery one
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uh compared to battery two and a little
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i was hoping there'd be a little
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potentiometer that i could calibrate
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them with as i know what the battery
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voltage is exactly
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so
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dates on the batteries are marked up
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what they are
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etc etc
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could have done with a little bit more
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on that
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negative lead there but it is clamped in
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position
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but it's not too tight
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some nice curves on it everywhere else
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but yep all done
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next job
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well it's the 10th of february
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and
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the season starts here
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so um actually the weather in
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turkey gets warmer
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towards middle of february winter has
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gone winter's gone apparently our
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turkish friends next door one mr oka
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winter is finished um so we've been told
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and we are going to go out and do a
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little shakedown cruise basically to try
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out our
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new solar
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and our
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new lithium
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we realize that this time of year the
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sun is fairly low and not its brightest
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but with the extra power that we've got
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we're hoping that um it'll be fine
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the temperature goes down to about 60
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degrees celsius at night but we've got
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diesel heating and we've got warm
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clothing so
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first thing we have to do is actually
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we've taken the dinghy off the front of
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the boat the rib off the front
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uh cleaned the boat down get rid of all
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the
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dust and dirt from the winter
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and now
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you just need to put our
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log back in
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right so this will be useful for people
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who are
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in
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turkey this is the stuff
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which is the equivalent of hot water or
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um uric acid
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um
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for cleaning off barnacles and bits and
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bobs and i'm going to put some
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in a little plastic doodad there and of
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course i've got cindy's toothbrush there
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to clean it off but don't tell her
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and just lightly clean off the barn
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course because when i took it out last
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year
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last season you can see i didn't clean
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it off
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properly so i'm gonna do that
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now then i'm going to put some silicone
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grease around these two o-rings right on
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top one at the bottom
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and carefully slide it back in
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take the plug out obviously
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and uh bob's your arm furniture arm
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all right so there we are clean well
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and there we go that's it all cleaned
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off look
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it brings up
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the impeller wheel incredibly well
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i've just rinsed it off in some fresh
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water there
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while i go and dig out my silicone
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grease
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of course using silicone on o-rings
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not vaseline because vaseline is a
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petroleum jelly
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product
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and uh always use silicone because it's
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in uh
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right
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a bit more with the toothbrush there i
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think
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oh
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no lines in front of the bowel thruster
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cindy
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all
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right
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i can't believe that you came into my
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life
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you made me feel again now it's my turn
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you say you've always been a little bit
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shy
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but i can put an end to your fears
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[Music]
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baby
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[Music]
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for me
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[Music]
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i know it's hard for you to give it a
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try
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but you are not alone i'm here with you
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i think you owe it to this beautiful
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night
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to lose
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until they start to bleed
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[Music]
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you
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[Music]
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is
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[Music]
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[Music]
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me
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[Music]
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me
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[Music]
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[Music]
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a couple of hours of uh sailing we've
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managed to get uh a bit of a sailing but
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mainly motor sailing just put the sails
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away now
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the wind's got up it's um
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18 knots apparent
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so
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let's have a look
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yeah
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14 knots true
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uh
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18 20 knots
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20 knots apparent
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just under 30 degrees 24 degrees
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we're going to push up here into
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keck over
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what's in front of us now
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so
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quite a
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long stretch of water so
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quite a lot of room for the fetch to get
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up
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there uh there's some space over there
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the wind is coming from under this
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direction
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i want to go a bit
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further to the west
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just like that the wind is gone
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so we've just come through that little
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gap there
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which is that little gap there
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yeah
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there's the uh
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we're now on to the
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inner lagoon
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sort of a marinery type thing over there
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another one over there
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i think what we're gonna do is we're
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going to turn the port
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and
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just knows our way
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up inside here
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and find somewhere to anchor up
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[Music]
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you could do with a big polisher out
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here really
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[Music]
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the counter press started
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we've just put a pizza in the oven
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because today we've been really busy
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while the boats
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out
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on anchor
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we've cleaned all the fenders up as best
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we can
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they really have got mucky this year
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um
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a little boat next to us that's in quite
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a state and these fenders are in quite a
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state and it's
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marked all ours has to talk to barbarous
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when we get back
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um
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so yeah all the all the fenders have
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been off and cleaned up
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cindy's had the binoculars out looking
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for um
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looking for
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um
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wild boar up in the hills up here but
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we've also polished all one side of the
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boat above the water line
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and tomorrow we're going to do the same
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on that
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a side evening
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so it's 10 30 in the morning and we're
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back up to 90 on our lithium having uh
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discharged to uh 93 amp hours last night
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we had the heating on for a couple of
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hours and we had it on for an hour this
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morning that tends to draw about 10 or
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12 amps when it's starting up
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and then settles down to two or three
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amps obviously the
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freezer and the fridge were going all
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night long um clicking in and clicking
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out on their thermostats
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yeah at the moment we have
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uh 22 amps that we're putting in
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a total of
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270 odd watts
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when the sun is bright and on the panels
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um
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yesterday for example we were getting
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500 watts in
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which isn't bad at all really for winter
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sunshine
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so the lithium is really working out
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great
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um
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we've had toast this morning from the
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toaster on the inverter the inverters
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was running a minute ago
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to uh let's put it back on again to
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charge the mac for this video
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yeah well
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and uh yeah it's uh
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it's working out really well i'm really
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pleased with that when uh when we get
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into the summer and the and the sun's
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full strength
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we're going to be putting close to 50
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amps in
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at midday which is great
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lithium really does make a difference i
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can see it making a world of difference
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in the summer
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brilliant stuff
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and there we go a couple of hours later
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26 27 28 amps going in 100 charged
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before midday great fantastic
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well welcome to takeover bay
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yep we're on the inner lagoon at keck
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over we've not been here before we've
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been to keck over before but we've not
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been on the inner lagoon we've been on
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the outer lagoon which is uh
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over on our port side we're facing west
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or south west we're changing we're
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southwest at the moment um
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that's uh northeast behind us but sadly
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we can't go short because we forgot to
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get any petrol from a little engine it's
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a little bit too far to road yeah we've
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got we've got a little bit um but not a
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lot i don't want to rely on it
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it's a bit far to row i'm hoping to get
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the drone up later um or tomorrow we're
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going to stay a couple of days um and
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just uh have a chill out
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had a lot happen in the last couple of
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months what we've losing oscar and then
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um
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and not being well
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um we just wanted a couple of days chill
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but
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as usual we ended up doing stuff
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cleaning fenders and polishing boats but
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yeah um it is quite relaxing that's all
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yeah it's it's quite sitting you're
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doing nothing
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exactly but then you could spend hours
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literally just sitting watching the
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scenery yeah not there's anything going
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on but it's just lovely to watch it yeah
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yeah it is lovely to watch i mean
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there's there's so many birds
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undergrowth
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watching with the binoculars and but
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there's some eagles up on the on the top
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there and the wild boar are out as well
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in the mountains behind us and uh
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around us
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so it's quite interesting this time but
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it's quite interesting to um
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to have a good look around
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so uh i hope you've enjoyed the video um
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our first
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on the water video
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of this year this new year
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soon
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