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hi folks this week's video is about how
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we look after our take on imperatus and
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how I made an Almighty great balls up
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I'll see you at the end of the video
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I may have made a faux path
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or in technical terms a balls up Bob's
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your uncle fan is your Aunt as they say
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Let's uh
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get tidied up
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it's still a good six millimeters it's
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maybe seven millimeters over a quarter
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of an inch thick
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[Music]
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I may have made a faux pas
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a couple of weeks ago I put the extra
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victron charger in there
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um we know we know they get hot so I
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fitted computer fans to them and the
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idea was
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the air gets drawn down through here so
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it gets blown up through here there's a
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lid on here and then there's a hole down
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the back here you can see and get my
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hand right down there and the air comes
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up
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and then there's slots in there
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which is behind where our TV normally
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goes mounted on this bracket
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and I assumed right or wrongly that
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there would be enough airflow
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to uh
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to keep this area cool
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hindsight is a great thing
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there isn't
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and the problem is that there's nowhere
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for the air to come in or out now
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what what I wanted to do is to put an
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air vent in here but as I explained to
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you this is a this is watertight these
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compartments
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so I'm going to have to have a
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compromise
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and I think that compromise is going to
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be
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yeah I'm not using all four of those
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fans that's
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another project but I bought this
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Grill and I think what we're gonna have
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to do is fit this Grille in here which
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will make that look really nice and
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spiffy as mad as would say and the idea
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then is to fit two of these fans behind
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that switched in the same way to get the
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air to circulate around inside there
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that's the idea
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foreign
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that's
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going in there
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two hours later six mil quarter of an
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inch that way
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and now okay right
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six and a half hours later
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so what I did was I marked out the slot
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that I needed to cut out and then marked
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out four holes one in each corner now
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I've been using these they're cone
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Cutters they've been quite useful on the
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boat recently
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um I used the smallest one I'm putting
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12 millimeter hole in the corner and
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this allowed me to put a jigsaw blade
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through the hole and cut the slot
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it's good
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[Music]
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[Music]
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foreign
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[Applause]
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jigsaw
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[Music]
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okay one in metal switch but
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the moment of truth
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all right
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foreign
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once those Corners just surrounding out
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a little bit more I'll do that with the
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um
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the sound of people yeah
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so it's supposed to Spring in
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those those bits are supposed to Spring
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in so it's got to be tight and it fits
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that huh
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so but it's just the corners I'm getting
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a little um detail sandal
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okay so now all we have to do is connect
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up a couple of fans
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you'll remember in that cooling video we
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showed you the circuit diagram and how
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to connect up those fans with the two
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thermostatic switches in parallel that
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turned out to be a good idea as B2B
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charger number one appears to be working
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quite a bit harder than B2B charger
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number two anyway this is how we
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connected up the two additional fans
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again everything is in parallel and
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therefore if one gets hotter than the
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other and all the fans will be switched
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on so if one charger is working harder
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than the other one of the thermostatic
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switches fails or indeed one of the fans
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fail the built-in redundancy of running
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everything in parallel means that it
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will still get cooling from the other
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fans they'll still come on
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well there we go that's in
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fans are in at the back two of them
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they're wired up
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to the other two in pair the heat
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sensitive switches there's the
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thermostatic switches will come on when
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we charge up
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turn those two fans on I've just checked
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that they're okay I may put a little
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screw in here look just to push that
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back and it's very tight
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and then I've ordered another
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one to go in there the air is going to
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be pushed up through here now
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up the back past the other charger which
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is out of use
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and out of there and then hopefully I
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can move the TV to there
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Bob's your uncle fannies your aunt as
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they say
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hey well just got back from the um
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back from the marina office
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and got our delivery
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from trendio which is the
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Turkish equivalent of eBay uh it's not
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brilliant but it seems to work
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um we've ordered it
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one of these another one of these
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um
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we've had the uh engine on and the
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battery charging up Etc battery is
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charging up
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um
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it works but it's just not quite enough
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airflow
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um I'm hoping that this will make a
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difference that's uh
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give it a Polish and that'll slot in
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pretty nicely I think what we'll do is
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we won't screw this one in we'll cut
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that
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so that it spring fits in so that I can
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take it out if I need to clean it or I
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may put some
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may put some fly screen on there
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the trouble is that fly screen does
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reduce the
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free flow area
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hey ho right let's get on with that
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so having marked out the hole I then use
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the oscillating multi-tool from Bosch to
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cut out the hole exactly to size and it
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went well
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oh that's in
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and if you can hear the fans are running
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and there's quite a bit of air coming
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out of there
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we've moved to TV
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and there's a bit of cabling to do for
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the TV the aerial
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Etc has got a Blu-ray player in the
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corner there as well
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we've got to tidy up those
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but yeah that is done a bit polish on
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here just gotta get rid of some of these
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pencil marks and that we didn't realize
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were behind the Telly but yeah that's it
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done
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jobs are good
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perfect
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so just before we show you how we deal
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with our teeth and keep it looking so
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good I thought I'd explain a little bit
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about teak and why we do what we do
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the teak on our cockpit is quarter sawn
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it's not plain sawn or Rifts on this
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makes the timber quite hard wearing but
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it does open up the pores
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this is plain sawn Oak and this is Rifts
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on mahogany
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and this is cortisone take and you can
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see that the veins run across the wood
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you quite often see that as the teak
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catches the sunlight
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anyway
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our cheek is what they call blonde take
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here in the UK it looks a little bit
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like a Rocco which is what's called
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African teak around the rest of the
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world in different parts of the world
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and indeed in different parts of the
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country these different Woods are all
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assumed to be teak although they are
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from the teak family traditional Burmese
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tea girl Brazilian teak from large
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mature trees is virtually non-existent
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these days due to unsustainable logging
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in the countries in which it was
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produced
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foreign
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Timber has a good strong solid surface
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however cortisone Timber does have voids
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or pores exposed in the surface and this
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can lead to dirt and dust and mud being
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ingrained and you can't fill these with
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the sanding sealer like you would on a
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piece of furniture as the wood needs to
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breathe when it's outside as the timber
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expands and contracts it naturally tries
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to breathe and if you seal the surface
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it will start to form cracks that's why
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we oil our take and not seal it up with
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varnish or some kind of epoxy sealer
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you might think that teak is quite a
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dense hardwood well actually it's not
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that dense it's down there with cherry
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and pine it's not particularly hard or
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dense at all and that's because of these
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voids or vessels or pores within the
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wood the marine environment isn't
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particularly kind to Teak and yes salt
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water will help to clean it but those of
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you who have teak decks in the northern
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hemisphere will know they quite often go
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green and it's this that destroys them
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we would suggest that take needs to be
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cared for with natural products and not
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chemicals and don't be afraid to give it
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a little sanding now and then
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after all it's expensive stuff take
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doesn't just grow on trees you know
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as we mentioned in the last video we're
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starting to do some boat maintenance
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work now
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and it's been about three years since we
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did our last lot which was back in data
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in Italy
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so we clean the teak just gently very
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gently with a mild soap and a scrubbing
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brush and leave it to dry for a couple
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of days and then very gently sand it now
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we're using 120 grit on my Makita
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that's got an adjustable speed on it so
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you can make it very very light you can
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see I've just taken the surface off and
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that allows the oil to penetrate
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this piece here hasn't been done yet
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you can see
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I'll show you that in a minute
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and that one there has had its first
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coat
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uh down a half ago
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so I've got two coats all the way around
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including the cockpit table which is
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workbench at the moment and the
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companion way and the doors now they fed
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pretty well and that's mainly because
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we've had the canopy and the Bimini up
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so the oil
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um
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although we had two coats on there it
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hasn't it hasn't faded and gone white
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there's nothing wrong with white teak I
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quite like it on the floor it's it's
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okay but it um the teeth gets dry and
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when water sits on it it it soaks in and
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the oil helps to make that bead and
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disappear so I'm going to finish off
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this little bit here and I'll show you
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what it's like when I've done
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and I'm just
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finishing off
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these edges
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by hand
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just
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rather than hit them with
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the sander
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some bits
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there
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which are pretty difficult to get at but
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you can get right in the corners by
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folding the sandpaper over
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now
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anticipate in comments
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there is somehow
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chap somewhere who was a midshipman when
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Nelson was a cabin boy
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who's going to tell you oh you should
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never ever sand take
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blah blah blah blah well to him I just
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say one word well two words
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holy Stone they've been rubbing down
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teak decks and treating them accordingly
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with holy stones and sand for about 600
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years so um
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there is there is uh plastic underneath
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them when they go through you replace
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them that's how it works
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um but you'll get 15 20 years out of
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a decent take deck as long as it's not
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got screws in it
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if it's got screws holding the teak down
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then that's another issue
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um
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that's an issue you don't get with
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modern boats but you do get with some of
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the older ones
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um and if you don't think screws through
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the deck is that bad and watch meds on
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the sale life and see what happened to
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his decks mainly because water got into
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the decks through the screw holes and um
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some of the cleats and fittings in that
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oh yeah she's gonna have a deck
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um
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make sure the cheek is bonded or don't
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have take that's the other thing because
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it's a pain in the backside you have to
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clean it you have to oil it it holds the
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heat during the day and then at night
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when you really want to be nice and cool
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it gives up all its heat back into your
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boat so have it on the floor in the
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cockpit
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but don't have it on the decks
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ain't that right misses
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nearly done
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got all the floor to do got loads to do
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the table to do
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it won't take longer
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oh it's nearly beer o'clock and
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therefore I have to stop work
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and my able assistant then has to do the
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teak oiling you hate painting you hate
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oiling I I'm hanging wallpaper whoever
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invented wallpaper should be hung like
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wallpaper
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now I do hate painting but it's quite
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satisfying doing t-coiling because you
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know you see the the finished job and
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that is
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looking really good you missed a bit
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over there darling
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that's it you got it now yeah absolutely
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no that's bad sand in that bit is it
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I'll set the sanding blight
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so you can see the difference there now
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that that's
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just sanded that's unsanded
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that's the wife
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and the trick is to get that as even as
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you possibly can
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not that I'm telling you how to do it
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darling but you know
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so even coats and when you're doing your
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sanding
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again don't go mad just nice and gently
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even coats don't worry about going over
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the
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secret Flex well these aren't actually
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Seeker flex but don't worry about going
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over the black you don't want to Hollow
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out the teak you want to keep it nice
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and even now as you know we've done
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these this is
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year eight for this boat and they've
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been done once at gator
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we sanded them I think
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last year no
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no yeah
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um
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and I think we've oiled them once
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without sanding them in Port Solon yeah
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yeah just to protect them
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so there you go
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we haven't worn through the teak you can
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see I'll show you there look
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it's still a good six millimeters it's
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maybe seven millimeters over a quarter
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of an inch thick
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I haven't worn it out
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and it still looks the max nuts
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there we go right I better go and open
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the beer or I'll be in trouble don't
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worry if your teak appears to come up a
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little blotchy at first
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that's uh Not Unusual some bits of teeth
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dry out quicker than others or soak the
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oil in quicker it'll come out right in
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the end
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there we are just been to look at a
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problem on another boat for someone
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tick looks okay let's just have one coat
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you can see the difference there between
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the floor
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yeah and I know it's got a green LED
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lights on
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and the teak
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and this side
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when I get to the end I'm gonna get wet
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you're going to fall in I'll fall in
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um
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this bit is quite warm but I guess
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that's because we use it for
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swimming and diving in that
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but it's still
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five mil thick
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that bit in there
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the bottom of that step is like eight
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mil thick but it doesn't ever get used
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does it no and that's come up really
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nice as well
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so still first coat just really light
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and it's coming up gorgeous
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and it will protect it from the
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next Summers
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sunshine and
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whatever
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and you remember
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there's four sections of teak there and
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four under my butt
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that we took right out and we cut the
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holes for the
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for the um David Savage
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I'll put a link in the description to
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that video I think there's two
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when we fit the davits and um
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I cut all the teak out four bands of it
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cut a big hole in there but big piece of
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pry up inside fiberglass that in drilled
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the holes
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seems like ages ago now where was this
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nearly five years ago
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nearly six dollars no five years is it
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yeah
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hey hug
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yeah I mean you
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've got the um the rebuilds come up
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lovely and it's lasted and you can't see
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the join
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just like me can't see the join now
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I know I haven't been sitting around
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watching I'm cleaning downstairs and all
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the bilges get all the dust out and the
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dog cares yes I'm still finding them
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yeah Oscar's gone but he's still here
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oh there we go it's all finished
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may give it another coat later in the
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year but for now that's it job's done
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it's a good in fact Madame likes it so
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much she's been out here reading her
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book
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hi guys hope you enjoyed the video we're
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now in our winter Mooring we'll be going
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out every now and then and doing a bit
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of siling but for now
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um we're going to be doing lots of
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Maintenance and I've got a couple of
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boats to look after uh this winter so
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we'll be doing the maintenance on them
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uh one of them is a catamaran
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um one has uh Yanmar engines so we'll be
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doing a bit on Myanmar engines and um
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there's also some solar to fit and some
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other bits and pieces so stay tuned
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