The keel timber leading edge is completed and the glass/epoxy encapsulation is started. The ballet keel bolts and top get sealed and I do a thorough work through of the engine electrical system.

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oh nice
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hi i'm tony and this is the story of the
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build of this 31 foot 8-inch jay benford
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designed cruising sailboat
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from the lofting of the lines to our
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emerging from the boat sheds to receiver
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keel masterson all the other
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paraphernalia that make up a cruising
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vessel
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join us on this adventure as we
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build topacha and hopefully set off to
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test her out as a liverboard cruising
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vessel
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well
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as you may well be aware we're working
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on the
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keel of the boat and one of the beauties
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of the ben fedori is that you can build
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the boat and fit the kill towards the
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end of the build
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and the keel basically is formed out of
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two sections it's the kill timber that
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i'm lent on here the ballast here that
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you can see over there just about next
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to it
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and the timber fits on top of the
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ballast kill and the whole thing is
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bolted up
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underneath the boat
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and the thinking as it stands is that
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the boat
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and the keel sections will be
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transported separately up to a boat yard
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somewhere
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and then i use the facilities there to
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uh to get the boat up in the air and
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jack the keel up underneath it and bolt
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them together
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but
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the timber still needs a bit of
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finishing off you may remember as it was
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it was a flat piece that fitted
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completely on top of the of the ballast
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kill
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but there are two sections that hang
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down i'll go around the other side
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yeah that's the part that that fits in
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front of this or just fares the the
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ballast kill into the timber
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there's another section that hangs down
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after the ballast kill
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that goes back as far as the rudder the
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a rudder shoe
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so i've got the front one of those on in
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position now and in many ways the front
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one's the hardest of them even though
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it's much smaller because it's shaped
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you know it's angled it's shaped to
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blend into that leading edge
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that is now in position i'm started
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glassing up i've got a good heavy
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biaxial
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tape down the front there then i'll be
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laying it flat and box or cloth on
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either side
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the whole thing will be completely
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encapsulated in in glass and epoxy and
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and a fairly heavy one at that
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um so that's coming on well
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still got that aft raised section to go
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but i do believe that'll go quickly as
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it's big but it's a big chunk of wood
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it's not particularly complex
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so let's come on well
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i also put a few coats of zinc rich
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epoxy on the on the baluskill on the top
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and on the bolts just to seal those and
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protect them
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uh
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uh
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what are these things that's what you're
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doing gary
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so
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we poured acetone into this tank
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to try and get rid of all the crud
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that's on the inside of it
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here you can see
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yeah it's a bit better than it was last
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time last time we came out completely
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black again
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ah yeah
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the petrol had gone off in there hadn't
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it and uh line the tank out with sort of
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varnish that settles out of the petrol
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somehow
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and then it keeps bunging up the
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carburetor the muck in the tank so
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trying to get it clean eh
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yep
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so
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okay
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okay
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so the right spot is
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there
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that's pretty good
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lovely
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somewhere
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so
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um
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so
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it's looking quite good isn't it it's
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not perfect but it's quite good
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a lot of it's perfect it's just that
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very front end
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it's going to take a bit of filler there
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just to line that up perfectly
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little fearing filler
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let's do it
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all right
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let's see if we're gonna fight the joy
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okay is it
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thank you
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got a bit of a low point here which is
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yeah
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but there we go
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life perhaps
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do it
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right here
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okay
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hmm
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structure
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so we've got the engine wiring diagram
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and the instrument panel wiring diagram
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plus a load of notes that i made
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yesterday evening and i was tracing
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through it all
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and the multimeter
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and it's time to get
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in there
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trace it through and get things working
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beautiful
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so that one is the mindless that one's
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the minus that's going on there
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what's going on there
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still fit
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it does
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and spent a fair bit of time this week
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testing through the wiring of the engine
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and the panel tracing it through i
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showed you there the wiring diagrams and
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the multimeter but in practice and in
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fact i mainly use the test lamp which is
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a
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much more suitable tool
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to see it laying there
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my trusty my trusty test lamp
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um much more suitable tool in truth for
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testing 12 lock circuits
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so i worked through that found one or
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two errors for example one of the wires
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was going to the wrong pin of the
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starter relay
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but one of the main things of these
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engines
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is that the uh earth
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the main earth and the alternator earth
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is is isolated from the engine so the
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alternate it doesn't earth to the engine
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block
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as a separate earth and most of the
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engine wiring most
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passes through that earth as well
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and um there's a bit of a history there
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there are four versions of the this is
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md penta md 2010 i've got there are four
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versions of it
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and the first version had a double
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solenoid so that both the positive and
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the negative were
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uh were isolated to the starter motor
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worked through a solenoid
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and then they saw the
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senselessness of their ways
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insulated the sail drive from the engine
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and just used a standard positive solid
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lodge
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but the alternator as i say still has an
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isolated earth
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and most of the engine wiring most of
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the engine wiring passes through that
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isolated earth of the alternator so
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that's a very important connection
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um and if that is enough scratch it
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causes all sorts of problems and that
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was another thing that i found
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so i've ordered um
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some
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awg eight wire which i'll run a new
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earth from the alternator
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uh with that that's still to come but
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other than that as i say one or two
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little errors i found i need to put a
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new feed to the glow plugs
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but other than that everything seems to
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be working now when i turn the panel on
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the warning buzzer beeps
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actually when i wired it up with the
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little battery that i had i
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that the start that was engaging and
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turning the engine a little bit so
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things are all looking very good
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and i'm hopeful
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uh i'm
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connecting up the batteries well the
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battery i've just got a very small
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battery in the service battery
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area but the start the battery as you
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saw is being connected up and we're
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getting close
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to being in the position to be able to
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start it because this is
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this is one of the things i'm really
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working on i'm working on getting that
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kill finished and starting the engine
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that's something i want to do
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soon as soon as possible actually
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and then once i've got those done be
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masts and we're
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looking
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at moving up to the boatyard
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