A slow start to the week and a day or so of worry and frantic measuring. In the end, it all turns out ok. The engine turns over and the keel is nearing being complete!

This is the story of the building of a Jay Benford designed, 31.8ft, junk schooner-rigged cruising sailboat. The videos are a week-by-week record of the build as it progresses and aim to show as much detail as possible of the various aspects of the build.

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Tony

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hi i'm tony
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well it's been a bit of a funny old week
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you know i guess you know
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part of the life of a boat builder or
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anyone else come to that
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is that you have various other
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commitments that you have to deal with
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and this week's been rather like that
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um last few sundays i've been going up
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to hazel's boat and helping her with
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that
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i can now happily announce that she's
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launched again in the water and getting
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ready for uh summer adventures
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uh more that we'll show you some of that
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in in a video soon because i know some
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of you are interested in the
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four deck arrangement we've done there
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um
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and for a while i didn't feel like
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progress was very good on on to patio
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this week but in the end i'm pleased
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that i feel like i've got on
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quite well
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we'll have a look at what's been going
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on shall we
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hi i'm tony and this is the story of the
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build of this 31 foot eight inch jay
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benford 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 liveaboard cruising
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vessel
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so here we are inside the boat and as
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you probably know been pushing on
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recently for a while now on two fronts
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which is the engine wiring in particular
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engine and battery
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wiring plus the the keel of course and
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uh started off this week in here
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wiring up the batteries and the engine
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one thing i wanted to get i wanted to
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get as far as is actually getting the
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engine to turn over
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um i did notice at the starter or one of
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the two relays there are two relays
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one's a starter either one's a once a
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globe plug relay i didn't notice one of
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those wasn't working
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and i found one that looked very much
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like it on amazon and bought that a
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generic relay stuck it in and indeed it
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works and that's really good to know
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that they're just a standard reader and
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you can get them
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readily so that worked and i say i
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wanted to get the batteries wired up to
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get as far as the engine actually
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turning over when you you push push the
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button
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um and then of course
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as soon as possible it would be a case
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of putting some diesel in uh some
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rigging up some cooling water and
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actually trying to start if i haven't
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got that fire
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okay
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yeah
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yeah somewhere
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um
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um
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that's okay
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huh
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foreign
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let's have a look in the battery area
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take this
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if i take this second step out from the
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companionway
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gives us access to the staff battery
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and that looks like this and if i just
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pan up this way you'll see i've got two
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battery selector switches this one here
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is for the what i should call a service
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battery that i can take from either
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battery one or battery two
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this one's for the motor the starter
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also
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have the option to take from battery one
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or battery two
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mainly speaking battery two which we're
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looking at here under the under the
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companionway steps will be the starter
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battery and battery one which will be in
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the electronics bay or electrics bay
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there will be the service battery but i
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do have the option to to switch to
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either one so when we look at the
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battery connections here you'll see
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there's a well the earth obviously goes
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to a common bus
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the negative
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and the positive got two takeoffs one
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the thicker cable
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for the starter and that's the feed to
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the service should battery 2 ever be
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switched to be the service battery so
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it's got a double option and we'll have
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the same with battery one in the
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electric bay there
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and looking in here the electric space
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and it's very difficult to show you but
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i hope you can see there the negative
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bus that's the main negative bus
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the back of the two switches that are
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coming up there
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um
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and if i scan around there
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chunk it in here
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you see a couple of buses for the solar
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with two solar controllers
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the solar only charges battery one
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the engine alternator goes through a
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splitter to charge both batteries
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and the onboard battery charger which is
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around here
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also charges both batteries
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that's the setup in here
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also around
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here
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there around here is the inverter which
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runs off the battery sector switches as
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well
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what you doing there mate welding hey
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one stick down good
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oh
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beautiful was it the middle part the end
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was a bit tricky
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beautiful perfect perfect
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ready
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great
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okay
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measure again
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is
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so
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and here we are in the keel area and
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lots of clutter laid about but
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you've seen the main
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wooden cure timber that sits on top of
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the ballast heel
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um
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and what i've been working on this week
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is the aft end of this
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the part that comes down behind the
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ballast kill
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and extends out
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goes out and
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underneath the propeller the cell drive
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and to where the bottom of the rudder
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sits on it
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and that's made up of two parts one part
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that's shaped like this with the taper
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on it that's another 12 centimeters
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four and a half inches or so it drops
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down below there carries that taper then
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the bit that extends back to the rubber
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is a big rectangular chunk really
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um obviously is significantly longer
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and uh
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had a bit of an issue i had a bit of a
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problem this week
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and for a little while i thought i made
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a major mistake and then
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i was out for one whole evening with
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elizabeth and kerry helped me as well
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with some measuring did a lot of
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measurements until i was finally happy
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that indeed i hadn't made a mistake it
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is all correct
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but that measurement for this piece to
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come back to that aft rubber shoes is
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particularly sensitive and
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i don't wish to complain but but the
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plans
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are lacking dimensions a bit they're
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drawn to a scale of of half inch to a
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foot
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and you end up measuring things off of
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the drawings and then because i work in
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metric converging things into metric and
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at least i work largely in metric
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converting things and it's a little bit
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you know it takes a bit of thought let's
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put it that way but now
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got beyond that and now we have
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these two parts glued up this one is the
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extended taper section ready to come out
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of the clamps this one is the big
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square section that goes on the end they
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both have this this
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double rebate that locates in the aft
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end of the
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of the ballast kill
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and uh this one's ready for further
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machining
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that one needs a good sand up playing up
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on the taper end so it matches exactly
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there and then we're ready to assemble
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the whole thing
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well the glass seal glass encapsulating
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it and then assembling it
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so
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so
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um
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uh
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should be good
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so
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that's pretty good
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split that out
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then we're going to try the salt trick
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oh
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that's a thing of beauty in it
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it's just beautiful
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but another thing that's been going on
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this week is this
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barbecue that needed rebuilding we've
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had this barbecue for 24 years i think
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and it's
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become a bit like that the ship of
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theseus or
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telly ho dare i say or perhaps if you're
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a brit triggers broom
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i've rebuilt or patched it up a few
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times and changed a few bits and and it
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was obviously time for a major rebuild
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on it and terry and i have done that
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the only original bits left are the
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actual grille and these two rusty side
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bits but um but it's a marvelous thing
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and retains its original soul without a
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question
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and yeah bought some new still sheep for
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it kerry welded it up uh did the vast
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majority of the welding at
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least with wire brushed off the legs
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give it a coat of paint
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new bit of wood
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ready to go looking great
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and that was the progress for this week
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um
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yes
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okay
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is
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