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In this week's video we left Banda, sailed
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a very casual 180 miles over to Tual in the Kei Islands, very casual, very casual sail. Enjoy!
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G'day guys. Welcome to another episode. Bye bye Banda Neira, beautiful place, had an amazing time here.
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We're heading out into the ocean towards the Kei islands, Tual is the city there. It's a passage of
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around 180 miles so it'll be an overnight and the next day something like that we're not quite sure
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and it looks like it's going to be light winds and mostly downwinds so that's like not a good
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combination of downwind and light wind but we'll see how we go we sort of need to go
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fast to get there before sunset tomorrow but we'll see what we get anyway enjoy the video
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first sailing of the year we are the first january and we are downwind going five knots super easy
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so this is sunset time we had a good sailing day good motor selling day because
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with the downwind it was not enough strong to turn off the engine a lot
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and as you can see i didn't put any sun cream as a newbie i know i should do because i know exactly
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what's happening in the sunny day when i we are sailing but it's okay and so we are both super red
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today and i think it's a bit because it's the day after new year and we were a bit tired and lazy
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so we didn't really take any precaution with the sun and add a lot of nuts in there
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and the birds and i can imagine that this night gonna be super calm if you stay like this
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no squall no big clouds around so i think the watch is gonna be quite easy tonight
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yep as marie said we got a little bit sunburnt today i haven't actually looked in the mirror
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but i can just feel it we're like gonna ah it's like crackly yeah big rookie like i don't know
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it's like we've never been on the ocean before i guess but no sunscreen lying out in the sun
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it was nice it was enjoyable but yeah pretty sudden cooked now
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well this is day two early morning and yes squalls all around us we're only catching the
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side of this one and it's not too bad but uh got one reef in the main well which i've had all night
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and uh yeah i just filled up the head so till the school passes this boat goes really well
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on main alone it's a main mainsail driven boat so if it's just going to be for a short time
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it's sort of easier just to fill away the headsail than put another reef in the main
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um and yeah we're still doing 6.8 knots just with the main so you know it does pretty well
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it's a little bit harder on the autopilot it has it's got a little bit more weather helm with just
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the main because it's a little bit unbalanced but if it's just for 10 15 minutes while the
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school passes then i can sleep out some headsail again it works it seems to work better and so
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last night was actually really good during the day we sort of just motor sailed there was just
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i don't know we were completely down windows like eight knots of wind but
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you know like going very slowly so we're motor sailing and um and then after we'd had some dinner
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i just it just slowly picked up the wind a little bit i guess to 14 15 knots and turned the engine
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off and we sailed the whole night through no squalls otherwise one squad with a bit of wind and
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rain but nothing really so the whole night through it sort of six three six five knots and uh just
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beautiful night actually marie stayed sleeping and i just stayed on the bean bag and did 20 minute
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just had my phone on my chest with the alarm going and 20 minutes sleeps and i sort of slept
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the whole night as well i didn't see there was one ship that passed about five miles away and that
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was it and it was a beautiful night of sailing it was really good i already had in my head that we
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were going to be just motoring the whole way so i was sort of like yeah ready for that but it was
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such a nice surprise just to sail the whole way and yeah we haven't had the engine on since six
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o'clock last night so it's pretty good we put a sail the whole way we've got 20 miles to go
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i'm going to this little island here
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down in this anchorage
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well scratch what i just said about not putting another wreath in there's a big squall behind us
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and yeah in front of us as well so i so i decided to put a second reef in
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and then let some head sail out
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so we're yeah we're doing six and a half and very very chill i could let more head sell out
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now for sure but the one behind us is catching up quite quick so i'll just let it play out
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see how we go it's raining now which is nice and cool at least
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land ho land ho indeed just over here i don't know what the island's called but uh
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i looked on the satellite maps and it looks like there's a couple good
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anchorages in here that'll be pretty calm and uh we're about five miles away now
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so we've done 175 miles actually quite good time we left at 10 in the morning and it's
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12 now so 26 hours 170 miles and the first eight of it we're motoring slowly so yeah
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we've gone pretty good actually we're um wing on wing now doing seven in a
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bit pretty nice pretty comfortable and uh yeah just just powering along shahelion once again
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on a passage we have never once had anything happen it's just amazing she just keeps going
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obviously electronics are starting to fail a little bit we've got no freezer no fridge
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no wind instruments the batteries have gone to um chart plotters on its way out
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but you know everything i mean everything we really need works still the boat sails the
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autopilot works perfectly and uh yeah we're all good i look forward to seeing what this
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new anchorage is going to be like it's not the most sunny of days but it's actually nice when
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you're on passage not to have a bluebird day just because it's too hot especially with a tail
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wind you know you don't have much apparent wind to cool you down but yeah it's been a
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nice passage anyway marie's feeling a bit sick today i'm not seasick just feeling a bit rubbish
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um yeah i don't know she she's slept a lot she's she's she's all right she's just not
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feeling very strong but uh we'll probably stay in this anchorage a day or two and
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relax and uh get some good food and probably not drinking enough that might be it but um
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we'll see i'll show you the anchorage when we get there okay we've arrived
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at our hopeful destination for the day this island over here behind me is called pulauri
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the other ones i don't know but it looks very beautiful nice colors see some houses in the
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distance there some locals there's another bay up in here with a bunch of houses it's a pretty small
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channel we're going into here and i'm just going to sail in because we've when we've got wind we
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sail should be all good and we'll drop the sails once we get into the lagoon it'll be nice and calm
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beautiful just dropped the head sail it's cruising along with the mainsail now a few
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fishermen over there there must be people around over here in the lagoon there's a few fishermen
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so yeah we're 25 meters of water here so we're just going to skip along the edge of the reef here
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and uh finally find a place with no coral bombies that's sort of under 20 meters and
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we'll just drop there anywhere in here is going to be pretty sheltered it's nearly high tide now
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so everything below high tide is going to be even more calm than this because the
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reef outside is blocking all the waves so yeah it looks pretty optimal have a good rest here
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all right well that's ten
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someone put a dead animal in this thing off very smelly
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it's because we were oh yeah it's pretty stinky three weeks anchored in banda the
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chain came up with a lot of stuff on it and you saw the huddle cleaning that
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a lot of life in the sea and bander i think anyway we've anchored in about 12 13 metres of water here
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we did a little circle in and it's just a gradual sandy slope up to we went into four meters deep
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so it came gradually up from 25 to 4 meters just a gradual slope so pretty perfect spot to anchor
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and now we just let to win push us back on the anchor and dig it in and
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just let out some more chain until i've got about uh 50 meters out should be pretty safe
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so it's 3 30 in the morning and we woke up because it was super windy this night and it started to
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be more and more strong and we started to hear the encore and the chain moving so it's hard to
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see with the rain if we were dragging or not and we are checking and setting the alarm for the
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for the anchor to be sure we are not dragging in the bay
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it's raining super hard the wind has just started calming down now so i'm less worried but
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i turned the engine on put it in gear to take some load off the chain which we sort of heard
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possibly dragging but it might have just been stretching out we're not sure but the difficult
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thing in this situation is to actually know where you are and which way you're pointing
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you might have engine on in gear facing the wrong way you know could be because the gps
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all of the chart plotters don't really show the direction which way you're facing until
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you're moving so if you're staying still it's just a line but it might be the wrong way
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there's no lights around here there's no people so we can't get a bearing on where we are on the
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land so about the only way we can do it is sort of look at the two or three different plotters
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and the depth meter and if we obviously if we're dragging we'd be getting deeper and
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deeper so that stayed the same and uh yeah just crossed my fingers basically we've got the anchor
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alarm on on the plotter set to a quite small range and that's not showing that we're moving
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and now now it's actually started raining harder i think that's the end of the squad
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so the wind will probably die down now so it'll be okay but it's just it's just
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so tricky because you're really blind you just don't know where we are so it's just
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and there's reef all around us front back side every side so that's the tricky thing
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so i think the storm is over the wind is more calm everything is more quiet on board so
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we're gonna go back to bed and hoping that that was the only one of the night
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so after a pretty squally night um yeah the anchor held and everything it wasn't really a problem but
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it was pretty squally and it's a beautiful beautiful location but not really if it's
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weather like this the squirrels can come from any direction and blow you on the beach off the beach
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you can't really go to the beach because it's you know it's just not enjoyable it's raining all the
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time windy so we decided to pull up the anchor and leave to two hours today it was a beautiful
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spot and we did sort of plan to enjoy it here but there's not much point if you you know worried all
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the time and it's just bad weather and raining so decide to use this good wind go to tuala it's 35
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miles so it's not too far should be there in the middle of the afternoon sometime it's 10 o'clock
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now we didn't really leave we didn't really make the decision that early but uh we should be good
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we've got relatively good winds and unless there's really bad currents we should be fine how are you
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feeling about that i'm feeling okay about that i just hope it's gonna not rain too much because
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i don't really like to sail when it's raining the cockpit is a bit too small to not being wet
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it is going to be squally today for sure it's all around squalls so it started off with uh two reefs
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in the main and yeah half the jib out until we we're still in between the channel here still
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coral and stuff around but um yeah just play it by i'll could probably keep both reefs in in the main
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and then just play around with the jib to um keep our speed up we'll try and keep six not average
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to get there a good time pretty much primo sailing right now to be honest we're a couple miles out
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the island's still over there but we we came from around the corner of those little
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little islands you can see marie's on her throne
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took out one reef so we're down to first reef now and got the whole jib out and um yeah i would say
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we've got about i don't know there's the odd wide cap around our wind thing's broken as i've said in
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a few times but there's a few white caps around so i guess we're like 12 knots or something but
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we're doing six eight through the water um oh six eight speed overground there's still
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squalls around over there but no this is about as good as it gets i could pull the full main up when
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we might get to 7-2 or something but um yeah we 10 more knots of breeze will be really flying but
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there's no sea state it's just yeah super relaxing it doesn't even feel like we're going fast
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downwind beautiful we'll get there quite quick at this rate let's see how we go though
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things always change a little update the wind's picked up a little bit
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i don't know now it's probably 15 18 knots maybe but uh they're on a broad reach still got one
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reefing and the full jib out but now instead of sixes we're doing high sevens mid-eights
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just sweetly flown along there's a little bit more waves now but not you know like we're
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going with them really oh they're about yeah 30 degrees across us but it's yeah beautiful
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we're ripping we're halfway already all right we made it here to tual anchored up nicely in
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the harbour it's pretty calm pretty nice hard but look at the sunset sort of 3d it looks crazy babe
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looks pretty rad eh nice end of the day that's probably one of the best downwind
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sails i've ever had with chahelion haven't really sailed downwind a lot with this boat
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um seems like we're mostly sailing upwind that you know sails well upwind or at least like beam reach
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but this was not completely downwind a bit of a
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broad reach but man it was we were flying we were probably averaging seven and a half for
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20 something miles in a row uh got here real fast yeah it was a beautiful day pretty uh pretty epic
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sailing so this is the end of this episode thanks for watching all of you uh hope you enjoy it
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uh the next episode gonna be about a sailing passage again from tual to triton bay
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