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I clear out of Tual, Indonesia and set off to Thursday Island, Australia some 750nm away. The winds are kind to begin with and I have a lovely time out there all alone.
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Right guys how's it going? Welcome to another video, I'm about to leave Tual. You can see
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in the distance here the harbour. Tual is a of checkout point in australia and i'm about
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to set off on my second longest solo passage. I'm heading down to Thursday Island on the
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northern tip of australia and yeah i hope it goes well there's a wind now and there's still going
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to be wind maybe tomorrow and then after that i'm going to be searching but yeah it could be
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a bit of a monotonous trip but yeah is what it is all right enjoy the video i'll get back to
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you when i'm starting to get out of here i'll get back to you and tell you what's going on
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right guys i'm about a couple of hours now out of 2l now got the sails up it's very light
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breeze i'm starting down the channel between kai kachil and kai basar that means kai is small and
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quite big there's two two islands here and yeah just four nights going very slowly but um yeah
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here's what it is i'm not in a big rush it's what is it today it is uh monday
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yeah monday because i had to wait over the weekend to clear out and to get to thursday
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islands about 700 miles which will be five five six days but there's no point getting there before
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monday because i can't clear in there because the staff don't work weekends obviously so
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yeah i could probably get there in five days but there's no point really um i'll just sit
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there for two days and i can't go to land or can't do anything so i don't know i'll just go
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at whatever speed i can obviously if i'm only sailing at two knots i'll turn the engine on
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and it probably will come down to that because the wind's not forecasted to be very strong
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but yeah just yeah i'm going to enjoy it this is going to be the second uh
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longest solo passage i think i've done i've done two eight day ones but this is going to be a five
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or six day one and it's been a good good uh three and a half years since i did a solo passage this
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long last week i did a two day two night one um yeah i've gotta say nearly four years in indonesia
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i'm feeling quite mixed actually in one way i'm really happy to leave it's been a long time here
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and it's frustrating in a lot of ways trying to get anything done on the boat trying to get any
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sort of quality equipment or parts or or manpower really you know like they don't have the same
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um view on quality as as we do as on longevity things like that for them if you know you fix
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it in the last few days whatever time for them is not as important as it is for me or
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western people i think we we look forward to we'd rather spend more and take longer and do a job
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right and then not have to do it for five years whereas in indonesian's just a couple of zip ties
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a bit of duct tape you know prey to other or god or whoever the you know whoever they are
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and it'll work itself out and you know there's no rush so if it breaks we'll
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just do it again tomorrow and that sort of thing i struggle with but
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there'll be so much i miss from here the people
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i i think the same things that i'm not going to miss and frustrate me here
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it's pretty much the same things that i'm gonna miss so you know that's a strange feeling to have
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you know the feeling of time here the feeling that this you know you don't have to work your ass off
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your whole life just to retire with lots of money but no experiences the time they have for family
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here the time you know walking down the street everyone says hello how are you and it's not just
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just some off-the-cuff uh out of the feeling that they should say something it's so they really mean
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it they want everyone wants to stop and talk and and even if they're not smiling if i give someone
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a smile they immediately break out their big white teeth and that's just so good and you don't
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get that in western countries if you start acting like that people think you're some sort of weirdo
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what's he talking to me for what's he asking how i feel today like that's a bit intrusive so i'm
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really gonna miss that i think and just uh yeah it's just really beautiful here and obviously it's
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beautiful in other countries too but if i think back on our four years here obviously we've seen
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and you guys have two on the videos the landscapes the beaches the underwater the waterfalls the
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jungle it's just fantastic and it is amazing but if i would have to give my top five experiences
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that wouldn't be any of those things they would all be relating to people and experiences we
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had where we just rocked up somewhere and people just blew us away with their generosity or their
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friendliness and and they're the things that i'm really gonna miss you know you can get beautiful
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places everywhere and you just fly there and you go you know you go on holiday and you see
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all this beautiful stuff but really really human interaction and human experiences are what what
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keeps the memories for me you know and so that's what i'm going to miss most about this place
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for sure so um cheers to all of you indonesians that have made our trip here just unforgettable
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this is a german beer by the way i got given a few bottles of this the other night to be honest it's
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nice to drink a good beer bintang is obviously worldwide known as the indonesian beer but to me
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it is just a watery tasteless rubbish beer so this is good to get a good tasting german beer again
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wow would you look at that what an amazing sunset to finish this indonesian odyssey on
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wow so cool got the motor on unfortunately the wind was okay for a couple of hours
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but we're only doing two knots in the end so i had to flick it on
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hopefully when i get past these islands and out into the ocean it'll
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pick up but i'm not really holding my breath that it's going to be much of a sailing trip this one
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i've got enough fuel i think i got 220 230 liters which which i've roughly calculated to be about
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800 kilometers 800 miles 700 miles maybe so that should be more than enough if i need
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to motor the whole way it would be terrible if i did but you know worst case scenario anyway
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i've got to sit here and enjoy this sunset for a minute it looks incredible check it out again
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uh what a wonderful morning here on the arafura sea wow so stunning we're on a full run
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we've got the wind right behind it's not too bad it's a bit wobbly as you can see from the horizon
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but it's not not too bad to be honest and we don't have much wind but i've been surprised because
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we've sailed the entire night as soon as i got out the bottom of kai basar and turned on this heading
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so i had this configuration wing on wing but i still had the engine chugging and then at some
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stage i decided i was getting tired wanting to go to sleep so i turned the engine off and uh yeah
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we we just i went to sleep and i woke up and we were doing six knots and then every time i
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woke up during the night we were still doing six six six six eight seven knots sometimes and just
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chugging along and now we're yeah we're doing five and a half now it's eased off a little bit but
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yeah we did a a good chunk uh what do we did yeah 70 something miles had a good sleep well a lot of
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good sleeps i was setting my alarm for 45 minutes there was no traffic i didn't see a single ship or
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ais contact or anything all night so i was doing 45 minute sleeps and then a quick look around
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and i had yeah had a good eight eight of them i think seven or eight of them so yeah i'm feeling
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pretty good this morning stoked the first the first day and night went super fast i'm really
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happy and we made pretty good miles okay i'm gonna get some breakfast and have a coffee
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we're going along pretty good now i shook out the reef that i put in at night time
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so i have the full main up now and we're in high sevens well you know in between swells
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and that mid sixes then high sevens long may it last i love this i feel like every minute we're
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sailing we're like beating the odds indonesia is not the best place to actually sail a boat
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pretty frustrating place to sail the wind will blow up so you pull the sails up and then it's
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the minute you've got the sails all set the wind will drop again pretty much every time but
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defying all the odds i have a coffee it's only about 6 30 or something but i feel rested you
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know i'll probably have a sleep this afternoon because there's a bit of a longer haul i need
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to make sure i get more than enough sleep and uh doesn't seem too much traffic around
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i heard there's some big fishing nets further like in two days time 15 15 mile long fishing
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net so i have to be careful of them but while i can i'll get lots of sleep but then afterwards
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it's going to be apparently super calm anyway so i'll be you know i won't have a problem
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it's not going to be too challenging anyway i'm going to get this coffee brewed i make what i call
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ghetto coffee it's uh you coffee lovers out there you'll probably go like oh this guy's a heathen
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but it's the way i like it i do really like a good good coffee and going to australia i'm going to
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get good coffees but then paying six bucks for a good coffee yeah i'd rather have a ghetto coffee
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nearly but every now and again if someone is going to make a really good coffee i love it
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i've got barista friends and that and you know great coffees but
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i don't like them enough that i'm going to spend 20 minutes getting my own coffee ready i just
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want to throw something in a cup and drink it so anyway i'll show you how my ghetto coffee looks
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nearly out now but ginger brown sugar sticks love them
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either then i just use my normal ghetto coffee routine and then cut a couple of sticks of
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ginger in there i love the ginger spicy taste in a coffee they do it a lot here
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in indonesia it's called uh kopi jain kopi yaya uh i love it so this it's not instant coffee i
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just use this cup this is just ground coffee just ground coffee beans whack it in there
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and then
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i got you guys will love all those milk powder chuck that in there
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bit of water a bit of cold water give it a stir
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yep that's ghetto coffee put in the hot water drink there you go good ghetto coffee and you
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just have to make sure not to drink the last mouthful because there's a lot of
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grounds in there uh yeah sometimes i save those grounds up and marie uses them as a body scrub
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the coffee grounds are good to exfoliate skin but more than often i forget and throw them away
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anyway that's ghetto coffee on board shahelian i actually didn't want to do a coffee thing because
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that's such a well i guess it's over now but everyone was doing the coffee brewing but i
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never saw anyone do ghetto coffee so uh everyone's so concentrated on showing their amazing coffee
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i'm pretty happy to show my ghetto coffee hope you enjoy it well you probably wouldn't you probably
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hate it but anyway i hope you enjoy the fact that i enjoy my ghetto coffee in the morning
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mmm consistency and color of mud tastes good though look at this view this is my wake up view
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i love it i can stand here i'm just standing here in the companion way
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companionway i don't know the steps leading to my house downstairs
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in layman's terms i can stand here because i'm quite well braced
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i can stand here and watch the waves and watch where we've been for hours i love it if only the
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dolphins would play at the back of the boat it'd be so sick i'll just stand here and they'd just be
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jumping out and looking at me it'd be awesome but they always want to play at the front and
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i have to walk all the way up there so far 12 meters yeah there's a good view back here
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i've got about 70 miles to go and i'm going to pass a big island called aru
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where a guy called wallace an old explorer discovered a lot of the paradise birds of paradise
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the different brands of them i read his book it's called the malay archipelago
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it's about 7 000 pages long but it's bloody bloody interesting which a lot of the places i've visited
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he visited in 1850 something he he was one of the discoverers of the evolution theory at the
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same time as darwin was working on in england after darwin had done his trip around the world
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well to the galapagos mainly wallace was going all through here
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uh all through indonesia it wasn't indonesia at the time obviously but um all through here
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and sort of discovering like oh these different islands some of them have animals they originated
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well they have everything in common with the australian animals and other ones have they're
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just strictly papuan animals that have moved to a few close islands here other ones have come from
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malaysia they realized that they had evolved to suit their surroundings and they weren't
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completely different species they've just changed so he was one of the first if not it's debatable
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whether it was him or darwin but they never disputed it they both just used each other's
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knowledge to to agree basically really cool book you can get your hands on it the malay archipelago
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well guys still cruising along here beautiful sailing a little bit rolly but nothing major
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it's maybe getting close to 10 a.m now and the wind's still cranking i mean not cranking it's
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probably about 12 13 knots true which is yeah six seven knots apparent but we're still doing five
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and a half six knots i've had to turn 20 degrees support to keep the the gull wing configuration
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and my plan is to keep going this way for 10 miles or so then turn 30 degrees to starboard and put
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both sails over on the same side and i should have more apparent wind then go a bit faster or
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if the wind's dropping then i'll have more apparent winds so i'll be better off so right now
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i'm going off course a little bit but hopefully to keep me sailing longer yeah it's a little bit
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overcast as you can see but it's actually nice it's not so sunny not so hot and yeah loving it
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i'm just reading and having snacks enjoying it there's no boats out here no one around
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as you can see out this way as well no one around a couple of squads further away nothing major
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so
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all right guys that's day two in the books well i guess day one and a half really only left at
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3 30 yesterday so that's the first full day and uh had a pretty good one sailed all of last night and
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most of today i would say until about two o'clock this afternoon just sailing really good speeds
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and uh yeah better than i expected better than the forecast said and even now we've still got
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some wind and motor got the motor on for sure but uh about half our speeds coming from the engine
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and half from the sails we're doing six knots right now and the engine's just ticking over
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we're only at 1700 revs so yeah looking good i've already got reefs in the main and uh ready for the
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night if this sort of keeps up we'll be yeah we'll be getting good good speed but we don't
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really need to hurry that's the thing the next three days are going to be i think dead calm so
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i'll just cruise then but while we've got wind i'll push on anyway i'm going to go and cook some
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food now and uh start settling in for the night hopefully it'll be a calm one the sky looks good
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it's about three days away from full moon so it's nice and bright at night i can see squares
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if they're coming and uh there hasn't been too many fishing boats around there's been a few
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today but i haven't seen i can see one out there now actually but yeah hopefully there's no big
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nets that would be the main thing anyway i'll get back to you in the morning awesome day out here
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you