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Safe Harbor At Last | #66 | DrakeParagon Sailing Season 5 - YouTube
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It just barely
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missed the bow.
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We have to go now.
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Ya.
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We have to make that anchorage work.
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Or the weather station.
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Iceberg directly ahead!
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Top gust was 30 knots.
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He’s right in my path
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Hard port! Hard port! Hard port!
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Quick!
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So once we get to the far side of these icebergs
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we’ll probably be able to open up the throttle a little bit more.
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I think there’s a glacier up here on the left on the port side.
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Aye!
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I think that’s what’s producing all these little icebergs.
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Ya.
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How’s it look?
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All clear!
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Increasing throttle now!
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Wow, we made it through that crazy field.
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That was nerve-racking.
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That’s probably where that big field came from.
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Outta there.
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Amazing.
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Whooo weee…
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Another hour to go.
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We’ll get there a little after 5, at the weather station.
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Ice fields and noodles.
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Ya.
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I really love cup of noodles.
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They’re just brilliant.
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Quick, easy, hot.
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Ya.
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I think that’s the biggest glacier that I have seen.
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This close.
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So far.
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Prince Christian Sound weather station,
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Prince Christian Sound weather station
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This is sailing vessel Paragon, Paragon, Paragon
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channel one six over.
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I hope they’re not thinking
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Oh no, not another one.
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Not another like foreign cruising boat that wants
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to invade our private world.
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Maybe they’re off weathering.
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What?
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Maybe they’re off weathering.
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Weathering?
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Ya, that’s what you do at a weather station isn’t it?
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They’re probably all hanging out in the sauna.
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Being in a place like think certainly makes me think about
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how your engine is everything.
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Certain circumstances where basically
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you loose your engine…
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you’re gonna probably loose your boat
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and maybe your life.
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It’s like so much depends on the engine not failing.
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How close are we?
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32 minutes, it’s saying to outside of the anchorage.
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Then another 20 minutes down to the weather station.
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Or… Vejrstation
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I was thinking of calling them in Danish and seeing if they reply.
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Awww…
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(Danish)
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I don’t know… I don’t know.
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I figure it’ll be just like any other place
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that we’ve been to in Greenland.
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Basically we show up,
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poke around,
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find something that we can…
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that looks like we can tie up to it
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and just do it.
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and then ask questions later.
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What do you think?
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I think it’s a trimaran.
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Oh, no. really?? ha ha ha
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I was just thinking about them.
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I can’t tell.
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Still too far away.
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But we might be able to tie up too them.
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Yup.
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So that is the weather station.
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That’s the weather station.
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Is there dock space? Or..
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Can we raft up? Over.
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At least right now I think we are occupying the only
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space on the pier that’s possible.
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On the outside, there’s a big rock
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near one side so it’s hard to tie up there.
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Roger, do you think it will be possible
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for us to raft up to you?
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Or should we go anchor?.
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What do you think? Over.
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I think it would be possible to fit two boat here.
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But Ola and Caroline are up at the weather station right now.
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So I would have to ask them first.
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But I think it would be possible.
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I don’t know if they want to do it.
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Roger that, our ETA there is probably in about 20 minutes.
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Do you expect them back soon? Over.
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Ya, they should be back now.
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We were up there together and I went down early, so…
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they should just be half an hour late.
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So they should be here anytime now.
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I hope we can fix it so you can dock here.
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Roger that, thank you so much.
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We will be standing by right here on channel one six, over.
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Ya, Relax switching back to one six.
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It’ll be good to see a fresh weather report.
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Had we been able to get through Prince Christian Sound yesterday
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and head out then I would have said
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let’s book for Ireland.
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Ya.
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But now that it’s a couple of days later
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I’d like to see a fresh weather report and reassess
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which one is safer.
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Kind of looks to me like if they move their dinghy forward
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then we could fit behind them.
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Where I’m standing now?
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There is a rock.
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So it’s very shallow.
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But a little more to the north
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there is some big rubber wheels.
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And there it’s deep enough.
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So one idea we have is
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if we will move our boat a little forward
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and you can get half of your boat towards that dock
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and then we can take your dinghy
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and run out to the shore
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and right behind and a little outside?
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That sounds good?
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You want us to tie up to the tires
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behind your boat or no? Over.
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Ya if you go in on the tires behind our boat
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we arrange for the rest of the lines we need
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after that. We actually moved our boat
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a little bit further in
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so that you can stick out.
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you don’t want to go south of the wheels
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because there’s a big rock lying there.
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Roger that, good copy, ok we’re coming in real slow.
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I’m not sure exactly where he meant
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but there’s a rock that he’s like
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strongly advising we watch out for.
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We are taking it slow.
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We’re in 50 feet of water.
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Look for a rock off our bow Éanna.
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Éanna do you see a…
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He says go… He says go this way.
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We’re turning in now ya?
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What’s he saying?
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The rock is at the very end.
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Starboard end of the pier is where the rock is.
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Ok.
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Get ready to throw a stern line Mo.
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Start going to the (inaudible…)
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Throw a line!
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Am I going to hit Relax?
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Aaaahhhhh!!!
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Ok, fend off the dock.
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Get that stern line to him Mo.
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Backwards.
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Back!
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Hi!
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Hi!
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Tighten that one.
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Tighten it, Tighten it, Tighten it.
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Fast!
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Stern line!
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Hi!
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Hi!
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Welcome!
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Thank you.
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Ok, we’ll get a line to you then.
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(discussing proximity of rock to rudder)
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Otherwise…
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Otherwise you have to untie
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and then we untie and go out.
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and you go in on this side.
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Here?
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And then you raft up to us?
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Ya.
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Hello.
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Hi.
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Welcome.
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Thank you so much.
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Hello.
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(laughter)
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Oh, wow.
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Ya, we think it may be…
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Maybe they have to go out again.
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And we go out and we put them on the inside.
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And we go on the outside.
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Ok.
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Alright then…
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There’s a little worry with the…
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We’re leaving like 5 or 6 in the morning.
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Are you leaving tomorrow morning?
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Ya. (headed for Norway)
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If you go out and we go out after you
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and then
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you raft up and we come in.
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Ok.
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There are not so much space.
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(Recommending that we use lines instead.)
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Ya.
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We’re going to untie this line
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and tighten that line up a bit.
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and just throw a line so we go out.
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Wow.
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And then we pull you in.
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Ya be careful around the corner. Ya.
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Wonderful, this is going to be pretty interesting.
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Ok.
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Ok, their boat’s moving further out.
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We’ll be able to pull ours in.
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Want to start pulling in on the starboard bow line.
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Ok, this is getting let loose.
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Little tire marks. It’s ok.
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Ya, tires are fine.
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I don’t care about tire marks.
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Éanna I need a spring line going the other way.
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From the bow.
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Take this one.
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Hey, take this one.
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Ok.
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Ya.
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Should I stop?
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No, no.
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How much is the stern sticking out?
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Oh, just a little bit that looks beautiful!
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Ok. Now we’re ok.
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Ok. I’ll break it there.
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Ok. I’ll break it there.
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(Swedish)
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We tried getting here this morning.
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A lot of wind right?
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There was a lot of wind
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Ya, 36 knots of wind.
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How do we get on to the internet?
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You have to go up there.
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Are they there?
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Ya.
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Like they’ll be there tonight
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if we go up and ask them?
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Ya, I think so.
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They’re going to be in the smaller house
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later this night
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drinking a little bit I think.
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I think a little bit Friday party.
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Yea! Today’s Friday.
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It would be nice to go there I guess, but…
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I think if we’re going to leave early tomorrow?
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Ya.
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Then we better just finish up the boat, and…
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Tomorrow and Sunday is going to be calm winds.
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Monday is going to be a little more.
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Ya.
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Tuesday a little more.
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Wednesday, Thursday gusting 45.
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From the right direction.
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The right direction.
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So, we are actually thinking about leaving anyway.
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Because, I mean if, otherwise
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It’s going to be blowing a lot.
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For the next week.
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And then we’re one week delayed.
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And maybe the next forecast we get is the same.
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Again.
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I doesn’t look like anything is going to be dangerous.
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Maybe a little uncomfortable.
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Ya.
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The longer we wait the more low pressures
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and the deeper they are going to be.
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Ya, ya.
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The later into September.
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Ya.
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So it’s not ideal anymore,
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as it was like earlier in the week, but,
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it did look ok.
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I think.
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If we wait for this weather to be over.
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It’s another 5 or 6 days.
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Ya.
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And after that we don’t know what’s going to happen.
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Then it’s another week.
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and another week.
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Ya, it’s too late.
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It’s not sure that we’re ever going to have the ideal weather.
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No.
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Up here.
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It’s not like the Caribbean,
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you can just wait a little bit
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and the trades go down a little bit
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and then you just…
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So.
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My god guys I was so glad to see you.
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Ya, same.
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When we were coming in,
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we were looking with binoculars.
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and we were like “Is that them?”
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Yay, it’s them!!!
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Ya, we saw.
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We were up in the house, and
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they chef says “There’s another sailboat coming in.”
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I know who that is.
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Pretty sure.
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Yay, they’re coming!
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How long have you been here?
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When did you get here?
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Yesterday.
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Ya.
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And where were you before then?
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The same anchorage.
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They were in our anchorage
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that we spent in last night.
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We were right behind you!
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Ya.
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We had a horrible time in that anchorage.
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Today.
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And we left this morning, at 6.
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and then it was blowing 30 and there was fog, and.
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and waves, and it was just horrible.
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So we turned around
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and went back to the anchorage
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thinking that we would stay there for the whole day.
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Ya.
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and started settling in and
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then the winds got stronger,
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and from a different direction
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and many enormous, really big icebergs came in.
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Some of them came so close to taking us out.
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and we’re there with poles, and
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after a while we were like “This is stupid. We can’t stay here.”
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It’s the frickin’ navy!
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It’s the frickin’ navy!
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Run!
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We met them at the hot springs.
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We left that morning, and they’ve been chasing us.
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Isn’t that the boat that they were talking about?
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The police boat that they saw?
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No, no, smaller.
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I think.
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Shall we go in and organise?
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Ya.
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And then we have to organise some more
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and then organise a little bit
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We changed the filter and searched the leak with the water maker.
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You looked for the water maker leak?
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Ya.
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Did you find it?
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Ya, it the two sealings.
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and it’s probably as it’s too cold.
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We’re waiting for the warmer weather,
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no, warmer water and then we can run it again.
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And it’s still working, it’s just leaking though.
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Ya, ya.
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I guess we should go now
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and try to find internet.
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Just bring your computer and they will tell you what to do.
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I think they’re eating dinner right now.
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At 6 they have dinner.
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3 courses.
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And wine!
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Really, they live well here?
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Ya, they do. They have their own chef and everything.
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They have a home garden inside.
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Ya, with tomatoes and cucumbers and…
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Oh my god!
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Ya!
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So…
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They’re very friendly.
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All right let’s get going.
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All right I’ll grab my computer.
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Check the weather.
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We’ll see you in a bit.
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Ya.
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We made it to yet another place.
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Unscathed.
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