all right well as you can see Ashley I must stop
every clip with right or well anyway here we are in the rain in the winter
time in the lovely Norfolk Broads trying to fix a boat however I must say I did
manage to get the cash if you like the epoxies with some fiberglass in there
however even though I can't do anything today because obviously the weather I
have noticed that the epoxy is started reacting with the paint just at that
bottom bit there I can't think honestly why on earth that's happened other there
may be contaminants out of the water have left a trace on the side of the
boat and that's then had a reaction because it hasn't reacted anywhere else
anyway to cut a long story short once it dries up I'm gonna sand that down which
is obviously gonna be a lot of fun so close to the water level it all out
forty some GRP filler and sand it down smooth it out further it out and then
we'll get that painted up I can't really do too much because obviously it's right
down there but either way it's sealed again now and it's just a case of
getting it looking cosmetically okay luckily for me yes luckily for me the
boats coming out at the end of the season this year good time to do it
because obviously the weather will be warmer drier well maybe not dry this is
England but and the whole hulls gonna be done anyway so I'll just do what I can
do now and hang out until then because what do we know that's any bad well
listen twelve weeks so that will fly by so this is a release at the moment
this is the the seventh day now that I've been waiting to get under rocks on
bridge and some chap forget the name now one of the viewers commented on the
video I put up last night and he said that this 70 mile an hour winds coming
so as it's raining and their 70 mile an hour wind coming
I clearly I'm not gonna get under rocks and bridge so I have to abandon that
plan I think and go down that way for a little while which is annoying because
there's no supermarkets down that way for a long long long way and well it's
all common bit tits up to be quite fair so we'll have to start again and rethink
this one but for the time being I'm staying here I'm due to work on the boat
the best I can and have to shoot off tomorrow I think well the wind has
dropped for time being so I'm going back up to the rocks and bridge I'm not gonna
be able to get under I know already but I just gonna get some supplies and then
come back down this way again because that way there's absolutely no
supermarkets tomorrow come back down later on very peaceful very beautiful at
the moment nice and early in the morning
what would my biggest regrets since I've been doing this it's not getting a very
good pair of high quality sunglasses camera yes when I really see something
quite remarkable like flock of swans flying over the boat very very very low
make the most wonderful noise or like an officer doing what are the seals I'm
trying to get the camera switched on it's all gone so doing something similar
make sure you get a pair of those sunglasses cameras as soon as you see
something all you got to do is press the button bank
got it so I think that's next on the list definitely this is rush hour
traffic Norfolk broad style
I decided to chop my chimney in the end despite what I was saying in the
previous video I'm glad I did it now I think it looks a lot more it looks a bit
more incognito I think Oh looks a smear signs they're four miles an hour for
miles around okay four miles now so that's the fast
lane okay over here we drive on the right let me do in America and France
but being one of those colonial antipodean chaps I'm driving in the
middle but if you go in the other way
- sleep awake I'm doing thousand grams I think that's
just under four mile maybe a Dover and at first when you come to all this they
to be again used to really does takes a good couple of days I think but then I
find once you get used to it you're quite happy to go a lot slower because
you can't get anywhere here fast
everybody is no rush at all that's what the Broads is all about it's not about
you might have been in the times of weary men and barges and all that's also
pretty much like a modern day courier right not now not now at all all about
slow slow slow
very very boring in there somewhere
such a pretty little place this probably one of the most photographed locations
on the bronze really quite lovely as you can see they're very close to the water
but the Nasdaq that that higher than what they normally are run to be close
to the water I suppose that one's a bit close right
now it's like a little bit threaded down that's why they've been busy with the
copper suit this trees grow like wheat
so if it is crossed yeah bit lower than I was expecting
now one that's voice closer but they want one the other day around the corner
or Gardens on the water
herons sitting on the roof like they do alright well that one looks like it's
going hit pretty hard
you'd be ignoring if you left something the pop of the garden their table all
the way down there every day there one of us flood it was around here Sarafina
that my
well that's what most thing you do today
we must admit nice these properties are
like a little bit higher ah there it is see the one there the
porch that's real that isn't actually about her ass that's house of the
gardens on the wall must be a bummer
what she'll be living in it for the electrical
we're on the corner as well I already know what you really did about that
often they've got the bank up a bit but it doesn't really work that way the
water seems to come up through the ground
shrinky bloody swans in the way no I can't read these age all right well this
is still under six feet high well it's even low that was the other day I gave
the boat three in this morning
yeah funny boat Dame's free although perhaps things do
well it's a frosty Saturday morning in January 2018 I think on the Broads movie
a wee bit of a frosty one tonight I am led to believe but I am NOT face because
I have my trusty wood burner thanks boy and I just wanted to share the smell
with you because it's absolutely wonderful
ready well he's being rather nice Sunday afternoon today it's certainly not
exactly described as I'm getting six point two degrees inside the cabinet was
being a bit of a mystery the cockpit drains because as many of you know and
some copper that drains the pipes crossover drain pipes crossover and
others they don't and there's always the question of whether they should or they
shouldn't because on a sailing boat you're obviously going to be healing so
when the boats healing you don't want them aughter to be coming up so you want
them to be crossed over but then you think to yourself when the boats level
you probably want them to be straight down because then that's the lowest
point so it's always a tricky question that when it comes to the cockpit drains
it really depends on the type of vessel you're in is it more important that the
cockpit drains when the sailing boat is feeling or is it more important to the
cockpit drains when the boat is maybe a bit more levelled out so I'm toying with
the idea now I haven't changed it however I always had a problem with one
of the one of the drains or scuppers whatever they're called and it always
blocked up really really really easy in the water just seemed to never really
really really drain that quick so this is one of the jobs I've put on for a
long long time so I've heard all the steering gear out today from the tiller
here's our wind again and finally found out what the problem
was and it was it was routed out the right direction as in it was crossed
over but instead of going directly to the the outlet she went on a little trip
around the boat first and then it finally went out so why on earth
somebody did that I don't know it must have just had maybe extra pipe and
thought I'm not gonna cut it so now I've done that it drains lovely
which is good to know that's nice it drained probably at sea will be such an
issue with blocking up I mean but because there's so many leaves and trees
and all this nonsense going on up here mud you tend to clog up so I'm glad I've
done that it's just one of those jobs that polish is done a long time ago and
probably more like about three years ago but it's done now so I can rest assured
now as the Sun Goes Down that I have actually achieved something today I see
a little bit each day got my wood ready to go and because it's a clear sky it's
gonna be a very cold one tonight however last night it was truly fantastic I
could see so many stars even satellites and over the side here just as it gets
dark you can see the constellation of Orion come up and it slowly emerges into
the sky which is magnificent and as many of you will know it tends to disappear
the constellation for a few months so it's nice to see it come back it
means basically that now the days are gonna be getting longer so we're on the
right side of the weather now and every day we're getting close to the spring
which means boating season happy days well it should get through the bridge
and you took two weeks just over six feet out of water and a diesel batteries
in fact need a shave desperately just scraped on the mast there where the
halyard roller is when you turn before it is and I'm just glad to be in because
I just really really really need to get tidying up stopped up charged up washed
up back to normality addy floods feeling a bit better about myself now a chance
to have a good scrub up stock up charge up wash up everything's up at the moment
even the Masters going up next week we're going to be just gonna make sure
there's no one in the bushes cuz it's looks like I'm talking to myself
I only do that on the boat mass is going up next week we're gonna be doing the
rigging a long time since our masters being up and I tell you what oh
absolutely I'm so excited about it so anybody who doesn't know anything about
the broad reason why it's been down it's because of all these bridges that bridge
there's a big one leave me and everywhere around is just trees trees
trees trees trees so it's such a pain in the arse I'm to lower the mast for the
sake of maybe five or six miles of a snaky winding river I'm not gonna be in
a Cell anyway really not easy to keep it down but it's been down for a long time
and it feels awkward so I'm really looking forward to getting that that
take some work it kind of feels like the boats gonna spread its wings again
anyway is somebody coming now so I'm going to hang up is my bit paranoid
about talking to camera I'm sure you could understand right see that bridge
right there about five minutes time about to meet a beautiful woman there
covered in dust where my overalls stinky diesel I'm very very excited very