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all right race time
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so
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well about 4 days ago I was doing my
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thing uh just laying some fiberglass
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into molds uh at mer concept when uh
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this guy called me because uh he was
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ghostkeeper on this boat for the nored
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CH race and the skipper had all things
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to do so they needed another
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coastkeeper and since then I arrived in
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K prepared the boat and here we are
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we're going to take the start of the
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Normandy Channel
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Race um it's going to be English Channel
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and Celtic Sea sailing at its best
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including uh schools are coming already
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and then a big low pressure over the
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Celtic Sea that might make things
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interesting uh so yeah it's going to be
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fun fun fun nice class
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40 that's actually the one we delivered
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a few months ago bugs from
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guad Loop to friends so yeah fun fun fun
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let's see how we do cuz we don't quite
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have uh
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satellite connection so we don't quite
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have access to weather forecast or
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course changes if there are any except
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when we get close to land and get onto
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the 4G um
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Network so it's going to be fun
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okay that's 30 minutes 30 seconds to the
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4
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minutes a fling
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10 3 2 one ping
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all right two
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minutes 2
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minutes all right let's uh get the the
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the G
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out yeah yeah yeah go for it go for it
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up
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up right go go
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go 2 1
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out get ready like we need clean air
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yeah ready
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ready y ready y 3 2
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1 days
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right good let's prepare for the next St
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y good we right where we want to be y
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we're good good job
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mate all right that was a good start but
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now that's where we're liking training
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to be ready at to have a KBS quick but
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Ryan the Sailor is working on that
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woo man balancing those
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sails behind you there it's super
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annoying what we DP a bit bit more
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weight and the tank yeah
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yeah all right so wind is easing a
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little so I'm going to dump some of the
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ballast we have two ballast tank one on
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each side and we can both close them in
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the middle to feel either the forward or
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the back part now we have full rear part
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uh cool and going to empty some of it so
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I have these that are set to empty with
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gravity I push this snor call down with
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this facing rear it's a little old scoop
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that is going to go below the H like
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this and now I open
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this there we go and I water it stamping
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I'm going to wait until it goes here see
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now water is
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about off the T so I close
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here pull the snow Co back up and on all
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right that's all the tank full uh empty
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so all full and half one
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full uh forward one is empty oh okay so
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just half half one half of the rear one
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okay okay perfect so see even he knows
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what he's talking about and he's getting
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confusing so imagine
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so part of our [ __ ] up um on the start
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was because the we could not uh get
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Spiner on because the bucket you know
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there it's a sock the bucket came undone
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from the head so making a new stroke and
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this should not happen again we're doing
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good now catching up oh yeah hope it
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stay this way
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that's it new Loop is down I'll go
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install it now
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Ryan loves getting
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wet all right it's going to be going to
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be Dr time I think it's going to be bit
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tricky not sure how long we'll hold it
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but all the boats are holding it so we
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must try let's
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see that's
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up yes
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sir a few moments
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later so this is quite scary there is
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like massive lightning like on both
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sides of us as we entering the solent
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which is not a place you want to be like
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messing
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up
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soooo and we have like two competitors
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like within like 20
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M how far to the
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drive minutes all right so get let's get
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ready
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so it's been about an hour that we in
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England it's pouring
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rain thank you a lot thanks a lot
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UK with go sport in the
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back how much do you like England Ryan
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[ __ ] love it
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but doesn't love get hit by lightning
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and pouring rain
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well we had the kite up and
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now because there's this
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massive Thunder thunderstorm scho around
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us just snuffed it into the
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sock
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and playing it
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safe play is safe to leave another day
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and fight another day another time
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that was
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crazy w
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s
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right the night has been quite
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actic uh the solent we went through it
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with like a dozen
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thunderstorms happening was really
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beautiful and quite scary at at the same
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time uh Ryan said he got uh hit by a
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lightning we'll have to double check
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this
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information um but yeah know we did
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quite good on that despite all the
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sunstorm and after the needles we we
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struggled for a few hours to to find a
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good speed this goed us a few a few
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spots but now back and running it's uh
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beating along the south coast of of
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England and uh yeah we'll see uh we'll
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see how it goes um hopefully we'll be uh
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by L in tonight or or during the
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night so yeah going
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good all right so that's the English
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Channel leaving up to his reputation
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we're down to J2 and two
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rfts uh it's not exactly the most fun
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but it is what it
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is just finished to take the J2 on and
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the second re pretty sweaty
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well the English Channel has really been
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a beach as it's most of the time but
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we've been doing like really good Gams
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in the solent in the beginning of the
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night but then lost huge ground
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today got unlucky With the Wind shifts
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probably didn't think the good options
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either and now it's just like going up
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wind beating or certainly not earlier
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now it's fine it's came down to like
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1520 but yeah just the English chel you
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know banging in the
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waves not fun at all
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right so all these Mas CU I was sitting
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here in this
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sprayhood
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uh taking a break from eling Ryan was
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below sleeping and then suddenly we felt
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like a roller Co poster we went airbone
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for a few seconds and then B the boat
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slammed uh on the slamming the running
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back stay cover broke so went off the
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constrictor uh this CS probably the m to
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pull
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forward and the constrictor of the main
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Hood uh to break and the the whole main
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Cil to fall
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down surprisingly we haven't broken too
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much important beats but we've just been
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reorg reorganizing lines doing a few
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safety stropes stuff like this and now
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we need to fix the computer because also
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we don't have any more internet on adren
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on the nav
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software and we don't have that many
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charts
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either
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so we need to do some
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fixing and now some spicing
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yeah even with that little swell it's
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crazy H but it
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is yeah I current like through a hard
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this way
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a few moments
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later I downloaded it but I'm still
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working on new
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phone 10 minutes
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downloading the
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GFS fire
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okay