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Back on the horse, it's a Class 40! - Ep196 - The Sailing Frenchman

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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
Title:
Back on the horse, it's a Class 40! - Ep196 - The Sailing Frenchman
Video Language:
English
Duration:
19:25

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