Building a cruising sailboat Something different this week. We deliver Hazel's new boat from Cowes on the Isle of Wight, England to Wilhelmshaven, Germany, s...

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so hazel bought a boat I noted how'd you

know as you know from last time and it

was located on the Isle of Wight which

is off of the south coast of England for

those of you don't know the area the

other white is sort of midway along the

south coast of England and the area

between yayoi and and the mainland

England is called the Solent the boat

itself was in the inkowl's wasn't it yes

on the river Modena which is the river

that runs out it cows cows as you may

well know this is a major yachting

center as the point of the start of the

Fastnet race the famous or infamous

farts Fastnet race infamous one year

famous every other year I think yes sir

she was bored on the midi neighing cows

and I you flew out on the Thursday

didn't you yeah yeah and I flew out like

a while at the time I got down it was

the Sunday yes you've been out a few

days oh and just had a look at the boat

went through everything again did a bit

of paperwork there's such thing as

people working bill asylum yeah exactly

we bought some food yeah provisions yes

man just generally looked about there

was a little problem with the engine

yeah that's right the exhaust manifold

yes

hold it but that got exchanged yeah new

warmest beauty exactly provisioned

fueled waters let gather ready to go

yeah and we're not going over there on

the Sunday she was nearly ready to go

wasn't she yeah I said there was one one

thing that was a bit of an issue I felt

was and that was ridden of a dinghy yes

the previous ironist even Sally Sally

came with us on the trip but but Steve

had to look online and found a nave on

red crest as well just across on the

mainland in Limington new forest so we

took the ferry across the way yeah and

bought the dinghy on the carpark yeah

the people in the carpark

they folded it out yeah and so yeah it

looks good yes we're bought it there and

then the map yeah it did look good it's

in very good condition yeah sorry back

on the ferry back to the other one with

dinghy

pretty much ready what we really have

last bits provisioning yeah yeah fresh

stuff last time yeah

so the Tuesday morning we were out at

the boat shortly before 7:00 I believe

yeah man's I think we said we set off

shortly before 8:00

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you

so that was time to catch the outgoing

tide during a favorable tide for the for

the first leg of the trip sure Debra as

you say on our ye shortened for a down

the Medina out into the Solent Freddie

calm winds when we get out there but as

you'd expect that time in the morning

rid most days but favorable tired make

good progress than me yes I old almost

immediately when I passed those

Napoleonic fourths of a built there to

be to protect the Solon and probably the

main that harbors to be honest be

different when the podiums mates

so light

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what

honey

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yeah and then out into the into the

English Channel whereas you say that's

the day you went on the wind sort of

built a bit limo yeah and if we're

honest read that the biggest waves of

the whole trip yeah afternoon that

evening didn't we yeah two and a half

metres wouldn't be an exaggeration

I think certainly look pretty big yeah

yeah but we soured on and originally

intended to do three our watches was

when into the night but given their the

sea state we changed and in fact we're

on a boat that we not sailed before we

were with Sally of course she was held

to boat alone we were on the boat we

don't sail before so we changed our

minds had changed it to one our watches

yeah give one hour on the helm and two

hours sleeping or trying to at least

yeah yeah which well it worked for that

so I think we chose to do it that day as

well because it was quite windy and we

had taken some reason and just so just

in case mm-hmm um wind was from the

southwest

so it was basically behind us which is

did he come people in the South

especially with a jungle yeah but yeah

it was a took some energy to news but

come the morning we were very close to

diverse we dream in the favorable tide

all the way through which I'd heard as

possible

give us a smile

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passed over and out into the the channel

where we are planning to cross it he has

a boy about ten miles northeast yeah

Goodwin town

yes I'm wonderful Goodwin's yet yeah

that we were going to use as our point

across the the traffic separation scheme

yeah

and that was surprisingly easy there

wasn't that much traffic really was

there no surprise as well yeah couple of

ships to avoid but but yeah not too much

easy and the actual traffic separation

scheme is is four miles wide in each

direction it's as 8 miles in total yeah

master figures about an hour and

three-quarters to get across that motor

so yeah it was a plan to get across as

quickly as possible yeah it is yeah why

is that yeah I think so too you don't

really hanging around in that stuff

obviously you know if you have to cross

it a 90 degrees and arrived on the other

side of somewhere off of Dunkirk but

quite wet out to see throughout the

traffic separation zone

what's the barometer honey

I know

oh yeah

and then we turned up yeah up north ish

yeah

yeah indeed close with the coast

gradually pass the coast of France

they're just Belgium yeah yeah past

Belgium quick pretty quickly not the

biggest places no no in so intended the

Belgians and in Holland the Netherlands

don't ever there's a lot of coast than

the owners comes and also certainly the

busiest in terms of shipping yeah piece

that we did know that area off of

Rotterdam and was a big port my

Rotterdam could you report to me that

was there was a lot of shipping down in

the other there and sometimes you

crossed those places at night as well a

bit iffy sometimes mmm yeah it's a

density cafe don't it yeah yeah

obviously we didn't have any my mom

didn't have any issues at all there are

one or two occasions when a ship is

coming straight that you think oh but

there was did yeah yeah we had a radar

reflector happened yeah this bothers on

one occasion a ship that is searchlight

and and Sean it at us when I was on the

helmet very thankful for looking at

listen you think change course yeah good

yes indeed yeah that's that's the most

worrying thing isn't it going through

going through commercial shipping at

night yeah

naturally

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we won't see it go down properly because

of the this is Dave for isn't it

day four and it's the morning that nine

o'clock in the morning beautiful sunny

morning where you got wind just after

after the beam we show you some sails

all those my needs a son but just after

the beam come back hazel Sadie nicely

add a bit of commercial traffic around

last night going into various Dutch

reports right now not much commercial

driving at all in fact almost nothing

while are there and the distance there

she can see that on this camera Oh a

couple over there it's a bit more Nell

birdie there's absolutely nothing to be

seen after a fairly busy night

the progress was good the southwesterly

stayed with us up until almost to the

north of the Netherlands than it often

the Dutch Frisian Islands yeah we're

then I think did you go very calm for a

while and then we are we are calm days

one calm

so I'm getting luck took about hat very

very car

yeah

into the Sun burka that it's glossy then

it turned to come from basically from

the east doesn't it yeah responses the

last two days basically heading straight

into the window which clearly we could

have could have beaten into it but we

were rather keen to get there one way we

did five days non-stop the last I of

which we've murders held the rest of it

we've sold the vast but yeah and the

last I was mainly about ourselves

and we went into we're getting fairly

low in diesel in that stage yeah so we

decided to go into northern I one of the

German islands one of the first of the

German of Frisian Islands the way we

were not the first but now that decided

to go into there's a marina round that

the inner side isn't there yeah when you

look at the map you said you see those

freezing islands stretching out and you

think you could go up the inside but in

fact you can't and that it all dries so

you can get through to a high water but

you could we'll end up setting the

mother yes in the marina spent the night

there

very nice wasn't very nice yeah took a

walk around to the fuel stations about

jerrycans

PC card in slot there and the number

normal that for them written

instructions

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yeah and the beer and some food at the

restaurant

very nice good night's sleep five days

non-stop and and you know you're doing

watches aren't you in yeah we did we

carried on do another one or two our

watches we didn't never move over the

two-hour watches did we you know you

know it's broken you didn't get a full

night's sleep at any stage so you grab a

couple of hours here and a group over

there interesting experience really hmm

they're fairly tiring all right yeah you

manage yeah what did you think well I

thought it was fairly tiring to know

yeah because I wasn't doing too well

either

oh yeah yeah yeah oh yeah next morning

Sabbath early again seven o'clock

tomorrow shortly before 7:00 we were

under way from northern I out the

channel and easterly winds again two

motors held up towards the the yarder je

doin through in addition the yarder

so along the frisian islands again

turned down into the other where we

picked up a favorable wind on the beam

basically down into the yarder and we

knew the marina the hazel had picked out

our in destination we knew we had to go

through a lot as a sea lock to get in

yeah in a yard oh yeah I think it's

called the coarser but we thought there

were two locks is that yeah it's one big

naval lot which is a massive loss I

thought there are two other side under

there and we thought there was a small a

lot too much yeah what I mean there is

one no one they used to be just not been

useful I think that two years it turned

out yeah so we were they were wandering

around or boating around looking for the

smaller lock and and then turned out it

was out of the uses as opposed to says

so we went into the local sailing club

that was moved in dark or get towards

dark went into local sailing club spent

the night there and then we have to work

out what to do about the lock to me and

and I had to look online that evening we

found a phone number of the of the the

lock Meister yeah and you found him

about quarter to eight or something yeah

next next morning yeah and then he said

basically yeah he has certain lock times

when people for people to get out on

lock times for people to get in and he

said the next one would be at 8:15 okay

yeah we can make it because we weren't

that far away this is up at the naval

dock yeah Big Love yeah so we got going

very quickly

yes motives as fast as we dared yeah

and not to the neighbor daughter yeah we

went we went in time but the nice man

waiting for us

got five minutes like that and we

weren't the only ones going in as it is

in norm look the only boat

oh so you're gonna do slaloms in

the lock but we did tires and white

okay okay

it

yeah

and then through a lot okay and we

thought group we're in off to the marina

and then it came to the bridge which

looked to be high enough for us to get

under with our master there was no it

wasn't no no

so we tie it up again looked at the

bridge no VHF channel or phone number or

anything on it yes bondo scratch our

heads what to do well then I called the

marina which I had picked out and I sort

of I called them before and assets they

had some space for us and so they knew

we were coming so I called them and

asked the man how we would get through

this bridge and he gave me a phone

number to the person guarding or

controlling the branch Angus and I

phoned him up you know so if if you

could open it for us and it was no

problem at all bridge yeah yeah yeah

well you went outside of his tower and

said oh yeah I seen you you're that

little boat there and no problem I can

open my up for you to open the bridge

one half has fixed the other half swang

opened and rotated database did look

great on it and we moved it through

there

yeah I'm pretty damn cool

I'm very impressed

yeah

Thank You Shan

pretty cool

down the last little leg wasn't very far

from this brain was it last a little

marina yeah

so six days full days and and a few

hours the following morning me six full

days and there and if you ask from the

Alawite to yes your trip yeah it was

great

yeah it really solid yeah not turned out

oh no no handled everything we asked it

disease yeah and there's big enough for

three of us it was I wish it just as a

big big thank you to Sally who came with

us yeah she worked our socks off did if

we're honest the majority of the cookie

and producer brilliant food and then

three linka excellent yeah alright watch

is great sailor excellent yeah yeah good

son that's it see you next time

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as the G go right up oh she was kissed

by the Sun

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