Relocating the engine control panel was a big improvement, but left some serious ugliness in the galley area. I build a beautiful box to hide this in plain sight. The chunky cable to the engine is routed along with the beginnings of the NMEA2000 network. In further beautification, the saloon cushions are upholstered as I learn some sewing skills!

This is the story of the building of a Jay Benford designed, 31.8ft, junk schooner-rigged cruising sailboat. The videos are a week-by-week record of the build as it progresses and aim to show as much detail as possible of the various aspects of the build.

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Tony

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hi i'm tony this is sv tapacha and we're
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starting off this week down below in
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this this cruising sailboat that we're
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building
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um everything that's that's you know
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happened this week has been
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either directly in here or relevant to
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down below it's a bit chilly so you know
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we're not doing much on the outside of
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the boat at the moment having said that
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i have ordered some parts that will
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when they arrive or
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some materials is a better word but when
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their arrival allow me to make a start
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on the ballast kill so that's
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you know i'm looking forward to cracking
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on with that and we'll be fairly soon
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making a start on that ballast kill
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um
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cranes in the background huh i wonder if
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you can hear them now you remember a
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short time ago i had to move the engine
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control panel i had originally mounted
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it in the cockpit well and i decided to
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move it up onto the bulkhead underneath
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the chart plotter
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um which was certainly a better location
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in terms of the cockpit location
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but that
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brought one very obvious problem and
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that is that the back of the of that
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engine control panel is now protruding
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into the galley area in fact there it is
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behind me
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um it's not the most beautiful thing to
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see in the galley and there's one other
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problem that comes with that is that
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there's a darn great thick cable in fact
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you might see it there
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um downgrade thick cable that comes out
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the back of that engine control cam
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panel
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and runs through to the engine
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um
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one of the reasons why i put it in the
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cockpit well was it it was possible to
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root that cable completely completely
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out of sight entirely in the engine room
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but as i say the issue of having it uh
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here in the galley is that uh
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have to try and root it as tightly as
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possible
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so um started off making this teak box
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out of some some old teak that i had
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left over from miss marley
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um
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which will hide the back of that engine
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control panel
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and also have to route that cable
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through into the engine room
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now there's one other issue that i still
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haven't mentioned is that it's the cable
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i have and these you know they're fairly
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expensive these cables and i have one
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is very very very very long
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and actually
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mounting the panel there is a bit of an
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advantage because it's a bit further
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away but i still
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was in two mines for a while whether to
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chop the cable shorten it and which
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would of course be possible but in the
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end i've decided at least temporarily
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just to build a sort of cable spool
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thing wind it around that to get rid of
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all the excess cable
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and you'll see how i've done that
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oh
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you
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oh
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hey
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hmm
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um
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that's nearly true
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um
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um
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there must be right
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all right
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so
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okay
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that's quite nice
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um
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yeah that was quite nice
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it looks quite nice
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yeah so here i am in the engine room
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it's a tricky place to film but
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and also get this very echoey sound but
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there's the cable coming through you'll
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also notice
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enemy two
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thousand
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bus in there um also coming through from
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the back of the plotter into that
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splitter there four-way splitter
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um
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so that's
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coming in
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and there's the engine cable running
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through runs along it's coming down
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connects into the engine down there
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and here
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is the delightful cable spool i've made
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up as i say temporary
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possibly
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um certainly gets rid of all the slack
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fairly tightly
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a glance this way looking forwards from
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the galley area
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will reveal
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quite a mess uh something's disappeared
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all the foam that would cut the shape i
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cut to shape for the saloon cushions is
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gone
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simple reason for that is that it's
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indoors and karen and i have been
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working on upholstery covering all those
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foam cushions
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uh five pieces the seats and backs for
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the two s c sides and the little one
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sort of trapezoid
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thing that fits between them um and it's
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been going very well we're you know we
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wanted to do the upholstery ourselves
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started off with the first cushion
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obviously it's the hardest one
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you're sort of getting your concept
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together so there's a fair bit of head
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scratching involved
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but then we took a break sat down
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watched the episode of salt and tar
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where they're doing their upholstery
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and it was a massive help i have to say
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and isn't that a wonderful thing you
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know youtube
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you can uh
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if you're not
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and i'm an expert if you're not sure how
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to do something you can go and get a
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youtube video up
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um and i love the way salt and tar did
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their episode you know it's not too not
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too instructional but but you can see
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what they're doing
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um and it helped us massively so big
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thank you to them guys for putting that
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video up massive help got our concept
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together and the way we win
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um karen is fairly good at sewing i
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am not
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but i was rather keen to have a go
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myself so
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she did the first one and i sort of
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watched and
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learned a bit and then i had to go
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myself
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yeah you see that right that's fine
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now we'll move that out of the way
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like that
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this edge is right because i've measured
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that out already yeah
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this one wants to come out here twelve
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and a half out there screw it on
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that's right
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like that
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one there
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ah yes
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yeah just like that
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beautiful it's perfect
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it's perfect isn't it it's not even pack
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it up in their corner
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bad though
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yeah
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so i have to saw it again that's all
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this is that
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what's up
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uh
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hey
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show you the lovely views
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like a fishy good
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yeah there we go
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there you are so we've got a hand sodium
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there aren't we still yeah
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yeah
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but it looks really good
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there's
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this
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thank pretty good to me
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oh
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man
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and that's it for this week
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they look good i'm really pleased
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we've still got one or two ends to sum
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up that the hand sewn ends that karen's
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working on
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but they look great really really
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pleased
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i say that's it for this week thank you
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