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The sea is a leveller.

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An unpredictable element.

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If you weren't afraid of the sea,
you'd be a fool.

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If this gets considerably bigger,
we're going back.

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I'm Timothy Spall, and when
I'm not working as an actor,

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I'm taking on the sea.

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In a barge.

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Every trip we do,
I get quite nervous about it,

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because I've never had a lesson.

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I've learned it all
from kids' books.

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Learn To Navigate -
An Introduction For All Ages.

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That's how I'm learning
how to go round Britain.

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I'm the captain,
and my wife Shane is first mate.

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We don't always
know what we're doing,

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or how we're going to get there,

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but together
we're exploring our own country.

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One port at a time.

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There's nothing better,
I'm telling you, than discovering

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your own country by sea.

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It all started
when I was trying not to die.

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It was 1996 and I was seriously ill,
dealing with leukaemia.

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I started reading boating magazines.

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And I said to Shane, "If and when
I get over this, darling,

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"we're going to get two things.

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"We're going to get a Rolls Royce,
and a boat."

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So, as soon as I was out of jail,
out of the hospital, we went and got

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this electric-blue Rolls Royce that
broke down every five minutes

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and a small narrow boat.

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For eight years, our narrow
boat was our second home.

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We travelled the canals and
inland waterways of Britain,

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getting used to life on the water.

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When we first started
narrow-boating,

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I fell in once
just trying to push it off.

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Then I fell in Oxford canal,
fell in the Thames.

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So we did quite a lot
of the waterways,

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but I did start to feel
the call of the sea.

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We found a specialist boat builder
who would make us a barge that
was capable of going on the sea.

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And one that was big enough to live
in, because this would be our home.

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Everything, even the furniture,
is handmade and custom-built.

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Give the owl a wash.

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The Princess Matilda
is named after our granddaughter.

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Do you want sardines, Timmy? Nah.

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We spend all of our spare time here.

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It's our home, that's what it is.
Wherever we go, we're at home.

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There you go.
The life of the idiot mariner!

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Four years ago, Shane and I
set off from London

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to navigate our way around Britain.

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So far, we've got
as far as...Cornwall.

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Let's be clear,
this trip is not about speed.

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Well, it can't be in this boat.

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My plan is to navigate 250 miles
around Cornwall, Devon and Somerset

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and up into Wales, before winter.

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Most of the towns we visit,
we've never been to before,

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so when I get there,
I feel like Marco Polo.

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In a barge.

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We begin this leg
in the Cornish port of Fowey,

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a town that's been the start
of many an adventure.

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Medieval galleons sailed
into battle from here.

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Thousands of US troops
launched from Fowey on D-day.

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And today, it's Princess Matilda

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and her merry crew.

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37 point...

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sod off. Erm...

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Like all the captains before me,

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I go nowhere until
I've plotted my course.

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Are you interested in this?

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No. You're not interested in
the slightest. No, I'm not.

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But what she lacks in interest
she makes up in confidence,

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because she thinks
I know what I'm doing.

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I suppose I must know something,
because we've managed to get here.

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Of course I trust you,
you're my husband.

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What difference does that make?

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I can still be an idiot.

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Shane's trust is comforting.
It has to be -

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we're only 30 miles away from
a notoriously dangerous journey,

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going around Lizard Point.

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It's famous for eating boats.

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Eating them and spitting them out.

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I read this article about somebody
tried to cross down here

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when it was a bit windy,
and they nearly capsized.

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Oh, we'll be fine.

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Oh, yeah? Pfff! Yes, we will.

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Today I'm going to get us down to

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Falmouth, where I want to leave
Matilda moored up for six weeks

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while I go off to shoot a film.

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I hope to take on Lizard Point when
I return in the height of summer.

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Now, if I can only get
the hang of my instruments.

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This bloody thing, which is
the sat nav, which is very helpful,

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but every time
I've left it for a week,

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I can't remember how to work it.
But I have put a route in it,

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in this map, if you look carefully,
it's going across land!

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I love the solitude of going to sea.
But this time, we're not alone.

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It's me, Shane...

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and a bloody great battleship.

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It's going at a fair old speed.
Getting closer by the second.

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VOICES COME THROUGH RADIO

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I tune our radio
into their channel, so I can
work out what they're up to.

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I heard a foreign accent
saying something about firing.

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But it might be, it says on the map,

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look here - Firing Practice Area.

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Just in case.

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Emergency rations.

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'We have a clear range.'

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A clear range?!

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We're over here!

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Do you want a sandwich?

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Ham?

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Do you want a sandwich?

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And then...

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the battleship turns around
and clears off.

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I think it's against
military policy to pick off
people in pleasure boats.

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But you never know. On a bad day...?

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Falmouth's industrial docks
were built in the 1850s

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to export Cornwall's
rich supply of iron and clay.

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Today, it also operates
as a repair yard

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for tankers from all over the world.

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The thing about Cornwall, these
beautiful places, that they do have

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the picturesqueness, but they
also have a commercial function.

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But we're here for Falmouth's
other thriving business, marinas.

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They're a sort of gated community

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with pontoons
and easy access to town.

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The ideal place to leave Matilda
for the next six weeks.

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We always argue when we do this.
He just comes and gets involved.

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I've got me stick.

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No, it's all right.
Don't break your back, love.

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It's too heavy.
All right. Let it go, then.

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All right. Hang on.

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If it starts pulling...

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No, hang on a minute!
If it starts pulling, let it go.

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Aren't we supposed to put it
through that hole?

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We're attached.
We're on now. We're on.

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You did it.

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No, you did it. You did it.

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You did it. I didn't, you did it.

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You did it!

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We're going to leave Matilda here
while I go off to work on a film.

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When we return
it'll be the height of summer,

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a prime time to face the Lizard.

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This is the Helford River,
one of the most beautiful rivers

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in Cornwall, and we're calling
it the river of entrapment.

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Because we can't get out of here.

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I've returned from filming during
one of the worst summers on record.

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Certainly not the weather
to go round Lizard Point.

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Not for a barge.

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In one of these books here,
it says, "If in doubt, don't go."

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Now that's got to be, you know,

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the best possible advice
you could ever take.

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I don't want to be
in 10ft waves in this.

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Because this'll be going like that.

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You know, I've got some wine,
I've got some decent wine!

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I don't want to lose it.

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I ain't that stupid, I'm not going
round there. No, it's our home.

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Of course we're not
going to go round there.

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The bad weather sets in for weeks.

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VOICE COMES THROUGH RADIO

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I'm glued to the weather report,

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because if it carries on like this,
we'll be stuck here for winter.

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Sea - moderate or rough,

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so thank you very much,
we ain't going out there.

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Oh, no!
And wind - force five to seven.

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These things tell
you what a force one is -
"Wind, light airs, easy ripples.

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"Three - gentle breeze,
crests begin to break.

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"Force six - strong breeze,
large waves, extensive white crests.

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"Force seven -
sea heaps up in waves,

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"breaking white foam in streaks.

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"Force eight! Moderate high waves,
spindrift white foam!

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"Ten! Very high breaking waves,

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"dense foam streaks!"

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You don't want to be in anything
other than a bloody five, mate.

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It's a wonderful
place to be trapped.

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But we're beginning to get
a bit Helford-River crazy.

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SHANE LAUGHS

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You are funny.

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Cor blimey, woman, I've done it
1,000 times! It's ridiculous!

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One thing the weather can't stop
us doing is exploring on land.

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There's a regatta
in Helford Village,

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and as our barge
is going nowhere fast,

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we thought we'd go and
see some people who, like us,

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enjoy messing about in boats.

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You couldn't get more
quintessentially British or English
than a regatta, you know.

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Fifth prize is for the goose,
which is orange 31.

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'It's people who live by water,
who just get pissed and have
rowing competitions,

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'and dress up like twits
and have a good time
and the community comes together.'

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There's a banana now, a banana.

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'So it's a very
British way of carrying on.'

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Are you racing today, you two? Yeah.

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What are you doing?
YOU have been on TV.

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That's what I do for a living.

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And YOU are going to go in a boat.
Yes.

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In a minute. Are you going to win?

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Each town along the river
has its very own regatta,

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but the Helford Village Regatta
is the final one of the season.

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So they try to end the summer
in style.

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Look! It's a spatchcock pig!

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I can't bear it.
I can, it makes me starving.

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Stop it, Timmy, I'm not
going to do that washing now.

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Soon, Helford's
population will halve.

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That's when people leave their
holiday homes to go back to work.

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So today is all about
having a good time.

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There goes the Royal Navy.

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I think they fully intend to sink,
don't they?

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CHEERING

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I love Britain, I love it.

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I just think it's a fantastic,
diverse microcosm of the world.

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It's absolutely...this is
England at its best, isn't it?

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'The day after the regatta, it's
like someone turned the light off.

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'And we felt like that we
were left over from the party.

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'The party had finished and we
were left over there and
everyone else had gone home.'

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The wonderful thing about England,
isn't it?

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How many different shades of grey
there actually are
in an English summer.

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I can count 28 up there.

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We're heading for a church
called St Manacca

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that's famed for a fig tree
growing out of its walls.

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The church has been
here for over 800 years,

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and if the weather stays like this,
we might be here for that long too.

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They're always locked,
aren't they?

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I don't know, where's the fig tree?

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Keep going, beep, beep.

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It's growing right out here, look.

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Good Lord!

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It's growing out the wall
of the church. Here, look.

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At least eight inches in diameter.

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Wonderful.

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Sometimes on our journey,

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we stumble on places that have
something special about them.

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Something that's hard to describe.

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Feel it,

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absolutely beautiful to touch.

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This really shouldn't be seen for
public consumption.

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Lovely.

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Look at this.

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Look at that roof.
Beautiful, the carving.

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It's such a beautiful place, and
there's absolutely no-one around.

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It's like we've just found it.

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The first vicar of Manaccan

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was David de Sancta Beriana.
Blimey, that's...

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William de Mongluthe, William de
Trenewithe, those names are Norman.

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Yeah.

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Ooh! It's a bit lower
than I thought.

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Oh, look. It's in Cornish.

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'I walk about and get on his nerves
and talk and read things,

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'but Tim will always have quiet
moments in church.

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'That's because, when he was very
ill, he had an epiphany in a church.'

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I try and contact with

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a sense of peace or

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gratitude for surviving,
and think and thank,

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and ask fate to be kind to me.

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Turn out the lights. I've done it.

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And sometimes, prayers are answered.

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The weather conditions,
according to the Met Office

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and the coastguard report
reckon it's really nice!

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Is it goodbye to the Helford today?

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Oh, I think so.
I can feel it, I can feel it, yeah.

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The plan is that, I've worked out,
without any advice,

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which is why I always get scared,

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that we should leave
two hours after high tide.

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We're aiming for Newlyn,

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which means I'll have to navigate
round the notorious Lizard Point.

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Right, this is when
we come near the Lizard.

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It's become the bogeyman,
like an ogre,

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a giant that used to frighten me,
and make me lose sleep.

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The Lizard might be
a dragon we cannot defeat.

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Hi, Mr Munson.
It's Timothy Spall trying again.

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I was trying to call the Harbour
Master at Newlyn to book a berth,

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but he's either not there
or he's busy.

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So, erm...
You'll have to call him on the radio.

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Yeah, we'll call him on the radio
when we get there and he might say,

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"No, bugger off!" I hope not.

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Here we go. And may God be with us.

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As beautiful as this place is,
it's time to go.

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Beautiful sailing yachts,
beautiful countryside.

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Terrifying sea!

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I'm nervous.

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I'm very nervous, actually.
Quite scared.

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If I don't like it, we're coming
back. It's supposed to be fun,

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it's an adventure,
but it's supposed to be fun.

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This desire to go to sea
and to do this adventure,

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to continue this adventure,
is a compulsion.

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Falmouth Coastguard,
Falmouth Coastguard.

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We're just leaving Helford River now

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and we are making our way
to Newlyn, over.

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But I hope it's a compulsion that
doesn't lead to my ultimate demise!

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Oooh! Oh, my God!

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We are actually navigating

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some of the most dangerous seas
in the world here.

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Cor, look at her wash!

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Actually, if you have any trouble,
we can always call out the barge!

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It's wonderful.

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I can't bear it, look, those eyes!

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It's like a fantastic,
loony conquest.

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3,000 miles away is
the next piece of land.

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Err...America.

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They all think we're mad,
but they're not stopping us.