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What this video covers

A day in the boatyard with Pablo Berrus covers three repair tasks on his boat. He cleans and removes old paint from a damaged hull section, then welds a new stainless steel plate over an anchor strike to restore thickness.0:11 He replaces the navigation light wiring, which had corroded and was making poor contact: he runs a new cable from the electrical panel to the navigation light, making fresh positive and negative connections.0:59 The wiring job takes several hours and is not fully documented.1:14 He ends the day with a running session.1:21 No location is named in the video, but the context is a boatyard haul-out. The navigation light fix confirms that corroded wiring causing intermittent contact requires full cable replacement from the panel rather than a spot repair.

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