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The crew of a cruising sailboat completes a seven-day haul-out at a boatyard to perform maintenance before a Pacific crossing.8:09 Key tasks include replacing recalled emergency escape hatches, sanding and applying antifouling paint to the propellers, and finishing the bottom paint.2:03 After splashing, the engines fail to draw cooling water because the systems dried out during the haul-out; the crew primes the pumps and replaces the impellers to restore flow.10:25 During the departure from the fuel dock, the captain experiences a temporary loss of rudder control due to a missing indicator and a fouled dinghy, which the crew attributes to rushing under pressure from yard staff.16:33 The vessel successfully returns to the anchorage to finalize provisioning and organize gear.17:59 The crew learns that rushing the departure process leads to avoidable errors and that all systems require a thorough, unhurried check before leaving the dock.17:30

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