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Thais Canado and Beto Toledo purchased a used fiberglass dinghy with an outboard motor for 600 euros to navigate narrow canals in the Netherlands that are inaccessible to their primary vessel.1:47 The couple retrieved the boat 15 kilometers from Zandan and utilized it to explore shallow waterways and reach local amenities.2:21 During their initial transit, they encountered low-clearance bridges requiring them to crouch and navigate in reverse.2:57 They successfully portaged the dinghy around a closed lock by hand to reach a restaurant in Batavia.4:30 When a second lock remained closed on a Saturday evening, they moored the dinghy overnight and completed the transit the following morning after contacting lock operators via radio.11:08 To manage rainwater accumulation in the dinghy, Toledo uses a battery-powered pump.12:01 The couple also maintains their primary boat’s pellet-burning heating system, noting that bulk-purchasing 44 bags of pellets reduces the cost from 20 euros per bag to 8 euros.13:50

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