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25 Oct 2025 In-boom furling and rain collector experiments
October 24, 2025 · 3 min · 2K views · Västervik
What this video covers
The video is severely degraded — the Icelandic/Nordic speech-to-text output loops the same phrases hundreds of times, and only a few intelligible English sentences survive. Those sentences describe Sven Yrvind working at Vestavík on an in-boom furling system, noting that a component cannot slide into the boom profile and must instead be screwed on and off, analogous to splitting a crankshaft.1:24 He applies epoxy to the fitting, leaves it to cure overnight, and plans to return the following day.1:24 The title also references a rain collector experiment, but no usable content on that subject survives in the video. No dimensions, materials, boom brand, or boat name appear in the recoverable text.
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