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I wasn't planning to call into Lord How,
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but it was there as a redundancy. And
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then one of the $6,000 batteries that I
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bought dropped a cell. I'd paddled for
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16 hours. Didn't know Lord How even
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Well, I knew it existed, but I didn't
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know anything about Lord How when we
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decided to go to it. So, was it
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surrounded by rocks? What kind of
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currents are there? And I'm approaching
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it in the day to night. So, I've been
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paddling 14 hours. And then I got there
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and the wind had turned and I thought,
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"Oh, yep. Bit of a tailwind. No problem.
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We'll roll right in there. And it ended
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up being like a 3 and 1/2 knot current.
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So I had to sprint for 8 hours after
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after a 14 16 hour paddle. So I had a
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26-hour day. And that included an 8hour
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sprint. And the current was so much that
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literally if I had more than one
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spoonful of food, I went there and it
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took me two minutes to get back to
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pointing front. So I I literally was
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sprinting for eight
