Shadowing-Übung: I Tried the Impossible Art of Building a Ship in a Bottle - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube
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Have you seen a ship in a bottle before?
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Have you seen a ship in a bottle before?
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It's exactly what it sounds like.
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A tiny model ship beautifully displayed inside a glass bottle.
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They're really neat but also kind of mind-boggling
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because I don't understand how the ship fits through the small opening of the bottle.
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It just doesn't make sense.
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I've always wondered how they're actually made.
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Well today I'm gonna find out because I'm gonna try to build this vintage DIY kit from the 1980s.
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This seems a bit daunting right now,
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but you know how they say that you should take inspiration from those who've gone before you?
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Well, from what I've seen,
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the expert crafters are a lot of old dudes.
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I love it.
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Look how proud they are.
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So my challenge is to see if I have what it takes to be like these creative grandpas.
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And it starts with this,
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which I bought from eBay and hopefully isn't a scam.
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The description says it's brand new,
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unused and unopened but definitely seems pretty open to me.
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Not off to a great start but hopefully all the pieces are in here.
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We got a bottle which is great some instructions
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and then a bunch of other parts inside a little baggie so looks like everything is here.
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You know how vintage stuff has that distinct old smell?
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This all has it.
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It's as if it was just stuffed in someone's closet for many years and then posted online for some sucker to buy.
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Well, that sucker is me.
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And we're about to try to build it.
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Let's go.
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Oh, wait.
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Hold up.
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Apparently I need all these other materials first.
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I'm not going to show you each one.
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You get the idea.
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It was a lot of stuff.
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All right, now I'm actually ready to begin.
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What's first?
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Surprisingly, I do know what a hull is
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because of a past video where I turned a kid's sandbox into an epic floating boat.
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So hull means the bottom of the boat part,
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which is this guy right here.
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And it came with the cutest little piece of sanding paper to make it nice and smooth.
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Even though this tiny vessel won't be floating across a lake,
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I'm still determined to make it as cool as possible.
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I cut out these tiny hatch covers,
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and now I got to glue them on somehow.
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Oh, they're so small.
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Okay, here we go.
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Oh, that's a lot of glue.
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Yeah, it's all over my fingers.
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Classic.
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Okay, easy does it.
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Oh, no, dropped it.
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Okay, focus.
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There we go.
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It now makes sense why tweezers were on the list of materials needed,
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so I switched to those to save myself from more gluey fingers.
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Once all the wood pieces were in place,
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I cut this black tubing which is meant to be the cannons,
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which makes this boat way cooler now that it's got heavy artillery.
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Then I did a few other finishing touches before moving on to the next step.
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Dang it.
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I think I'm missing some pieces.
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Maybe it was a scam after all.
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What the heck?
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Yeah, I'm supposed to have six tie-down pins,
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and I got zero of them.
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But I'm just gonna roll with it.
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I think I might have something.
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Yes.
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Staples.
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They seem small, and if I bend an individual one, maybe that'll work.
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I don't know.
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Hopefully.
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and bam i got the other five staples jammed in so hopefully that does the trick
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i think we're moving on to some painting next i'm really excited for this part i enjoy painting
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and i think it's going to transform the chunk of wood into what will actually look like a proper ship.
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Let's do a Connor classic,
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a good old painting time-lapse.
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Music As a kid, I always wondered how these were made.
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I assumed that it was one of these two options.
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Number one, you cut the bottle in half,
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put the ship inside, and then glue it back together.
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Or number two, the ship is fully built inside the bottle using tweezers.
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But there is in fact a third explanation.
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The ship is collapsible, so it fits into the bottle and then is folded up into position.
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And of the three options,
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this is the correct one.
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That's the secret sauce.
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It honestly makes way more sense than cutting a glass bottle in half.
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It still sounds tricky and sort of impossible to like prop up the sails and I don't know.
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But that's how it's done.
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That's the secret.
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Now you know.
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Check it out, it's starting to look like a proper little boat.
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Doo doo doo doo.
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Yes, I love it.
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Okay, I think what's next is we gotta build some sails for it.
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Okay, I actually have to build the masts first,
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which are the wooden beams holding up the sails.
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And now it's time to cut the different parts out of the fabric for the sails.
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I just traced the template that it came with,
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which made it nice and easy.
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And now like a weird tiny puzzle,
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I just glue them all together
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And Just like that my boat is now a sailboat Bam Check that out.
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Let's go And it's officially now too big to enter into the boat.
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So this is where the magic happens.
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Am I confident that I can pull this off?
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I don't know yet, but so far, so good.
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Oh man, I have no idea.
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Look at that, it's gonna be in there eventually.
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That'll be so cool.
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Okay, what's next?
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No way.
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you serious it's happening again brass wire brackets should be included
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and it's definitely not dang it these brackets
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are arguably like the most important piece because it's the whole hinge mechanism
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that goes through the mass and then it'll raise it and lower it so it can go into the bottle.
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Like without them, it's just a ship and a bottle.
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You can't combine them.
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Okay, I gotta come up with a solution here.
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Is the answer to my problem right on the table in plain sight?
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these staples have already kind of worked once before so maybe they'll work again it's worth a try
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okay let's test it please work okay so that's it in the standing position and then it should hinge
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yes oh yeah I think that'll work
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and then once it's in the bottle you pull it back into place I mean it's janky
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but hopefully it works let's go staples for the win and
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so each sale got its very own janky staple as the makeshift bracket.
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It's definitely not ideal but I'm just working with what I got at this point
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and what I got is a big box of staples.
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Guess what material was missing and not actually included.
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I'm not even surprised at this point,
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just disappointed, but I think I know what the solution could be.
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Grandma's sewing kit to the rescue!
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Ta-da-da!
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I mean I'm sure she's got some thread in here somewhere.
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Oh yeah!
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Look at that!
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Thanks Grandma for your contribution here.
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I'm thinking this will work just great for the rigging,
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especially with such easy to follow instructions.
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Oh, it's making my head hurt.
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This is a complex process.
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For such a small little project,
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there is a lot that goes into it.
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It's pretty crazy.
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Let me read you a little section here and tell me what you think.
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So, cut a new length of thread
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and tie a knot around the mizzen mast under the intersection of the latin spar and mizzen mast.
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lead the thread to and around the main mast just above the upper yard arm,
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then to and around the foremast above the upper yard arm,
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then down to and through the hole in the tip of the bowsprit.
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What language is this in?
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Honestly, these maritime boat terms are confusing.
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I'm just going to reference the photo,
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I think, and just make it up.
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And that's what I did for the next two hours.
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I really struggled with it, honestly.
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I felt like my fingers were way too fat
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and big to be tying these super small knots and yeah it was just overall really difficult.
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But thankfully I finally got it all finished and I was proud to be moving on.
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Nooo!
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Oh my goodness.
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It's just, it just all fell apart.
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This project has been so tedious and time consuming.
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In case you can't tell,
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it's dark out, which means I've been working on this all day and I was nearing the end
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and now it's just a tangled mess.
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I had no choice but to undo all of my hard work.
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I guess I just don't have what it takes.
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I'm sorry, I tried my best,
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but unfortunately I think this one, I just gotta quit.
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Psych, there's no giving up here.
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I got up early the next morning,
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made a coffee, and now it's time to redo it.
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I think I'm gonna use a lot more glue this time.
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Oh yeah, that's a good one.
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And so, like a bad case of deja vu,
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I started again the intricate rigging process.
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It definitely would have been easier to just quit,
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but there was one thing that encouraged me.
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This article I read about a specific creative grandpa named Len,
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and he said, The best bit in the painstaking creation of a ship in the bottle is the moment
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when it finally comes to life.
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It feels magical.
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Len looks like an absolute legend,
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so thank you for the inspiration Len.
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That final magical moment when everything comes together,
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that's what's keeping me going here.
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I know it's going to come soon.
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I think I successfully did it this time.
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It's not a falling apart, tangled mess.
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Check it out.
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I also added some tiny red flags to the sails,
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and I really love the overall look of it.
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And now it's finally time for it to go inside the bottle.
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Whew, I am so nervous right now.
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All right, here we go.
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The ship has entered the bottle.
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Oh my goodness.
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Okay, now what?
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I gotta glue it into place.
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Put some resin on the bottom.
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Okay, okay, focus.
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I need tweezers.
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I'm sweating.
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Center it.
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UV resin.
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Hopefully this seals it.
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Sticks it into place.
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Yes.
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Okay, it's in place I think think.
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I would like to say that the rest of the project was just easy-peasy but...
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Unfortunately this is where the chaos started.
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The staples came out.
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Those darn staples
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that saved the day had now come loose causing me to have to somehow maneuver the sails back in a position.
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Working with these tweezers in such a confined space was so tricky.
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Typically this process is done a lot more gracefully by pulling on a thread attached to the sails
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that boom hoists them up but again because of my lack of proper brackets I was forced to do it this way.
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The struggle bus kept on rolling for another 30 minutes,
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but finally, with one final movement, I did it.
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That was one of the hardest things I've ever done.
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What the heck?
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But it's in there.
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We got a ship in a bottle.
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Oh my goodness.
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My heartbeat is still just through the roof.
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I feel like I'm coming down from an adrenaline rush.
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I was a surgeon.
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Oh my goodness.
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There is only one final step left.
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I'm just gonna power through it and do it and then I'll show you the final reveal.
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Here it is, my first ever ship in a bottle.
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Built from a 1980s DIY kit with not all the parts included.
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It's definitely not perfect.
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This was one of the harder challenges I've done so mad respect to Len and all the other pros out there.
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So I don't think this hobby is for me but I did it and I'm proud that I can just...
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No!
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