0:00:02 > 0:00:04'We're on a mission to a place that sounds familiar
0:00:04 > 0:00:07'but is, in fact, utterly different.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11'It's like England, but rougher, richer and more Republican.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13'We three men are in the far north-eastern corner
0:00:13 > 0:00:17'of the United States of America.'
0:00:21 > 0:00:22Listen, this is new to me
0:00:22 > 0:00:25because I've never been to this part of America before.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27Well, I have, a long time ago.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30'We begin our journey off the coast of the state of Maine,
0:00:30 > 0:00:33'the most northern of the six that make up New England.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35'And we're headed south in an 80-year-old schooner,
0:00:35 > 0:00:37'the typical boat of this region.'
0:00:39 > 0:00:41- Why are we here now? - We're here because...
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Ha! This is what I want to hear.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Come on, you tell us, why are we here now?
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Go on, tell us.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Cos they told us to come here.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56- We've come here at the most exciting time in Maine's seasonal...- What?
0:00:56 > 0:01:00..change. Cos this is the time when a Perfect Storm took place.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02- Great.- We're just in October, we're just heading out.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04So, of all the films we may recreate,
0:01:04 > 0:01:07we're going for the one in which a boat capsizes and everyone's killed.
0:01:07 > 0:01:08Yeah.
0:01:12 > 0:01:16We have instructions with us, like Charlie's Angels. In this envelope.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19- A lot of people...- ..which is going to tell us what we're supposed to do
0:01:19 > 0:01:22- on this particular jaunt.- A lot of people confuse this programme
0:01:22 > 0:01:24with Charlie's Angels, don't they?
0:01:24 > 0:01:28- Oh. It says "The Statue of Liberty." - That's New York, I believe.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31"Ellis Island." You read it, tell me what does it say in there.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34"Dear three men in a boat, we are led to believe that
0:01:34 > 0:01:37"the three of you know a thing or two about boats."
0:01:37 > 0:01:38Collectively, yes.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41But if you were to quiz us individually, it's mainly him.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45"And so would like to cordially invite you to join the flotilla of
0:01:45 > 0:01:49"vessels as America celebrates Lady Liberty's 125th birthday.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51"The flotilla will sail in the Hudson River
0:01:51 > 0:01:56"and assemble around the Statue at 12 noon on Friday, October 28th."
0:01:56 > 0:01:58- Which I make to be... - 10 days.- 10 days' time.
0:01:58 > 0:02:0110 days' time. "The choice of vessel is up to you.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04"However, this is a very important event for the City of New York
0:02:04 > 0:02:06"and the American people."
0:02:06 > 0:02:07I'm glad they put that clause in.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10What do they think we're going to arrive in? Like, a clown ship?
0:02:10 > 0:02:12DARA HONKS
0:02:12 > 0:02:14The doors falling off the sides.
0:02:14 > 0:02:20- That might be appropriate.- So, bring a boat.- It's a bring-a-boat party.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Fantastic.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27- 'So, we have to find a boat.'- Aaagh.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31'But the decision won't be easy.'
0:02:31 > 0:02:33All the big boats that we could take
0:02:33 > 0:02:35are all out of water cos the season is over.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37- Time is running out. - It's got to do eight knots
0:02:37 > 0:02:40- and it's got to have a hooter. - BOAT HOOTS
0:02:41 > 0:02:45'So, we tried to get a grip on America's true, core values.'
0:02:46 > 0:02:48This has escaped from an Ohio zoo.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51We've got the big man to spring 'em on. That'll scare them.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54You're getting a kick in the head. Argh!
0:02:54 > 0:02:55'Learn about American history.'
0:02:55 > 0:02:58The thing about the Plymouth Rock, it hasn't got,
0:02:58 > 0:03:00"Greetings from Plymouth" written all the way through it,
0:03:00 > 0:03:02which has rather disappointed me.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05'By wearing the funny hats of the Pilgrim Fathers.'
0:03:05 > 0:03:09- My name is Griffith and this is Mr Rory McGrath.- Your servant.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11- Raaagh.- Hang on.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14'And then going native.'
0:03:14 > 0:03:17- Now you want me to get you food on top of that.- Oh, OK.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20'And so make the right choice of vessel.'
0:03:22 > 0:03:25If Jamiroquai had a boat this is what it would be like.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28'To take part in the biggest, boatiest, most American
0:03:28 > 0:03:32'of American parties that you could ever hope to be invited to.'
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Well, you know, we don't want to crash the party.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42My only fear, now,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45is that we might screw it up by not being able to get a good boat
0:03:45 > 0:03:48or getting a rubbish-looking boat or making idiots of ourselves.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Dara, you'd like a sort of motorboat of some kind, perhaps?
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Yeah, I don't know. If I'm representing... Yeah.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56You like powerful motorboats, one kind or another.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59But whether or not this is the place for it as opposed to...
0:03:59 > 0:04:01You'll be representing the Republic of Ireland.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04I feel something humble, something to indicate, you know,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07I like the idea of people arriving with only the shirts on their backs.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11The trip itself will be so exciting.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15Isn't this fantastic? To be here at this time of year, as well.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18No tourists cos this is... Cos, just, there's the sense,
0:04:18 > 0:04:21as you move into the state, that you enter into a genuine world
0:04:21 > 0:04:23instead of a tourist world.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26And it's good that the vacation's over, here.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30And we can, sort of, get to grips with the real America.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33And, Griff, maybe you should arrive in a coracle.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36I don't want to say, I mean, you know, obviously,
0:04:36 > 0:04:40it being a sort of Welsh boat, we have to be kind to coracles.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42They have certain advantages.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Very light, very easy to carry, but they are intrinsically unstable.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Well, I'm a tiny bit nervous about this trip.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52I'll tell you why, because, I mean, I spend a lot of my time
0:04:52 > 0:04:54being very rude about Americans and American culture.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Not in public, obviously. I would never, ever say this in public.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00I can say it to you cos, you know, you're Nick, you're a cameraman,
0:05:00 > 0:05:01you know me.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04But I do and I don't like the influence that America has
0:05:04 > 0:05:07on the English language. So, for example.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08But, now, I'm here with them
0:05:08 > 0:05:13and it's going to be really exciting to hear what the Americans really
0:05:13 > 0:05:15think of us British.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18What about you, Rory? What sort of boat would you...?
0:05:18 > 0:05:21What boat sums you up, Rory? A tug. A little tugboat.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- I don't know why you say that. - I don't know, I just...
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Do you see me as a tug man?
0:05:26 > 0:05:30'From Portland, Maine, we're heading south along a coastline
0:05:30 > 0:05:32'that's big in American history.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36'Into Boston, around Plymouth, and across to Cape Cod.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38'From there, it's out to Martha's Vineyard
0:05:38 > 0:05:42'and finally up the Long Island Sound into New York City,
0:05:42 > 0:05:47'where a large, green statue has stood for the last 125 years.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50'A gift from the French to celebrate
0:05:50 > 0:05:53'American liberty from Britain.'
0:05:53 > 0:05:56'We eventually arrive in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where we've arranged
0:05:56 > 0:05:59'a lift with David Andreeson, head of the US Coast Guard for this area.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02'David was actually at the 100th anniversary of the Statue
0:06:02 > 0:06:05'and we're hoping he might have a few ideas for us.'
0:06:05 > 0:06:10'The US Coast Guard is fundamentally different to the one in the UK
0:06:10 > 0:06:12'in that it's a military appointment.'
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Explain to me this, Griff. Why this very expensive,
0:06:16 > 0:06:20waterproof, boaty gear, has hoods that you can't keep up?
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Haven't you got a thing?
0:06:22 > 0:06:25How does your job now divide up between, you know,
0:06:25 > 0:06:29rescuing tourists or fishermen and the military side of it?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Well, definitely, after September 11th 2001,
0:06:32 > 0:06:36our mission is, er, has gone a lot more towards law enforcement
0:06:36 > 0:06:39and homeland security, especially right here in this port.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- We have a navy submarine base here. - Yep.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44We also have got a thousand-foot tankers
0:06:44 > 0:06:46that will come from all over the world.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50If I were the skipper of the boat, though, this is where I'd sit,
0:06:50 > 0:06:52nearly all the time.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- With your face pressed up against the window?- Pretty much, yeah.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57What would you recommend we bring to New York?
0:06:57 > 0:07:01Definitely one of these would be pretty good to bring down there.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03You might have to fuel up a couple of times,
0:07:03 > 0:07:05we don't carry a lot of fuel.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08I used to be stationed at the station just south of here,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Newburyport, Massachusetts, it's in the Merrimack River.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15And there's a boat shop there, it's about 150 years old,
0:07:15 > 0:07:17called Lowell's Boat Shop.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21Now, he might know of somebody, possibly,
0:07:21 > 0:07:23that you would be able to take a ride with.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Oh, right, we'll check it out.
0:07:26 > 0:07:27How was chief Dave, Dara?
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Chief Dave was lovely, he was really, really nice,
0:07:30 > 0:07:33and we had a good, old chat and he actually set up the next item.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35- Has he?- Yeah, he's set it up really excellently.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38"You should go to Lowell's shipyard, he's very good."
0:07:38 > 0:07:39Oh, ok, maybe we'll do that, then.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42'And we do take David's advice and visit Lowell's,
0:07:42 > 0:07:44'which is up 'the Merrimack River,
0:07:44 > 0:07:47'just over the border into Massachusetts.'
0:07:53 > 0:07:58This is Lowell's Boat Shop. A shop that actually sells boats.
0:07:58 > 0:08:04It's the oldest continuously operating boat shop in the States.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08In American terms, it's nearly prehistoric.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12And it's the home of the fishing dory.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15- Graham?- Hello.- Hello, I'm Griff. - Hi, Griff.- Good to see you.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17- What a fantastic shop.- Thank you.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21So, how many boats do you make a year?
0:08:21 > 0:08:22Now, I only make about eight or ten.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25But eight or ten, though, that's a large number.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28That's nothing compared to the 2,000 that they used to make.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30- 2,000 a year?- A year.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32That's seven a day.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34What was the demand for that?
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Who was buying that huge quantity of boats?
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Fishermen. They were fishing dories.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42So, back in 19th century,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44they'd send a schooner out to sea with a bunch of dories on the deck
0:08:44 > 0:08:47and they'd put them all over the side.
0:08:47 > 0:08:48And these guys would go out fishing.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52And the lifespan of those dories was about two years at the most.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55- Standing in the rain.- Yeah.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Is preferable to listening to Griff talking at some poor boat builder
0:08:57 > 0:09:00- about boat building. - Telling him how to build boats.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Telling him how his family have been building boats for...
0:09:02 > 0:09:05- Since 1790.- ..220 years.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Griff is going to spot a flaw.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09But these days, you're not making your boats
0:09:09 > 0:09:12so much for fishermen, but for leisure purposes, are you?
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Yeah, most of them are for pleasure purposes.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19But I actually did make a boat for a lobster fisherman two years ago,
0:09:19 > 0:09:21just like this, that he fishes out of, up in Maine.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25And he's a traditionalist fisherman, he just likes to have a nice boat.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28- No, he's actually a paediatric surgeon.- Oh, is he? OK.
0:09:28 > 0:09:29But he does it for fun.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31Interesting tensions within New England, though.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Well, there's three states, New England states
0:09:34 > 0:09:36that get on quite well. Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38- Yeah, they're all quite close. - They like each other.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40- They regard themselves as local. - They're locals.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42- But they all hate... - Massachusetts.- Yeah.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46And the best thing we've learned is that the nickname of people
0:09:46 > 0:09:48from Massachusetts in this part of the world is...
0:09:48 > 0:09:49BOTH: Massholes.
0:09:50 > 0:09:55- It's very pretty.- It's gorgeous. It looks vaguely, er, Scandinavian.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58- Do you think that? Do you get that...?- I think it does, yeah.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01- No, I don't get that at all.- A, sort of, timber buildings, a lot of water.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03You know, I should run with you with that, but, no.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05A lot of blonde people. ABBA t-shirts.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08You've completely, you've absolutely gone there.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Gloucester is still a good place for boats?
0:10:12 > 0:10:15It's one of the finest, I do think.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18It's still, kind of, a rough-and-tumble town
0:10:18 > 0:10:21so it keeps a lot of the higher-end, yachty people away.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24- Does it?- So, it's still...- Got a bit of an authentic tang.- Yes, it does.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Well, that will appeal to Rory, that's...
0:10:26 > 0:10:29- # Waterloo. # - BOTH: # Da da da da-da Waterloo. #
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Um, the plan isn't for us to row by the way, is it?
0:10:32 > 0:10:37I think those boats are going to be too small for the Liberty Parade.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39- Even if we were in the middle of it? - It would be quite amusing if,
0:10:39 > 0:10:42three individual people rowing.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- Hello. Pass the viewing stand. - Yes, it's us. Representing Britain.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48- And Ireland.- Hello. Mainly representing Sweden.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49SWEDISH ACCENT: Ya, Sweden,
0:10:49 > 0:10:53we've come all the way from the fjords of New Hampshire.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Fjords are Norway.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02I'm just balanced now.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05'Next morning, Graham offers to take us
0:11:05 > 0:11:09'for a poke around the nearby big harbour of Gloucester.'
0:11:09 > 0:11:12'Gloucester has a sad fame as the home port of those boats
0:11:12 > 0:11:15'that were lost in what became known as the Perfect Storm,
0:11:15 > 0:11:18'which occurred 20 years ago, almost to the day.'
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Are we overdressed for the conditions?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22It seems to be quite a calm morning.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25The sea is flat, the visibility is good and we're dressed in all this.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26- I think you're fairly safe in here. - Yeah.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29Get into your swimming trunks, Rory.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31A little nippy this time of year.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33I'll get my bikini on and just lie in the front, here.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40- These are dories, guys. - Oh, there they are, oh, yeah.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Gloucester fishermen's dories.
0:11:46 > 0:11:51'The first boats up are these sleek, black and lovely fishing boats.'
0:11:53 > 0:11:56A big schooner would be lovely. It's a rather big boat.
0:11:56 > 0:11:57- A big schooner'd be great. - Are schooners good?
0:11:57 > 0:12:00We're in the middle of an ongoing debate as to what kind of boat
0:12:00 > 0:12:05would best represent us or boating or... And, also, what we can get.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09- Those are tuna tails, are they? - Yeah.- Oh, right.- Excellent.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12- They're very good.- And these are, actually, Irish-owned boats.
0:12:12 > 0:12:17- Mostly, the crews are mostly comprised of Irish.- Excellent.- Yeah.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Great guys. Great guys to go out drinking with.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Yeah, we pride ourselves on that.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26'Of course not every boat in Gloucester harbour is to be
0:12:26 > 0:12:29'taken too seriously.'
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- A little pirate ship, here. - A fake pirate ship.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33I doubt they'd make a fake pirate ship.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Graham, what do you think, a fake pirate ship,
0:12:35 > 0:12:38- we all dress as Captain Pugwash?- Yes.
0:12:38 > 0:12:39FRENCH ACCENT: Formidable.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42We'll rattle our sabres at the Statue of Liberty.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44- Ah, there's a canon.- A canon.
0:12:44 > 0:12:45As you were saying, Pirates Of The Caribbean,
0:12:45 > 0:12:47all the kids want to go do pirate stuff now.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49- Fancy dress pirate ship. - That's all right.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55Steak special in a container with beef right on the side.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59'After a busy morning on the water,
0:12:59 > 0:13:01'we were hungry for a really delicious lunch.'
0:13:01 > 0:13:03And a shrimp dinner.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06'And we thought, let's try an American diner
0:13:06 > 0:13:08'cos that'll be nice and light and healthy, won't it?'
0:13:09 > 0:13:14- Good morning.- Morning.- How are you? - Good. How you guys doing?
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Very well, thank you.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20- What can I get for you?- We'd like a large quantity of food, please.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22- Is that possible?- I think so.- Good.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24What do you recommend, how are the scallops?
0:13:24 > 0:13:27I, personally, like shrimp better. But scallops are delicious.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Well. OK, well, let's go for the shrimp. A shrimp dinner.
0:13:30 > 0:13:35- You want the shrimp dinner? - I'd like the clams.- Clams.- Clams.
0:13:35 > 0:13:36And what is a jalapeno popper?
0:13:36 > 0:13:40A jalapeno popper. It's a hot pepper with cheese and bread around it.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43- OK. And bread around it? - Bread around it. They fry it.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46- I want one of those. And they fry it as well, yeah?- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49- Super beef dinner.- Super beef dinner. And what would you like on it?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51- Fries?- Err.- Onion rings, salad or coleslaw?
0:13:51 > 0:13:55- Forget the salad.- No salad. You want coleslaw?- And chips.- Chips?
0:13:55 > 0:13:59- Fries, fries.- Fries, all right.- Does that sound like a lot?- Yeah.- Is it?
0:13:59 > 0:14:03- OK.- We're all on a very strict diet on this programme.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06- Fab, we look forward to it.- Thanks, guys, I'll bring it right over, OK?
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Thank you.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Ah, that's for the fishermen.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18- Did we order too much food? - I'm terrified...
0:14:18 > 0:14:20about what I've ordered. No idea what it is. A super roast beef dinner.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22That's a full cow.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24They're going to roll a full cow out here
0:14:24 > 0:14:26and roast it on a spit for 14 hours.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28But this is like being in, er...
0:14:28 > 0:14:30what's that film where all of those guys hang around a diner?
0:14:30 > 0:14:33But nobody ever eats anything when they go to a diner in a movie.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35They always go in there and only have a cup of coffee
0:14:35 > 0:14:37- because they're having a meeting. - Yeah.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40So, the huge quantities of food that come off the counter never
0:14:40 > 0:14:42- make their way into a film.- We're about to buck the trend.- Yeah.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44The first to consume food in a diner.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48- The clam dinner.- OK. - Who didn't want the scallops?
0:14:48 > 0:14:51- I didn't want the scallops, just the clam dinner for me.- Look at this!
0:14:51 > 0:14:53- Mozzarella sticks.- Thank you.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- They're the jalapeno peppers. - Jalapeno poppers.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57They're your jalapeno peppers, there.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59- I might have to have a... Salad? - What's that for?- Yeah.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02- That's the Greek salad? - Yeah, yeah.- The Greek salad.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05- Another Greek salad.- Wow. - Another dinner and your coleslaw.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Coleslaw. Thank you very much, you're very kind.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09And the coleslaw, that's yours.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12AMERICAN ACCENT: Can I have a jalapeno popper, do you think?
0:15:12 > 0:15:15Oh, listen, here, have some of the coleslaw.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16A super dinner on the onion roll.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20- Oh, lord, here you go. - Woah.- Super dinner.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21This sauce on the side, it's barbecue sauce.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23- OK, thank you very much. - Try it on the beef.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25- OK, I will.- And the shrimp dinner.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29Thank you very much, that's very kind. That's wonderful.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Do you know what else I like about it? It's all brown.
0:15:35 > 0:15:40- How is the super beef, Rory? - How much beef is in it?- Oh, Jesus.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46- Some of it's escaping.- Genuinely. Look, it's falling into your coffee.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- That is insane.- This has escaped from an Ohio zoo, this roll.
0:15:49 > 0:15:54Thank God we're going to spend the afternoon digging roads and fishing.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55Putting out fish traps.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03- How you guys doing? - We're doing good.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05We're doing really... We're making quite the dent,
0:16:05 > 0:16:07making quite the dent in this stuff.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10- Keep going.- Yeah. - You've got a lot to finish.
0:16:10 > 0:16:11- Lovely.- Oh, lord.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14I'm feeling hot now. I'm feeling...
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Are we going to have a major sundae after this?
0:16:17 > 0:16:19I thought you were going to say a major heart attack.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26'After such a slap-up feed, we decided we needed a drink,
0:16:26 > 0:16:29'and when you're in Gloucester, you really have to visit
0:16:29 > 0:16:31'the most famous bar in the town, the Crow's Nest.'
0:16:32 > 0:16:37'It was the local bar of the crew of the fishing boat the Andrea Gail.
0:16:37 > 0:16:43'20 years ago, she sailed to catch tuna and she never came back.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46'Mary's brother, Bobby, was one of the six crew.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48'And he was just 30 years old.'
0:16:50 > 0:16:52This was just a total freakish storm that...
0:16:52 > 0:16:54- Yeah, yeah. - ..took everyone by surprise.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57So, I think that's why there was so much hype about it.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00But how did your brother come to get out into it?
0:17:00 > 0:17:02He was having some financial difficulties
0:17:02 > 0:17:06and he really needed to make some money.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08And we knew Billy Tyne very well.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11My mother, myself, my whole family knew him.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14And we asked Billy, my mother and I, asked Billy to take him fishing.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Oh, really, oh, seriously.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18'It's still a place for fishermen to hang out today.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21'And the crew of the giant Irish trawlers
0:17:21 > 0:17:24'we saw earlier seem to have settled in already for the evening.'
0:17:24 > 0:17:26I noticed the boat with the shamrocks on it.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29- That's a proper Irish boat.- It's hard to miss the flags on the boat.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30Yeah, it is, isn't it?
0:17:30 > 0:17:33But it's not like Irish American, it's not like third generation,
0:17:33 > 0:17:36- that's an actual...- No, no, it's, actually, most of the people
0:17:36 > 0:17:38on board are from Killybegs, Donegal.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41I know Killybegs, obviously, but Killybegs is, it's a small town.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Don't run down our wee home town, now.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46I'm not saying anything, it's a nice place, it's a lovely spot, right.
0:17:46 > 0:17:47Correct me if I'm wrong.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50'Meanwhile, Mark a local lobster fisherman had been drawn
0:17:50 > 0:17:53'to Rory's big, red face.'
0:17:53 > 0:17:57- You are a lobsterman?- I'm a fisherman that catches lobsters.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59- OK, so that's different. - We're all fishermen.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Now, listen, we've just come from a place,
0:18:01 > 0:18:05you may have heard of it, up the coast, called Maine.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07- Yes.- You know? - The great state of Maine.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- You know what I'm going to say now. - Yeah.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Everywhere you go in Maine it's lobster, lobster, lobster.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Not quite as sweet as ours.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15What was the exact circumstance?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18So they say three storms came together and created a...
0:18:18 > 0:18:20- Perfect Storm. - But terrible conditions.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24Yes, and they were basically in the eye of the storm, which,
0:18:24 > 0:18:28I don't know what the chances of that are.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Actually being that spot at that time.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34- You're a Massachusetts?- Yep. - Born and bred?- Yes.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Now, this is a silly question to ask, isn't it?
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Is there any Irish in your heritage?
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Just a bit, why would you ask? Just a bit.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Well, hey, we're in Massachusetts. There's a tiny bit in me as well.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47- I could see that.- How could you see that?- Er.- I'm drinking a beer.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50Might have been the paunch. The front porch.
0:18:50 > 0:18:51- The paunch.- I've got that too.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55We were at the backshore, watching the waves.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58It was an incredible storm, we were all watching it,
0:18:58 > 0:19:01we always do when there's a storm, we live on the coast.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04And I remember saying to my husband, "Do you think Bobby's OK?"
0:19:04 > 0:19:07He said, "Oh, they're, they're not even near here,
0:19:07 > 0:19:10"they're in Canada right now, they're fine".
0:19:10 > 0:19:14We didn't know by then the storm had already hit them in Canada.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18By then, the ship had already gone down and we didn't know.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21And how long did the search go on?
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Seven days, but they didn't start searching for,
0:19:24 > 0:19:27until three days after, so it was ten days in total
0:19:27 > 0:19:30that we just sat there and waited.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Everybody knows someone that's lost at sea,
0:19:32 > 0:19:34And I don't know why we don't worry more.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37- I don't know why. Because, I guess, it's their job.- Yeah.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39And they go to sea and we say, "Have a safe trip."
0:19:39 > 0:19:43We say it to everyone that we know that's going fishing,
0:19:43 > 0:19:45but you don't think that they won't come back.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09'The next morning we relocated to Marblehead, down the coast,
0:20:09 > 0:20:12'to meet up with yacht Nirvana, who was going to take us
0:20:12 > 0:20:14'south to Boston and then on to Plymouth.'
0:20:17 > 0:20:20- A beautiful day for sailing. - It's a perfect day for sailing.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23- It's a perfect day for sailing. - And no other boats out.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26'Nirvana is an 80-foot maxi, with an exceptional pedigree,
0:20:26 > 0:20:30'winning virtually every classic ocean regatta for five years
0:20:30 > 0:20:33'after she was built in 1982.'
0:20:39 > 0:20:42'As this is the first vessel that could plausibly take us
0:20:42 > 0:20:46'all the way to New York, I decided to explore down below.'
0:20:47 > 0:20:52This is the galley area, erm, as we travel along,
0:20:52 > 0:20:56we're clearly at something of an angle at the moment, as you can see.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58The, er, but the one thing to note about the galley area
0:20:58 > 0:21:00is that it is incredibly plush.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01Now, normally, racing boats
0:21:01 > 0:21:05and maxi racing boats like this are very, very spartan.
0:21:05 > 0:21:10It's just the bare minimum and they sleep in bunks, but this one,
0:21:10 > 0:21:14this particular one, as you can see around me, it's plush, it's leather!
0:21:14 > 0:21:16It's, like, built for tall people, it's fantastic.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Let's have a look at...
0:21:26 > 0:21:29..the... This is ridiculous.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Let's have a look at the main bedroom, all right.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Normally, this would be a bunk bed.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52This is the captain's quarters, comes with plush bedding area.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Comes with full-length mirror,
0:21:55 > 0:21:57comes with lovely view of your crew's legs.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00But most of all, apart from if we get past this sofa area here!
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Ouff.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Ta-daa! A bath!
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Which is the most pointless thing.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Because, obviously, all the water would run down that end.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14'And it's little touches like this that charmed its current owner,
0:22:14 > 0:22:17'Charlie, into buying the boat 11 years ago.'
0:22:17 > 0:22:21And who was the rich man who found the money to build this monster?
0:22:21 > 0:22:26- It was Marvin Green.- Yeah. - Who was a television producer.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31- A television producer! - That's why this has a television.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34We can't imagine that a television producer would make
0:22:34 > 0:22:35that sort of money.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37There would be letters n the Daily Mail in England
0:22:37 > 0:22:40if a television producer managed to make that money.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43- What did he produce? - Sesame Street.- Sesame Street.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45- Which was quite a success. - Yeah, yeah.
0:22:45 > 0:22:49So, the profits from Sesame Street went to build
0:22:49 > 0:22:51this state-of-the-art racing boat.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54'Nirvana was heading off to the Caribbean,
0:22:54 > 0:22:58'so wouldn't be hanging around for long in Boston.'
0:22:58 > 0:22:59So, you're leaving here, what time?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02We'll be leaving promptly at four o'clock today.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04- Four o'clock in the afternoon? - Correct.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06So, we're not going to spend the night in Boston
0:23:06 > 0:23:09having a tour of all the Irish bars by the sound of it?
0:23:09 > 0:23:14- Er, unfortunately, no.- OK. OK, all right, four o'clock.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17That gives us about, er...
0:23:17 > 0:23:20five hours in Boston to see everything, and do everything. OK.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Oh, Jesus.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30When they say it's comfortable down here, you know,
0:23:30 > 0:23:32it's not most people's definition of comfort.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38- Ha-ha.- Ha-ha-ha-ha.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Brief appearance by the director, there.
0:23:45 > 0:23:50If Jamiroquai had a boat, this is what it would be like.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57'Boston greeted the golden dawn of the American Revolution,
0:23:57 > 0:23:59'by dumping her British tax, tea, into the harbour.'
0:24:00 > 0:24:04The Boston Tea Party happened just over there, behind me,
0:24:04 > 0:24:08and, honestly, this is the point where Dara becomes extremely Irish.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13And I, for the purposes of this particular visit,
0:24:13 > 0:24:15will become very Welsh.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Because I have to say that there is no point in standing up,
0:24:21 > 0:24:24particularly, for Great Britain in this particular stretch of water.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27This is where we celebrate American liberty.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34My own private history. I spent some time here.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35I'm hoping to sneak away
0:24:35 > 0:24:37and just have a look at some of the old haunts.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Ah, it's great being back in Boston, out of puritan New England
0:24:40 > 0:24:44and into proper Irish Catholic Boston.
0:24:46 > 0:24:51'In the centre of Boston Common, is a statue called America,
0:24:51 > 0:24:53'a memorial to those who fought in the Civil War.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56'It seemed a good place to review the task ahead.'
0:24:59 > 0:25:02Their letter says quite emphatically,
0:25:02 > 0:25:04"The choice of vessel is up to you, however,
0:25:04 > 0:25:07"this is a very important event for the City of New York
0:25:07 > 0:25:11"and the American people and all craft will be reviewed on the day."
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Yeah, but like out of five? What are the criteria?
0:25:13 > 0:25:15We don't know how many are turning up.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18What if the flotilla is huge? Then we want to make some impact.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20If we're reviewed really harshly by, you know, The New York Times,
0:25:20 > 0:25:22apparently the show shuts down in a day.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24That's if, Frank Rich in The New York Times.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26- Well.- Phooam, shuts the show down.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29- In New York, people make instant decisions.- Yeah.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32- AMERICAN ACCENT: "Your boat sucks!" That sort of thing, kind of.- Yeah.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35What I'm baffled about is why something sucking should be
0:25:35 > 0:25:38a bad thing, surely something sucking is a very good thing.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41If someone says, "You suck." I'd say, "Thank you."
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Or, you know, "That sucks." "Thank you very much."
0:25:43 > 0:25:46What's wrong with the Americans that they think sucking is a bad thing?
0:25:46 > 0:25:48"Hey, you suck." "Thank you, ha-ha, I do."
0:25:48 > 0:25:51"I almost left my curtains open again." But, no, don't you think?
0:25:51 > 0:25:54- Sucking's got to be a good thing. - OK, all right.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58But that's probably not what they mean when they say that.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Why are you being drawn into this?
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Yeah, I'm on his side. Why are you being drawn in?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06It's been suggested that we go and bone up on liberty.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09- Ooh, or at least one of us does, yeah.- Liberty.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11- You're very good for this. - Fraternity. Equality.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13- Yeah, I do equality.- Oh, I see. - I'm all about equality.
0:26:13 > 0:26:14You're going to do equality,
0:26:14 > 0:26:16you're going to do fraternity, you're going to a pub!
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Actually, I'm going to go to a pub
0:26:18 > 0:26:21and try and see if I can nail the Boston accent.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23- Accents and dialogues. Nostalgia. - Yeah.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27- And I'm going to go and do liberty? - Yes, you are.- Yeah.- Thanks.
0:26:27 > 0:26:28Good man.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37- Shall we walk out?- Shall we walk out of shot, yeah, I think.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42'So while the others wander down town, I hopped in a cab west
0:26:42 > 0:26:45'to revisit some old haunts that I was first in as a 20-year-old.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49'20 years old, by the way, note that.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52'The legal drinking age in Boston is 21.'
0:26:52 > 0:26:53I didn't see that much of Boston really.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57I mean, because I was working 13-hour shifts in the airport
0:26:57 > 0:26:59and I'm not going to bring you there.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03Um, and then there was the place that we sat around all day,
0:27:03 > 0:27:06just a lot of us Irish people drinking illegally.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Which was our flat. I can bring you there.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19You see, freedom is everywhere in Boston.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Freedom here, for these people here.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Freedom for these people, here.
0:27:25 > 0:27:26Freedom and, er...
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Well, perhaps, perhaps not so much freedom for those people there.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39'But Boston, for me, was a perfect place to start learning
0:27:39 > 0:27:43'a real classic American accent with Professor Connolly.'
0:27:43 > 0:27:49- A lot of, most American accents have the rhotic 'r'.- Yes.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51And we linguists can say that sort of thing to each other.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54A little errr, errr. But, actually, in Boston they don't.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57- The word, "carrrr", which we say, like it is in...- Is caah.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Caah, with quite a long...
0:27:59 > 0:28:02There are two different pronunciations there,
0:28:02 > 0:28:04- but they're both non-rhotic. - Go on, then.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06So, you can say, "caah", which is....
0:28:06 > 0:28:09- Or you can say "kaaaaa".- Kaaaa. - Yeah.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12And that's when people are trying to imitate a Boston accent,
0:28:12 > 0:28:15they'll say things like, "Paaaark, yer kaaa in the Haaavard Yaaard".
0:28:15 > 0:28:18- Very few people actually say that. - That's great.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20- Paaaark yer kaaa in the Haaarvard Yaaard.- Yeah, you've got the idea.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23- How was that?- It was pretty good, yeah.- Do you think so?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27'No, it was terrible.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29'After the Revolution,
0:28:29 > 0:28:32'Boston continued to bang a drum for liberty.
0:28:32 > 0:28:37'In the 1780s, Massachusetts became the first state to abolish slavery.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40'I'm meeting Beverly Morgan-Welch at the African Meeting House,
0:28:40 > 0:28:45'built in 1806 and one of the first black churches in America.'
0:28:47 > 0:28:50In this building, this very building we're standing in,
0:28:50 > 0:28:55there were important speeches made, and people got up and made testament
0:28:55 > 0:28:59and made and pushed forward for the abolition of slavery.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02Absolutely, this is the, really, nexus of the abolitionist movement.
0:29:02 > 0:29:08And black people are not people who are as shy and as timid
0:29:08 > 0:29:13and as shackled, if you will, as the history presents itself.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15And they are talking and they are meeting, and they are
0:29:15 > 0:29:18determining that if this country says it wants to be independent.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21And it says it wants to be a democracy...
0:29:21 > 0:29:23And a republic and a voice for all people.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26Then let's make it so.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28So, here on Beacon Hill,
0:29:28 > 0:29:33- this became a sort of beacon for liberty in America.- Absolutely.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37'Meanwhile, I've arrived in the neighbourhood of Brighton.'
0:29:38 > 0:29:42Oh, my God, it's not changed.
0:29:42 > 0:29:44You really think they'd have painted it in the last 20 years.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48There were eight of us in four rooms, not a four-bedroom,
0:29:48 > 0:29:50four-room flat, right?
0:29:50 > 0:29:52Sometimes nine, there were ten towards the end
0:29:52 > 0:29:54and 17 on the night that U2 played.
0:29:54 > 0:30:00And we slept on mattresses that we found dumped on the street.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03So, we arrived, at one stage my mattress was in heavy rotation
0:30:03 > 0:30:07and I remember going into change and there was a guy lying there,
0:30:07 > 0:30:12and he rolled over, and around him, was his shape in sweat.
0:30:19 > 0:30:20(I've always wanted one of these.
0:30:20 > 0:30:24(This is, like, the only way I'm ever going to get one of these.)
0:30:41 > 0:30:43Sorry, here. Hiya.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50Oooh. Sorry.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54- I thought you were going without me. - Yeah, we were going to.
0:30:54 > 0:30:57- Good to go. We are good to go. - Good. Sorry to keep you.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59- Glad you finally made it.- Yes. Sorry, we did say four o'clock.
0:30:59 > 0:31:03- That's, well...- I got stuck in a Boston pub, you know what it is.
0:31:11 > 0:31:15- That, er, that was...- Sorry, Griff. Should we get Dara up here?
0:31:15 > 0:31:19Cos it's so nice to be out here, you know, we're up here with the guys.
0:31:19 > 0:31:20And there's a nice view of Boston.
0:31:20 > 0:31:22- He's probably on his... - He's bound to be asleep.
0:31:22 > 0:31:25I bet, he's probably in Charlie's cabin, isn't he?
0:31:25 > 0:31:29- On the Internet.- He might be in the bath!- Playing Angry Birds.
0:31:33 > 0:31:37What I'm not seeing is what boat we're on.
0:31:37 > 0:31:38I am not seeing Nirvana.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43Which, as I recall, was really big.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47I presume we're in the same boat.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55KNOCKS ON DOOR. Dara?
0:31:57 > 0:31:59We must be the first people here.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06That is a suspiciously ugly boat for a very pretty marina, though.
0:32:08 > 0:32:11- Hi.- Hey, how you doing? - I'm very, very well.
0:32:11 > 0:32:14They do tend to do this to us.
0:32:14 > 0:32:17I came here expecting some really big, luxury yacht.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20- You missed your boat.- Oh, really? - It left about a half an hour ago.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22- Where you going?- I'm going to Plymouth.- Well, I'm going that way,
0:32:22 > 0:32:24- you want to take a ride? - Can you take me to Plymouth?
0:32:24 > 0:32:26- I would love that. That would be fantastic.- Come on board.
0:32:26 > 0:32:30- Have they genuinely gone on ahead? - They already left.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33There was a time, you see, in this show when you could curse.
0:32:33 > 0:32:37See, it all got tidied up in the BBC.
0:32:37 > 0:32:38- Oh.- BEEP BEEP.
0:32:39 > 0:32:41We'll have to update our course.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44Doug, I love your work, but can I, one interruption?
0:32:44 > 0:32:46Err.
0:32:46 > 0:32:47Good news or bad news?
0:32:49 > 0:32:52- I'll have the bad news first.- Dara is not actually on board this boat.
0:32:54 > 0:32:57This is some sort of punishment, isn't it?
0:32:57 > 0:32:59Griff, Griff, he's behind this probably.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01Cos I was all thrilled to be in Boston.
0:33:01 > 0:33:03"Ah, I'm in Boston, where the Irish are."
0:33:03 > 0:33:05So, they left.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08They left in their fancy, poncy boat.
0:33:08 > 0:33:09What's the good news then?
0:33:09 > 0:33:11You found out that he's on his way in some boat?
0:33:11 > 0:33:13The good news is that Dara's not onboard the boat.
0:33:13 > 0:33:17Well, I'm on a real boat now, lads. And do you know what?
0:33:17 > 0:33:21If this boat rams that boat, only one boat is left.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23That's all I'm saying.
0:33:26 > 0:33:27LAUGHTER
0:33:27 > 0:33:32Let's drink a toast to absent, absent friends. To Dara O'Briain.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35All: To Dara O'Briain. Whoever he is.
0:33:41 > 0:33:43I'm really been looking forward to having this time, you know.
0:33:43 > 0:33:47Just time to find myself. And, look, how lovely is this?
0:33:47 > 0:33:50How...inviting is this?
0:33:50 > 0:33:54Let me just...slide into bed.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Ooof, Jesus.
0:34:03 > 0:34:04There, yeah?
0:34:04 > 0:34:08OK, I may be a little cramped in the morning,
0:34:08 > 0:34:12but, er, no, this'll do! Nice lads and nice boat, yeah.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16I am declaring myself to be content.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19If they could just knock off the engine noises,
0:34:19 > 0:34:22then I could get some sleep. Perfect.
0:34:24 > 0:34:29'So, we were all heading to Plymouth. Some in more luxury than others.'
0:34:35 > 0:34:37'Plymouth was founded by the Pilgrims who came over
0:34:37 > 0:34:42'on the Mayflower in 1620.
0:34:42 > 0:34:43'So, it's known as America's Hometown
0:34:43 > 0:34:46'and the birthplace of New England.'
0:34:48 > 0:34:50'Griff and I had arrived before Dara
0:34:50 > 0:34:52'and gone straight to the Plimoth Plantation.
0:34:52 > 0:34:56'A kind of living museum which recreates those early days,
0:34:56 > 0:34:58'down to the very last detail.'
0:34:59 > 0:35:02'Rory and I had to fit in with the 1620s,
0:35:02 > 0:35:06'which meant we had to fit in to period clothes.
0:35:06 > 0:35:09'Head of shoe horns was Denise.'
0:35:09 > 0:35:14We costume about 62 interpreters, and that includes trial volunteers
0:35:14 > 0:35:18and folks that go out to the schools and education programmes.
0:35:18 > 0:35:20Right, but the majority of them work in the museum, as it were?
0:35:20 > 0:35:22They do. They all do.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24Do they work on the, err...err...
0:35:24 > 0:35:27on the, I'm going to say Mary Rose, but it's not the Mary Rose.
0:35:27 > 0:35:29- No, it's the Mayflower II. - On the Mayflower.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Absolutely, we costume them as well.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34I'd say, even the Mayflower didn't have as difficult
0:35:34 > 0:35:35a disembarkation as this.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37Look at that, up the rusty ladder,
0:35:37 > 0:35:40onto the falling apart... Where are they, though?
0:35:43 > 0:35:46You're kidding me.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56"Dara, hope you had a lovely night.
0:35:56 > 0:36:01"We're at the Plimoth Plantation, see you there."
0:36:01 > 0:36:04OK, Rory, so are you ready to be a 17th-century Pilgrim?
0:36:04 > 0:36:08I am indeed. Now, are you wearing the actual costume that I'll be wearing?
0:36:08 > 0:36:10- I am not.- OK. - However, I'm in the modern dress.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13- What a shame because I think that's a rather nice look.- Why, thank you.
0:36:13 > 0:36:14- It suits you.- Why, thank you.
0:36:14 > 0:36:18We'd like to start with you putting on a shirt,
0:36:18 > 0:36:19a 17th-century linen shirt.
0:36:19 > 0:36:24- OK, do I take this off?- Yes, that would be great.- You say that.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27Now, enactors, or what are they called?
0:36:27 > 0:36:29- They're not called enactors. - They're called interpreters.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32- Are they strictly forbidden to wear watches?- Yes.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35- Do you need any help with those or is that...?- That's very kind of you.
0:36:35 > 0:36:36- I'll manage, thank you. - It's working out OK.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38- I've only just met you.- All right.
0:36:38 > 0:36:42And they have to learn to speak in the way that somebody
0:36:42 > 0:36:44of that era would have spoken.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47They do, er, we have several different dialects
0:36:47 > 0:36:50depending on what area in England they were from.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53- I like it.- 17th-century clothing is pretty tight-fitting.
0:36:53 > 0:36:58- And I assume that...- And I'm going to give it a little tug back here.
0:36:58 > 0:37:01- There you go, you get a little more. - That's lovely.
0:37:01 > 0:37:05- You're a natural.- Why? - Cos it looks just terrific on you.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09- You know how to flatter a man. - Well, it's true.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18Well, as instructed, I have come to the Plimoth Plantation,
0:37:18 > 0:37:21which is a recreation of what the Pilgrims would have found here
0:37:21 > 0:37:25in 1627. I presume there's a the Pilgrim part of it.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29I'm very definitely in the Native American part of it.
0:37:34 > 0:37:38- It's actually what we would call a mashoon.- Right.
0:37:38 > 0:37:41Mashoon just means boat in our language.
0:37:41 > 0:37:42Ah, but traditionally,
0:37:42 > 0:37:45you would have seen boats much larger than this one.
0:37:45 > 0:37:47In the time period, they do talk about boats that were easily
0:37:47 > 0:37:4960 feet long that would have been wide enough to hold
0:37:49 > 0:37:51two rows of 20 people.
0:37:51 > 0:37:52- But that's one tree presumably? - Yes.- Yeah.
0:37:52 > 0:37:56- Which Native American tribe is this? - We're Wampanoag.
0:37:56 > 0:37:59Wampanoag people have been living in this area
0:37:59 > 0:38:00for about 15-20 thousand years.
0:38:00 > 0:38:03And were Wampanoag the tribe who had that first interaction
0:38:03 > 0:38:04- with the Pilgrims?- Yes.
0:38:04 > 0:38:07You were the first to attend that very first Thanksgiving. Am I right?
0:38:07 > 0:38:11- Yes.- About 80 Wampanoag sat down. - There were about 90 men.
0:38:11 > 0:38:14- 90 men. Sat down for the first Thanksgiving.- Uh-huh.
0:38:16 > 0:38:17Importantly, so it's one tree.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19So, do you carve it out and charcoal the middle of it or...?
0:38:19 > 0:38:22Actually, it's all done with burning.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25Traditionally, you would see a fire the full length of the log,
0:38:25 > 0:38:27burning around the clock, 24 hours a day.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29OK, so why do this rather than just chiselling it out?
0:38:29 > 0:38:31Well, the burning process not just hollows it,
0:38:31 > 0:38:33- it actually hardens the wood.- Yeah.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35As well as it smoothens it and it waterproofs it.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37That's why you want to work with a very green tree.
0:38:37 > 0:38:39Right, cos there's sap in the tree?
0:38:39 > 0:38:41Exactly, and all that sap will get pushed right to the outside
0:38:41 > 0:38:43so all the pores will get sealed full of sap.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46So, how long would it have taken to make, like, one this size?
0:38:46 > 0:38:47Well, for one this size.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50If we were burning 24 hours a day, have it done in about a week.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52I couldn't get a ride in one of these, could I? Is there...?
0:38:52 > 0:38:55- Maybe later on.- Really, what's that?
0:38:55 > 0:38:57We're actually going to be going to a clambake later.
0:38:57 > 0:39:01Nice! I've heard of a clambake a lot, is that also a Native thing?
0:39:01 > 0:39:06It is. It's more of like a cooking with food, but with seaweed.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09Like a form of steaming it almost, but it tastes really, really good.
0:39:16 > 0:39:18Griff? Griff?
0:39:21 > 0:39:23RORY LAUGHS
0:39:23 > 0:39:24GRIFF CHUCKLES
0:39:24 > 0:39:29- Very dashing. Very, very dashing, my friend.- Well, brother McGrath.
0:39:29 > 0:39:31God be praised.
0:39:31 > 0:39:32GRIFF CHUCKLES
0:39:33 > 0:39:35You look...that's very good, quite cavalier.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38I'm afraid you've got a silly hat.
0:39:40 > 0:39:44But this is for you, Griff. I mean, I've seen you at the golf club
0:39:44 > 0:39:47on Tuesday nights, and that's very typical, that's what you usually...
0:39:47 > 0:39:50- There's something slightly Guy Faulksian about you.- Good.
0:39:50 > 0:39:54- Interestingly enough, is that a goatee beard?- No.- Are you sure?- No.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56Because I've read somewhere that there's an old law
0:39:56 > 0:39:59of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that says you cannot
0:39:59 > 0:40:01have a beard like that without a licence.
0:40:01 > 0:40:03GRIFF LAUGHS
0:40:03 > 0:40:08'We don't have a licence to speak the American Mummerset dialect of
0:40:08 > 0:40:13'the 1600s either, so we're forbidden to interact with the public.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17'Nonetheless, we're ordered to stay in character at all times.'
0:40:19 > 0:40:20- Good morrow.- Good morrow.
0:40:20 > 0:40:25- My name is Griffith and this is Mr Rory McGrath.- Your servant.
0:40:25 > 0:40:27My servant? You don't look like my servant.
0:40:27 > 0:40:29But, indeed, I appreciate the gesture, good sir.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31Fit these men up with a pair.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34'Our duties were with the head of the garrison, Scott.'
0:40:34 > 0:40:37I shall say, advance your pike to the first.
0:40:37 > 0:40:41Come on, now, put that right hand up where it's going to guard your face.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43Put your left hand down and guard whatever you will.
0:40:43 > 0:40:44RORY CHUCKLES
0:40:44 > 0:40:46And to the second!
0:40:46 > 0:40:48To the third!
0:40:48 > 0:40:49Ah-ha-ha-ha.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51- Beautiful. How'd you get on, Griff?- Badly.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54- Get it inside your foot.- I'd like to do that again, sir, if I may.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56You'll be doing it again till it gets right.
0:40:56 > 0:40:59I shall have you first to port your pikes. As such.
0:41:00 > 0:41:04Right, men, port your pike! Upon the command.
0:41:04 > 0:41:10Now, if you were to advance in that position, will they stand there?
0:41:10 > 0:41:12Or will they scurry?
0:41:12 > 0:41:15Pikemen, prepare to march. And march.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20Stand! And stand!
0:41:22 > 0:41:24- ALL: Raargh.- That's it. That's it.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26- Raargh.- ALL: Raargh.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28- Recover. Roar again.- ALL: Raargh.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30- Recover.- Raargh.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33Hang on. Where did that come from?
0:41:33 > 0:41:36I just got carried away there, sir, forgive me, sir.
0:41:36 > 0:41:39Your zeal is appreciated. Advance your pike.
0:41:39 > 0:41:41- What's that again?- Advance your pike.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45- Ow, ah-ha-ha.- Now he's stabbed himself in the foot.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47Now you'll remember which is the right foot.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50May I talk to your men? How did he make the crossing?
0:41:50 > 0:41:56- Is my first question.- Well.- I wasn't carrying a pike.- Well, that's true.
0:41:56 > 0:41:58But look, this village is short of rations
0:41:58 > 0:41:59but, seemingly, you've done OK.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02- Sir, who be you? - Who's got the tallest pike here?
0:42:02 > 0:42:04- Have we met before? - We have never met before.
0:42:04 > 0:42:07- Who is this man who talks in this strange tongue?- Yeah.
0:42:07 > 0:42:09With peculiar words, words of the devil.
0:42:09 > 0:42:12I-I'm sure I've seen you in a sketch by Benny Hill.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14Could you just do this?
0:42:14 > 0:42:17- Like that. - Was he in a sketch of some kind?
0:42:17 > 0:42:18I'm sure I have seen, I have bought
0:42:18 > 0:42:21a small version of you in a gift shop in Swansea.
0:42:21 > 0:42:24The, err, it was...
0:42:24 > 0:42:27You look like a tiny doll, representing the best of Wales.
0:42:27 > 0:42:31And may I say, as a visitor, if I was a Native American,
0:42:31 > 0:42:33I'd go through the middle.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35I'd go straight through the middle, under your pikes.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37You say that, we'll give him typhoid on the way through.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42- We have a request of thee.- Yes.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44- Could you escort us from this place? - I could, I could.
0:42:44 > 0:42:46To a place of lunch.
0:42:46 > 0:42:50I could. I know a place where vittles...vittles, vittles,
0:42:50 > 0:42:52will vittles do? Vittles will be served soon.
0:42:52 > 0:42:56Just take us, as far as the gate would be fine.
0:42:56 > 0:42:59Take us as far as the gate and then from there on perhaps it would be
0:42:59 > 0:43:04possible for us to revert to the characters as you formally knew us.
0:43:04 > 0:43:08- Could we possibly leave the pike? Cos it...my...- Oh, I'll leave...
0:43:08 > 0:43:11- It's not that sort of restaurant.- My vittles joint has a no-pike thing.
0:43:13 > 0:43:18'Back in the slightly less authentic real world, we go to meet a rock.'
0:43:19 > 0:43:22I find something sweet about this in, a kind of a...
0:43:22 > 0:43:24Every country has their creation myth.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26- Yeah. - But they can actually place it here.
0:43:26 > 0:43:29- In a Japanese...- It's not actually the rock they stepped on, is it?
0:43:29 > 0:43:32- Is it not?- No, there were lots of candidates for that actual rock.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35It was just chosen as a rock sometime in the 18th century.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37The thing about the Plymouth rock, it hasn't got,
0:43:37 > 0:43:39"Greetings from Plymouth" written all the way through it,
0:43:39 > 0:43:41which has rather disappointed me.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44Here we sit, we're looking at it, where do we stand on it?
0:43:44 > 0:43:46Do we think that it helps us in any way?
0:43:46 > 0:43:48Does it say anything about egalita...?
0:43:48 > 0:43:49No, well it's a rock. I don't think...
0:43:49 > 0:43:52No. The Thanksgiving dinner may, perhaps, be a good sign of egalit...
0:43:52 > 0:43:54Now, I think, I think that's fraternity.
0:43:54 > 0:43:56I think the Native Americans
0:43:56 > 0:44:00and the settlers coming together to give thanks
0:44:00 > 0:44:01Right, liberty?
0:44:01 > 0:44:03No, it has nothing to do with liberty either,
0:44:03 > 0:44:05it's just a place where people put a foot on ground.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07There was liberty, cos the people who came over,
0:44:07 > 0:44:10- they were suffering persecution, weren't they?- Yeah.
0:44:10 > 0:44:14It symbolises what the Statue of Liberty also symbolises.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16Which is bring me your poor, your huddled masses,
0:44:16 > 0:44:19bring me the persecuted people of the world. Yeah.
0:44:19 > 0:44:22Bring them to this country and settle them down
0:44:22 > 0:44:25and get them to work in a fast food outlet.
0:44:25 > 0:44:29How appropriate that they should first set foot on a rock
0:44:29 > 0:44:31with 1620 engraved on the side of it.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33- Handy, isn't it?- They thought, "That's useful."
0:44:33 > 0:44:36They wouldn't have seen it cos it's engraved on this side.
0:44:36 > 0:44:37Why isn't it the other way?
0:44:37 > 0:44:40Let's go look at the other great symbol, the Mayflower.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50There couldn't be a more ideal boat than The Mayflower, really.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53Well, it ticks all the boxes in many ways.
0:44:53 > 0:44:57- Visitors, British visitors.- Yeah. - First stepping in.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59Stepping in, I mean, there'd be tears,
0:44:59 > 0:45:00there'd be weeping on seeing the Mayflower.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02The Mayflower from the Statue of Liberty.
0:45:02 > 0:45:04- This one.- Two giants collide.
0:45:04 > 0:45:09This one is seaworthy, it made its way here in 1957
0:45:09 > 0:45:12or something like that. So, it's a replica, it's not the real thing.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15- No, of course not. - And it's obviously being a replica.
0:45:15 > 0:45:18And it was built in Devon, wasn't it?
0:45:18 > 0:45:21- Something like that.- Yeah, so. - So, in every way.- It's perfect.
0:45:21 > 0:45:24If we could get that boat down to New York.
0:45:24 > 0:45:28It didn't come from Plymouth anyway, it came from Harwich.
0:45:28 > 0:45:30But I thought THEY came from Plymouth.
0:45:30 > 0:45:34THEY came from Harwich, on the Mayflower, originally, and then
0:45:34 > 0:45:38they went to Plymouth. Plymouth was just the last place they left.
0:45:40 > 0:45:42This place should be called Harwich.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44It should be called the Harwich Rock.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46But we're in the middle of New England,
0:45:46 > 0:45:48there's bound to be a Harwich two miles down there.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51And another one two miles down there as well.
0:45:52 > 0:45:56'This boat would be the perfect vessel to take to New York.
0:45:56 > 0:45:59'So, we sent Rory on a charm offensive to see if he could
0:45:59 > 0:46:02'get Peter, the man in charge of Mayflower II, to let us have it.'
0:46:02 > 0:46:06Now, that to me, looks like a magnificent, historic boat.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08I mean, how authentic is the replica?
0:46:08 > 0:46:10Well, it's as authentic as we can know.
0:46:10 > 0:46:14It was very thoroughly researched back in the '50s by a man
0:46:14 > 0:46:17named William Baker. I think he spent six years trying
0:46:17 > 0:46:19to decide what the Mayflower II would have looked like.
0:46:19 > 0:46:22Well, the question I'm leading up to asking, I suppose,
0:46:22 > 0:46:23is that we are here to take part in a flotilla,
0:46:23 > 0:46:27which is to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.
0:46:27 > 0:46:28Oh, nice.
0:46:28 > 0:46:33And they've asked us to choose a boat which has a distinct connection
0:46:33 > 0:46:37to America and Britain. And something historical and imposing-looking
0:46:37 > 0:46:42and I just think that ship is just the perfect candidate for it.
0:46:42 > 0:46:44In more than one way that is the perfect candidate for it.
0:46:44 > 0:46:47The Mayflower was built as a gesture of thanks from the people of England
0:46:47 > 0:46:50to the people of the United States, following World War II. And one
0:46:50 > 0:46:54of the builders, one of the founders of that project, Warwick Charlton,
0:46:54 > 0:46:56was thinking on the terms of the Statue of Liberty.
0:46:56 > 0:46:58The way that the French gave the Statue of Liberty
0:46:58 > 0:46:59to the United States.
0:46:59 > 0:47:04It would be a terrific, symbolic and actual voyage.
0:47:04 > 0:47:05A perfect choice.
0:47:05 > 0:47:07However...
0:47:07 > 0:47:11It's a very expensive undertaking, requiring us to train a crew.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13And we don't have an engine on Mayflower
0:47:13 > 0:47:15so we'd have to hire a tugboat to get us out of this very....
0:47:15 > 0:47:18- We've got four days. - Well, we need a few more than that.
0:47:18 > 0:47:21We've got three able crew.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23So, I'll tell you what, I don't know if this will
0:47:23 > 0:47:25change your mind at all but, you know.
0:47:25 > 0:47:29We want to take your ship to New York. What do you reckon?
0:47:29 > 0:47:31I think you're going to need a little wad of money
0:47:31 > 0:47:32- a little bit bigger than that.- OK.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34- Let's go and see if he's got it.- Yeah.
0:47:34 > 0:47:37That would really be a surprise, if Rory says, "I've got it."
0:47:37 > 0:47:41'Down at Plymouth Beach, far out on a spit of land,
0:47:41 > 0:47:43'the Native Americans had organised a clambake.
0:47:43 > 0:47:50'All we had to do was get there. A mile and a half by dugout canoe.
0:47:50 > 0:47:52'It's a long way in a primitive craft,
0:47:52 > 0:47:54'and even further with primitive rowers.'
0:47:54 > 0:47:56Are you giving us a life jacket or are we getting them...?
0:47:56 > 0:47:59- We got two in here in each boat. - So if we need them it's fine.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02- You won't need 'em, I'm a good driver.- Excellent.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04I'm not an excellent co-pilot, though.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06That's why I'm going to be in the back,
0:48:06 > 0:48:07- you're going to be in the front. - Fine.
0:48:11 > 0:48:12Whey!
0:48:12 > 0:48:15- OK.- Let's get out of that surf.
0:48:16 > 0:48:19Which side are you canoeing?
0:48:19 > 0:48:23- That one there. There we go. - Hold on.
0:48:26 > 0:48:27He-hee.
0:48:30 > 0:48:34Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. OK. Woah.
0:48:34 > 0:48:38- Oh! Oh, oh, ooh.- That is not funny.
0:48:38 > 0:48:39- This is a very unstable boat.- Cheeky.
0:48:44 > 0:48:46I think an hour's going to be optimistic.
0:48:49 > 0:48:54- How many strokes each side would you say?- Whatever you think is best.- OK.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02This feels very different from canoes I've been in but, you know,
0:49:02 > 0:49:03touch wood!
0:49:23 > 0:49:26- Ga-aah.- That's me, sorry.- Aah. - It's all right.
0:49:27 > 0:49:30How far do they want us to go? Can we not just go back in now?
0:49:30 > 0:49:35We've demonstrated the practicality of sailing these canoes.
0:49:35 > 0:49:39And I get the feeling that we should head right for the shore now
0:49:39 > 0:49:41and get out of it.
0:49:41 > 0:49:43I think we're going to the clambake, which is farther up.
0:49:43 > 0:49:46- How far up is that? - Past that white house.
0:49:48 > 0:49:53- We saw a shark out here during the summer.- A shark?- A black shark.
0:49:53 > 0:49:58- About a ten-footer.- Really?- Yeah. - Is he here now, do you think?- No.
0:49:58 > 0:50:00- Where did you take...?- Whaay.
0:50:00 > 0:50:03Watch out, there. You don't want to be hitting that one.
0:50:03 > 0:50:05There's great whites in these waters during the summer.
0:50:05 > 0:50:07- Really?- Yeah.
0:50:07 > 0:50:09Despite my best efforts, this boat is too light.
0:50:11 > 0:50:15This is a great distance for us to travel as novices.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18- What's the distance we're going now? - What's the distance?
0:50:18 > 0:50:22- About a mile and a half.- OK, a mile and a half.- Close to two miles.
0:50:22 > 0:50:24Not too far to go now.
0:50:41 > 0:50:45This is a weird feeling. It's like being in a pair of jeans
0:50:45 > 0:50:47that's about five sizes too small for you, you know?
0:50:47 > 0:50:49And you can't really move.
0:50:51 > 0:50:54But, luckily, Brian, are you still there?
0:51:09 > 0:51:16- Paddling on, paddling on!- All right, excellent.- OK, good. All right.
0:51:16 > 0:51:20- Woah, woah, woah, woah. - We deserve this clambake.
0:51:20 > 0:51:22- Man, do we ever. - GRIFF LAUGHS
0:51:22 > 0:51:25I couldn't believe it when they said. I said, "Where are we going?"
0:51:25 > 0:51:28"Just the little, white house over there."
0:51:28 > 0:51:30The little, white house is all the way back there!
0:51:30 > 0:51:33- ALL LAUGH - I had to tell you that.
0:51:33 > 0:51:36If I told you down here, you would've turned around.
0:51:36 > 0:51:37Now, we kiss the land we've landed on.
0:51:37 > 0:51:41- What? So, this is like our arrival on Plymouth Rock, is it?- Ah.
0:51:44 > 0:51:45Just because you kiss it don't mean you own it!
0:51:45 > 0:51:47GRIFF LAUGHS
0:51:47 > 0:51:51- Hey, great work. That was really good fun.- I enjoyed that.- Well done.
0:51:52 > 0:51:55'So, other than to get us wet, tired and grumpy,
0:51:55 > 0:51:58'we got a chance to bond with our new Native friends.'
0:51:59 > 0:52:02'Which was just as well because they and their families
0:52:02 > 0:52:04'were about to feed us.'
0:52:04 > 0:52:07- Now, Brian.- Yes. - Where's the seafood?
0:52:07 > 0:52:09The sea food, well, you got to go get it.
0:52:09 > 0:52:11You didn't come here for no reason, we need help too,
0:52:11 > 0:52:13so, you got to go dig for some clams.
0:52:13 > 0:52:15Somebody collected all these rocks.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17They collected all this wood. They collected all this seaweed.
0:52:17 > 0:52:20- Now you want me to get you food on top of that?- Oh, OK.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23I did all this, next thing you know you want me to build you a house.
0:52:23 > 0:52:25OK, point me at a lobster.
0:52:25 > 0:52:27At a lobster. OK, well, in that gully,
0:52:27 > 0:52:29- I'm sure we can find some.- OK.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38Have you ever had one of... What are they called, ple-theee,
0:52:38 > 0:52:40plathathathagh, which are barnicles which the Spanish eat?
0:52:40 > 0:52:42- Plathathatha?- Plathathatha, yeah.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44- Percebe, I think.- Percebe.
0:52:47 > 0:52:50- Wait a minute. What is this? Oh! - We found a lobster!
0:52:50 > 0:52:52- Oh, my God, you're kidding me!- Wow!
0:52:52 > 0:52:55Just happened to be having a wander around.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00- Oh, my God!- It's even got elastic bands on its claws.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03- I can't wait for them.- Careful!
0:53:05 > 0:53:08One of the fishermen told us that there are eight million lobster pots
0:53:08 > 0:53:11on the New England coast, which means
0:53:11 > 0:53:14there's lots of lobsters, which means this isn't that surprising.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17Cos they get trapped in here when it moves out and aaah,
0:53:17 > 0:53:19he's all spindley, and he's all grabby.
0:53:19 > 0:53:23All right. I'm going to delicately transport him back.
0:53:32 > 0:53:34- Woah.- Watch out, that'll take your head off.
0:53:34 > 0:53:37Don't get too attached to that lobster, Griff, you know, don't
0:53:37 > 0:53:39start bonding with it because we're going to stick it on the fire.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41Never name your food.
0:53:42 > 0:53:44I spent most of my nights in something called
0:53:44 > 0:53:45The Thirsty Duck, I think.
0:53:46 > 0:53:49Who's going to walk over them first? Come on, Rory, let's go.
0:53:51 > 0:53:54You can do it. You can do it, we believe that you can.
0:53:54 > 0:53:56How glowing!
0:53:57 > 0:53:59'With the stones now hot enough,
0:53:59 > 0:54:02'we spread them out and covered them in wet seaweed.'
0:54:03 > 0:54:05Oh, that's hotter than it looks, isn't it?
0:54:06 > 0:54:10- Oh.- It is hot, isn't it? - Good crackling noise there, guys.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15Oh, I see, you just stick 'em on the mats and stick 'em in.
0:54:15 > 0:54:19'Delicately handwoven rush matting goes straight on the fire now
0:54:19 > 0:54:20'to form a protective layer,
0:54:20 > 0:54:25'so that the lobsters and clams can be smoked and steamed and baked.'
0:54:25 > 0:54:30- Excellent. Lovely stuff.- Can you bring it right over there, please.
0:54:30 > 0:54:34- A little wait on those.- OK, cool.
0:54:34 > 0:54:37- Brian, do you have a wine list? - A wine list?
0:54:37 > 0:54:41We've got a good Merlot that's available.
0:54:41 > 0:54:44But you got to paddle back and go get it, we left it over there, so.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46No, no wine.
0:54:46 > 0:54:48- Put that one on. Then more.- Perfect.
0:54:48 > 0:54:50- Seaweed?- More seaweed, we're going to cover this,
0:54:50 > 0:54:53- as much as we can get on it, guys.- OK.
0:55:04 > 0:55:05Well,
0:55:05 > 0:55:08the sun's going down over there after a beautiful day
0:55:08 > 0:55:13and we're just waiting for our lobsters and clams to, er, broil up.
0:55:14 > 0:55:17And, perhaps be, apparently, the most delicious food
0:55:17 > 0:55:18you could ever eat.
0:55:21 > 0:55:23Difficult to know whether things are going well.
0:55:23 > 0:55:27I suppose you could say that they are, in some ways.
0:55:27 > 0:55:29In other ways, not so well.
0:55:29 > 0:55:34We haven't really got close to the right boat for our trip.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37Those little canoes we were in, inherently unstable,
0:55:37 > 0:55:40we couldn't do eight knots in them, and it's three and a half miles
0:55:40 > 0:55:43and just one and a half miles nearly killed us.
0:55:43 > 0:55:45We've been in Nirvana,
0:55:45 > 0:55:48but Nirvana's sailing away down south and can't help us.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51We've been in various antique and beautiful boats but we don't know
0:55:51 > 0:55:55whether they represent, for us, any real contribution
0:55:55 > 0:56:00to the idea, either, of liberty or being the three men in a boat.
0:56:00 > 0:56:03I think we still have some difficult choices ahead of us.
0:56:03 > 0:56:07But, in the meantime, I suppose we'll have to just sit on the beach
0:56:07 > 0:56:09and eat lobster.
0:56:10 > 0:56:12It's tough.
0:56:15 > 0:56:19Keep going. Pull it. Get that mat off. We've got to get that mat off.
0:56:19 > 0:56:22- Wow.- Look at that.- Look at this!
0:56:23 > 0:56:27Mmmm. Oh, man, that's good. Wow.
0:56:27 > 0:56:29- They're not bright red through. - Not just bright red.
0:56:29 > 0:56:34- We'll pick the ones that are...need a little bit.- OK.
0:56:36 > 0:56:40Did you just use a stone to open a lobster?
0:56:40 > 0:56:42- You've gone native. - I've gone native.- Completely.
0:56:43 > 0:56:45- We have utensils too, you know. - Really?
0:56:45 > 0:56:48- We can get you a fork or a bowl. - Oh, no.
0:56:48 > 0:56:51- Unbelievable taste.- He's going to run wild into the...
0:56:51 > 0:56:54The smoke and the seaweed. The flavours taste like
0:56:54 > 0:56:56drinking Laphroaig whisky.
0:56:56 > 0:57:00Really, really, sort of, deep seaweedy, iodiney taste.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03- It's beautiful. - Take the claw.- OK.
0:57:06 > 0:57:09We can, I mean, you know, they're fresh through.
0:57:10 > 0:57:11Oh, wow, God.
0:57:11 > 0:57:13You get the water coming through first, don't you?
0:57:13 > 0:57:16- Yeah, but then you get a hit of it. - OK.
0:57:22 > 0:57:24Is there a sort of toast
0:57:24 > 0:57:27or cheers or something you can say in your language?
0:57:27 > 0:57:31- Yep. Huuurgh.- Huuurgh.- Huuurgh. - Huurgh.- Huurgh.
0:57:31 > 0:57:33What does, how do you translate that?
0:57:33 > 0:57:37- It means, all right.- All right. - Huuurgh.- Huuurgh.- We all say...
0:57:37 > 0:57:38ALL: Huuurgh.
0:57:38 > 0:57:39And we also say...
0:57:39 > 0:57:42ALL: Mmmmm.
0:57:42 > 0:57:44And what, how would you say thank you?
0:57:44 > 0:57:46- Ka tappa ta. - ALL: Ka tappa ta.
0:57:46 > 0:57:47Ka tappa ta.
0:57:47 > 0:57:52Well, on behalf of the three men, ka tappa tas.
0:57:59 > 0:58:00'In the next Three Men:'
0:58:00 > 0:58:02'Time is running out to find a boat for that flotilla.'
0:58:02 > 0:58:04It's got to do eight knots and it's got to have a hooter.
0:58:04 > 0:58:06BOOT HOOTS
0:58:06 > 0:58:08'The task proves to be more difficult than we thought.'
0:58:08 > 0:58:10It's useless there's nothing here, we're too late,
0:58:10 > 0:58:12we've left it too late.
0:58:12 > 0:58:14'But on the way into New York,
0:58:14 > 0:58:17'Dara lives his American dream.'
0:58:18 > 0:58:21'Griff finds boating nirvana'.
0:58:21 > 0:58:23We'd be representing British craftsmanship.
0:58:23 > 0:58:27Exactly, the American flag, what better way to sail into the Hudson?
0:58:27 > 0:58:30'And Rory. Well, he seems happy too.'
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