00:00 I'll pass on thank you very much for hosting us. I had the same concerns maybe as yourself that we might be in a field or on the edge of a road somewhere.
00:08 So it's a lovely venue so thank you very much. A lot of what you said is this is the pledge, we're all here today and that's what the people today are signing it.
00:17 But today goes past just the people signing it. We're all here in the moment, we're all one crew, we're a part of this magnificent moment.
00:24 And it's a once in a lifetime moment. Things like Westminster, things like today, they're not going to happen again or not certainly for a long time.
00:31 So capture the moment, it's going to be one to be a part of and one to remember.
00:36 The scroll itself is, there's this thing in the RMA where we like engineering things perfectly and again the scroll is one of those moments.
00:46 So if you did watch Westminster there was a lot of comments about why are you carrying a life raft off the altar and not many people knew the precious contents inside which you are seeing today.
00:58 So when the box is open you've got the lovely scroll that's been made in-house.
01:03 So the spindle ends from a 19th century flagpole from the Isle of Man and actually they were made in-house at the RMA.
01:12 So before he soon retired someone from the ALC took the blocks of wood to his home lathe and worked on them at home.
01:20 So they've got personal parts there as well.
01:23 The paper we've got the signatures on which will be signed today is a bamboo paper and matched with the pens helps stop and reduce bleed and smudging.
01:31 So your signatures will look perfect for years to come, hopefully if we do our job right.
01:37 The speaker here speaks out the One Crew message and actually it's in different voices of our region.
01:42 So you'll have an English voice, an Irish voice, a Scottish voice, it's a lovely thing.
01:47 So if you have time today I'd encourage you to press that and listen to it, it's a lovely thing to listen to.
01:52 My new technical term has become Boaty Bits.
01:54 So everything here is from a boat.
01:56 So your carbon fibre pieces such as the voice books and there's a carbon fibre block underneath will be found in your D-classes, your Atlantics and your Shannon class lifeboats.
02:04 The handles on the front and the back are cleats so not very comfortable to hold but they add to it as well.
02:11 And a few new techniques as well added in.
02:13 So the holders for the spindles and the pens are from a 3D printer.
02:17 So we've matched old boat building techniques with new modding techniques we've got in-house as well.
02:22 So I've scrolled the scroll up as well just to show you guys from the top.
02:27 So we've got a space for our patron, we can speculate who it is and who we hope it will be but there is a space for them.
02:33 Duke of Kent is our president, he's been our president for about 60 years and he's been a great supporter of our work.
02:39 The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean of Westminster also signed and then followed by Mark Dalley, our current Chief Executive and Janet O'Garand, our Chair.
02:47 So there is one more space you'll see for our incoming Chief Executive in June, Peter Sparks.
02:54 So today you'll be the 83rd, 4th and 85th signatures on this document and you'll be adding the history.
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