nikolai at brummels is not just the ship's bo's'n but also a former sub-mariner abramoff a spend the last thirty. it is making sales. week with this utility room here is our workshop we have one hundred sales in store all of different shapes and sizes twenty six of them are meant for masts and races while the others are kept as replacements. for. nikolai is the only person on board the can repair the damaged sail. sales are torn fairly often specially by strong winds you might even say they were wounded in the battle against the elements i have especially vivid memories of one rather dramatic sail replacement that was last year when we were competing against the polish boat. we were on our way across the pole taxi from finland to poland that's when the top most sail collapsed it took the cadets some four hours to get a new one back up all that happened to mid strong winds and torrential rain. don't touch that. again is the bosun's favorite student like all the other cadets he joined me as crew three months ago that remembers only too well the terror he felt when confronted with the p

brummell we help him win the votes if he did. -- it would probably help him win a vote. and romney does not want to run on his plan other than things will be different. change we can believe in, i guess, because you need to believe. i think it will be nasty. neither guy seems to really like each other. whatever kind of breaks the were in 2008, whether it was because of the phenomenon of a black candidate in a general election for the first time or because of the circumstances of eight years of bush, i do not know. there were certain lines that were not cross. this time, i think there will be lines that will be crossed. >> well, on that note. [laughter] i want to thank everyone for being here. we have some wonderful books for sale. on "the newhas been york times" best-seller list. sasha's book gives you a great look at how campaigns are conducted. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> we can keep investing in wind, solar, clean coal, and signs of that can harvest new biofue