Most days I get to be outside.

And on the days that I'm inside, I'm probably doing something I really enjoy anyways.

And you get that gratification at the end of the day.

You can turn around at the end of the day and you can look and you can go okay I did that

Welcome to the fine home building pro talk podcast a regular discussion with building industry professionals

This is senior editor Patrick McComb today I'm joined by Aaron, a builder on Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick.

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Aaron, it's a pleasure to have you on this show.

Thank you so much for doing this.

I'm absolutely, well, really happy to be here.

Did I say Grand Manan correctly?

Grand Manan.

Yeah, okay.

And do you want to tell folks to start off where that is because they might not know?

It's in the middle of the Bay of Fundy. I'm actually closer to Maine than I am to Canada.

We're about 12 and a half kilometers off of Quaddy Head, so six miles, less than six. No, I can't do the math that fast.

But it's in the Bay of Fundy, which has some of the largest tidal changes in the world, maybe the highest, right?

Depending who you talk to, but yeah, it's not unusual for us to see, you know, when the tides are on a 20-foot difference.

And that leaves like boats high and dry from what I've observed. Right where I live, it doesn't,

but that's because of the way the wharfs have been built in recent history. but there are places still in the Bay of Fundy

where fishermen tie up, and when the tide really goes out, the boat is literally sitting on the

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