How to pronounce “home port” in English

They said, "Anyone who can solve this longitude problem: we'll give you a big prize." It turned out it wasn't an astronomer, but a watchmaker who figured out if they couldmake a very accurate chronometer that could keep time very accurately at sea relative to the home port, you could calculate your longitude.That's what solved the problem there.

And this guy, Rolly, was about 69, kind of a squat old man who spoke a French-inflected Seychellois Creole.That's Rolly. He and his friend Marc were both fishing about 50 miles out of their home port of the Seychelles.The main island of the Seychelles is about 700 miles from the Somali coast.