On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we watch the weather closely, looking for a good window to start painting our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. This...

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hey guys welcome back to SB basic so we

have been working our butts off getting

everything done and we're getting close

so this week we are going to be tackling

the painting project which is so

exciting because that means that we're

getting done and we're getting ready to

splash back in the water

shields already prepped the boot stripe

and the hull and now it's time to tackle

the bottom paint so before we get to

that I got to do a little clothes

shopping that's right you need a new

outfit when you do the bottom paint so

not only did I get one for me I got one

for teal his-and-hers great we'll be

twins we're going slow fashionable

you're gonna die

okay but yeah we do need the protection

who knows what's in this bottom paint

and we want to keep it off our skins and

get all suited up let's get suited up so

let's get to work

oh it's perfect looking good

oh yeah this is not a small Hey

I think it looks sexy one size fits all

just cut off the arms and legs you'll be

fine well it'll work okay

our bottom pain we're not gonna apply

bottom pain right now we're just

preparing a surface

so let's see what we need to do go to

our guide here we actually are using

interlocks fiberglass bottom code aqua

look at their compatibility guide here

we find our old paint and fiber glass

bottle code aqua

it says do a light sand before

application so that's all get started

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Cal in starting to wipe down all the

dust and debris off the surface here so

the tape will stick and the paint will

stick and she's also looking for

anything i io verloc checking for any

little divots or dings that I have

missed no I doubt she'll tell me nope

this perfect just get the pain down huh

no it's out you're saying

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well good morning

look at that it's not raining right now

it's been off and on rain for the last

10 days here and we're kind of fighting

that we need a a good solid 10 days to

finish this all the painting on board

but we're to the point where words have

to start putting paint down and just

paint in between the rain

everything's been prepped we are looking

good we've gone through the whole boat

and went through and filled all the you

know the through holes we've gone

through and fared out any little defects

you know slightly sanded and scuffed the

hull we've sanded out the bottom you

know we've got a lot of different

products going down here we're using an

inter luxe bright side for the sides and

the booth driver we're using the inter

likes fiberglass bottom coat aqua for

the bottom paint it's a hard scrubber

Bowl and for the primer we used the

inner protect 2008 that's another inner

inter luxe product but I think we're

ready

well I know we're ready you know when it

rains we kind of shift gears and do

other projects but we're to the point

where we just gotta start getting paint

down we got to get this boat in the

water so it looks like we're gonna have

a decent day rains not scheduled till

well there's a chance of it later in the

afternoon but we're hoping it'll skirt

around us so let's get at least this

boot stripe in today it's a first step

it needs to go down because we need to

slightly sand it and put a second coat

on tomorrow morning

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the good project for today there's quite

a bit of bootstrapping to do here you

know we have forty three and a half foot

holes so that's eighty six feet of 87

feet of boots drive times too so we're

gonna have you know close to one hundred

ninety two hundred feet of bootstrap by

the time we make all these radiuses

around and around the transoms it's

gonna be a lot of painting today we're

gonna get busy all right so you see this

smile this is a happy person right here

because today is P day and I mean P

meaning paint day it is nice and dry so

we went out this morning wiped

everything down and teal has been taping

the boot strike well they got one side

does not even oh what one side it was we

got three more to go

oh my god no pressure I think you're a

little little short there are you moving

up higher no it's fine

I'm just kidding right in my eye level

no it looks good

so exciting

it's a gorgeous day we got a couple of

dry days hoping fingers crossed because

Port Townsend is notorious for saying

it's gonna be dry and then it'll rain

because last night it rained a little

bit and it may do that again tonight but

during the day it'll be dry exactly

fingers crossed my age no comment

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I think somebody's happy

all right what are you doing

well we couldn't find a color we liked

so we're making our own color we're

gonna take one quart of steel gray and

add one pint of black just to darken it

up a bit

hope this works for you I hope so too

well it's the first coat so you don't

like it well we'll play with the second

coat too bad right I think you'll like

it

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and if we ever have to touch this up we

know the formula it's amazing how much

they darken it up I think you're in low

maybe not no that's not too bad

quite a bit darker than I mean look at

that look from that to that pretty good

I think I like it

so teal has started the first coat of

the boots stripe and I gotta admit it's

looking good you like to color I think I

love the color

yeah

- okay we started with the bootstrap for

a reason you know this right I do well

two things to save time because now we

can tape onto the bootstrap to do this

and this at the same time but the other

reason is we had sand it off our water

line this way if we retain the boot

stripe and do this first I was able to

measure down and keep our water line

nice and true I know it's kind of

nerve-wracking when you're taping up hey

and just guessing you mean we're not

guessing but I did well through here I

was taking measurements off the top to

make sure I I stayed that exact distance

so we'll do a couple coats of this we're

working around one time yeah and then

sand it with 220 in the morning and one

more coat then we'll peel the tape and

on to the next project

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okay starboard haul is done for the

first coat everything is laying down

really nice looking pretty sweet and

sexy and he'll is almost done with the

inside

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if you're painting it's sexy if you're

not painting not so sexy

how about that but it's looking good

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okay that went down pretty quick God

both boots stripes painted in about an

hour and 15 minutes and this paint is

just laying down nicely with the wait

about 24 hours

I'll scuff it with 220 one more coat and

feel the tape like any paint job I'm 99%

happy with it it's a couple areas that I

missed but they're on the inside of the

hole everything else I love hopefully I

can sand a little bit of it out before

the next coat it looks good I'm happy

this

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we let this cure overnight it's the next

morning gonna lightly scuff it with 220

I get the second coat on well we've got

these ominous clouds all around us today

checking the radar there's rain

everywhere look at these things

hopefully they hold up because we gotta

keep moving

I don't want weather to be holding us up

now but it looks like it's gonna well

let's get this second coat on and cross

our fingers

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so what's the plan

eat my breakfast and then paint

Waldo meow

what I like it I know

so you didn't like scuffing on

everything yep all the way around

gonna wipe it down with a 333 and

get some paint down before it starts

raining oh I know where hey I don't

think it's gonna rain it says it's gonna

rain like later today

what are these clouds it's going the

opposite way I know that's it looks like

okay I'll get the plastic ready just in

case all right I'm gonna enjoy some

coffee

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ready

how's the second count

I'm really nice actually I think today's

conditions is even better than

yesterday's yeah you know there's a very

strong chance of scattered showers but

no Sun so no wind no wait until later

today

that means no dust from the traffic

really busy yard so when you're painting

the yard gives you these nice little

signs they'll let everybody know that

you're painting to slow down so it

doesn't kick up dust we're hoping that

this works because right now there's no

wind and it's fairly early so there's

not that much traffic hopefully we'll

get this all down before it gets really

busy because it does there's a lot of

traffic that runs through here

okay

I use a a rollin tip method but I roll

and tip with Sam roller seal the bubbles

a roller puts down a lot of bubbles and

you could tip it with a brush over the

roller so what I do is I get the paint

down first and after about one to two

minutes it starts to lay down and then I

come back with a dry roller and tip it

I'll show you how I do that I just

rolled out my roller make sure it's nice

and dry taper this end here so when I

come back to it it doesn't leave a mark

and go back to buy it two three minutes

ago which is right in here okay so see

all this bubbling will turn it see if

let's see the sheen here and it just

zero pressure dry roller

just run over it and the bubbles's go

right away

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it's pretty easy actually lot better

than tipping with your brush and leaving

the brushstrokes this does leave just a

fine fine stipple from the ruler but I

kind of like that

all right this is the moment of truth

how well did we do well looking pretty

good so far

such thing yeah really good nice and

crisp I'm just worried will we reap tape

on tape yeah well we need to add make

sure it cures five days look at that

it's a nice crisp line no I'm happy to

that yeah so watch this see this how you

kind of keep it like this and you keep

it folded down like this just keep

pulling like that now the trick is go

and pull keep pulling down

really slow keep that same angle

when to get a little bit too much in the

hand like this watch start pulling it

and I'll search in the top

okay I just said another arena a taste I

sort of know

there you go there were the paint's

still kind of wet Emma

so just used like two fingers and pulled

it up on itself and just keep going down

hold on I'm gonna try to catch up to you

how's it looking

is it satisfying

now that all the tape is peeled off I'm

able to just walk around and look at it

overall I'm happy with it is it perfect

no it's not perfect but look here's some

of these screw holes I shaved through

here's one that bisects the line here

you know I look at it maybe you can see

it I'm not sure it looks pretty damn

good though

I did a pretty good job all the way

around the boat there's a couple spots

that I'd like to redo but you know what

I got to keep moving the worst of it was

right here for some reason there's just

this spot of about six or eight feet

right through here that I don't know

what I did doesn't look bad at a glance

it's under the boat so doesn't bother me

I'm lying it bothers me

I would love to redo it at this point

but I can't I gotta keep moving we got

too much to do

so we're gonna let this cure for a

couple days before we tape off and paint

up and paint down in the meantime rains

gonna be here

starting today anyway so I'm going to

jump to some other projects

we got dramatic now it's kind of cool to

practice under here

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last week we showed you guys a famous

boat that was being restored in the

boatyard and asked you guys to guess

which one it was in the comments a lot

of you guys got it right and the boat is

drumroll please

the Western flyer the Western flyer is a

fishing boat most known for its use by

John Steinbeck and advocates in their

1940 expedition to the Gulf of

California the notes from which

culminated in their 1951 book the called

the log of the Sea of Cortez

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