On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we have a problem with our custom 435 catamaran that really makes Teal nervous. We make an emergency repair and p...

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well

welcome back to SB basic yeah it's a

gloomy day it's raining it's miserable

guess it kind of matches my mood right

now after our last Anchorage we had some

issues with a sail drive haven't talked

much about it but I will we were in

Cole's Bay tied to a mooring ball and

sail boat next to us was bumping up real

close to us I decided to move so at

midnight

I moved the boat and while we were rear

anchoring I shifted into reverse in both

engines a few times everything was fine

and then I shifted one more time and our

port engine started shaking the whole

boat started shaking

something failed in the sail drive so I

killed that engine anchored on the other

engine and started up the next morning

actually I thought be honest I thought

we had run over a crab pot something

fouled the prop I mean that's what it

felt like like there was a line wrapped

around the prop and the engine was a

struggling to turn that prop so the next

morning before we left I threw a camera

on that prop and it was clear so I

started up the engines we pulled anchor

and we motored into Brett wood Bay we're

on a dock right now friends of ours and

as I was approaching the dock I hit

reverse on the engine again and the same

thing something failed in that sail

drive so a little depressing we're far

away from any haul off facility and I'm

hoping we could diagnose this and fix it

in the water this is a little beyond my

skill set and comfort so I've called in

a marine mechanic he should be here

within an hour and I'll discuss our

options I'll let him take a look at it

and give me his honest opinion

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I hate to think of the alternative if we

have to pull the boat again

let's either go further into Canada over

to Vancouver or back to Port Townsend

either way it's chewing into our window

to go south fast and it's I'll be honest

I'm a little a little worried

so we'll see it he has to say hopefully

it's a something we could fix in the

water and fix right here but if not

still go on as planned we get the sails

and rigging done while we're here in

Brentwood Bay and then we'll limp into a

whole facility and we'll have to make

the decision later

girls are off the boat right now sent

them out to go have a fun day with some

friends and I'd rather discuss this with

a marine mechanic myself and figure it

out but we'll see hopefully it's an easy

fix the Sun will come out and we'll be

on our way

time will tell so this happened on our

port engine and it shook so bad this is

what scared me a bit this is our sail

drive there's a rubber diaphragm with a

ring clamp that holds it all together

that ring clamp shook free I don't want

to touch this start this engine I don't

wanna do anything till I get an expert

to look at this with that ring missing

and my chancing sinking this boat you

know I don't know I'm not real familiar

with what happens below this original

ring or this initial ring but it got me

thinking you know do I have enough bilge

pumps on board oh well I can add bilge

pumps all day long don't have enough

power to run them you know I can always

run the starboard engine to power the

boat if we're running low but I want to

make sure I have enough build pumps so I

said I'm doing today well I'm waiting

for the mechanic I'm adding two more

750s wiring them in right now adding

them to my builds pump controls

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they're gonna go in the wells next to

the transducers it's just a little more

protection a little more peace of mind

but while I'm waiting I might as well do

something so I just spent the last hour

with a couple of guys from vector marine

they specialize in Yanmar engines and

you know what I'm glad I called them

they went through the engines they went

through the engine mounts they suspect

that it could be a ninja mountain

problem that would cause the shaking

everything looked great they looked at

the sale drives sale drives were in

great condition everything looked just

normal the ring that popped off was just

a ring that was holding a dust cover so

we were not in any danger of taking on

water and it was great news but we still

had to figure out where the vibration

was coming from so now that we knew

though it wasn't the engine we knew the

cell drives were not the culprit we went

to the propellers unfortunately we threw

a camera on there and we could see that

one of our Kiwi props the blade was

wobbling and we couldn't determine why

so it was get a diver in the water and

figured out sorry this is embarrassing

getting a camera in your face yeah okay

thanks okay so we had vector marine out

here diagnose the problem looks like

it's not the sail drive which is good

news it's most likely the Kiwi props

correct so they've given me some advice

to get a diver down there to pull the

prop and check it out and we'll go from

that so thanks a lot guys

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so nice soon as we get the good news

that it's not the sale drive that it's

our profits acting up I mean that's

really good news that means we don't

need to haul the boat we could fix it in

the water the Sun comes out just like

that

so we lined up a diver he's gonna be

here in about three hours

gives me enough time start working on

deck hardware start laying this stuff

out I mean that's how we're here we're

here to get the sales going been making

parts and pieces over the past couple

weeks lining things up start laying this

out on the decks and start to get this

organized can't wave to the diver get

here hopefully it's a nice simple fix I

mean I'm hoping it's fishing line

something tangled up in the in the prop

that's creating that blade to wobble as

you know we hauled the boat not too long

ago five or six weeks ago six weeks ago

and the prop was in perfect condition I

did a service on it grease to all the

fittings and everything looked perfect

but obviously we ran into a snag well

know a little bit more after the diver

goes down I dive on on myself and

usually I will but the water

temperatures 50 degrees and I don't have

a real good wetsuit so we'll let him do

his job and we'll see what he says so

you guys what's life without challenges

right we are we got a big challenge

right now

there was a lot of excitement last night

with our engine you don't know what's

going on but trying to stay positive and

kind of keep things in stride because

that's all you could do yeah we could be

depressed about it but you know the

silver lining is is even though we have

this issue we don't even know what's

going on yet we have friends that we met

years ago when we went cruising Karen

and Barry yeah and they just happened to

be just a couple of nautical miles from

where we were at and they have a dock

and they open their their home and

Internet yes and was very excited

because we have unlimited internet and

what kid doesn't want unlimited internet

access right great that's great we have

a diver coming in later tonight which

who we actually met just the other night

as well and he said yeah he'll come in

and dive down and see what's going on so

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here we are I looks like we're bringing

in the heavy we are so lucky that we've

been forged and he knows what the heck

he's doing I'm gonna launch the dinghy

and get some lanyard over to you okay

so you guys this is serious legit okay

we thought that our diver was gonna be

going in in the dry suit up here in

British Columbia no he says it's so hot

that he is going to do a wet suit props

to this guy as an inlet

we're used to inlets getting shallower

as you go up right like a fjord right

and this one's the reverse fjord so it

is nybridge you come in out there

between here and those mountains 600

metres plus metres seriously I want to

go ahead and put on a jacket right now

cause it's starting to get chilly I am

such a wimp

big-time wussy

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okay so that's an explainable now yeah

the other cue yeah loose loose loose

yeah they they spin okay they're

supposed to spin and the set screw in

the middle is rigid and so the outer

perimeter spins yes there's one missing

so I'm celebrating early because you

guys the diver just left and it looks

like one of our reversing roller nut is

missing which i think is an easy fix cuz

we just need to get it on order it's

after hours right now so I'll get on the

phone with them first thing in the

morning

in the meantime teal is running around

smiling and celebrating and I don't know

what you were doing earlier it was a

little dance static what could have been

he was stressed what could've been a bad

situation turned out to be an easy fix

so we'll be able to just wait for that

part to come in and we'll get on with

our projects put in time

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well we've got a beautiful day here in

Brentwood Bay could not ask for any

better weather it's just gorgeous out so

what I've been working on these are all

the risers for all the deck hardware and

you know I could just put these in

aiming at all their points real easy but

I'm trying to jockey them around so they

make sense the lines run smooth and a

hide as much hardware from the interiors

I can I'll show you I'm talking about

they've kind of moving these around and

jockeying left and right and forward and

back I'm able to hide like hardware

behind the lights off it inside of

lockers I'm actually putting something

behind the bulkhead here just trying to

keep as much obstructions off of this

coat roof as possible there'll be a few

but I'm trying to minimalize that so

we'll see how we do think about ready

actually I feel good about the location

of all this hardware and we're gonna

start drilling start mounting here it's

a good day to do it

sun's out

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so let's get to work

fugly out here fast

I think I'll stick to indoor projects

today what do you think so that has a

pungent smell oh my nose I like the

smell it smells clean does it feel good

to get this winch it does yeah it's in

great shape

it's a classic winch and just needs a

little bit of a love some lubricant and

put it back together and we'll mount

this to the deck 104

well we don't have four oh no we're on

the hunt for three more

so the rain let up it's sunny it's

chilly so we're getting some work done

on the deck starting with the winters

here

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one piece at a time here okay I knew

it's gonna be a little difficult trying

to gauge the length of all my bolts for

all this different hardware and I picked

up most of it before we left the states

these bullets I picked up just a little

bit off I have to run the hardware store

here and get the right ones

so until then that what happen later

today I'll just keep going here's my

next one going down it's a single rope

clutch everything lines up

I've got butyl tape in between the

clutch a Mayan riser and my riser and

the deck just start putting these in

getting these all fit all right so ready

we had our choice of who wants to be

outside who wants to be inside right

teal volunteered to be outside because

I'm such a wussy about cold it's

actually kind of sunny out here it's

sunny but it's it's like an Arctic brisk

breeze it's not okay hits you smack in

the face are you ready we got a lot of

these to do okay let's start with the

one closest to the lights off but okay

wait until I'm set up go ahead and do

the one don't go all the way it's cinch

it like 90 percent

okay I got a quick ride up to the

hardware store picked up the right bolts

for the winch slammed in nice and easy

now we're doing another rope clutch here

okay ready go ahead

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okay yeah

they feel good

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okay just got a notification from FedEx

that our rollers for our Kiwi prop came

in we ordered those a day and a half ago

and here they are so now we can line up

the diver I'll give him a call

hopefully you get out here later this

afternoon let's open these up make sure

they're the right part I got a full set

three of them

this little piece fell off and that was

causing all the havoc and the rumbling

in the engines so I made a mistake and

it's a big one because it involves

compass what I thought was another month

or two supply of dog food we are days

away of running out and so we normally

order it on Amazon and it ships to us

within a day couldn't figure out why it

wasn't coming to us here in Canada turns

out you can't ship dog food to Canada

from the US so I called around and it

looks like we found this store that

carries it in Victoria so we got a

loaner from a friend and we're gonna

take off the sporting grab that come

back because we have a ton of stuff left

to do but I feel so bad compass is

really sensitive with his foods and so

this is the only one that seems to agree

with him so that's what we gotta do so

our friends were kind enough to lend us

a little runabout so we can get some

errands done

and I thought it was a little runabout

because that's what they called it

check out this monster

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this is so crazy this is not what I

caught wiki Sarah a runabout

this alert let's go

just big ship mistake god I can't

remember when

well I'm sure to all come back let's go

Emma do you know his dick

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my first time in a stick shift hey it's

a truck it's supposed to be bumpy that's

bigger than compass look at this

350,000 miles on this truck fronts like

a top

okay we ran our errands got a few things

didn't get everything on our list but we

had to rush back to the boat because the

divers in route okay we've got the

divers suiting up right now I've got my

reversing roller attached to the tool

attached to a lanyard we have locked

tight

no this isn't the optimum way to do this

you know we should be out of the water

but this is kind of an emergency

situation there's no hall out here so

we'll put this in and see how things go

I do have extra parts if we have to do

this all again but at least it it's a

temporary fix until our next haul out

hopefully holds up talked to the

manufacturer they said just use red

loctite on there

be careful with it do not get it on the

roller itself and we should be good

after 24 hours I guess we'll see so just

get it into this position right here so

it's one of these three I don't know

which one it was but these blades you

just flick it up out of the way and then

just get it set in there should go nice

and smooth and then as soon as you get

it seated in as tight as you can with

this just yank that out yeah and then

pull the tape off yeah I'll reset the

tool see we could turn it you can get

more leverage

sounds fine I will set the blades to the

same as the others oh yeah yes yes you

have to make sure yes make sure the

blades are in the right you're right

because you could get it on the opposite

side wrong you're wrong oh yeah so yeah

if you face all the blades like in this

position put it on it should work

perfect this is good okay okay I don't

know if it's pro but it'll work

the water is way colder than Tuesday

lucky thing you're in there then what's

that I'm glad you're in there okay do

you want to get the blades in the right

orientation

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we hope you guys enjoyed this week's

episode of our lifestyle I know I did it

come back next week where we finish up

the deck hardware and finally get our

first sale on think we'll do it we have

to do it it's getting cold weathers

changing and we need to bust it down

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