On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we finally remove our 27 year old boom in preparation for our new spar for our 435 catamaran SV basik. The stars ...

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hey guys welcome back to SB basic the

Sun is peeking out so we are taking full

advantage and working outside today he

already has a head start on me because

well that's just how he is and we have a

lot of things cooking because you know

we're just here and we just try to work

on what we can one of the things that I

don't know if you guys know about us is

in regards to our projects we always try

to tackle the ugliest part of our boat

every single time and right now that is

our boo this ugly piece of

needs to go and so teal is working on

trying to figure out how he's gonna

remove this safely without ruining

anything else yeah and look it's it's

sunny and there's the wind I shouldn't

say that too loud because I feel like

every time I do the wind picks up and

and the clouds come in and it starts

downpouring last night we had a huge

hailstorm well what are you doing I

think I have a game plan I'm gonna start

by dropping the lazy jack

remove that and tie it back get it out

of the way

once that's off I'll be able to lower

the topping lift enough that I could get

the mainsheet traveller off all that

ugly line and those triple blocks back

there I'll remove all that once it's

removed I'll be able to lower the boom

down and block it back in place here

next thing I'll have to do is put some

padding on the deck here because once

that GU spin comes out it's gonna drop

down to the deck I'll lower it to the

deck and we'll be able to just carry it

off set it on the dock that's the game

plan I think it should go pretty easy

once it's on the dock I'll be able to

strip all of this Hardware off I don't

think we're gonna use any of this

hardware but it's probably gonna be

useful for someone so I don't want to

just throw it away

the rest is boom it's going to the

recycling so let's get busy all this

line needs to be replaced so this is the

easiest way to remove this lazy jacket

just cut it off here I know why this

feels so good

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okay running pretty smooth so far this

monster yeah get a close-up of this this

is crazy these just about wore through

look at this

that's amazing it's broken

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okay release the topping lift and just

slowly drop it down

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okay leave it right there this is so

awesome can't when I tap this gooseneck

pin out it'll be free set it straight

down okay make sure it doesn't rotate

ding

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go ahead and release all the pressure on

the topping left yeah perfect

a little bit more yeah

okay right there okay now you spot it

here and I'm gonna go release the

topping lift then we'll just carry you

out of here

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ah feels good get this old line off the

boat it was just an eyesore and these

blocks boy they have seen their day look

at some of this hardware so that I don't

you could see that let me hold this up

look at that

it almost wore through every one of them

has major wear on it it's good to get

all this upgraded and gonna get a little

bit beefier Hardware on some of these

areas where I see where there's where

this has got to be 20 plus years old to

get that much wear on there it's crazy

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look at this mainsheet traveler all this

is gonna be replaced every one of these

has failed tons of wear bearings are old

and shot this entire traveler is coming

off it's gonna be pretty tricky to it's

a ten-foot traveler and it's through

bolted into this bracket

it's gonna major to trying to pull this

whole thing off but it'll be a fun one I

live get real creative with a looks like

a wrench on a eight foot stick how to do

it that way I could remove him from the

top and work them out from the inside

getting the new one on though is gonna

be even harder now with that boom off

next thing I want to do is remove this

traveler it's like it's in rough

condition we knew we need to replace

this it's a nice thing nice and easy to

remove this before you slide this off

I've learned my lesson be prepared

because a thousand little balls they fly

everywhere like a game

I think I lost three it's okay I'm not

reusing him the next thing we need to do

is get this gooseneck bracket off the

mast these are just massive stainless

rivets on here so I'll have to use a

cobalt bit to drill those out we'll see

how this goes I'm ready hide fall

hey easy

okay got them all drilled out hopefully

this will just pop right off here well I

didn't anticipate that this track slid

down as I removed that gooseneck bracket

and it was heavy got away from me came

down pretty quick but we figured it out

there's too little set screws right in

here

they have backer plates on it when you

put pressure on those it puts pressure

on this it's the only thing holding this

entire track up the track is slid into

the groove in this mast once we figured

it out

pretty easy fix I slid it back into

position tighten it up and now I'll have

some clearance here to start prepping

this mast for that new boom when it gets

here but for now this weathers looks

like it's gonna wait quick

I see rain on the horizon winds are

picking up forecasters to be storming

all night so I think I'll button things

up out here hit the sync first thing in

the morning we're gonna have a couple

days of nice weather coming up and I

want to get this all prepared before

that boom gets here

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boy what a difference a day makes

yesterday that weather system came in

and it rained pretty good last night

wind picked up but today it all calm

down and we have beautiful weather just

absolutely beautiful well what's this

it's a celebratory drink we had two

toasts we have big news

we do have some big news boy it's been a

good week for us and let's go into some

detail where did it all start well you

guys know that we have been researching

and getting bids on new booms from

various spar manufacturers we be getting

them in so that's good so we we we

collected a few different ones we won't

go into detail of what manufactures we

went with cuz there's it just changes I

mean it does vary degrees right and

there's a male you know I mean there's

hundreds of them around the world

but shipping the boom to us is that's

what we've figured out that that's where

the money could be you know most of the

bids came back and around the six to

nine thousand dollar range but the

logistics of getting a 16 foot stick to

you across the country or halfway around

the world that's where the cost really

kind of could stack up quick well not

only that though I mean oh and time yeah

I'm lying I mean these because it would

be a new boom you know it ranges between

six weeks they said and and in light of

you know our current situation it's it

could even it could even go further

because some of these manufacturers are

overseas so we don't know what the

shipping is for that or the timeline for

that matter but an interesting story yes

you know as we were searching out

different spar manufacturers we wanted

to get a price from Selden we went

online to find the local Selden of rep

cell is a huge company and there's reps

all over the world turns out the Selden

rep is right up the river here in

Portland at schooner Creek and I

remember that we you got a message from

the head rigger there who just said Kane

watch your video and if you guys ever

need anything or any assistance just

contact us so we shot him an email and

we're actually a call and he calls right

back and you know he says definitely

they can get us a quote for a new boo

but they also happen to have something

in their inventory right that they had a

few booms on the floor but one of them

was a project from a few years ago to

brand new boom never installed off of a

Tiana 48 and it was longer than we

needed but you know I got a hand it to

schooner Creek they reached out to us

and gave us such an incredible offer on

this that we could not turn it down lead

time was instant it was a day they were

able this time that we got the

measurements to them

the time they cut it down and and fit it

for our size boat it was it's 24 hours

right and then everything just kind of

steamrolled from there it was you know

they were able to jump right on it

modify it for our rig this is the I'm

telling you this is boom that's why

we're having a little celebration today

the stars align for us it was kind of

like the same thing we met John you know

and had him look at our rigging it just

everything just kind of fell into place

it just felt right an teals brother

happens to live near Portland and it was

able to run it over to us

so we did not anticipate this happening

this fast we were able to get the boom

my brother Thank You Troy he brought it

out to us last night in the rain you can

tell right now because it's so nice

right but yeah in the rain we got the

boom delivered it's on the boat and we

cannot wait to you guys cuz we're going

to get this installed it's gonna be the

weather calls for a few nice yeah kind

of off and on nice days but it looks

like we're gonna have a couple at least

in the next week actually you know it's

gone to a good hole let's stop right

there and tears because I am smiling

everything is just going our way this

week and yes we will have our mainsail

finally Oh Oh without all that said

let's walk to the bow of the boat and

take a look at this new beauty I am so

happy with this new boom okay here it is

our new Selden bar just beefy love it

absolutely love it look at this

gooseneck

I will never worry ever that this will

fail everything just looks brand new

this boom is set up with look at this we

have three clutches here one for each of

the internal reefs there's three

internal reefs and one out Hall there's

messengers tied to the reef points right

now and we'll get those set up once the

mainsail is installed our main that we

have right now has two reef points but

our new main will have three let's fly

over this take a look at this

okay everything has been modified to fit

our boat this originally was a 19 foot

spar and it was modified and cut down to

16 looking through this I can't find one

blemish everything just looks brand new

I am tickled this is just gonna work out

perfectly so we would like to thank

Spooner Creek for selling us this boom

including the labor to modify it to fit

our rig and for what we feel is a very

fair price

and bonus we're in the state of Oregon

no sales tax

so this spar brings me incredible

happiness definitely upgrade from our

last Oh it has everything we need it's

sturdy

it's new and it's gonna be a great

addition to our vote this is gonna drive

SP basic easily for the next 25 years

I'm excited to get going on this phase

of the project and that's what I gotta

do next is get this boom installed get

all the hardware and the lines rigged

and get that main so up

I can't wait and the weather's coming I

told you we had exciting news to share

my parents are acting like kids they're

so happy I'm happy too but much cooler

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