On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we slow up the pace on our hardtop project to give Teal a little time to get better. The crew talks about the fr...

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hey guys

welcome back to sb basic last week

we had a little hiccup teal through his

back out and you know

usually if something like this happens

it only takes him about a day or two to

get back

into working form uh it was a little

different this week

uh it took him five long days

flat on his back to just kind of heal so

emma and i

tried to step up and take on some of his

jobs

which it looks a lot easier than

than it is and the hardest part is what

emma

well he became coming down to check on

how we were doing yeah it was driving

teal

crazy that we were doing something that

he absolutely loves and he already had a

plan in place and you know emma and i

just

did what we could i think we did pretty

good yesterday

uh teal started feeling a little better

and he came down and helped me

lay the second layer of fiberglass cloth

and you know he's feeling it today so

we're going to try to do light duty for

the next few days just so then he can

get back 100

i know that i want to relinquish that

job back to him and i can assist

because doing all of this is just too

hard

aside from homeschooling and and just

trying to keep things in working order

on the boat

on the hard you know all the these extra

projects

is just it's too much for one person but

i did get to put out my christmas

decorations

because this is my favorite time of year

so this is so

fun i even have christmas in a mug right

now because

this is my peppermint season yep anyways

um

teal is downstairs right now and i am

i rewarned him that he cannot be sanding

so

just listening for him right now he says

he's just kind of

checking things out but i gotta go down

there and

make sure that he behaves

well i gotta hand it to the girls they

really did step up

got quite a bit done while i was uh laid

up for a few days

you know i am pretty tender still but

lynn has me on light duty so i could do

a couple things

i could trim up these edges maybe do a

little hand sanding just

take it easy get a couple things done

maybe a

fair a little bit on these seams i don't

know we'll see

i don't want to overdo it and have it

happen again but we still gotta keep

pushing along

so we'll get something done just take it

easy today

okay let's get to work

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yes

so here's where we stand now three

layers

on one side two on the other this whole

thing's been sanded out

edges are nice and smooth

faired the seams between uh each of the

cloth

laminations we'll let this fire off

and we're ready for our last lamination

before we start the next phase of this

hardtop boy

it's getting close every layer is

getting

more and more solid

feels good i didn't want to overdo it

today anyway

nice light easy day feel good about this

so it's time to switch gears and do

something else

oh you're right there buddy

please call me buddy that old man i

wanted to say that but

anyways okay let's talk drones

we all laugh every time we say the word

drones and there's good reason for that

is a good reason

why we haven't done any or hardly any

drone footage it's a love hate story is

a very frustrating story and one that we

hope to rectify soon

and well let's tell the story from the

beginning well the beginning it all

started

with a package in the mail okay

but here's emma's special gift from who

um from a subscriber yeah and where is

this come from this came from

oh here it is right here california okay

i'm gonna all cut it

and you open it so thank you so much

carl for thinking of emma we don't know

what it is

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emma get up there and open

is that what is it gopro what is

it it says gopro on it holy cow oh my

goodness

it's a giant backpack no wait what is

this

we're so excited oh my gosh it says

gopro i'm excited already

but it also says open it up let's see

what this is

holy cow oh my gosh

so i named my new drone carl and i

couldn't wait to fly it

so i've been practicing the drone flight

simulator

for a while now and this morning i was

really excited to

fly it around but i can't because we're

it's a restricted flying zone and we're

really close to the

indian island naval magazine so

we have to fly it somewhere else we were

all super excited to try and fly the

drone so we drove to a bunch of

different places to try and fly it

yeah we can't do it here either

man nuts let's go try somewhere else

so at this point we're pretty frustrated

because we haven't been able to find a

spot where we can fly

carl so at this point we're we're

grounded

i know but after we posted that video

of carl good old carl um one of our

patrons

uh stopped by the yard and they gifted

us with something since they had just

recently

upgraded their drone system so carl

meet curtis so we have

two drones both grounded both grounded

so we were just fingers crossed that we

could get into an unrestricted area that

we could start flying these drugs

emma's just dying at this point this is

just torture for her

over the next six months as we sailed

down the pacific coast

we tried to fly these drones at

how many stops got to be a dozen stars

we stopped we tried

but they never left the ground the fog's

starting to lift so this could be a big

day for us

yeah we're gonna what are we gonna do

emma we're gonna fly the drone

well we're gonna try we're gonna try

everywhere we try to fly the drone

it has been either restricted an airport

an airport

a military coast guard something

but one thing after another hopefully

we'll be able to try it today and get

some practice flights

out there for emma and teal i'm gonna

let you guys do this

so we're gonna walk down the beach get

away as far away from the coast guard

station as we can

and hopefully we have some clear air

space so emma could

practice with the drone this should be

fun yeah

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so at this point we are beyond

frustrated

we had so many opportunities to be able

to fly and get some great

aerial footage and because of the

restricted zones we just thought that

that was just not something that we

could do finally we get into an

unrestricted place and i still can't fly

it

but up pops a new error and that is a

gps calibration

error so that's another frustration on

top of the

old frustration and i started doing some

research

on the internet and it appears that

gopro has stopped um their

drone business and as of 2019

or sorry january of 2019 they stopped

their software update

so at this point unless somebody else

knows how to back door it

carl and curtis are grounded permanently

now we have two brand new drones in

nice cases with all the accessories

extra batteries

the control units we are all set up but

they're grounded

we can't fly them it's it was

frustrating we were just

itching to get some good aerial shots as

we're sailing down the coast

we actually sail into port orford

it was a blustery night winds were

cranked up a little bit

and we get a visitor from another drone

and we didn't know it

until a crash landed on our boat this

little guy right here

we actually had a lot of fun reenacting

that incident

crash crash

what was that crash i don't know

what was that crash go

check i will

emma emma was that crash you

no i thought it was you

maybe it was in your old stateroom

nothing here i'm confused

it must be outside you're right it must

be outside

i will check

what

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a drone

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you guys you guys look

a drone a drone

a drone

so we tried to find the owner of this

drone

we reached out a number of different

ways looked at forums uh

looked through state registrations even

national registration databases and

could not find the owner that's because

this is a small enough drone it doesn't

need to be registered

so if anybody knows who lost the drone

in port orford let us know

but i got to looking at this thing it's

so little and light it weighs 249 grams

and the footage coming out of it was

just spectacular

i had to have one m is action to fly a

drone

so we went and bought one we have the

old one and our new one

now emma could finally hit the skies

a huge thanks to carl and the curtis

family for

this generous gift even though these

drones

are grounded not all is lost they

came with cameras accessories camera

gimbals

and we've used those extensively this

past year for video production

but these 40 pounds of drones

are retiring we're going with the new

just 500 grams lightweight small drones

easy to fly we're gonna have some fun

with it this year

i know emma's excited

make it really slow now go down a little

bit real slow

okay now go left and right once that

depends it

goes

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really slow okay stop right there

now go up stop

go down stop now go forward on this one

really slow

and go back okay stop right there

now watch this see this right here

there's a roller on your finger right

here

that's the camera watch the camera go

back and forth

now go up right there okay see how it

works

now get it centered right on it

now go straight up straight up in the

air right here go straight up now don't

touch anything else

go straight up yeah go real slow

yeah you're doing good

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it was slow going on our project this

week

kind of had to go slow i mean i was just

uh out for the count

i want to thank the ladies in my life

for taking care of me

you know without them uh well i don't

know where i'd be

well that's the end of the video let's

uh button this up i want to thank

our patrons of course without you guys

this would not be

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you know while i'm uh laid out on my

back it's kind of

fun to read those and get inspired and

you know help get some direction

hopefully next week i'll be at

full speed and we'll start kicking some

butt on this project again

we'll see you guys in