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
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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