On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, we shift gears a bit and start building the caps for the structural light soffit for our 435 catamaran SV basik....

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welcome back to sp basic guys

my birthday is officially over so no

more celebrating and it's back to work

we're going to be switching it up a

little bit because i don't know about

you i've been

a little tired of all this glass layup

but

we're going to start working on the cap

of our soffit so it's just nice to

got news for you there's more glass

layup on that too

but it's different it's different so it

feels better

okay so we laid it out yesterday we did

a little lay-up with the thickened epoxy

on the

major run and we're going to do the rest

of it today

the hard thing is is with the weather it

takes a lot longer to cure so we're

being strategic and putting it in the

sun

so it hardens before the dew hits don't

be

fooled by those blue skies it is

freezing

but we had a good jump on these caps

yesterday spent the day just

ripping all of our cap material from the

honeycomb

and starting to lay things out

we did a practice piece this one right

here

and this is just raw honeycomb with our

bowl nose

laminated side with thickened epoxy

everything lines up just like we wanted

so now it's time to put the rest on it's

quite the process it's kind of fun

actually

i'll show you how i did

so here's the next piece we've cut

polypropylene honeycomb this piece

probably weighs

i don't know way less than a pound and

our pvc moldings

this is just a a quarter round three

quarter by three quarter quarter round

i've put little marks

and that piece needs to be laminated

right there this piece is a little

trickier

if i line up my marks here

i need to bend this around this radius

and to do that

i built a little jig

this will let me curve it with the saw

and put curves three quarter of the way

through this and this will bend right

into place

so

there's the first one and a couple dozen

left

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okay there we go before i pull it out of

the jig

i'm gonna scuff this surface

this pvc molding has a slick surface to

it

but just giving a a quick once over with

a

heavy grit boy that epoxy just wants to

grab it

now let's pull this out do the same

thing to the other side

okay i'm all set put the piece down

with a little bit of masking tape down i

don't want to epoxy

my project down to the work surface

here's our new piece that's curved we'll

be bending that in in a minute

here's the opposite side that we need to

laminate in

so we're ready for lynn and her second

epoxy am i holding

it for you is that what it's gonna be

how about you hold this instead

see nothing oh god you see how this is

and now for the fun part is it fun

though

it's all fun

just stick this down see the mark right

here

see how he doesn't let me just have fun

oh this is fun

i'm so impatient

okay first thing we do is secure this

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down

okay

well we've got this all laid up and

secure

we'll let this fire off and it'll hold

its shape

what do you think lid i'm cold trying to

get some

some warmth

looks good convincing

i think this was a successful layup

don't you think yeah it looks uh looks

pretty good actually

just take advantage of the sun while we

can god it's

the sun and the the warmth is so

fleeting

i know from the sun to the shade it

drops 20 degrees so

i can't afford that 20 degree drop it's

so cold i had to put on a vest

you're a wimp i am a wimp i've never

said otherwise

okay these look good let's let these set

up let's get on to something else

i think compass needs a bath

i think he would say otherwise

this is the day that compass dreads most

getting a bath

we don't have any running water on the

boat so we had to improvise

we wanted him to be all nice and clean

for christmas but

notice how he's sitting on the cooler so

that we can't wash

him he never just hangs out when we're

outside like this

i think he knows what's going on

poor guy he hates this but he loves it

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okay

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it's the next morning and it was a

chilly night but i threw

some insulating blankets over all this

all night and

epoxy cured nicely so my goal for today

is to

break these out of these jigs and start

forming them into

the soffit i want to be able to have

these

where they need to be so i can turn them

over and start getting glass on the

bottom side

so that's my project for the next couple

hours so i'll get busy

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okay here they are got a little bit of

epoxy squeeze out along some of these

we'll sand all that out

i need to trim this flush here but i've

already

preset some of the miters on here

everything looks real clean i'll clean

this one up as well

sand all this out i'll even touch say on

this

try to get this radius a little smoother

it looks like there's a little bit of a

hump right in here

but not too bad this one looks good

and the third one so i got a little work

to do

see like this is raised just a touch

here i want to level that out before i

start laying glass

on here so i do have a little bit of

work

not too bad though well before we get

sanding on these

let's talk a little bit about the weight

of our entire project we've been

tracking

the material as we use it and lay it

down and right now as it stands right

about 115 pounds that's 52

kilograms all the materials we're using

are ultra light

this is a polypropylene honeycomb even

the moldings we put on

are whipped pvc so they're they're very

light in fact

to demonstrate how light this is i've

constructed a crude balance

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we'll just set that right there len's

going to kill me but the only thing i

could find

that had weights on it that i could use

were her

new zealand sauvignon blanc

so this panel with all the moldings

and epoxy stands at 22.5 ounces that's

638 grams

of course we will pick up a bit of

weight as we start laminating but we'll

track that as well

and we should have a pretty accurate

weight by the time we're done with this

project

i'm gonna get these back

we are off on another excursion actually

a road trip

we were contacted by one of our viewers

who is an orthodontist and he generously

offered to open up

his office to give emma a little

consult or examination to see what we

need to do

this will be something that emma is

probably really used to because this is

her probably we don't know i mean she's

had braces on

twice and we did see

our orthodontist

and dentist prior to leaving

and we knew something like this was

gonna happen we just didn't anticipate

how hard it's going to be with covid you

know a lot of

dentist office and orthodontist office

are

a little bit more cautious about

going in and out and obviously we don't

know anybody here

but you know we feel really comfortable

and he

has generously opened up his office on a

day off so

that's where we're going yep someone's a

little excited

more nervous okay let's hit it

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okay so let's check the judgments here

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all right now we're going to go top down

okay there's our joints right there this

right here

is the joint and i see this white line

is cortication this is the hardened bone

you can see that all the way around on

both sides so we're good there

we go

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there's lower crowding wow amazing this

information yeah oh you're very welcome

thank you we'll stay in contact all

right great great get a game plan for it

love your channel

it's a wonderful channel you're doing a

great job with your boat

you're doing a great job as a dog thank

you all right thank you so much dr payne

happy holidays happy holidays

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so from the crew of sb basic to you guys

we wanted to wish you

a very merry christmas and happy

holidays

this year has been really rough for

everybody and

i cannot wait to put this year behind us

oh

i am glad 2020 is in the books and we're

excited for

2021. anyways guys thanks for watching

this week's episode of onward lifestyle

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come back next week to see the very

first video of 2021

see you next year see you next year see

you then bye

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