On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we get a short stretch of good weather and take full advantage. The hardtop is completed in a flurry of fast paced days filled with flinging epoxy, fairing compound, and barrier coat at our project. Linh treats us to an unforgettable breakfast onboard basik that left Emma temporarily full. Come back next week to see if the hardtop gets hoisted into position...see you then!

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last week on onboard lifestyle

we did our final prep on the underside

of the hardtop

getting her ready for the barrier coat

we did a lot of fairing

and did i mention sanding oh the

glorious glorious

sanding sorry mads using the words

glorious glorious standing are common

words and phrases that can only be

trademarked if the person or company

seeking the trademark

can demonstrate that the phrase has

acquired a distinctive secondary meaning

apart from its original meaning lawyered

the weather was not cooperating with us

as we had to work hard between one storm

after another

getting paint on our project was a

milestone and it really lifted the

spirits of the crew

we flipped the hardtop so we could start

the last few steps to finish the top

side

the raised lip around the hard top had

to be shaped before the thickened epoxy

fillet could be applied

thick and epoxy

the edging will not only act as a rain

catch but it will also

add strength to the perimeter and give

us a nice grab rail at the same time

we use colloidal silica to form the

fillet so sanding it smooth took some

effort

once we were happy with the surface we

applied the first layer of fabric

a 10 ounce cloth was used for the first

application

anything heavier and it would have been

too difficult to form the material

around the tight profile

a reference mark was drawn directly to

the work surface

to help guide us with the lamination

with the fabric cut it was time to mix

up the epoxy and start rolling out the

cloth

the idea is to add multiple layers over

the edge treatment without adding

too much weight to the overall project

okay that feels good i got the glass all

the way around the perimeter

here you know i use that 10 ounce cloth

i needed it for the strength i want to

get that first layer nice and strong on

here

a little harder to bend around this

radius

but i feel good about it i did trim off

the

inside the field here because i'm going

to be sanding that out in the morning

and

putting a little bit of fairing on there

before the next layer

i'll leave this wild and i'll trim this

off with a razor and just sand it into

this radius

that'll make that seam just disappear

okay i feel good about this

looks nice it's gonna be a cold night

still feels gummy and we're losing light

fast so

i can't bag this up yet because it's

still just a little bit too tacky

i'll come uh down here in a couple hours

try to get some heat on this

but for now the sun

is just setting

it's time to head upstairs and have some

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dinner

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by the next morning the epoxy had cured

enough to sand it out

every layer of glass is sanded smooth

before the next layer of fabric is

applied

we started with an orbital sander on the

flat surfaces

using an 80 grit sanding net

sanding the field takes about an hour

and feels like it goes quickly

it's the hand sanding that feels

monotonous and never ending

we had run the cloth wild hanging from

the edge so that had to be removed first

the edge profile was sanded all by hand

to keep from burning through any of the

corners

you have to be careful and patient and

eventually the surface will soften

right up

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so i'm going to let you guys in on a

little secret about me

i am not much of a breakfast person

i don't really care for it it's not

something i crave i'm happy with

a cup of coffee or in this case matcha

tea

and maybe a little fruit and i'm good

but

emma really loves her breakfast

and you know her usual bacon

toast eggs well my morning

just got a little better i could smell

what do i smell in there bacon

so having said that i decided that i was

going to switch it up

and make a conscious effort to make

something healthier

and right now the traditional japanese

breakfast

looks so interesting to me i just

gravitate towards that it's just

it's beautiful and there's so many

healthy aspects of it

so this morning i'm going to be making

asa

gohan i think

i can't say it right but that's what i'm

gonna make today

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foreign

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so

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do

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so

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dang emma you killed it i

i don't think i can eat anymore that was

so good

are you sure you're full uh maybe

maybe maybe we have some bacon oh my god

emma

i'm kidding i'm kidding i'm kidding

i mean if we have something that'd be

good but no i'm just

i'm just kidding

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so

this is it guys this is the last layer

of glass

sorry i get distracted and i'll forget

how many pumps

this is the last layer that we're doing

and then after that

it is a little sanding

final coat and this baby is ready

bearing don't forget the fairing i said

barry

said sanding no it's going to be perfect

so we're not going to need any fairing

we have seed teal is so excited he

started

showing us some dance moves so watch out

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so

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here we are the next morning everything

fired off overnight

looks like we have a little bit of blue

skies for most of the day

so we'll get some work done i better be

quick though the next round of storms

are hitting us tonight

gonna be uh just raining buckets here

tonight tomorrow

it's okay we'll get this all sanded out

maybe get some faring on the seams we

are getting so close to finishing this

up and getting our barrier coats down

i'm excited so i'll take advantage of

the weather while i have it

so let's get to work

and just like that trimmed off

boy everything's just starting to feel

like glass i just spent the last six

hours

sanding this whole field and hand

sanding

all the edges real happy with this

last thing i need to do now is just go

along these seams

and just there's a little bit

of a defect right where the two pieces

of cloth meet you can see it here

i'll go through and just put a skim coat

of fairing compound on that

well here we go just laid down all the

last little bit of fairing compound

didn't take much

just kind of went over the seams and

walked around and got all the little

nicks and cuts and any little

little chunks that i wasn't uh happy

with

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we are finally to the point where we

could start applying the coatings

three layers of interlux 2000e was

applied

alternating between gray and white

switching colors between coats makes

applying the barrier coat much

easier

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okay this is the second coat of barrier

coat and in between each coat

i sand it just lightly with 120 grit

and what it does is that barrier coat

kind of settles

into that fiberglass cloth and it gets

rid of that basket weave effect

boy it's almost gone each layer more and

more disappears

we're almost there one more layer and i

think this will be just

polished smooth then we'll be ready for

top coat

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if we were to apply white on white on

white

we may not get an even coating it's very

difficult to see

what you have coded and what you haven't

a bonus to the system

is that the darker gray also helps block

the sunlight from telegraphing through

the hard top

the painting goes quick because the

multi-part paint wants to skim

over fast so you have to keep moving

but overall the finish is what we

expected and the final top coats

will not be applied until the hard top

is actually installed

okay guys this is it

this thing of beauty and it really

is gorgeous this is the last time

you're gonna see this underneath our

boat because the next time

it's gonna be installed unless of course

teal finds another mistake

like what he's doing right now mistake

there's no mistake

just happy little accident

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this is so embarrassing i can't believe

my dad can dance better than me

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