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previously on onboard lifestyle

we worked the seam from hardtop to coach

roof and laid down the first

application of barrier code with the

main top

almost completed we shift our focus to

the much smaller

helm top our progress went fast and we

were excited to mock up a few

temporary posts to give us an idea of

how the project will fit

this is gonna be so sweet i think it's

gonna work

a couple of things to think about but

it's all gonna work out i think i just

gotta figure out these post locations

get some glass on this and uh

get this thing bolted in okay let's

start glassing

let's do it

this week we'll be jumping from one

project to another

the helm top is at the point that we

only need to work a few hours

each day in order for the epoxy fairing

compound and barrier coat time to cure

you have learned well grasshopper

i have become the master

every day starts with sanding so much

sanding

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teal just gets into a state of mind that

he loses himself in some alternate world

it's like he's entered a weird standing

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matrix

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with the helm top at a good point it's

time to mix up our multi-part barrier

coat

and start applying the three layers that

it will take to give a nice foundation

for our top coats

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so another project i want to tackle

while we're on the hard

deals with our engines

a couple days before we came into napa

we had a problem on the port engine

we sucked a bunch of eelgrass up into

the sail drive and that's where the

intakes are

they go up through the sail drives up

through a c-strainer but

they have to go through this narrow

channel to get through this

sail drive before it gets to a

c-strainer the c-strainer was just

clogged with eelgrass

and what we did we lost all of our

seawater

intake i cleared the seagrass out and

tried everything to flush it out i put a

pump on it and blew it backwards through

there

i just couldn't flush the seagrass out

of the inside of the sail drive

we tried it four or five times and i

couldn't get any water

so we ended up rigging up a

temporary system i threw a sea strainer

on a tube threw it down the dagger board

trunk and we were able to limp in here

no problem it worked

great actually just you have to walk

around the new sea strainer keep the

engine cowling open

we got in here i was able to fish the

seagrass

out of the sail drive and

got me thinking i want to put in a

backup way to get water to the engines

so that's what i did i heard some parts

and i'm going to put in

a secondary through-hole system

i don't like punching through holes

below water line

you know we only have one right now but

i think this is important

we'll leave these in the off position

all the time

unless they're needed so i ordered all

my parts

hopefully uh i got them all because i'm

starting this project today

we're going with all stainless

here's our through hole fitting ball

valve

got all the parts to get it facing the

right direction

and hose to the c-strainer

first thing i need to do is get these

installed

in the hole because this will need to

cure for a few days once i drill holes i

have epoxy work

and then the sealant needs to cure so

i need to get at least the holes drilled

today so i can get these installed

tomorrow

okay go for it you got you got this one

i'm nervous this is gonna be my first

drill through

the bottom of the boat oh what are you

gonna do sink us

hey make sure it's square hey

what's wrong there you go

there

i like it

so teal right now is down below uh

coring out some of that knight decor so

then we can fill it with thicken epoxy

and seriously before you guys say

anything else about thicken epoxy shots

i am saying no i am not going to take

any more shots

until we get back in the water all these

projects i feel like you guys are trying

to kill me

hmm

so

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so lin's in here prep on the other side

i ground down the exterior face here i

don't trust

using a below water line adhesive just

sticking

to bottom paint so we ground it down to

a nice clean surface

making it nice and smooth inside we'll

use the backer plates

that i made earlier

and we'll put adhesive on both sides of

this fitting

put the backer plate on and tighten it

down not too tight just hand tight

but we're getting close we'll have these

in today i want them in today because

these need to cure a couple days before

we hit the water so

lynn's working it over in there i could

see her

hey hey

how's it feel

okay make it smooth

emma was yesterday not awesome or what

it was so cool i was just i was eating

breakfast

and i i look outside the galley window

and there's just like

a hot air balloon right there and like

that you you guys were just doing random

stuff so i was just like

i was like look you couldn't even get

the words out you just kept

pointing out the windows it was like i

don't know it was just it was right

there it was really cool looking

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so

that morning was pretty amazing after

spotting the first hot air balloon we

all

ran out into the cockpit and saw not one

but

three hot air balloons around us it was

a perfect day with clear skies and no

wind

these giant balloons were landing right

in the marina

at one point it felt like it was going

to hit our mast

it was so close rumor has it that in the

napa valley if they land on your

property

they'll gift you with a bottle of

champagne

going up onto a hot air balloon is for

sure on my bucket list maybe not here

since we're going to leave soon but

definitely somewhere else

well i have to admit i've been playing a

little game of where's waldo

with our port rudder soon after we

hauled out

i removed this rudder and i've been

working on it

well for a while now and i've been

placing it in the background

of our videos and nobody's noticed

nobody spotted waldo nobody ever

questioned why the rudder was removed

i've been kind of having fun with it

waiting for somebody to catch it but

nobody did

so i'm going to talk about why i removed

this runner when we hauled out there was

a crack forming right up here

so i ended up boring out six

large holes all the way down this so i

could take moisture readings

of this rudder i didn't get any moisture

readings all the way down

this top portion i did so i cored out

around the shaft and let it dry out for

a good long time

i'd put it in the sun every day and

that's where you'd see it in the videos

i'd be moving it around

making sure heat was on it and

eventually those moisture readings

came down after that

i re filled around the shaft i feel good

about it i used epoxy and a thickened

epoxy

to get a good tight seal around there

then i had to

repair the damage that i'd done by by

making all those bore marks and

actually the crack that had formed i

dished that out

fared that out and put four layers of

a 10-ounce cloth over the rudder i feel

good about it

i fared it out

and we put on five coats of barrier coat

and five coats of bottom paint

so here it stands it's ready to get back

in so we'll put this in here in the next

day or two

but i just wanted to share that little

game i was playing god

too bad nobody caught it

we are now in crunch time and

doing as much as we can to prep the

bottom paint

so then we can do an extra

coat or two teal said that he wanted to

raise

uh the water line just a little bit

because

even though we are not heavily loaded

it's just better to just have a little

bit higher than

our normal water line just in case

and so we are battling

some rain squalls which is really funny

it calls for sunny days today

uh but we already had two range walls

that came over

us so we're just kind of fighting that

because i want to start painting

tomorrow

and you see teal here diligently

kind of just scuffing everything up it's

cuffing everything

so we'll see if you can get this all

done

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so you're halfway done um

a little over halfway getting there look

how ugly it looks when we sand it i know

why do you think i've been waiting i

didn't want to have to look at this

every day

but we're gonna stand or we're gonna

paint tomorrow so

this is short-lived the ugliness it is

short-lived and

i'm gonna explain what i'm doing here

i'm sanding off

this edge here between our food stripe

our boot stripe was three and a half

inches well about three inches three and

a quarter or something like that

we're gonna raise it up a little bit i

just and we're not raising it

most cruisers raise their water line

because their boat gets heavier

our boat is actually getting lighter

this year

but we just want to get this bootstrap

away from the water to avoid

that failure anymore i don't want to

keep fixing this bootstrap

every time we haul out so we're just

going to raise

uh our bottom paint up this stuff's

bulletproof we love it

and just get a little bit further off

the water i think that's going to be our

solution

i've already fixed and repaired under

the holes here

and put a barrier coat down just kind of

working the details out of that right

now

this was that damaged area below here

i've scuffed sanded this down

uh put a nice barrier coat over this

and i think i've got it by raising this

water line this extra

about two inches we're just going to

leave us an inch and a half bootstrap

but i think it's going to make a world

of difference for protecting this

this paint but yeah paint's going down

quick i got to get going

tomorrow i know i guess

i got a couple hours left i better get

going then

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today's the day teal i know you're

smiling

i am i love painting days that just

means that we

are almost done with this project

one step closer with this project or

this project

okay it's looking good you ready to

start rolling this out you know i am

okay i'll get you set up and uh i'll let

you go crazy on the

starboard hole and i'll keep prepping

the porthole man that's the

that's the only downside i think about

catamarans is once you're done with one

you gotta do the other one

always always

i like this look it's blending perfect

this is you must have prepared it

correctly

this is so satisfying i don't know what

it is but

it's kind of therapeutic well keep going

you got a lot to do

no you're not gonna be saying that in

four hours yeah no

i'll be fine until tomorrow and i'm

super sore

we have more coats tomorrow

so

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we finished the starboard side and now

we're working on the port side

for me getting to the dagger board is

the halfway point and we're almost there

okay day two round two we're gonna get

two coats in today because it's gonna

rain tomorrow so we gotta get busy

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okay teal how's it looking so far i'm

scared

peeling tape is always nerve-wracking i

don't want to peel the bootstrap off

yeah but this tape is pretty cool no

bleed through

no no bluetooth

don't jinx me

just taking my time

that line is crisp though you gotta like

it

i'm gonna zoom in i'm gonna inspect it

there it is guys the last bit of tape

being pulled off and she is looking

like new again

teal you're almost there

i know this here your arm sore yeah my

arms are sore but that's okay

it's well worth it i'm excited just

because this is done with paint

and uh then we don't have to worry about

this for

at least a year and a half right

i'm hoping we'll see how it does in the

warmer weather but i've been happy with

this bottom paint for

the last 15 months i'm gonna get close

there he goes and

oh man look at that little thing right

there i gotta play stop it

you suck

has it cleared inspection yet yeah it's

good

i'm just checking everything's dry it

feels good so that means we're ready to

splash right

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think we are ready to splash

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finished with this project and back in

the water

i know i'm ready as emma always says

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