On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, we forgo our sail to Santa Cruz Island and hit up Ventura to install our new Raymarine Quantum Q24C Radar. After sailing over a thousand nautical miles in what seems to be endless fog, we get this vital piece of equipment on basik. Just in time for fog to follow us. Come back next week to see where we head off to. See you then!

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previously on onboard lifestyle we leave

the santa barbara marina and head out to

the general anchorage east of

stearnsworth

we wanted to stay close to the area

because compass was not feeling well so

hopefully

it's just a little stomach bug and he'll

be okay we thought it was best to stay

close to an emergency vet clinic

emma gets her curriculum and enjoys her

studies in her evolving

at all these classroom

so excited

it's gonna be great

lynn has a bit of a bad customer service

experience and lets it all out

meanwhile i get elbow deep in a crappy

job that must get done before we leave

so what you're saying is now that we can

go can we go

we could go

we'll pull anchor tomorrow morning

so we're leaving santa barbara this

morning and i guess playtime was not in

the cards for us

we just are getting kind of tight on our

schedule and we really need to get this

radar installed

as well as a few other projects so we're

heading uh over to ventura this morning

and then hopefully after we get this

done we can go play in the channel

islands here's hoping

so

look ahead and see us

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the sure it's right in front of us

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we are dreamers

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do

okay right there

okay

okay so that was definitely a workout

and it was just to the first spreader i

either need to get stronger or we need

to have a backup power winch because

that's hard

especially for me or for emma to hoist

tla anyways aside from that let's talk

about

um what we're doing today which is the

radar installation and this is the thing

that we have been waiting for for a

while and now today's the day that we're

gonna do this so i'm very excited you

see compass he's starting to feel better

so the meds are really working

we just have a few more days and

hopefully we can get these projects done

and held to the island to play but

before we go there obviously we need to

get this done

and also make sure that there's no

complications with compass so all right

let's talk about this radar this radar

is something that teal has been lusting

after for a while this is the raymarine

q24c wireless so this baby is going up

hopefully today

i mean look at this

it's like

christmas and also something that keeps

us safe

so this is what we have going on today

let me

so this here is our old cord

for

our old furuno and we kept it in there

because

hopefully we can

pull

a messenger up and use our new power

cord

for our raymarine uh teal has already

obviously labeled it

and he's really trying to

take some extra measures to ensure that

we don't lose this

so he's up there

now

assessing what needs to be done and what

tools he needs and then he'll give me

the go ahead

emma can do this and help us but you

know to be perfectly honest we have one

shot and

teal just isn't too confident that she

won't um

accidentally pull this through that girl

is pretty strong she doesn't even know

how strong she is

so because of that i'm obviously shorter

i'm going to be using my trusty yeti

cooler as my step stool

this is gonna be so fun

okay i'm only about a third of the way

at the mass about 20 feet

20 feet of the

60 some odd feet up to the top of the

mast so it doesn't feel too bad

i feel like i'm actually pretty close to

our boat

feels comfortable

we're sharing uh

the dock space here with a couple other

cats look at this

got a lagoon a leopard off here in the

next to us we swing around here

got another lagoon over here

so we got four cats all packed in here

on this little dock

okay let's check out uh what project i'm

working on right now

okay here's our radar

uh support

it's all nice and secure feels pretty

good mounted in here this is our old

ferruno radar here

i left the cabling in here

so what i'm gonna do is is pull off uh

this clam shell here

and hopefully

i can just tug on this and get this

cable to come up

len's gonna feed it from below

and i'm hoping

that we have a little wiggle room and i

could get this to work

i mean obviously the best thing that we

could do is

pull the mass and do this right

but we're trying to avoid doing that and

for i don't know a little bit longer

maybe once we get down to mexico or

something

you want me to pull or push

keep pulling

i really hope this thing wasn't

siliconed in

he said it's not gonna go

i didn't think so

yeah i'm pushing like crazy

and there's like nothing

you think it's siliconed in

that's good

do you think it's still going in yeah

okay i was unable to pull this out it is

just rigid down in there who knows how

it goes through

the deck it's probably siliconed in

so i'm gonna go to plan b what exactly

is plan b

well plan b

is

use the existing radar cable but

this is the old faruno radar cable it

has

15 wires in here

i'm going to have peeled back the

sheathing i'm shrink wrapping that now

that's going to be my negative

i'm going to bundle

four of these together to get the proper

gauge all we need is an 18 gauge wire to

run up there uh it's only 22 feet

and

so it runs on that new rado runs on 17

watts while it's running and seven watts

on standby so it doesn't need a lot

then i'll discard these

i'll uh shrink wrap everything up and

then do the same up there tie it into uh

the new plug that goes into the new

radome

i didn't i got so distracted those sea

lions barking all day

so nice it's fun but man they just don't

let up

okay

a few more minutes and i need to be

hoisted again so i can do the same

process up there

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so we just hoisted teal up and now he's

gonna do the same thing that he did down

here which is rewiring our old furuno

cable let me show you

if you can

so

he uh

split it up so there is a

positive and a negative and that is

going to go right up here

and i made a label and everything so

we are all set hopefully

it will take less than an hour for him

to

take care of the wiring and then we will

hoist that radome up

okay go ahead

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okay there's the connection

i feel pretty good about that

i've individually uh wrapped

each of those wires in there with two

layers and then put a single layer over

everything

this actually will be tucked right

inside the mast

so it'll be out of the uv

this will be exposed

to our new plug for the radar

okay about done here

i need to start working on that radome

so before we mount this radome i have to

make an adapter plate

it looks like our scan strut that is our

radome bracket up on the mass has a

different bolt layout than our new

radome so i'll spend the next few

minutes and whip one out

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well it's another detour we have

bolts that are not quite long enough and

lin

lin always thinks i should predict or

know every little thing for every little

project okay weeks in advance my defense

teal's a really smart guy so he should

know these things in my defense

i was an eighth inch short

yeah

is that an eighth inch

i was holding the ball not my fingers

anyways but luckily there are two marine

stores here in ventura harbor so we're

gonna just uh walk on over there and

grab what we need and finish this

project nice little break get out in the

sun

it is have a little stroll

okay that was not too bad

here is our scan strut bolt layout this

will bolt straight to it and here's our

bolts that connect our radome down

this i think will work out pretty slick

okay adapter plates in

nice and sturdy

now it's just a matter of hoisting up

that radome and bolting it in well i'll

plug in the electrical connection first

then bolt it in

you ready down there

i'm always ready

okay here's how it turned out

my power lead

going into the unit

it's locked up in there

everything is nice and

secure that's our new quantum baby right

there

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well that wasn't too bad after all

can't feel good about everything up here

i have a little bit of work to do

downstairs

just make a few more connections

read up on the manual there'll be a

little bit of a i think configuration to

get this thing to talk to our our chart

plotter

but besides that

all the mechanical uh work is done

so i'm going to head down

huh

still got a little bit of the day left

maybe we'll go do something fun i don't

know

or maybe i'll get on to this we'll see

see how the girls are feeling

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i guess no one should play nobody

crossed the line

i guess we couldn't see somebody we

couldn't feel

maybe we wrote so fast maybe we got too

high

but i

remember

we

were always gonna

last yeah

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these past few days has been so foggy

it's crazy because i thought that we

left the fog behind us but it seems to

follow us the other day you couldn't

even see the jetty right here at the

entrance so having this radar installed

is a huge safety bonus for us teals

inside right now making the final

connections

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okay it looks like we have power to the

unit i think that emma and i are going

to go ahead and configure this and link

it all up to our top plotter can't be

that hard right right it doesn't have a

manual for this one so

we'll muscle our way through it and if

not there's always tech support to help

us

so let's do this

we decided to go with the wi-fi unit

only because we didn't want to have to

pull a data cable through our mass

because of that all we need is a power

lead to it and the the wi-fi signal

shoots down to our chart plotter so

eventually we probably will

once we pull the mass we can do the the

data cable but for now

this is all we need the quantum has a

strong wi-fi signal right now

easy

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you can after all this time we finally

get our radar installed and we're this

much closer to finishing up our major

projects before we sail into the sea of

cortez come back next week to see what

court we head into

see you then