On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we look back on our cockpit rebuild of our 1993 custom catamaran sv basik. We brought our 25 year old cat into th...

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welcome back to SD basic the past couple

of weeks we've been doing a few projects

here in the cockpit and we've got a lot

of comments wanting more details of how

we built this so that's exactly we're

gonna do on this video we're gonna dig

in and show you the behind the scenes of

how we did it and why we did it so stand

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to understand how much work we put into

the cockpit door and cockpit let's flash

back to the original cockpit door it was

just a plexiglass door real flimsy had

once metal support on the hand side and

not the look that we were that we wanted

we ended up reshaping this and putting

in a diamond sea glazed door and I'll

show you later how we did that but let's

step out look at the cockpit now and

flashback to the day we bought it

decks for gritty poor condition holes

everywhere it was just a mess but with a

lot of hard work this is what we came up

with so let's get into this and we'll

show you how we did it okay let's talk a

little bit about this cockpit door the

original door was not the look we were

going for not the strength of the

durability burial looking for I mean a

cure worked fine for decades but you

want a little a door that was a little

more secure and a little more modern we

found this diamond see glazed door

actually on Craigslist for probably

about a quarter of the price but it took

some drastic modifications to get this

in here the door is a little taller and

it's a lot narrower probably about 12

inches narrower so I really had to fill

in a lot of this bulkhead right here not

a big deal

the older big deal was this during a

winter so I had to build a foam room

around this so I could work from inside

with heat I was able to build it in

reskin I actually ended up re skinning

this entire bulkhead all

with multiple layers to blend all this

through so this seam is seamless but it

turned out great we're tickled with the

store just absolutely love it

the action is amazing

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so I'm going to admit it the cockpit is

where I spend most of my time this is

where everybody congregates everybody

gravitates towards this area and it's

because you get the breeze you get the

views you get to be where the action is

it doesn't really matter the size of the

cockpit because you're just gonna hang

out here I only spend time inside when

the weather is bad not that it's a bad

place to hang out but I love being out

like cockpit so I can just spend time

with family on our last boat

I spent 90% of the time in the cockpit

whether we were playing cards or having

friends over for drinks or dinner this

is where you want to be at I think that

teal and I came up with a great

compromise although I'd like to change

up the table later on in the future but

as since now it's pretty perfect okay

now let's look at this cockpit table

I had mocked up just with Ron I decor a

few different designs and originally we

wanted to come up with a table that

would seat as many people as possible

but the problem to do that was to run

this table all the way over to this

seating area here but it was too close

and this is our egress path to get up to

that debt there so I just shortened this

table up one foot by shortening the

table up

I had to decrease the base size here I

know it's not proportionate in this area

and I've got a lot of comments on that

but it is by design we still could get

five people sitting at this table we

could put another chair here and put six

and then such a lot for a cockpit table

if we need more seating we go inside we

could fit eight more people in there but

we need to room in this cockpit we live

on here this is this is where we spend

most of our time so we we need the the

pathways open

I made this out of 90 core nice storage

we use it for all our PFDs in here works

out pretty well is it perfect no what I

design it differently again I probably

will down the road but for now it's a

it's a good table it doesn't weigh

anything it's got plenty of seating it

is what it is let's talk a little bit

about just this little corner of the

boat when we bought the boat there was

like this triangle window that was here

and I'm sure it was beautiful in this

day but it wasn't the look that I I

wanted so what I ended up doing was

excavating that out and taking foam and

kerfing it as I come around this corner

so I could bend this compound radius I

was able to then fill in the top with

nida core and just layer glass cloth

over this I have three layers of glass

cloth over this entire upper deck and

four or five layers over this as it made

this sweeping radius

I really like how it turned out and it

was a look that really modernized the

boat when I did this I 70 to 80 hours

into this radius here a lot of work a

lot of sanding and then after I did this

I had to do it again okay let's talk a

lot about the staircase right here

to get up to the winch station which is

going to be located right up there you

would have to run around up over here or

take two big giant steps onto this it

was a seat that ran through here up to

there and up to there and actually three

steps that's what I did is came up with

this idea to cut these stairs in here I

built these all about a 90 core they are

all laced with carbon fiber and over

engineered and I over engineered them

because this will be a lot of traffic

through here I mean you can be running

up and down this a hundred times a day

and so I put extra effort into making

sure that I put a little bit more glass

cloth down and a lot more support behind

the scenes

how's your homework going them okay I'll

be right back

but it's going on down here

compass okay let's take a look at and

turn off the laundry let's take a look

at how these stairs cut into this room

it did encroach a little bit over the

berth here but and I tried to avoid it

but it's not too bad I think we gained a

lot more than what we give up with it is

let's take a look at these real close I

used one inch ninety core on this and I

layered four layers of eight ounce cloth

and in between each layer

I would sand and skim with a faring

compound that way the final product is

nice and smooth

I wanted it smooth for a reason so if

somebody's laying here in the berth they

hear a noise they get up they have a

nice smooth with big radius to knock

their head on rather than a sharp edge I

want to talk a little bit about how I

laid out the seating I laid them all out

in 29 inch multiples the stairs

to that bulkhead our 29 times three

from this seat

- this seat 29 times two

this seat

to the galley 29 times two

this way all the cushions are the same

size easier to store and you don't have

to figure out which cushion goes to

which the spot and that's why I line it

out that way when it starts to rain we

have to put the cushions away my dad

built a perfect locker just for them and

this is where they go

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you guys know that I love to cook and on

our last boat I dreamt about having an

outdoor cooking area well we didn't have

to space so we did have a barbecue and

it was great it was fine and I loved it

we made wonderful meals on it but on

this boat we have a little bit more

elbow room and instead of extending this

for more seating which we don't need

because we have plenty of space

Jill filled me this fabulous cook area

and I just love it I love it this little

galley pod we put in built it all out of

90 core and it's all blended and sweep

tin to the deck and the hull and this

whole structure weighs nothing

probably weighs 12 13 pounds at the most

we didn't put a cooktop in here a sink

faucet disposal this is nice storage

under here I still have to build a night

accord or that's coming up but I left

this area all open and we have options

for this later I could use this for

refrigeration have a nice drawer

refrigerator ice maker could go in here

it's all pre-built

inside to accommodate something I may

just open it up like this and use it for

storage I'm not sure yet but we do have

options

building this was actually yeah not too

bad

I built it not in place I built it

sitting in the middle of the cockpit

here and just formed it with raw NIDA

core used my thickened epoxy with a

colloidal filler to fair the inside

edges blast the interior a few layers

glass the exterior put it in place and

then layered glass over this to blend it

all in now let's take a look at how I

calculated the size of this well I know

I wanted to fit a sink in here faucet

cooktop and have some counter space so

here was my variable right here I know I

needed multiples of 29 coming off of

this bulkhead here for seating so two

multiples brought me to where I'd ended

up and went with three it would be too

short so that was where I needed to be

on this side this side I had to look at

this bulkhead in the door swing so I

mounted the door calculated the swing so

the end of this would accommodate the

catch for the door and that's how I came

up with the width this I really don't

know why camera and manufacturers don't

put more exterior galleys this thing has

been so handy Lynne just takes advantage

of it any chance she could get we've got

our scan big sink same possibly put in

the galley

this is pretty handy

it is our garbage disposal

which goes straight through here

and right out the bridge deck so we

could recycle all our food scraps little

for Stan cooktop

and I inlaid a little cutting board on

there to protect it what we're not using

it but pretty handy okay we had a lot of

unevenness in the cockpit here and the

reason was when this boat was originally

made there was a big sled system here

with a 40 horse Mariner outboard and it

would deploy up and down with this big

huge mechanism here that was removed and

they put in 9.9 yamaha long shafts and

wells in the sugar scoops those were

removed and we have the yet more diesels

in now but the repair that was done here

was not real even and you could see

exactly where the sled used to be so I

ended up excavating all that out in like

new night a core through there and then

laying an entire sheet of Baltic mat all

through this whole area but more even a

lot of work

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