On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we go back in time to show you how we refit our salon and brought our custom 435 catamaran into the new millenium...

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hey guys welcome back to SB basic in the

past we've done a few flashback videos

of our other projects that we have done

prior to starting our vlog so for this

week we're gonna take you back to one of

our first projects which is the salon

seating this is kind of the heart of the

boat with the exception obviously at the

cockpit which I love but when you're

indoors this is where you want to hang

out it's the central location between

the nav station the galley the upper

head and the cockpit so stick around and

we're gonna show you how we built it

let's start this out by looking at the

salon seating here's what it looks like

2018 but to appreciate this let's

flashback 25 years ago to 1993 and wow

look at the colors this is screaming

Florida in the 90s and it should because

that's where this boat was built and

spent most of its life now let's

flashback eight years ago when we

purchased SV basic very plush but just a

card table so we had a lot of work to do

and what we're gonna do now is show you

the steps that we did to get to this

okay what we had to do first of all was

just cut everything out of here

get all the cushions out took a whole

load out of here and now I could see

really what I had to deal with after

laying it out I figured out quickly that

the layout was not going to work for the

cushions and especially for the back

cushions so I need to extend the decks

out about six inches so frame those in

and just I used actually a clear

vertical grain fir just for its weight

and wrought resistance after I laid that

all out I was able to skin over with a

nine-millimeter ultralight marine grade

poplar ply I put one layer down and was

able to lay out all of the hatches

access to this was important there's a

ton of storage below this then layered

one more layer of nine-millimeter

ultralight on top of that with about an

inch and a half

larger reveal than the original hatch

opening that way I could inset in a

loose door I originally wanted to put

access patches on there and laid it out

for that but I quickly change that and

scrapped that idea and just went with a

nine millimeter flat panel instead just

easier to get into

while it's underneath of a cushion let's

talk a minute about the upholstery

believe it or not this is the only item

on the boat that we subbed out and I am

glad we did this

would have been a pretty difficult

upholstery job if you've never done one

before

we are gonna do some upholstery

ourselves but we weren't gonna start

with this one

so we got some prices here in Seattle

and why were we

sticker shocked on how much it cost here

in Seattle so what we ended up doing was

going about 150 miles out of Seattle

found out retired or semi-retired

upholsterer and he worked with us he was

amazing the only downside was he

couldn't come out to the boat he was in

the middle of the state so I had to

shuttle back and forth templates I was

building templates for the decks

templates for the backs and it took a

while it took about two months to get

this project done but it was well worth

it

well worth the effort for the money we

saved and we are so happy with the

quality so let's take a look at this in

depth and how I did it the lower decks

were actually the easiest part I just

had to pretty much lay out a sheet of

cardboard sketch out and cut out each

individual cushions where I wanted the

the seams to break and number those and

just get him to the upholsterer and he

was able to take those templates and

make the direct patterns off of those

and it came back pretty quickly the

difficult part was the next stage to get

the corner radiuses that was the hard

part so one and then that ended up doing

was I mocked up the two corner radiuses

because they dude leaned back at about 7

degrees

I had to mock him up out of just a thin

sheet of plywood and made a

3-dimensional template just for the two

corners I wanted to start with those I

got those two the upholster and he

mocked up two pieces of foam that

mimicked my templates and I was able to

set those into the corners and Mark out

where he needed to either add or take

off of the foam once we decided that we

were happy with how they sat in there we

got those back to him and he was able to

finish those out along with all the

cushions that lie in between

quite the process but between the

patterns and working with a great guy he

just absolutely nailed it

there are a lot of ways of securing your

cushions and everybody has a preference

there is snaps there's velcro and

fiddles you guys know how I do not like

fiddle so that is not an option on this

boat so velcro I don't like it because

once you tack it in you kind of stuck

with it or you have to peel that off and

sometimes it does peel off the backing

I don't like snaps because I feel like

they just don't secure the cushions

properly so shield I came up with a

design that our upholsterer was really

skeptical about but after he tried it he

actually admitted that it works really

well as long as it's on a painted smooth

surface so what we actually had him do

was so on the backs of all of our

upholstery non-skid liner and the stuff

works great I mean this has been five

six six years and not once has it moved

I mean literally it does it move and we

have it under everything I love it this

works great try it

building this table it was an

interesting process I had this all

designed in my head easily a year or two

before I built it Lin on the other hand

had her own ideas she wanted it open

underneath with pedestals and she felt

like it would be nice and airy and give

you lots of leg room but I wanted to

build cabinets I was building the galley

cabinets at the same time so I thought

it'd be much easier just to do one more

what would be easier but it'd be you

give us more storage so I thought at

that time I was build one more cabinet

and that's what I ended up doing but to

talk her into it I had to convince her

that that extra storage would be helpful

and how I did it as I turned it into a

liquor cabinet

let's take a look at a few of the

features of this now when I design this

I designed this for seating for three or

four with a small coffee table and I did

that for a reason I didn't want to have

the table extend all the way out because

most of the time it's just us three on

board this way you could walk in and out

and and everybody can sit around here

and you could watch a movie

everything's just laid out nicely but

Lynne wanted to have an option to have a

full table when we have guests over I'll

show you that in a minute but let's look

at a few features on this table base now

first feature i'd like to show you is as

you look at it there's a little release

here and the table opens up gives you

nice storage

for some items that you don't use too

often locks out of the way the end

which is I consider it the coffee table

opens up walks out of the way and that's

all the linen storage for the galley

then we have the storage itself let's

take a look at this lots of room for

limbs liquor cabinet well I say Linds

but I do it I can to help her out

deep nice deep pockets for tall bottles

and actually I want to show you guys

these things look at these these are our

wine glasses also you could use these

for your tumblers and our champagne

flutes Covino check them out they're

perfect for a boat they have a little

finger hold

unbreakable hey Louisville now I gotta

pick up my mask people always ask how

long has your dad been working on the

boat and let me tell you it's been a

long time

when I built this cabinet I built it

with the gala cabinets and you could see

how I built those if you go back to

episode 21 I go into detail how I built

those but to recap I used vertical grain

fir and foam overlaid with an ultra

light marine skin then layered it with

three layers of eight ounce cloth and I

did a lot of cloth on this because I

mostly where the cabinet meets the deck

there's one layer up here but there's

two extra layers down here both interior

and exterior of this cabinet and I did

it for a reason I did it because a

cameron's bridge deck in heavy seas is

made to flex and move and it can it

could pound pretty good this cabinets

right in the middle of the bridge deck

so I wanted to make sure it wasn't going

anywhere I'd do a couple tricky little

things to get this to work I'll explain

this hardware when I talk about the leaf

extension but in order to get this table

to fold up if I hinged it here it would

have hit here on the coffee table so I

ended up doing is extending this out

that way when I hinge it it misses

everything

now we're going to talk a little bit

about this table extension and what it

does is turns this table into

comfortable seating for three to four

people into seating for six to seven

people if you want to check out how I

built this go back and look at Emma

sewed 15 it shows me building the leaf

extension and that's the same method I

used to build the table Tom it also

talks a lot about the hardware and how I

install all this and came up with it so

it's an interesting episode and check it

out so let's install this and I'll show

you how it works

I stow the table leaf over here in the

now station there's a good spot out of

the way it doesn't get in my way of my

knees when I'm at the NAP station and

let's face it the table leaves only good

if you have a place to stow it

everything just clicks out of the way

here's the brace I need actually secure

it to the wall with the same fasteners

that I use to hold it to the table

so let's take this off and throw it in

okay everything here is for a reason

here's the strut to hold the table up

these are the fasteners that hold it to

the wall and also hold it to the table

I've made this little bracket here to

hold everything in but I mounted even

where I located this strut is here for a

reason I mounted it here so nobody could

accidentally undo this faster it's

impossible with a strut in place you

can't take this off unless you remove

the strut so you pull the strut out and

snap that release the lead now watch

slides right down and out that easy

and it's not going anywhere I've mounted

little rubber pads so it doesn't scuff

the leaf or the wall it's pretty simple

first thing I do is just stage the leaf

right here here's the strut and there's

six points that it'll touch the table to

keep it nice and strong and I need to

keep it strong because I mean think

about three or four people with dinner

plates their elbows on table playing

cards I don't want the table leaf

falling and it has to can't leave her

out here over two feet so I'll show you

how I do that here's the points I have

one two three four five and six first

thing I do is put the strut in the next

thing I do is just grab the leaf I just

slide it right into position and

underneath I secure

now I just rock the strut up into

position and secure it with the screw

and it's in let's take a look at this

look at much more seating you have quite

a bit it only takes a minute to put in I

made it to put away take a look this is

pretty strong it's not going anywhere

oh and the beauty see the strut right

here out of the way of your knees and

they'll head in it still has access look

at the clearance you still have

plenty of knee room

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now I'm going to put this away in real

time show you how simple it really is

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and that's it done

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hope you guys enjoyed this video it's

always fun to revisit an old project it

really brings back a lot of good

memories huh yep

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