On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we check out what's really in our storage locker before we get down to business prepping our sugar scoops on our ...

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morning cut up early this morning

Cass Cascade Mountain Range

pick up the rudders

and flee

those missing pieces are there

okay we're here now let's check this out

hopefully those parts are in here ooh

and there is something behind this door

that nobody will ever guess what it is

it's all here that's right this is not

only a locker for our boat parts I'm

storing a ton of old sculptures in here

an old hobby of mine had these in a

gallery for a while but no place to put

them now now that we're going sailing so

they're gonna camp out here who knows

how long

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anyway let's if we get these parts

I know this should be my yep hydraulic

lines need that

what yes so there I knew I put them in

here there's the missing piece right

there I'll sleep better tonight get

those cleaned up and add those to our

other parts not only pick it up stuff

I'm dropping stuff off I have to empty

out the sugar scoops to make some room

for me to start getting all this linkage

in I actually have a lot of glass work

that's what I'm doing right now dropping

off

the paddleboards

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okay plenty of room for these rudders

let's check them out here here they are

I'll kick up rudders I remember these

being not too heavy it's been a few

years let's get these loaded in

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okay rudders are in all the parts I was

looking for are here

yes put this thing button up and back to

the boat

it was a nice little five-hour round

trip but I got everything I need to keep

this project rueland

a lot warmer here than over there boy it

was cold 20 degrees get a little warm

still here

alright 45 so here we are let's get to

work

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I'm gonna back with my parts I'm so

happy to have found eight so let's get

these things cleaned up today let's see

what kind of condition there are they've

got everything on it looks like silicone

or some sort of sealant it's rubbery it

could be 50 200 and there they look

pretty rough but let's gonna clean it up

see how rough they really are I've got

these struts all polished out I've got

one more to do

this 20-foot monster right here so I'm

going to tackle that as well

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kids look at this thing real close look

at this it's covered in his epoxy drips

and it's not too pitted so I think this

will polish out nicely

just going to be

a lot of policy

kind of discouraged I mean I just spent

three hours polishing this feels like

glass but this is so popular I

definitely gonna upgrade this here in

the near future

but for now I mean it's it's gonna work

let's don't like how it looks maybe I'll

sleeve it I don't know I'll take a look

at some options okay here they are

before

and after

let's cleaned up real nice I just

started with a little wire wheel on a

grinder so then finished up with my 400

grit nice to smooth clean they almost

look new again

now these clean up nice happy there

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at least it's not raining it's been

coming down in buckets all night long

and now the winds picking up high wind

warning again today supposed to be

gusting 30 to 40

makes it difficult working outside on

the steering I don't have plenty of

things to do inside but I really want to

get going on this it's important so I

have to build a little shelter out here

I need to come up with something give me

some cover and some shade here that

won't blow away in 30 and 40 knots

because that's what's happening about

every three to five days we're getting a

storm blowing through here

another ones ramping up right now

so let's get creative

you

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that wasn't perfect

okay it's 2:00 in the morning

not checking all the dark lines

blowing about 40 out here right now

everything looks good so far

I'll put a couple extra dark lines on

for tonight

it is helping higher

what's the last year tonight

hard to sleep

it sounds like part of wind tunnel

inside here but everything wants to it

I'll go lay down I'll tell you from

personal experience that sounded like a

freight train was driving over my house

because you could hear the roar of the

wind and it came right on cue the

forecast models I have to tell you they

nailed it this time they had that area

of low pressure parts right over the tip

of Vancouver Island that's exactly what

happened chipped up those winds out of

the south gusting between 50 and 60

miles an hour between 2:00 and 4:00 a.m.

whoa weather is calm down that was one

crazy night I'm always so worried when

we get the wind out of the south just

look the clearance up here I mean I've

searched four feet forward and I'm in

trouble but I can't scoop back in the

slip because of this piling back here so

that's where we're at I threw out a

bunch of extra lines just to make sure I

didn't go anywhere and I laced it to a

bunch of other cleats here I'm not

worried about anything failing on this

side I worry about the the doc cleats

giveaway searching for word and having

an issue oh well

lakes calm down now boy that was good

though

heavy rain heavy wind we hit 60 miles an

hour last night at 2:00 to 4:00 o'clock

in the morning crazy

oh well it's calm now let's get to work

okay I got some help today see what's

going on down here

starting to get this area cleaned up I

got quite a bit of glass work you're

doing here

oh no now there I'm cleaning how's it

looking

it's actually not bad it is nice and dry

it's just dusty that's good okay cool

keep at it okay

let her go in there for a little bit

I gotta get laying out the new location

for all the linkage and then start

blasting out all in I built those scoops

a couple years ago haven't been in there

since just been using for storage just

getting it all cleaned up I'll get going

this is gonna be a problem

tails you gotta move it okay I will

sorry

oh I've been in here in a while okay

let's take a look at inside the sugar

scoop here all this

I built this is the staircase I did all

the detail work on the outside I really

haven't done much detail work on the

interior yet but that needs to happen I

still have to fare some radius edges in

here lay some glass cloth I've got two

three layers in here now I mean probably

one or two more once I start filling in

let me show you what needs to happen

this is our trunk line for our kick-up

rudder

I've actually beef this up quite a bit

put like four layers of glass on it and

tied it into the the hole here's the

first step as they go up the second step

and third step way up here so I've got

quite a bit of work to do in here but

here is the hard part

this original part of the boat right

here this is I'm actually sitting inside

of a crash compartment and this used to

be a well with an outboard with a sail

drive sticking down here and this was

filled with giant barnacles and actually

I did knock a bunch of those out you can

still see little remnants of some of

them in here I've stripped all that out

cleaned this up as much as I can and

then just started layering all this new

United core in here over here here's

where the works gonna happen for the

steering this is the original boat here

here and here you can see the difference

from the new stuff I've added to the old

stuff here's how I get that 20-foot

steering strut into this compartment it

threads through this hole and feeds all

the way out to the other side of the

book through here

all that linkage happens inside of this

compartment here so what I need to do is

get this linkage all and fill all this

in so I want this to be a watertight

compartment so if we take a wave and it

comes up through the linkage channel

here that it just runs right back out

because I've pitched this whole area in

here about one inch for every foot so if

we catch a wave it just runs right back

out so it really wouldn't matter how

much water gets in here it's just gonna

be running right back out so I've got a

lot of work to do a lot of cleaning up

get this all prepped glass I need to

fill the deck in here plate glass over

there build a wall here and create nice

access points to get to the linkage

because once it's in I need to be able

to service it so I'll be mounting a deck

plates here water proof deck plates - to

access this and just get this all

cleaned up so I've got quite a bit of

work to do in here and this is just one

of the two sides

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so that'll be the first stage of this is

start cleaning this up I need to map out

the linkage though and install that make

sure that it's gonna fit and make sure

that it's functional

once it's in I'll take a couple key

pieces out and start filling in so let's

get started

see a big project I've been putting it

off but we're getting down to the wire

better get going

first thing I think I'll do is do a

little epoxy work in here just start

filling in some of this stuff there's so

many loose ends faring in corners

filling in little pieces

here's an old bilge pump that needs to I

want to move this so I'm gonna shave

this out just start cleaning out first

so I have a nice clean slate to work

with because this looks rough

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so I'm gonna be camped out in here for a

couple of days and then be sanding and

smoothing and fairing and do an epoxy

wear so at the end of each day I'll do

my poxy work and I'm getting tired today

so I'm gonna finish up today and work in

you know let's start filling little

things like this little hole here

there's a ridge right here I want to I

want to fill that I'll run radiuses in

these corners just all the little odds

and ends you know I'll just look around

if I see something that needs a little

bit of epoxy I'll do it at the end of

the day then work on sanding it out the

next day do that for a couple days and

it'll start looking smoother and

smoother each day I'm gonna fill this

right here this gap right here

all sorts so getting tired so I'm gonna

get some epoxy rolling actually Lynne's

mixing me up some thick and epoxy right

now Lynne

seriously we gotta move this I've hit it

three times today I'm sorry how many

there's five pumps my thumbs

okay well yelling you an any five more

okay I won't yell awkward in here but

I'll do it again

I like using a one-inch crafts taken for

my radiuses tell me all the radiuses on

the boat are the same just smeared in

there I've thicken this epoxy with a

colloidal silica

which is hard to sand but has excellent

bonding so I got to get it on fairly

smoothly to start with some how much

sanding

I'm putting this radius in because I'm

gonna be laying up another layer of

glass in here over all surfaces just to

tie in all the new structure and put in

Oh twisted in a knot

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so project I've been thinking about for

years just like all of them I'm just

gonna be tight quarters in years of it

not putting it off just been doing other

things we've got so many projects on

this boat so we're getting down to the

the last projects actually not the

lighthouse but the ones that need to be

done before we leave and steering's

pretty important and this is all part of

steer and getting this all finished back

here in the scoops

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okay I'm painting myself into a corner

here I've got epoxy going all the way

around me now everything looks good

started filling in little cracks and

holes and got some radius work done

under here now I have to get out of here

without touching the thing I'll let this

fire off tonight and start sanding maybe

you start working on some of the

structure tomorrow and then do another

coat of epoxy and do it all again the

next day it's not sterling doesn't it

but the good thing is I have one other

sugar scoop to do after this Wow but I

love it

it was so fun to read through all the

comments and ideas you guys had grow up

with behind the locker door and our

storage units anyways guys if you liked

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