On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we scramble to finish a few projects on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik to keep our scheduled launch time. We a...

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alright guys we are in crunch time

because now we have a splash date flash

date t-minus four days it is chaos here

because he'll is running around like a

madman trying to get all the little

items buttoned up so this is very unlike

him we're gonna make this four days to

fly drop the camera start Standish

get one project I really wanted to

tackle while we're on the hard is these

dagger boards

this one's been rebuilt recently this

one needs a little more attention I'll

giving it that attention right now

also I'm changing all the hardware on

how we deploy and retract the dagger

boards so I need a couple of points that

I need to pull on so I'm gonna embed

some hardware with epoxy into these

dagger boards tonight and that's gonna

help with one pull point I do have cheek

blocks and other things that need to go

on these but I'll do that after paint I

need to do this now because when we're

painting bottom paint I want to paint

these at the same time

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okay I just drilled all this out dagger

boards are a high-density foam core so

what I'm gonna end up doing I'm gonna

epoxy those in instead of drilling a

hole straight in like this and epoxy

I've actually splayed the holes out like

this so now with the bolts in there and

the epoxy there's no way it'll come out

deck boards way probably I don't know 60

70 pounds so not much pressure to lift

these but I want to make sure those

never come out okay it's getting late

I'm gonna get these u-bolts a pox it in

tonight Lynn's mixing me up my epoxy

right now and I think we'll call it it's

been a good day huh

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been busy I straightened up my work area

I'm feeling a lot better

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yeah

now it's squeezing it out

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okay we have these all epoxy it in it's

important to get these in tonight

because now when we're painting the

hulls I could hang these and paint all

sides all at the same time save me some

time so I'm not flipping these back and

forth I was actually at Lynn's idea

she's brilliant okay I'm calling it I'm

tired

time to shower up so we hit a hard first

thing in the morning

so it looks like Till's getting some

work done making some headway on these

dagger boards so while that's kickin

daggerboard trucks a little bit of work

under here it's not bad

there's just looks like when they did

the install they didn't quite finish it

off so I'm gonna finish it off here let

me show you what I'm talking about okay

here's our Dagobert trunks and this

profile matches our wing shape of our

dagger bars but when they epoxy this in

it looks like this edge was just never

quite finished its epoxy in but it just

doesn't look nice so I'm gonna take the

time strip this out and make this look

nice before we add bottom page I'll have

all this done in a couple hours so you

always say I'll do my best

okay the dagger boards are all prepped

we have lines and Emma is gonna help me

hoist these up and Lynne's gonna tie

them off we'll see how they do

well that was not too bad I don't

realize the scale of these till I stand

one up look at these suckers they're

over nine feet long crazy okay I'll

leave the pads under it for tonight

we'll pull those out and be able to

paint these let me do the bottom job so

next morning it's gonna be a big day for

us three days till splash taped off the

water line here we're putting bottom

paint on it's gonna be the first coat of

3 dagger boards are hanging they're

ready for the same application Lynn's

been over here stirring paint days

always make her happy

she'll be dancing here soon and I'm sure

we went with the fiberglass bottom coat

aqua it is a low VOCs low odor its water

cleanup with a hard durable finish we

are just not fans of what types of paint

yes when you swim next to a boat with a

blade of paint it gets all over you and

it's in the water and so you know what

we're going with the durable finish we

have no problem scrubbing the bottom of

this boat especially in warmer climates

so that's what we're doing

we'll put at least three coats of this

down over the next two days and it's

exciting I've spent the morning prepping

these daggerboard trunks I started it

yesterday this one's finished I feel

much better about this smoothed out the

water's gonna transition around that

blade much better now so while I'm

prepping the trunk on the other hull

Lynn's gonna start painting oh here she

is dancing already

she's gonna start putting down the

bottom paint so it's a big day and we're

excited

okay three days to splash we got a lot

to do let's get going

please laying down pretty good isn't it

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I know you love it don't you

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okay I'm bouncing back and forth from

the daggerboard trunk to prepping for

Lynch she's gonna be painting down this

hole here a little bit I just put down

some fairing compound so while it's

curing gives me about ten minutes here I

could start taping again boy there's

nothing worse than taping it's not that

it's hard well I'll take that back

it's for me it's mentally hard because

you're concentrating I'm trying to put

this tape down like a 64th of an inch

off of this line so you really have to

just pay attention just inch by inch

work your way across this and it's 200

feet of tape I'm putting down right now

it feels good to get new bottom paint on

I am NOT a clean painter like teal is so

but I'm getting there

hey you're doing pretty good I don't see

any dress I only had a couple of drones

but the way that you do things there's

like no drips it looks good though just

keep at it

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okay it's the end of the day here's a

big day while I was working on smoothing

out the daggerboard trunks Lin got a

good jump on the bottom page she

actually painted out probably 70% of

this boat by herself today she painted

the the dagger boards and just worked

her butt off all day I'm telling you she

did an awesome job everything just looks

perfect

this interlocks bottom coat aqua you

know it seems counterproductive but it's

a water-based product but I guess time

will tell

we'll have to give you some feedback

after we have a little history with it

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okay I'm gonna call it for today I'm

gonna hit it hard again tomorrow the

second coat goes on tomorrow and then we

wait a full day until the third coat

we're splashing in three days okay wake

up tomorrow morning and hit hard once

again hey guys

day two second coat

I think we're starting to get the hang

of this we're getting in a groove aren't

we so I just load up my roller and I've

learned now to go up it's a down so then

that limits

most of the drips but I get a heavy coat

here and then teal goes in behind me and

kinda does uh what is it like a tip yeah

I just roll it out with a finer roller

that way leaky you just keep applying

the paint and we get this done in about

three hours now we're getting efficient

ok the second coat is in the books

days young still got a lot to do today

let's take a look at it second coat done

this is a list of everything I have to

do before we hit the water two days left

so I'm just gonna started knocking a

couple he's out we got two days left I

got to get these done there get to work

a quick project I'm gonna do is get

these Dinks back on here

I taped this up to protect the shaft and

get any barrier towed or paint on so

we'll strip this off and see how it

looks okay I've got a little bit on this

surface all this want to make sure it's

nice and clean I want to clean contact

on that zinc on the drive unit here okay

I just put one drop of Loctite on this

I don't want it permanently in there I

want to be able to remove this later but

I don't want it wiggling free either

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okay that's an easy one

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okay next I'm gonna put on the Kiwi

props just read through the manual once

again and it's pretty simple you greased

the shaft

you take your Kiwi prop

align it with the splines this is the

retainer bolt that goes into the

propeller boss put Loctite on this first

thread that on tighten it up and there's

two 90 degree offset retaining screws

that actually seat into this group that

keeps the whole assembly from ever

backing out Loctite goes on those as

well and we're good pretty simple

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okay Kiwi prop recommends every haul out

to Lube five different Lube points one

day away to launch we still have to put

the last coat of bottom paint on it and

do a couple other projects but look what

we're getting there's a marine layer

this morning we cannot have any moisture

hit this hole right before pain so I've

covered up everything anywhere where

there's a drip coming down I put up

little drip edges try to keep this as

dry as we can we want this last coat to

be bulletproof I don't want any issues

by having water on it but my little drip

edges are working look at this

it's keeping off the hull we've got

everything else protected this marine

layer should burn off it doesn't show

anything on the radar I bet you this

burns off in an hour then we'll let it

dry out for a couple hours and still get

this coat on we have to get this last

coat today our appointment is for

tomorrow we're gonna make it just mother

nature through a little hiccup in our

day okay

we'll see you when the Sun comes out one

day left one day left leg okay that

little marine layer burned off couple

hours ago everything's nice and dry so

yeah I know that's right so Linds out

here putting on the last and final coat

of bottom paint I know I'll let you keep

going okay everything's looking good we

kept the whole dry and we'll get this

last coat on and then button up those

last few projects for tomorrow's big day

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or this machine right here drops us in

the water what do you think excited jeez

less than 24 we got a lot to do I better

get busy

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okay honey

now the milestone this is so satisfying

the last coat is on peel on the tape and

look at that turning out pretty good

isn't it I like it well you must like it

I can see teeth those teeth good it does

I am uh I'm happy with that it looks

great look at that

okay keep going on to the next project

we're gonna splash here and geez we're

gonna be in the water in about I don't

know 16 hours

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and that's how we do it what do you do a

touchdown dance

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well this is it

this machine right here it's gonna lift

us up in a half an hour they put new

plastic on all the straps so it doesn't

Mar up our new paint these guys really

really take care of you here in Port

Townsend impressive crew okay

boats come a long way when we started we

had a list and we thought it would be

six weeks of work well life got a little

crazy and it pushed on to a couple

months work but you know what we're done

everything that needed to happen in the

art here is done some of the work we had

to do were to shave out so many

through-hole fittings you know there was

some right through here down here I mean

they were all over just riddled through

and we've narrowed it down to just the

bare essentials we've changed

transducers we've painted the boat got

new Brightside food stripe and bottom

paint

this bridge deck was a mess just an

absolute mess

looking back to what it looked like well

there we go

laughs ready

it's happening quick

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we moved our engine exhaust

I've rebuilt this entire back of this

this had big hiccup rudder slots these

with cassettes in here and the whole

assembly used to just rotate up and out

we eliminated that there was damage

through here we got hit by a boat fixed

all that more through holes out here new

rough rails

boy the list is just amazing we got it

all done it's all coming down to right

now of course you know we're not done

working on this boat we use this fall

out to do everything that we needed to

do below below water and near water

we're gonna launch and jump right on

sales and ringing

new anchoring system

just a couple little odds and ends but

we wanted

Bobo here in about a week we can have

we're going to start traveling

enjoy the boat while we're finishing out

all the rest these projects we have all

the life and safety items done so it's

going to get exciting we're we're

anxious to start this journey and all

everything else that's left we can do

while we're traveling we're going to

build a hardtop this winter I want to do

a rigid boom stack pack

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and we're always going to be working on

this book so yes the adventure starting

but the projects will probably never end

sorry I just can't get it out of my

blood again

so they're fired up I gotta get ready

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