On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, we leave Port Townsend and head to a new anchorage. We button up a few more projects and settle into life on the...

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well good morning welcome back to SB

basic last week we left the dock we've

been on the hook now for four days and

it's good it's a good feeling we

finished up our solar project and even

on an overcast day like this we're

putting out 15 20 amps of power on a

good sunny day we've been putting out 25

to 30 amps of power and that's just on

this 500 watt solar array I could not be

happier we're making much more power

than we're using right now but while

we're on the hook we're still getting a

couple projects done my next one is

right here we're gonna be adding the

Raymarine axiom 12-inch chart putter you

remember when we're on the hard I added

the transducer for that it was a real

vision sonar transducer this will be

nice to get this hooked up along with

the sonar before we leave it's a good

project and I'm gonna tackle it today

let's get to work

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all I could smell is lunch right now

what do we got going in here what kind

of salad very good Asian salad

are you done I'm not done but I'm ready

for a wife gotta get here all of it what

can I say she's a growing kid

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okay go ahead and insert it dude no no

put it in try not to scratch anything on

the way in can you get it in there okay

I'll put the retainer bolts on the

backside here in a second

I worked out pretty slick actually I put

this access port in to reach the top of

the Capilano and it's perfect for

getting to the backside of our new chart

Potter

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okay the next thing I had to do was run

the lead from our new transducer up and

tap into this Idol why chase running

under the stairs here so we tapped into

it here it goes under the stairs behind

the washer/dryer up to here out here and

it actually goes under the galley it

runs underneath all the cabinetry but in

order for me to gain access I had to gut

every cupboard out I don't think I made

many friends today it came under here up

into here look at this shredded the

cockpit goes in here and up there once

it goes up there

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it comes up through this and look at

this I just made it with a foot and a

half to spare what do you think but we

have a transducer okay all the

connections to our new chartplotter have

been made let's go outside and fire it

up see if it works

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that's a good time

okay I'm happy of that but no time to

play with this right now because we have

too much to do it's a beautiful day but

look at this all new projects and this

is a major one this one we've been

putting off I'll admit it because we've

had so many other things to do but we're

forced to do this now this is going to

be Dec Hardware rigging and sails

Lynne's going through right now sorting

out just boxes of hardware we've taken

off cleaning it up and we're figuring

out what we could get salvage what we

could save what we could reuse but a lot

of this is being replaced so we'll be

going through that today we have a new

deck plan okay I'm gonna break this

project into three different phases the

first phase is going to handle the jib

jib track the jib halyard spinnaker

halyard all led back to this winch here

phase two will be a second winch with

the main halyard topping lift and a new

rigid stack pack for our boom and new

mainsail phase three will be a new Genoa

Genoa tracks and two winches aft to

control that it's a big project so we're

going to tackle one at a time phase one

that's what we're doing right now with a

new jib new jib track and all the

hardware associated with that and we

just got to start laying all this out we

have a lot to do let's get to work

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so the conditions that the Anchorage

here have been just I mean almost

perfect for us we're facing north most

the time and that's the direction of the

wind

but tomorrow night it changes we're

gonna have 15 to 20 out of the South so

this will be a leash or it's a good

chance for us to get out of here so

we'll probably take off tomorrow morning

head up to Lopez Island be nice to check

out a new Anchorage and get a couple of

projects done while we're there we'll

leave tomorrow morning it's kind of an

overcast day but I think we'll head into

town first do a little shopping run some

errands and Port Townsend has their big

wooden Boat Festival so that'd be fun to

do

so we'll check that out

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Port Townsend was having their annual

wooden boat festival

so it was nice to spend our last day

here and be able to experience those

wonderful events all of the Anchorage's

are on port count and were crowded with

boats that had come in for this event

from all around the area

we had fun browsing through all the

local shops and vendors I got a new

bracelet and some new glasses they're

really cool

the Wooden Boat Festival was huge with

hundreds of boats good food and lots of

people it was really cool walking around

and looking at all the boats and talking

to all the owners about their history

you can really tell that they love their

boats we had a great day and it was nice

spending you with the friendly people in

this town goodbye Port Townsend we've

all always remember you

okay I'm out on the foredeck right now

it's Indian island in the background and

it's just lighten up with lightning

they're storms brewing south of us and

that's how we're getting out of this

Anchorage for tomorrow soon as day

breaks we're heading out of here they're

not calling for big winds tonight but

rain and thunderstorms are a potential I

could see them brewing south of us so

that's how we're gonna start moving

we'll get up to a nice Anchorage that

has a southern protection this one is a

great northern protection Anchorage but

out of the south I don't trust it it's

kind of eerie anyway

Wow it's getting closer

you know we don't usually have this kind

of storms in Washington but there's a

lot of energy in this system that's

coming by it's a good time to leave just

made some coffee and teal is building

our route because we are heading out

this morning kind of excited it was a

huge thunderstorm yesterday so

everything is wet there you go oh thank

you okay looks like he needs you run 29

nautical miles

looks like we have perfect conditions

the wind is gonna be on our tail I have

my coffee and let's get that anchor

pulled up

pretty lucky bottom huh

feels good to be underway again look at

this

it's Fort Worden right here and point

Wilson here we're gonna be into about a

four and a half knot current for about a

mile

so our speeds gonna slow down over

ground once we get through it they'll be

riding with it currents are a pretty

extreme coming around the point here no

worries it's just nice and flat out here

winds I'm gonna be on our back here soon

cross current here hitting us about five

knots on our port beam so we're slipping

hard but we're plowing through it

okay we're on the approach of the San

Juan channel here this is actually San

Juan Island here Shaw island straight

ahead Lopez Island here and Long Island

is right here we're running with the

current now we're doing about eight

eight and a half knots we're still not

pushing the the engines much

I'm still running them lower rpms then

they're designed I know I'm kicking them

up a little bit more each trip as I

build confidence so we're just cook

along at a nice decent 2200 rpms

probably kick it up to 25 on the next

little trip here

got a missed seaplanes there's one now

probably came out at Lake Union we did

have an issue though with our starboard

engine on the way up here it was we were

getting a little a little bit of steam

actually quite a bit of steam out of the

exhaust and I did out in the middle of

the Strait of Juan de Fuca we shut the

engine down and tried to diagnose it

jumped on some forums couldn't find any

answers what I ended up doing was I

found that the seawater strainer was

only half full had air in it

so I rebleed the cooling system the the

seawater intake as soon as I filled that

up fired it right up steam instantly

went away

so it's good to know it wasn't an issue

of cooling the engine the engines was

fine I was I was taking readings on both

engines and they were both of the same

temperature but it was in my wet exhaust

system I wasn't cooling the exhaust

system enough so it was vaporizing that

seawater as I was going through as soon

as I figured it out problem went away I

feel real good about that anyway we're

cooking in here had a nice clip gonna

head up here to an anchorage probably

about less than an hour from now things

are going pretty smooth though now so

we're just entering

fisherman's Bay and it was kind of hairy

because at high tide it was only at the

shallowest end it was nine feet below us

so kind of intimidating coming into an

area that you haven't been before and

not knowing if there was submerged rocks

or anything but we did it and it's

gorgeous

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well here we are tucked into fisherman's

Bay it's a great little Anchorage it's

kind of filled with mooring balls and

anchored boats the entrance is narrow

little tricky to get into

but if you follow the guidebooks and the

charts brings you right in here opens up

to this beautiful Bay there's gotta be I

don't know

70 boats in here right now just

beautiful day we'll be here a couple

days try to get a couple projects done

before we head to the the next Anchorage

but this looks like a fun little place

to explore so that's what we'll do

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look this village it's really cute we

saw a rabbit we saw a bunch of cute

shops I could have stand there forever

we gotta go back to the booth because

today's my first day of school

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thanks for watching this week's episode

of of our lifestyle now that we're on

the move our highest priority is getting

our sails and rigging back in shape

because I want to sail I don't know

about you guys I want we're not a

powerboat anyways guys please come back

next week to see one of our cool new

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