On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we have our first Q&A video about us and our plans with our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. We asked you to send u...

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hey guys welcome back to SB basic last

week we asked you to send in your

questions because we are going to be

doing our first Q&A and you guys sent in

great questions and we're gonna try our

best to answer as many as we can as you

notice though we are doing a little

packing up because we've decided to take

a little road trip that's right we are

gonna go see some family well it was a

little exciting and we're gonna do

something little different we're gonna

take this Q&A on the road

you guys ready we're ready this will be

fun so this question comes from one of

our patrons Steven K and he wanted to

know if we have a water maker on board

and the short answer is no not yet we

plan on putting a water maker in before

we leave the country hasn't been a

priority yet and to be honest with you

on our last cruising boat we had a water

maker and we used it occasionally

because water was so available yeah but

that's not to it but that's just in

Mexico there's gonna be plenty of other

areas that we know water's gonna be

harder to find so so definitely that is

in the future we will install it before

we leave the country and be honest we

don't know what water maker we're gonna

choose yet there's a lot of there's a

lot of factors into it there's gonna be

obviously price because there's so many

price ranges and you know also the

capacity and quality quality power

consumption and then the other thing is

is our usage do we need a huge water

maker

I don't think so but I know and these

are things that will dive into when we

get closer to that install and we'll

definitely bring you along when we do

that that's gonna be before we leave the

country so it's not too far in the

future so they're gonna be a fun project

for teal for sure

he's already allocated a locker space

just for his water maker so well it

needs to be in a space that's easy to

get to if your water maker is tucked

down inside a lazarette maintenance

becomes an issue and when you're not

doing maintenance your water maker is

not going to function properly so thing

is we have to figure out which one will

work because of parts and that's a huge

issue when you're going into other

countries if you have a part that's

missing on your water maker and you

can't get it that's gonna be an issue so

we're gonna factor all of that in and

we're not gonna I'm gonna throw this out

there because I know people are gonna

say it why not just build our own water

maker I'm not interested in building a

water maker I'm gonna go with a

name-brand somebody that has a good

reputation and there's quite a few to

choose from and we will definitely keep

you up the keep you in the loop and well

it's early it is early but let's get

going thank you for the question that

was a great question we'll see you in

the next spot

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okay another question from a patron this

is from Samuel and Sydney are you ready

for a multi-day passage given the right

wind conditions to head south you know I

think that's a question that has two

answers are we ready and is the boat

ready I would say we are always ready we

have no problem doing overnight passages

in fact on our last cruising boat Lynn

preferred the overnight passages you

know we did run into a couple hiccups on

an overnight passage recently but it

doesn't scare us that's just part of it

are we gonna be a little more careful

all for sure and that leads the answer

to the next question which is is the

boat ready

well the boat's ready but there are some

things we can do to make the boat safer

and more comfortable and we're gonna

bump those up the priority list and

start attacking a few of those

autopilot hardtop mainsail that's just

the three that comes to mind actually in

radar there's four those four items we

have moved up the priority list and

we'll be attacking those in the near

future we're gonna get going on some of

those and we're planning and plotting

right now so this is about ready yes

ready but we're gonna work towards

getting it safer and more comfortable

thanks for the question

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okay so here's another question this is

from Daniel M could you make more videos

like twice a week half an hour or once a

week an hour in his opinion you have the

best sailing channel on YouTube thank

you and please share more of your

adventure work so do you answer that or

do you want it I'm gonna say a hard pass

on that yeah making more video we're

putting in quite a bit of time between

videoing editing projects projects cool

traveling building a boat yeah it's our

plane is pretty full right now so I mean

literally for the time we get up until

the time you go to bed it is go go go

maybe we get up and we try to tell the

night actually trying to work with them

up for school and then you know we

figure out what projects we have to do

and then also trying to get the shots

weather is a big factor and just

planning our travels it's just it's it's

a lot of work and also try to stay in

touch with our friends patreon

subscribers and viewers anybody that's

watching we really try to engage as much

as we can and if we have to do longer

videos or more videos than once a week I

think that everything else will suffer

just of it but not to say that we won't

put out a bonus video here there will

try but that will probably down the road

when things slow down a bit the boats

mostly complete and we'll have a little

more time to relax I think it'd be fun

to try to sneak a video here and there

but for now once a week that's all we

can handle

thanks for the question

okay another question actually this one

we got quite a few here's how we take

care of compass and what's his exercise

plan would we do to keep him happy well

first of all this little guy has more

energy than all three of us you know he

has full run of the boat and he takes

advantage that we play with them every

day even though he doesn't leave the

boat sometimes for a week or two you got

to understand this guy's just over five

pounds

you do the math we're 30 times bigger

than he is

he's like playing in a 5,000 square foot

room so he takes full advantage and runs

all around we play with all of us but he

turds he's a handful he's totally a

hundred percent trained to go on his pee

pad and it's been working great he

learned that in about one day and it's

very rare the tea ever misses he does

pretty good so we're happy with that in

regards to his food

you guys saw that he's very specific

this guy does not like change very much

but one of those 14 pound bags will last

us about three and a half months yeah

and he doesn't eat anything else we

don't supplement it with any other food

that is the only food he eats and he

prefers it one time we dropped it you

drop you a piece of salami or something

yeah we we had a week it was crazy teal

dropped some cured meats and we noticed

that we later that it was missing it was

on the ground and come fast

not trying to even attempt to even go to

either looked at it so here he's uh he

likes to adhered in his strict diet and

it works for him and when it works for

him it works for us a happy dog is a

happy family for sure

so let's look back in the car

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annoyed Tila now Emma and I have been

singing Christmas music they're trying

to sneak in some some songs are there

it's not even Thanksgiving okay next

question Emma this one is for you

okay Bryan I wants to know if you caught

a crab big enough for dinner right that

was pretty cool it was good size and we

made crab dip one of their favorites

delivery's a heck of it that was the

sweetest crab I mean so good job

right here's a question for us

jah-el wants to know do we fight and who

has made the most compromises

I'd rather not John I'd rather not

answer that question because I don't

want to start something well you know

we've been married almost 21 years 20s

we fight sometimes but I don't think

it's anything really serious never

serious I mean we're solid we're gonna

we know we're in this for the long haul

nobody's going anywhere but yeah we've

we do marry fair almost 21 years of

course we're gonna bicker but some

weakest issues that we have is sometimes

I feel like Neil is so focused on his

project that he doesn't listen to me and

he feels like I'm not listening to him

but we do and it all smooths over yeah

we actually do enjoy hanging out with

each other sometimes

so the answer is yes we do fight no

they're not serious and yes we do

compromise both of us too I mean that's

the only way to that's what a marriage

is about you have to compromise both

place obviously but it's a little bit

harder because when you're on a boat

everything is magnified by a hundred I

say take corners you don't have that

personal space although the last boat

that we had was smaller than this one

and we honestly did not fight it was

seven years that we were on that boat

three and a half of it cruising because

we had a rule and when you have ground

rules on a boat for personal space you

don't fight

you should whatever it takes honey

whatever it takes so there's your answer

this next question comes from Brian J

have you been surprised by the many

obstacles or is it really just a good SP

basic shakedown to test the crews result

I guess the obstacles are some of the

breakdowns and you know we knew we were

going to have a few potential issues our

main let's face it our boat is 26 years

old brand-new we probably have some

issues even if it is a brand new boat

there's no guarantee that anything that

you install or is already on the boat is

it going to have issues so having this

shakedown actually was a good thing

because it allowed us to and it made us

look into the areas that and you know we

did it and that's a big reason why we

didn't just leave Seattle and go hang a

left we wanted to shake the boat down a

little up in the San Juans and into

Canada spent some time up there because

if we're gonna develop problems we want

to be in a place where we could fix them

and you know what it was a good thing

that we had a few issues it let me gain

some respect for the boat

some more knowledge on the boat not to

say it wasn't frustrating of course I

mean we had our we had the key we prop

we had the water pump we had what are

the little issues oh the jib track I

mean there was some things and you know

what life happens we fixed it and we're

moving on so great question and you know

what I'm sure there's gonna be other

little things that'll break down in the

future okay with it we are not a big

deal everything is fixable that's right

thanks for the question

okay so this one is a question for Emma

and it says what great this is from Ron

see what grade is Emma in and what is

she studying in her schoolwork well I'm

in sixth grade and I'm doing calvert

online I have two learning guides my dad

does math and science and my mom does

social studies and English language arts

and you have a real teacher too yeah one

that I submit my work to and her teacher

will submit work daily and we have live

conferences with her teacher and they go

over everything with us look for any

issues and great all her papers but she

is a star student so far but we're all

going to school yes

believe me we it's like learning math

and science and English language our

social studies all over again so I think

it's been a great family experience yeah

and and we the reason why we split these

is science and math is teal strongpoints

and social studies and language arts is

mine so it just works out for the both

of us so we don't go crazy yeah and Emma

doesn't she can't pick one teacher I

guess the other because they're her

parents but overall she's enjoying it

we're enjoying it and it gives us some

some time together and you know what

even though we're on a little road trip

right now that does not mean that school

stops we were up early this morning

doing her lessons at a couple units here

before we hit the road again so overall

how do you like school it's pretty cool

she's a music kid we're lucky alright

it's getting wet when I go inside okay

let's get going guys so this questions

for teal how often do you run a single

engine while motoring at what rpm speed

and what's your feel burned right this

is from Steve W

okay to answer your question we have to

yanmar 30 horsepower the 3ym 30s and

they're not big engines but they are

pretty efficient we run them at about

2,200 to 2,300 rpms and they'll burn

point six gallons per hour at that rpm

we when we're traveling we usually run

one engine at a time and that puts us

around on flat seas five and a half

knots maybe six

if we run both engines you could double

that burn rate and we're only gonna gain

about a knot and a half a speed so for

economy reasons we run one engine most

of the time thanks for the question

okay this next question came from Robert

T he wants to know are we happy with our

solar and do we have plans to go to

lithium batteries

well first yes we are very happy with

the solar we've been running on solar

now for about two and a half months and

you know what even though we've been

plugged into a dock here and there we

have yet to turn on a battery charger we

only plug in to run maybe additional

heating so we don't we do not have to

run our diesel heaters while we're on a

dock so Soler's been working great as

far as a plans for the lithium's you

know what we have a bank of trojan t105

now we have six batteries and it's a

total of six hundred seventy-five amp

hours of batteries and we have yet to

run those under 70% capacity so I would

say our solar is keeping up the trojan

t105 s are working well so no plans to

replace those with lithium yet i do

really like the idea of saving weight

but we will wait for these Trojans

lifespan to you know get a little closer

to the end before we make that decision

I'm sure we will go to lithium one day

but we're probably honestly two to three

years from making that jump thanks the

question

come on reach around this thing it was

the tree house yep this next question

comes from Kelly s she wants to know how

we came about the book name and for the

first off it is the phonetic spelling of

the word basic yes okay it's actually an

interesting story you know when we we

knew we wanted to come up with a name

for our boat that was easy easy to say

so it'd be easy on the radio and it

would be just fit our family

so what we were doing every single day

everybody had to just come up with yeah

this was a group effort because we

wanted everyone's voices to be heard so

everybody has to pull in their ideas

with names a day and at dinnertime we

have dinner every night together

we each had to put down the five names

that we talked about it as a family and

you know we came up with these creative

long complicated names every time we'd

be like no a more simple name we need it

we need a name that's easier to say

something more basic and then you know

this went on for a good week or two and

we kept saying no more basic more basic

more basic clean simple basic and then

at the end of a couple weeks Emma looks

at SSS

how about basic and it just clicked so

that's how we came up with a name for

our boat good job am Thanks

and you notice we got new hats and it's

available on our Burch store so there's

the white version and the black version

with our logo which Emma also designed

so yep this logo is all Emma she

designed it and so do you guys know

anybody that wants something for

Christmas this is a great thing to have

I love the white one personally feel

like the black one you know we're gonna

change it up to

there you go

okay so this next question is something

that has been asked numerous times on

most of our videos and that is how do we

afford my style and refit the short

answer is we saved

we worked hard at multiple jobs both

Lynn and I over the last decade or even

longer and you know there was a lot of

sacrifices we didn't buy brand new cars

we we didn't go on lavish vacations and

we just save and that's how we did it

well there's there's more than just

saving maybe we really did after we

decided on our first boat that this is

what we wanted to do it really changed

our lifestyle

and how we go about living and how what

our priorities are versus everything

else and we just adjusted and that

helped you know sometimes it was hard

yeah it was hard sometimes we sent a

goal that we stuck to it yeah you know

looking back now they don't regret it I

don't regret luxuries because we had

this lifestyle and it suits us it's

something that we really feel passionate

about and I know here we are doing all

this hard work is starting to pay off so

that's our secret is that we just saved

and we changed our lifestyle

it was worth it

this question is for teal this is from

ten Alexa ten teal where's your

ancestors from

well that's a good question and it's a

question that's usually directed towards

Lin everybody wants to know and well Lin

is Vietnamese as far as I go you know

there was a bit of confusion in my

family tree and so I actually went and

had one of those DNA testing done with

ancestry.com and I was not shocked

I am predominantly Norwegian so that

means that I am half an amis and half

Norwegian and it's gettin avian and

Yugoslavian and all those other things

too but it just means I'm American

that's pretty cool

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JW RPP u H and 71 asks are you going to

put cushions on your helm seat I'm gonna

answer that one yes we are definitely

gonna be putting cushions on the helm

seat but we're also gonna be doing it on

a lot of other areas too so I'm actually

saving up for more sewing projects so I

can do a few items at the same time so

it just optimizes when I have the sewing

machine out so we are definitely putting

cushions on our helm seat because nobody

likes a hard helm seat right right it's

not so bad

so Till's in the bathroom right now so I

thought I'd surprise him with another

question as he's coming out

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so I have a question yes it's from

Gerard and he wants to know what is the

material that you're using for your

backer place that is starboard lumber or

king starboard lumber you can get it at

most marine supply stores it's wonderful

to work with it works with all

woodworking tools it's indestructible

can never rot it's a little heavy but it

is a wonderful product

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this next question is from Ken s do you

have any plans or thoughts about a

hardtop over your health and the answer

is yes of course we do we talked about

it a little bit well a lot on episode

twenty twenty seven twenty seven if you

want to look back at that our plans have

changed not that much but we're gonna

hold that basic design and after

cruising in the Pacific Northwest during

the rainy season it is a must and we

know that and we've always had plans to

put a hardtop and full enclosure option

on there

so it will happen we're just looking for

that right window of weather and a good

location to build that it's gonna gonna

be a big project it's probably gonna

take us oh oh you'll see us building

that over a few episodes I'm sure yeah

the other thing that I'm sure you guys

know it's steel over plants and over

drawers and over things which is a good

thing but there's a lot of factors into

building this hardtop as well so it's

not just building a hardtop and just

slapping it on and calling it a date we

want it to go with the lines of the boat

and then there's other things such as

you know how much lighting are we gonna

build into it who's gonna be sound

system in if there's gonna be electronic

yeah trying to wires that's going from

our davits going into our heart top back

into the cabin as wire chases

yes and that's what we've been holding

off on quite a bit of electronics

until the hardtop is complete because

it's gonna be a much shorter run for the

electronics or for the electrical chase

that if we run it through the hardtop

the other thing too is the weight issue

so we really want to be careful of what

materials we're using I mean I know

we're gonna use nine of core but we have

to factor that which means that I have

to find other things to unload because

we don't want to be heavy on the back

end yeah we're definitely gonna wait

it's gonna be a weight sensitive project

we're gonna keep it as light as we can

and as strong as we can so it's gonna be

a fun one to build for sure

I want it strong enough that we could

walk on it we're gonna incorporate more

solar into this we're gonna put another

500 watts of solar onto it

we're also going to incorporate a hot

water solar assist water system that's

gonna be and these will all be done in

stages after the hard tops done but

they're all in the big picture so it's

gonna be a fun project and thanks for

the question it's coming this next

question is from Jason see how long and

how many hours does it take for you guys

to edit and put out a video well

that's kind of a complicated question

because

every week is a little different but if

I was to put an average on it I would

say filming we're probably doing having

cameras run quite a bit we're probably

running cameras ten to fifteen hours a

week on various things then when it

comes to editing and rendering and

putting out the video we can easily add

another 25 to 30 hours so I'd say on

average 35 to 50 hours but the other

thing is yeah there's some hidden things

in here that I'm putting in there's cuz

when we're doing a project you know

instead of me taking two hours through a

project if I'm filming it that may take

me four hours or five hours so it's

adding time to our days every day yeah

so for the most part it seems like it's

about 20 to 40 hours but then you tag on

another I take 15 hours especially if

you're talking once we all once we put

the video together and uploading it and

finding Internet and all these hidden

little things that you enjoy sometimes

you know whether does it permit us to

film you know if we're out the wind

there's obscene sometimes that sound

or we have to retake a shot because it

just didn't work the camera was at the

wrong angle so or I've dropped the

camera a few times batteries good how

many just it's you know what it's a lot

of work but it's also a lot of fun it is

we enjoy it sometimes most of the time

sometimes it's it's it's frustrating if

you just can't get it together and you

know the other thing is putting it

together a story most of the time our

videos work around a project but we also

try to incorporate a little bit of our

lives as well so that's the other thing

is finding that bind line that you know

it's something that you guys will enjoy

and something that we're proud of and so

yeah that's another point I guess

because it you know I we can sit around

and talk about what next week's video is

gonna be about and that can be another

two to six hours of just planning for

videos down the road so yeah it is a

complicated question but multi-tiered

question so there's your nice Pacific

answer right there it takes a long time

this next question comes from Richard

359 you never showed the installation of

your a is how was it performing and how

do you like it well we were in Neah Bay

and we decided to install the AAS there

I thought I had all the equipment and

bits and pieces I needed but

unfortunately I didn't have a NEMA

backbone that made the Vesper XP 8000

communicate with that Raymarine axiom 12

so we had Fisheries send us one

overnight and along with a few drop

cables once everything plugged in power

was applied and Tenace were plugged in

everything fired right up and it worked

perfect you know it's a handy device to

have a is I recommend it for anyone

who's out on the water not only for

other boats to see you but for you to

see them it gives you peace of mind it

is a incredible piece of safety

equipment and I'm happy with this so far

we are now at our destination so road

trip for a little bit is over but we

wanted to end it with one last question

and this is coming from our patron

Walter F he wanted to know what our

long-term goals are or our long-term

plans are well you know we've just

started this journey and so it's it's

hard to say where we'll be five or eight

or ten years from now but we have short

term plans yeah I mean this is an

open-ended trip for us for sure so we

could predict maybe not even predict

accurately but generally you know we

want to head south into the Sea of

Cortez spend a season at least a season

up in the Sea of Cortez and then sail

down the Mexican mainland down to the

Central America and then make a decision

at that point do we go to the South

Pacific do we go through the Panama

Canal

I know where my choices yeah we're all

we're all leaning to go to South Pacific

right now and we're going to make a

decision at that point and you guys know

when we first started out

things happen and yeah change your plans

change a little bit

it postpone it and it doesn't mean that

we're going to stop it just means that

we're just kind of veering off on

another detour and we're exploring so

that's the main goal is just to explore

and see as much of this world as we

possibly can and enjoy it and I think

long-term our goal is not to necessarily

circumnavigate the world but to see the

world you never know we may do it so

we're gonna do this as long as we're

having fun and we're all healthy and

happy and loved you guys are watching we

will keep producing these videos for you

guys to share with so thanks for bearing

with our Q&A session actually was kind

of fun to do it's fun to answer some

questions and maybe we'll do another one

of these in the future now it's time to

spend some time with family let's go

have some fun thanks guys bye

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