On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle , we announce the winners of our contest of how many gallons of West System Epoxy we have used to refit our custo...

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welcome back to SB basic boy we have had

a really busy morning already I got up

and took the bus into town to run some

errands while I was gone M&T all got

caught up on some schoolwork you know we

can't stress this enough

it's the mothers not been nice it hasn't

been cooperating with us but we're just

kind of going with the flow and just

trying to appreciate every day that has

been given to us and I cannot stress

enough what has made this trip so far so

special and that's the people that we

have met along the way I mean you can be

a miserable climate raining storming and

when you get a smile or some

friendliness or the helpfulness of all

the locals that we have encountered it

just makes it extra special and you guys

remember last week I made that fish

chowder we got some fresh lingcod from

one of our subscribers who runs a local

charter a fishing charter well and we

got to spend some time with their kids

yesterday and she had a blast so we are

so thankful for that and then after I

get back not ten minutes later I get a

knock on the boat and there's red again

and he brings something extra special

it's crabbing season so he brought us a

little bag of goodies that was fresh

caught this morning Dungeness crab

people

we have Dungeness crab so I'm going to

be busy this afternoon taking care of

this while tiel is knee-deep in more

projects outside so stick with us and

we'll show you what we're up to

okay well Lin dives into her project let

me show you what mine is gonna be for

today okay my project is actually a

piece of safety equipment and it's

something we had on SP basic before and

we took it off when we hauled out in

Port Townsend I think it's pretty

important too it's boarding ladders you

know when we hauled the boat back and

boy seems forever ago back in Port

Townsend we had to rebuild the sugar

scoops and in order to do that I had to

remove this boarding ladders it's time

to put those back on I think about it

all the time you know if somebody falls

overboard it's tough to get back on

board it's not impossible you know we do

have safety procedures that we've laid

out we have a life sling you know easy

way to get somebody on board is we just

drop the dinghy takes about five seconds

to deploy the dinghy without the motor

and somebody can get into the dinghy

pretty easy but it's nice to have a

boarding ladder so I'm gonna get that

back on this morning it's good project

for today you know it's a little windy

out here not too bad

sun's out for a few minutes supposed to

start raining by tonight and blowing 25

again but you know what this is a good

project I like the peace of mind having

that boarding ladder put back on so I'm

gonna dive into that get that installed

this morning when I originally built the

sugar Scoob here

I put nice radius stares with exception

of this bottom step

I left a nice flat spot there just to

accept a boarding ladder but when we re

skinned our where the cassette used to

be the holes were covered up so I'll

have to go inside and locate the

original holes and drill reverse through

there that way we get this boarding

ladder in the right position

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now with the holes located I'll be able

to bore them to the right diameter

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as I always do I have my backer plate

and my risers all built from starter

lumber nice beat Pete backer plate give

some support to this boarding ladder

there's a lot of torque when you're

folding this down and I wanted to make

sure it was supported properly I've

noticed already a little bit of

corrosion on this it is all stainless

this is a win line boarding ladder but I

wanna get this polished up first before

we put it in it'd be much easier to

polish it while it's out so I'll give it

a nice scrub in with my never dull this

stuff works pretty good I've had this

for 10 years just tear off a piece and

just start polishing

wipes it down lubricates it and just

seems to wipe that a little bit of

corrosion right office deles

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how about there have the hardware

inserted get a nice wrap of butyl around

each one of these

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and that should do it that'll never leak

I've been using life safe butyl tape and

I can't complain this stuff's been

bulletproof so far I'll continue to use

it I have my backer plate all the

hardware I need down here my tools

I'll go underneath Glenn's gonna help me

out for a minute

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he's not giving me much

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extra line we always to a lanyard way

into anything over the water just in

case that chance that I slip and drop

something in the water

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you're rich

okay the closest to me on the inside

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well the too bad everything lined right

up just like it's supposed to

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I'll see where this sins

deploys nicely we'll leave it in that

position if anybody ever he goes in the

water wants to go swimming they pull it

down retracts right into the water give

you two steps in the water and abundant

slip step

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okay it feels real good to get that

boarding ladder in just a little peace

of mind one more piece of safety

equipment can never have too much okay

Lin's been cooking away for a couple

hours now I'm sure we're gonna have a

feast tonight

why it's not too bad

okay emma has been such a trooper with

her schoolwork been since we've been

back she's just been hunkering down and

getting all caught up so it's a day it's

an it's an Emma day we're gonna go take

off and let her have some fun so West

ports a little quiet in the winter a

little quiet in the winter Emma has an

idea where she wants to go don't you

where do you want to go she wants to go

to the Star Wars store in Aberdeen

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the Star Wars store was awesome and I

got the coolest thing

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well the weather's turning on me once

again so we're back inside and Emma just

asked me to do a little project and I

thought I'd share with you these lights

she has one that's starting to flicker

and the bulb names for your place but it

got me thinking I want to talk a minute

about these things originally when we

put all these lights in it was three to

five years ago right in that range and

we bought these puck lights they're 1/10

puck light well they're a 12 volt light

with a 110 transformer intended to be

wired in 110 we removed the 110 and just

wired them all in 12 volt then we took

the halogen bulbs out and put in LED

replacement bulbs we went online on

Amazon and found hundred pack of G for

1.5 warm lights for around $50 that's 50

sensible if you buy them 10 at a time

you're gonna pay around a dollar 50 a

bulb they worked out pretty well so far

these lights are anywhere from three to

five years old depending on what fixture

and some of them are starting to flicker

and we had one just start to go out the

other day and that's what I'm gonna work

on okay the manufacturer says that these

bulbs should last around 20,000 hours

but we're not seeing near that at all

we're seeing two to three thousand hours

out of them but that's okay we paid 50

cents a bulb as compared to buying them

at the marine store for fifteen to

twenty dollars a bulb I could replace

these every few years not a problem

especially when we have 47 fixtures on

board here so we're buying them a

hundred at a time in fact here's our

first hundred pack right here I've got

close to half of them left still

this is our local fret starting to

flicker so we'll get that replaced next

in fact I'm gonna have a replace it

Oh on its last leg

what I like about these bulbs is that

they don't break they're encased in

silicone that helps

that was easy I'm gonna go see if

there's any more that they need to

replace we got a busy night tonight all

week

teal and I have been sorting and

organizing all of our receipts which is

kind of scary and trying to figure out

how many gallons are present we have

used throughout this refit and tonight

is the night that we are going to be

tabulating and adding that all up so in

anticipation for that I decided to make

or pre make crab mac and cheese using

that fresh Dungeness crab that we got

earlier and I decided to sweeten it up a

little bit by making something extra

special for teal and I while we add this

up cuz I think we need a little bit a

little extra I'm gonna be making

homemade amaretto it's something that I

always make during the follow winter

time for whatever reason that's the only

time I make it and I think that that

will be great to have why we are adding

up all our receipts oh yeah because

liquor always makes our accounting more

accurate exactly so I'm gonna show you

now how simple and easy it is and so I'm

going to show you how simple and easy it

is seriously this is so easy all you

need is water sugar brown sugar vanilla

extract almond extract and vodka that is

it so the hardest part of all this is

just making the simple syrup so you do 1

cup of water one cup of sugar and half a

cup of brown sugar at this point all I'm

doing is just dissolving the sugar into

the water and that will be my amaretto

simple syrup wands is dissolved then I

just turn it off and let it cool off

this is gonna be my second batch I

already made one earlier today and

that's all ready to go

now that the simple syrup has cooled I'm

going to make the vodka mixture and that

is two cups of vodka of your choice two

tablespoons of almond extract oops

two teaspoons of good vanilla extract

you mix this first before you put in the

simple syrup and then you pour in the

entire amount of simple syrup which is

one cup that will make three cups of

emerado and that's it that's how I make

my amaretto at this point I am going to

just use the old vodka bottle and pour

that back into it start to finish is

under 30 minutes and that includes full

time so you can actually if you have

better bottles you can make this a great

Christmas gift so I'm gonna get started

on dinner because we got a big night

ahead of us

so now for the contest results I have to

say this was a lot more fun than I

thought we got so many guesses that came

in to us I think it was over a thousand

guesses Wow be tuned in it reached and

and the thing that was fun was reading

all of the guesses it was so funny you

guys went there was a range of two

gallons to 1,600 gallons 1,600 gallons

actually weighs more than this entire

boat yeah sorry

no but there was a lot of them that were

really close yeah and you know we went

through receipts well about 2000

receipts we've kept every receipt and

it's kind of interesting revisiting

these because we really haven't put a

total to that number before well you

know okay so it's nice that we keep all

the receipts of course we're gonna keep

all of our receipts but we never

anticipated adding that up or looking at

you're looking at how much epoxy or how

much is depressing it's because we we

planned every project and we budgeted

every project by project so it wasn't

like we just said okay we're going to

buy you know a 50 gallon drum of epoxy

exactly that's why we bought it one at a

time over the course of 10 years and I

was able to plot that out and actually I

took the time to figure out how many per

year and from what suppliers so it was

kind of interesting to to revisit this

guy I know so one day we will go through

this big ol box of receipts and

tabulates

a few more little items it was right I

enjoyed it it was fun but there was a

lot more thinking Oracle I know silica

in there that then I thought but you

know teals low for a thickened epoxy

that's right so not only did we get the

number for the resin we got the number

for the hardener and the number for the

clio silica

so first let's

one announce the winner yes Emma drum

roll please

then I'll announce the number we're

going to announce our patron winner

first okay break it and it's important

to say we had one patron and one

subscriber but got the exact number

which is crazy because there was a lot

that was really close really close and

these were the only two that guessed the

exact number and the patron winner is

Louise auger so Louise we have your

address already so we are going to send

these out yes they should be in next

week and we'll put together little

package and get that out to you guys so

congratulations Louise thank you so much

for being a great patron you always

comment on all of our video so we

appreciate you and wanted to say thank

you okay now for the subscriber that

guest on the video itself

we had one only one person guest the

exact amount but we had probably 50 to

guest within five within a leader yeah

alright gallon or half yeah I'm really

close so the winner is Frank doll the

second you nailed it exactly and here's

the numbers the epoxy number fifty-four

gallons I added up the hardener as well

just to curious how close it was and

what do you know fifty four cores the

colloidal silica we went through 59 of

these in the first ten years of the

refit I'm sure I'm gonna have dozens

more to go yeah you're building the hard

top yeah we've got quite a few projects

to go but it was interesting looking at

these numbers and seeing where we stood

but thank you to everybody that

participated we had so much fun I hope

you enjoyed the contest well we'll throw

another contest your way soon oh and

Frank if you can send

email with your address then we will

send yours out as well thank you so

congratulations

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