On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we finish up the hardtop template/framework and move it down to the workshop so we can start the core layup on ou...

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well here we are

sunny napa california boy the weather's

just been

amazing a little chilly at night but

just perfect weather to get projects

done during the day

we got a good jump on our hard top and

that's one of the major projects we want

to do while we're here on the hard

that's right sp basic is up on stands

once again

we started this structure this is just a

temporary structure to form

our new hardtop over and we put it up

for a couple of reasons

you know the main reason is so we could

get a visual of what it's going to look

like

get the right grades for watershed

to just get a feel for how big it's

going to be and

and where the down post locations need

to be you know we've sketched this out

a hundred times and this is the plan

that we're going with

our cockpit is basically a rectangle

and i wanted to get some radius work in

here but it's just

doesn't pencil out the hard top has to

be a rectangle to get the

side curtains to to work properly around

this cockpit

but we'll put some sexy curves in the

soffit and

soften some edges here and there i think

it's going to turn out amazing

another big reason we had to build this

structure up here first

was so i could get hard numbers

for all the down posts there's going to

be seven downposts that support this

and this way i could get the exact

angles and

lengths and get those to a fabricator

so we'll be doing those here in the next

day or two i'm almost done building this

what i need to do though is this this

this structure right now is real flimsy

it's just made with one by two and i did

that on purpose so i could get

everything to bend into the right

uh radius of the coach top and then

flatten out to where i need it and get

all the angles just right where i want

them but if i remove it now

it's just going to spring to flat so

what i need to do

is actually put some strong backs in

here and there's going to be strong

backs

all the way through this but if i put

those in now it's going to get too heavy

to remove this and safely

bring it off the boat so i'm going to

put as minimal as i can up here

and then finish the rest of the strong

backs on the ground

under the boat the important ones are

along the coach roof

i need to hold this radius that is that

is just imperative i have to

hold that radius so i'm going to put at

least the first two strong backs in

and then we'll get hard measurements for

all of our down posts

and then remove this structure it's

going to be exciting

once it's down below we'll be able to

start laying up

all the panels and it's really gonna

start taking shape

so let's get to work

okay here's my first strong back i'm

putting in i'm using just a

one by 1x6 but it gives me a good idea

of this radius that i need to be working

with

first thing i'm doing is marking out all

my locations after that i'll be able to

measure down

and take notations so i could get this

arch just

scribed right in there

now i can just measure down

and make notations for each side

of my supports

okay now that i have my marks what i

need to do is find the largest mark

which is right here 2 and 3 8.

i'm going to take that number and add it

to all these other marks because what

it'll do is give me the most

meat on this strong back to give me the

most strength

i'll be able to connect the dots coming

across here cut it

and bring it back up here and this will

just slide right in

and fit like a glove

well i've transferred all of my marks

onto the board now

everything lined up nicely gave me this

smooth

radius it's time to cut

well that went real smooth

let's get this upstairs see how close i

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got

so while teal handles the strong back

i'm gonna get started on dinner because

i am so excited this is going to add so

much more living space for us

i'm going to take full advantage and

just kind of get a grip and the feel for

for what it's going to be like to be

able to cook out here year round and

then tonight i think we're going to eat

outside and actually

put up some lights just to get a feel

for

um what it's going to look like here

we're going to

kind of line it up on the same uh

structural socket that he wants to build

and it's just going to be awesome i just

can't tell you how excited i am about

this

how does it look perfect

gotta get going on those ribs

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so

you guys let me sit down

are you enjoying this cockpit i'm

enjoying this cockpit

it's amazing is that amazing or is the

food amazing

after a long day this is not too bad i

love the lighting

put that down and get over here all

all right i'm gonna do it

well i just spent all morning building

these post templates the metal

fabricator

will be here in about a half an hour i

want to make sure these were all ready

for them

pretty simple each of these posts are

marked out on the deck

and there was two angles to deal with

the deck would have

one angle and the roof has another and

they're 90 degrees to each other

so i laid all these out should make easy

work for making these pose

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so big things are happening on board sp

basic

because teal is out there right now

talking to our

aluminum fabricator and hopefully he

will be able to

get this project ready for us um tl

spent all morning working up all the

uprights and getting all the templates

ready so

so that he can just take this to his

shop and get this going

in time for us to install it on our hard

top

so fingers crossed that it goes it comes

under budget and in a timely manner

feels good the post templates are off to

the fabricator

we've got our first few strong backs in

we've got a few more to put on

downstairs i don't want to get this

too heavy because i had to call on my

muscle already

to lift this out of here

go straight up and just come to your way

about a couple feet

so hits that okay set it back down

right there

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so lynn and i just spent the last few

hours filling in the majority of these

strong backs

we also started filling in where i need

to put clamps

but we had an unfortunate incident we

had two

left to cut long ribs 12 foot long rips

and i lost my friend 13 years was our

relationship

up in smoke today you miss my friend

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it is kind of sad but luckily

home depot right up the street lynn

bought me a new one i don't know

just won't be the same but at least

we'll get this project done

so we'll get these last two long rips in

and that'll complete all the strong

backs then it's a matter of just

laying out and filling in around some of

the cutouts

i also want to talk about what's under

this it's a pallet

that's the core material that's going on

this mold

and uh i want to get into that a little

bit but first

let's button this up

well here it is it's all done we

finished all

of the strong backs all the way around

we even added

clamping perimeter on here everywhere we

need to clamp down to retain this shape

as we're doing our layups

it stops here and the clamping actually

goes around the cutout

for the helm station and then back

around here

it's all complete and ready for the

panels

it's gonna be a lot of work but boy it's

gonna be cool

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so since we've been here we have been so

spoiled with the weather it's been nice

and in the 80s and 90s even 100

but that's changed because just

overnight we dropped 20 degrees from

yesterday so

it's gonna be about 65 degrees and the

possibility of rain in the next two days

one of the advantages of having a multi

hole is

being able to set up a shop underneath

our bridge deck and as you walk around

the marina you'll see

that all the multi holes have

disadvantage over the models i kind of

feel sorry for them

but this is not going to slow us down

we're going to be able to continue

working

even in the cooler temperatures and in

the rain

well it might slow me down but it won't

slow down the project

all right enough of that let's talk

about the core

product okay the core that we're gonna

use for this

is a honeycomb panel and we chose that

because our entire boat

is made with the same product and

there's many name brands for it

but what's interesting about it is the

weight

our boat in its entirety weighs dry

about 8 500 pounds

wet still under 10 000 pounds so we

wanted to use a product this can be

strong

and lightweight and this is the perfect

product for us plus we stay consistent

with the build of this boat

what it is it's a polypropylene plastic

honeycomb sheet

and they have various sizes and

thicknesses it has a 50 ml

barrier film to limit resin and water

intrusion

into the cells and thermal fuse

polyester scrim cloth

for 100 bonding surface it's lightweight

and it's pretty easy to work with now

we had to search for this yeah so you

know

when we were in seattle typically we

would get it from fiberless

and they carry canacore can of course

coming from obviously canada

and it's you know it's easy to get for

whatever reason

right now there's just a shortage there

they don't have any on hand and they

said it would be at least another month

maybe two before they can get any more

coming in

we don't have that time to wait so i did

some research we had somebody that

actually told us that

revcam which is actually based here in

california

they carry nidacore which is now renamed

carbon composite

they say that they typically carry it as

well they would have to ship it from

southern california

into their uh their their store here in

stockton california and then we would

have to will

call it so they actually the pricing was

pretty amazing because

canna core is about 142 dollars a panel

which is a four by eight sheet um the

knight decor

or the carbon composite from webcam they

were selling it for

64 and some change a panel but they

had um not four and a half or sorry

four by eight sheets they were four by

seven sheets what we really wanted was

closer to a four by eight

so i actually found carbon core which is

based in virginia

and they had four by seven and a half

on hand and they were able to ship it

out the same day that we placed the

order

they were a little bit more expensive it

was seventy dollars a panel

but still much cheaper than the can of

core that we were buying yes

and um it was kind of neat because i

placed the order at the end of the day

on friday and i got a call back

from um from them and they just wanted

to

uh number one confirm the order and two

they wanted to know what the application

was for

because they said that there's a lot of

people that do order this product

and have no idea what they're doing with

it and it would be

a wrong product right when you buy this

product you could buy it with this

scrim cloth on here which is made

directly for a resin and fiberglass

applications

you can also buy it pre-laid up with

fiberglass

so it's a smooth finish so or scored if

you want to do bendings with this uh

so he wanted to just follow up and make

sure we knew what we were talking about

and we were ordering the right product i

have a feeling that

a lot of people order these thinking

that they're a finished panel and

they're getting this

this scrim cloth on there yeah and i was

really pleasantly surprised because we

placed the order they shipped it up the

same day and we got it within a week

and when that truck showed up here we

were so excited

okay fedex came through what was your

name my name's tom i'm glad we could be

of service

okay great time you need us let us know

thank you thank you

all right guys

yeah i know and it was a heavy heavy

palette too

yeah well actually it's some kind of

concern

believe it or not when the palette

showed up it's 140 pound package

it's a 4x8 block and it

it looked looked heavy because they used

a pallet jack to get it off the truck

we drug it over under the boat and by

the time you take all the packaging off

all the product itself weighed was about

45 pounds these panels a four bite

sheets about

under 10 pounds and the four by seven

and a half were around nine pounds

so a very light light product we gotta

be careful when it gets windy

when we're laying this stuff up yeah

we'll be good

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