On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we layout the honeycomb panels for the hardtop on our 435 catamaran SV basik. Linh has a bit of fun with "thicken...

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hey guys

welcome back to sv basic last week i

just have to say

was amazing it was the best feeling to

build

the template and bring it down below

because this week we're going to start

doing

our layup with the panels and fiberglass

all sorts of fun things we have a

temporary up here because it's still

really sunny and we need just some sun

coverage

if we're out here in the cockpit it's

kind of funny here

in napa it is so cold at night last

night was 31 degrees but it warms up

really nicely

throughout the day so it's perfect

working conditions for us

i am not complaining teal is down there

right now

trying to figure out the layup and i

will be meeting him

down there to help later on but just

hanging out here and just thinking about

how ugly and hideous actually i want to

choose one word it was

our old hardtop was hideous

it was heavy it had no lines to it

i just can't believe it's been two years

since we removed it

finally after eight years

the hard top goes away

okay so taking this down

my dad has been outside almost all day

this is crazy total of

roughly 555 pounds

of weight that's a lot in the back end

so i'm sure that what we come up with

and design

that will go with the flow of the boat

will be

much lighter

let's get in there

so we're getting to the tail end of the

cut-offs

okay top is off and

it is looking clean

i don't miss it so we got a lot to do

this week i know that my role will be

pretty important because

i'm going to be teal's mixer girl again

and i know in the past you guys have uh

probably made a game out of this maybe a

drinking game i don't know

but teal says thicken epoxy a lot

so when you hear that take a shot i

don't know

or maybe not it might be really bad for

yourself

well there it is the basic shape of our

hard top

i spent the good part of yesterday

laying out these panels

and cutting them to size it was so easy

now that i have this

template it gives me a nice work surface

to work on

it's just a matter of laying the panels

out marking the back side

flipping the panel and cutting them to

shape this stuff actually cuts

real easy all i would use is a sharp

razor

and a straight edge i would mark it out

flip the panel and clamp the straight

edge right on my mark

the first pass i would just lightly

score that scrim surface

and by doing that your second pass

doesn't want to wander

and a second pass i'll plunge about

halfway through the panel

then i'll remove my straight edge and

the third pass i'll finish the cut

you know i just worked my way panel by

panel through this

and filled it all in i've really paid

attention to

a panel layout i staggered my

joints as much as i could and hiding

joints behind

structural elements of this hard top

there is a big soffit

lights off it goes underneath and i

wanted to

put some seams right in those areas

because i could add extra

cloth in those areas to really tie those

seams together

you know when you're connecting these

honeycomb panels together

when you're end joining them

if it was a finished panel well like

this right here

here's one honeycomb panel that has

hard glass on each side if i'm

connecting two of these panels

i'll actually dish out the core and

insert a hard spline in here

and connect two panels that way and

epoxy them together and then

i can layer more glass over that to

cover the seam

but with just a raw panel with a scrim

surface

if i dish out that honeycomb all this

leaving is that scrim surface it really

doesn't add any structural element at

all

to but joining these

so i do need to make sure that they are

in the same plane though

so i'm going to spend today making sure

that these are tacked together i'll use

thickened epoxy for that

thick and epoxy

we'll align these panels and get them

all in the exact plane so when you start

laying glass cloth

we don't have any uneven surfaces by

laminating

layers on here that's where the strength

is going to come

it's going to be a busy couple days and

i'm going to need a lens help

for mixing today and helping me align

these panels

so we'll get her down here

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got my epoxy station all ready for teal

and i have to say

this is one scene i really

want to go away so hopefully this is the

last big project

for us go away what are you talking

about

i hate this this is the best part about

it

this is not my idea of a romantic

afternoon

how many pumps um

let's start with five

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lynn added some colloidal silica to

thicken up my epoxy

stick in the boxy

it's like thick peanut butter

all i'm doing is running a just a small

bead

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this isn't adding any strength to the

top all it's going to do is hold these

panels

in the same plane

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just work my way through this

when i get done we'll push all the

panels together

and let it cure overnight

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okay this is the last of the panel seams

i'm adding weights on top of here to

hold it tight

down to the top and that'll flatten all

these seams right out

so here's where we stopped for today all

the seams are done

there's plenty of weight on there

holding them stable to that template

we'll let this thickened epoxy stick it

to foxy

fire off and cure overnight and that'll

give us a nice platform to start working

tomorrow morning

so we're on another road trip we are

heading out of town to grab some

fiberglass fabric um one of the things

that's

kind of hard being in napa marina is

that you're kind of in the middle of

nowhere well

you're smack dab in the middle of a

bunch of vineyards which is awesome but

awesome for you not yet but

not very many marine products so

there is a small store here in napa

marina but just

you know some things we have to buy in

bulk and it's just more cost effective

to

get it in other places um i have to say

that since we've been here we just have

been so fortunate we have

a few patrons that are in here and

the first day that we pulled in jay came

over

and helped us with our lines and dropped

off a set of keys for us

which i mean

it's so generous of him he was just so

nice and he said this is just for

running around getting

groceries and supplies if we need it so

big thanks to jay

jay you're an awesome human so now we're

gonna go get

the cloth and and we have this

beautiful scenic drive to get it's just

so i mean as far as you can see there

are just beautiful vineyards everywhere

and wineries you won't stop at any of

these places

hey we got a lot to do today one of

these days i want to get him to stop

tomorrow

okay we have our fabric we picked up

60 yards of 10 ounce cloth

this uh should be pretty close to what

we need if we have to get more we'll get

more

we let the epoxy cure all night so let's

see how it did

okay now that this substrate is all tied

together

with thickened epoxy thick and epoxy

i'd take the clamps off before we start

laying all the glass cloth down

and to keep this tight to the form and

keep it from moving in the wind

i'm tacking the perimeter down with just

a small little screw

every foot or two

that holds it nice and tight

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i'm going to go through and just kind of

feel my seams now

you know this thickened epoxy thick and

epoxy

kind of grabs this fibers and pokes up

here and there i don't want any of that

to grab the fabric when you start laying

it down

so i'm just gonna real carefully make

sure

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they're all knocked down if i feel any

there's not many just a few

we're all set to start laying the fabric

down

we picked up 60 yards of 10 ounce

glass cloth that's going to be enough to

put

three layers on each side we're actually

going to start with two layers on the

top

and i'm going to switch directions with

each layer

but i don't want to get too many layers

on one side because it's going to want

to start to

curl this so i want to put two layers on

the top

flip this and put two layers on the

bottom

the idea is to build this up to one inch

thick

we started with three quarter inch

material

the cabin top is one inch thick but i'm

going to grind that back to about 7

8 because the last two laminations

on the top and one lamination on the

bottom

are going to tie into that cabin top and

that'll net me out that one inch

thickness so we'll get these first two

layers on

one today and one tomorrow

okay so teal disappeared somewhere and

we're not gonna wait for him because we

have to lay this glass

today so while he's doing god knows what

emma and i are going to roll this out

pre-cut it so when teal decides to grace

us with his

presence we can start our epoxy

job emma

okay cool good

the girls did a good job cutting all the

cloth to length that's going to make

this process

much easier but we're going to start

winding this video down and save

the epoxy work for next week

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you know lynn i have a message for you

i'm on to your little game

and if there's one takeaway from this

video just remember

thickened epoxy will always be thick and

epoxy and it'll never

not be thick and epoxy stick into boxy

see you guys next week

picking a foxy

thinking of foxy

sticking to foxy

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nikita foxy

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