On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we start the final phase of our hardtop installation o our 435 catamaran SV basik. This project has been a long haul but we can clearly see the end in sight. We are so close and could not be more proud of our progress. Come back next week to see what we are up too...see you then!

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previously on onboard lifestyle

we reached a major milestone after

countless hours on our hardtop

we recruited ruth and garrett to help us

hoist our project into position

and everything went smooth as the

hardtop slid right into place

from idea to design sketches to

construction

it's so exciting to watch our project

come together

this is the first glimpse for us seeing

the hard top in position and can i say

we are so proud

teal you have a problem i know

you've been staring at those things

since yesterday

it's a process the process is you stare

at the hard top you stare at the seam

you stare at the post

you just stare it's how i work things

through you know that

it's too much let's let's just get going

what else do we need to do

well first thing we need to do

you see the steering's working i'm

starting to work this out

first thing we need to do before the

post go in

we need to position this in the exact

spot and to do that we need to notch it

into the coach roof

but to notch it into the coat roof we

have to remove some deck hardware

that starboard winch is going to be a

little close

you know we're going to be doing a lot

of sanding we're going to be doing

fairing and epoxy work and glass work

i just want to make sure it it's out of

the way and we're not that much

epoxy work there's going to be quite a

bit up there you'll see

next thing we need to do though is once

that deck hardware is removed

we'll make a big notch into the coach

and that notch is important for a few

reasons

it's gonna push the hardtop forward

one inch and by doing that it gives us a

little more clearance

on our main traveler it's going to give

us a little more

clearance for the solar panels but more

importantly it's going to give us fresh

core in the

coach roof to laminate to and by making

this

notch the hard top will be locked in for

any lateral movement

so that's the first thing we need to do

well that seems simple enough we can do

that this morning

what about the posts they're next

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perfect two and a quarter two and a

quarter everything's

lining right up

so are you satisfied then so far

so far this is uh

lining right up according to your

calculations recording

according to my calculations

okay you ready what's next next is now

that i have this

pushed into position i had to sink it in

this one inch to lock it in get some

fresh core

to be epoxying to it lines up

everything on the back gives us a little

more clearance off the traveler

and now we throw a couple posts in you

ready for that

i'm always ready to post up

okay let's post up

so let's get the center posts in you

know we may not need

any more posts this thing's feeling so

solid

you know we at one point i was thinking

we needed multiple posts

but i'm thinking we just put these first

two in

and let's walk on this and see how it

feels

all right i uh suggest

that you moonwalk across

i'll do the worm if it

no no nobody wants to see the worm no

more nobody wants to see when you do

that i want to answer a hundred more

comments

okay exciting let's go i know you look

really happy

i am happy

post up post up

tickle hidden not much

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perfect no

i need to go this way okay yep

okay go ahead

a little bit more touch more

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i have my marks now that's where i'll be

drilling through

got the vacuum on standby don't want to

make too much of a mess

got all my tools all my hardware is

lined up

butyl tape and i even have

all my backer plates actually made these

the other day

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this thing's intimidating

anytime you have a two foot handle on

something makes you think

i guarantee you there's a million horror

stories about this spamming tool

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um

you know it doesn't bother me when teal

drills holes through our boat because he

does it so often

what bothers me is when i've made the

bed everything is nice and clean

and then he decides it's time to drill

through the stateroom

so look at me okay you all set down

there

okay i'm gonna drill an eighth inch

pilot hole first

uh pretty close okay here's the next one

and then the last one

okay you see those three now right yeah

now i'm gonna come through with a

quarter inch bit

okay here's the next one that was pretty

damn close

okay you ready for the first one of

course i am i'm always ready

okay butyl's down feels good

you got your wrench right i'm ready okay

i've got it backwards yeah

yep

okay go down

go up okay down

okay i think that's it

tighten it up

comes in handy shortcuts

yeah i feel pretty good been drilling

out these posts

and i've been hitting my internal

backing it's solid

pvc going through here there's one there

just drilled out all three of these

solid backing

all the way across so layout worked

glad i kept my notes

we have a very busy day today because

the weather is cooperating and we have

to take full

advantage teal is down below right now

cutting out the plastic core

and he has given me the template because

he wants me to be up here

cutting um 32 pieces of this out of the

core mat so we're going to sandwich the

core mat between the plastic component

and then this is going to be biscuited

in with sticking epoxy

to our main cabin so i got a lot of work

to do

compass it's funny when i uh

when i mapped this out when i tried to

figure out how i should draw this all

out i realized that

this is a tessellation so all the shapes

fit together

fun fact a tessellation of a flat

surface is the covering of a plane using

one or more geometric shapes

called tiles with no overlaps and no

gaps

in mathematics tessellations can be

generalized to higher dimensions and a

variety of geometries

like this that's pretty cool

i'm starting my layout for these

biscuits

coming across this hard top there's

going to be a total of eight biscuits

i think i'm gonna put in four or five

today because

planting this coach roof out with the

hard top

i have to kind of twist and torque

things to get it the exact plane

i need to be within a 16th top and

bottom so i don't have a lip here

so i've laid these out and we'll get

going on these

i'm going to just dish this material out

using

a vibratory saw and

these should just layer right down in

there we're going to use the pvc

biscuits

along with coremat probably get two

layers of cormat

put the pvc biscuit down another two

layers of cormat i think that'll plane

out

real close to our finished product after

that's done

then we can start layering glass cloth

over this but i really want to get some

strength

to keep this top from ever moving

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well we're all set for the first

laminations here

i've got my core mat lined up my pvc

biscuits

everything's all dished out

this is our hard top and our coach roof

there was a little bit of da vinci cell

that was in here

but i knew there was damage taken to the

boat at one point i heard that there was

a problem with the mast

i'm assuming that some damage happened

in the deck and it was replaced with a

da vinci cell here

but it goes right back to knight decor

over here

and everything's just looking good gonna

be exciting

start lacing this together

okay i'm starting to layer the cormat

into the slots here i put thickened

epoxy

to fill all the exposed cells

we're going to build up the thickness

with cormat and pvc biscuits

okay this is the last layer of format

now i'm just trying to get these all

saturated up

this is going to be uh enough strength

what i'll do now

is clean up this surface then tomorrow i

can fare this out with some thickened

epoxy before we start

laminating uh layers of glass over this

but i'm happy that so far everything's

just uh lining right up

okay just spent the last few hours

dishing out these

last four biscuits

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saturated with thickened epoxy we're

putting in our core mat

the other biscuits cured overnight so i

was able to torque this top

right down into place it's gonna be so

solid

that's the idea

just one layer at a time

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my that's really fancy epoxy mixing

there

well i got the best girl on it

shoot my own horn there did you remember

the hardener

maybe cares

okay i'll need five more pumps and

another round of

oh format core matt thank you

sorry my mind is busy

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i'm just hanging out doing some quality

control

i would say that's strong

layers of these biscuits

and cornmats and cormac

and another round of

coremat thank you