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previously

on onboard lifestyle we broke down all

of our expenses for the time we spent at

the napa valley marina

we went into detail on what it really

cost for the haul out

lay days bottom paint and the complete

hardtop build

while we board emma with mind-numbing

spreadsheet talk

she had a bit of fun at our expense

popping in and out of the shot

and once again stealing the scene

comfy yes

hey guys well we did not put out a video

last week

and there's a good reason for it after

vlogging for the past three

years uh putting out weekly videos

and working non-stop on our hard top

these past few months

on the heart we were burnt out

we were tired and we just needed a break

it also happened to be

emma spring break so it was really nice

to just kind of decompress

and not do any videoing we did uh

coordinate a patron zoo meeting so that

was really nice to catch up with our

patrons

and kind of get them up to speed of what

our plans are

so it was just nice to see everyone

so the big question is is what is in our

plans

what is the

i guess the crew of sp basic up to what

are you doing

you're looking at me yeah you got an

answer

okay well i guess we have short term

plans and long term plans

short term plans are obviously we need

to take care of emma first

emma's orthodontic work she has

just well how much time left on it so um

her orthodontist is great he follows our

channel so he understands that we are on

a tight schedule

so he put her on a very aggressive

treatment

and from the last appointment he says

she has six weeks left

so after that she will be brace free

and we're excited for that that's that's

where we're going to be

able to be a little more mobile yes a

lot more mobile at that point okay next

thing we need to

really accomplish since we're here for

the next six weeks

is vaccines yes so vaccines whether you

like it or not that's going to allow us

to travel

a lot more freely without having

quarantine

in the countries that we're going to be

visiting so

we have to take care of our vaccines and

it's just the smart thing to do when

you're traveling abroad

and the responsible thing to do yes

which leads to the mistake you made with

my passport

everyone is in charge of their own

passport mind you

teos is expiring soon um emma's expires

next year and mine is the following year

so

i decided to just renew all of our

passports now

so it resets us um for us ten years buy

for emma

but it kind of syncs them all together

yeah and it just makes it easier because

we don't want to be

in a position where we're in another

country and our our passports expiring

right another thing we need to really do

before we leave

is compass so compass we have to just

make sure

that all his shots are up to date and if

there's anything that we need to

have him have extra shots i guess

depending on the countries

we know that you know every country is

different and

we just need to make sure that he has

his health certificate and that he

is healthy to travel seems easy

very easy so while all these are

happening since we're going to be here

we have time to get a couple more

projects under the boat

yes these are things

that are obviously ongoing and

we it's part of boating it is

it is and especially this boat everybody

knows that this was not a brand new boat

when we bought her

and we've been working a long time and

we're getting to the tail end but

there's things that we could always

improve on

and while we're here we might as well

start it

first thing that i could think of is

well button up the hard top yeah hardtop

is

it's all built the helm top is built but

it's not

done and i want to finish all that we'd

have to do some metal work

uh just button up uh the painting on it

and just

kind of get that all finished because

once the hard top's done that

adds all this real estate on the top of

the boat that we can

really upgrade our solar you know we

have 500 watts now

and you know we have enough to put a

couple thousand watts on there but we're

going to start with another 600

which will give us 1100 watts that's

going to be

a nice bump for us but with that 1100

watts you know

you get to thinking about our battery

bank our batteries are five years old

and they're good for about six years so

we don't want to be

deep in mexico or or south of there and

have our batteries just

uh die out on us so why not

make the jump right now and get into

lithium i think it's the perfect timing

for us

i know lynn's excited uh it's gonna

double double our power yeah so he won't

be on me all the time about turning

lights off or anything that's right and

it'll be

no maintenance you'll like that yeah

that'll be nice i'm always like nervous

every time i fill in the battery so

it'll be a nice change to just have

everything sealed and

in working order we're going to have to

do let's see

well autopilot coming down the coast i

want to get autopilot going he never

he never installed that so that's a big

must coming down the coast

my hands are going to be full with a few

projects and lynn's going to have

projects of herself she's gonna be

working on let's say the stack pack

i have a lot of canvas work now that the

hard top and the helm top will be

up i'm gonna start uh doing some sewing

projects

yeah so and getting us all protected so

vacation's over

vacation's over let's uh let's get

serious

let's button up these we got six weeks

baby six weeks and uh

and a lot a lot to do yes and then it's

it's uh heading south and it's good

timing because it's a little windy and

blustery out there right now hold still

yeah so i think it's gonna be perfect

timing we're gonna have a good time

getting all these projects

we're gonna explore this area so that's

our short-term plans

long-term plans i guess we'll have to

open ended that's right

every every day is an adventure so let's

get to work all right

we're talking about our hydraulic

steering system

you know as we were sailing down the

coast we had a couple hiccups with it

we thought it was an isolated incident

the first time it just

locked up just for a second and then

released and thought it was strange and

we were kind of keeping our eye on it

but then when we went to anchor in stiff

winds

behind trinidad head so here we are

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tucked in behind trinidad head i hate it

and i love it i love it because it's

picturesque

it's beautiful it's got this

sea of boats here i wasn't anticipating

you know on all the charts to show this

this is a

a nice anchorage but

not a lot of room in there that's all 20

and 30 foot

deep out here is

50 60 foot deep

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so i went around over here around this

little island

and i was going to anchor over there

where there was a little bit of

clearance and it shows that that is a

a good anchorage over there on my charts

dropped the anchor

and that rock now i can feel it just

skipping across big boulders i mean

so instantly i pull it up and we're

looking for a new spot

and we catch a nice big rock

in the rocna so

i'm struggling trying to get that out

the wind's blowing 20

and lynn's at the helm

and we lose steering it was

kind of a moment where you know we were

in a sea of boats

the wind had picked up there's rocks all

around us and

the anchor fouled and we're trying to uh

relocate we lens at the helm she goes

hard over and it locks a hundred percent

zero steering we were able to secure

the boat on a mooring ball disable

the system and limp into

eureka the next day we would like to

inform you of our situation

we are a 43 foot sailing catamaran

we had a malfunction with our steering

and have

no control of our rudders we are on

limited steering as we enter the harbor

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selling vessel stacy coast first

stational bay how many people do you

have on board

three pob over

you know initially we thought it was the

cylinder so we

put a new cylinder in there and we'll

start putting this together

it'll be kind of fun actually so i'm

gonna put my best mechanic on it emma

you ready

i'm ready let's do this

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okay everything went in real smooth and

all is well until we get to the bay area

it did it again again it's always in a

situation where the wind's blowing

you're trying to anchor you're trying to

grab a mooring ball in this case

and it locks up so we don't have a lot

of confidence in our hydraulic

system right now so we've been doing

research

and talking to capilano and sea star

and it's they want to get this unit

bench tested but there's no place around

here to bench test this

nearest place is southern california i

don't want to travel

down the coast any further uh until we

at least know what's going on with this

so we spent the day yesterday breaking

down the system

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i'm going to go on this side first

okay let me get in there

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okay hold on okay go ahead

the other one

yeah hang on i gotta get the nut off to

the side

okay pull it out a little bit right

there leave it right there okay

okay now dude yeah the other side yeah

go ahead

okay you want me to pull them out

yeah go ahead okay

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okay i made a little mess

not too bad removed the capilano

boxed it up

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and we're gonna ship it off they're

gonna do a quick bench test on it

and tell us what's going on with this

thing

we'll be shipping it to uh san diego

they tell us they could

turn this around pretty quick get it

back to us but

we need to build some confidence with

this why it's coming up now is

we're starting to work on our autopilot

and it's a

hydraulic driven autopilot

and this has been in the back of my mind

and i think it's a good thing to get

this bench tested right now

figure out what's going on hopefully

it's a nice easy fix some debris in

there

or i mean i couldn't even tell you

what's inside this thing that's why

we're sending it off to an expert

i guess we'll find out in a few days

let's get this shipped off

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okay it's been just a few short days and

look we have our box back

but it's not what you think you know we

broke

this down over last weekend and got it

all packaged up

and ready to ship out but we didn't want

to send it out till we talked to one of

the service centers

there was two service centers south of

here costa mesa and san diego

first one calls back monday morning we

had left messages

and they said you know what these units

are bulletproof

there's not much to your system there's

a pump there's hoses

and a cylinder and typically it's not

the pump that has a problem it's

something else

well we knew we replaced the cylinder we

knew we had brand new hoses

and we had double check with the

manufacturer those that those were the

correct hoses

so they were a little reluctant for us

sending this unit down to be bench

tested but they said okay go ahead

regardless so we shipped it off

as soon as we shipped it off we're in

the car coming back to the boat

and the other service center calls us he

said have you tried the adjustment knob

and i haven't played with the adjustment

knob well mostly because

our unit didn't have one he said he's

seen this exact thing happen twice

before

and it's as simple as turning the

adjustment knob one

quarter turn so now we're like oh man we

just shipped that off

let's go get it so we went and picked it

up

okay here's the unit the adjustment knob

comes off the face right here

since we've had the boat there's been no

knob on this and that's why i've never

really played with it

so first thing we did was order

a new knob we got this in about two days

i'm gonna put the knob back on after

talking with that service center

he guarantees us that's the problem he's

seen it a few times

it's as simple as that we're gonna get

this thing back together

you know taking it apart wasn't a bad

thing because to get the knob on

i do need this unit removed so i could

gain access to this uh

little portion besides that lin's

got a project with a wheel that she's

diving into

so it's all going to work out so i'm

going to get this thing reinstalled

put my adjustment knob on and i think we

may have

solved this mystery god i hope so

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so while teal has taken the wheel off

and is working on our steering

i am going to use this as an opportunity

to do something that i have been wanting

to do for a

very long time and that is to

tackle this this wheel this wheel

i have a love hate relationship with

this wheel because i love it

it's big it's beautiful but it's also

really cold on the hands when we're

steering

so i've been wanting to do a wheel cover

for this

but i just can't bring myself to

pay that sticker price um on the edson

wheel cover

i did see from another cruiser that they

did it themselves

and she was kind enough to share with me

where she got it from so i ordered that

so we have the leather for the wrap as

well as

the hole punch and the wax thread all

for

under a hundred dollars so today i am

going to get everything cut out and

start doing my layup for this

so excited so because

this is a diy project it's not going to

come

in the handy dandy pre-cut

leather for us so this is a full split

of leather which means that we have to

cut these down

and seam them together to be a

continuous

piece of wheel cover so

i am not uh very good at math

math is not my strong suit but it is

emma's so i

called in the big guns and she's going

to figure this out for me

yeah so um what is the diameter

okay so this is a 48 inch wheel okay and

it's eight spoke

uh what we need to figure out is um how

many

pieces we need to do uh because i don't

want the seams to hit

or land on the spoke i want it kind of

in the middle so okay

you can just figure that out do your

magic okay

to get the circumference we need to

multiply pi times the diameter

and since our leather is not long enough

to make the wrap in one or two pieces

we have to have three or more seams our

wheel has eight spokes

so three seams would be uneven and

may land on a spoke that means we will

calculate the length based on

four pieces and i love symmetry now that

emma has the length for us

i was able to measure this out and get

the width so

this is just a kind of a sample piece to

see how it's going to

form onto the wheel the leather company

that i purchased this from

actually only comes in for the splits

they only come in three colors which is

black

toast and it says gray but it's more tan

so we went with the black and i think

it'll look really good

and i'm not concerned about it getting

hot because this is underneath the cover

with our new helm top anyway so i am

very very happy

now it's time to get started because

this is going to take

me probably a day or two because this is

a fairly large wheel

this is going to take a lot longer than

i anticipated but

i think it's gonna turn out really good

good thing i have good eyesight not for

long

you're on the home stretch don't remind

me

you get tired yet oh my god

i thought this was not gonna be so bad

this is day two

this is so tedious i feel like i'm going

cross-eyed trying to find the holes

but the good thing is is it's one and

done

right i don't have to do this again

not for a while i think i'm actually

sweating it's getting

so hard and my fingers are gonna be so

sore

this is two days

but look at this you're uh what an hour

away hour and a half

an hour and a half yeah it takes about

an hour and a half

or about an hour to an hour and a half a

segment

okay we'll get it done i want to get

this thing back on i know i gotta

install the capilano first but i'll be

ready here in about an hour

better okay keep at it

okay lynn's about done with her wheel in

there so i'm getting the

the capilano back in

with this new cover here

i had to reshape my washers with the

unit out i was able to get

a little drum wheel in here and sand

this out so i could have access

for our new knob i have plenty of

clearance now

so i got to get this back together i

could hear her hooting and hollering

there she's happy she's almost done with

her project

there we go my adjustment knob not gonna

fiddle with that until we get the wheel

back on

okay after two days

of endless hours i'm finally done with

the wheel

i feel really good about this it's

something that i've wanted for so long

and it's so satisfying my fingers are

sore

and i really feel like i worked my

fingers to the bone but

i'm so excited to get this thing

installed go

oh it doesn't fit now don't lie

don't joke with me about this

that feels so good

do you love it i love it i love it so

much

it feels good it does it looks good

as we're coming down the coast we had

a moment where

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a moment to get the circumference you

need to multiply pi

times d diameter

as we were going to grab