On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we take advantage of a few days of nice weather and jump on rudder repairs on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. ...

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hey guys welcome back to SB basic it is

a gorgeous day you guys know that we

have been working on our sugar scoops

for quite a while now we've been

battling the rain the snow and the ice

but now we have own weather window like

it's so hard to say that sometimes but

anyways it's gonna be sunny for the next

I'd have to say five six days so we're

gonna jump on to the next step of our

steering which is our rudders teal is

assessing it right now we just pulled it

out of storage and it has been drying

this whole time there's some damage to

it and we're just trying to see the

extent of it so that we can class and

pop these babies back into the water

because you know we don't have just one

but we have two so let's get started

okay let's take a look at these here's

my runner these are actually kick up

rudders this is the profile of the boat

and this was designed to pivot on this

point here but I'm not really keen on

kick up rudders they do have their

purpose anchoring in a real shallow area

you could kick these up out but it's

kind of not really useful on our boat

anymore now that we have sail drives our

sail drives are the lowest point so why

not have fixed rudders so that's our

going to do is I'm gonna do a couple

repairs on these this will get buried

back in the boat and glassed-in

permanently and then we'll have just a

fixed rudder

should be a fun little project first

thing I need to do is break this all

apart get all the hardware off and do

some repairs on here there's a little

bit of a delamination I already looked

at this it looks like there's glass that

goes all the way over this but somebody

put an extra piece as a leading edge

here and it is delaminating so I'm gonna

do a repair here to do that I'm gonna

sand all this down and get a good look

at this first

but let's get this Hardware off first

break it all down

everything's coming off pretty smooth so

far it looks good too

there's a little bit of gap in this

looks like I need to insert a bushing in

here I'll get that all figured out later

should slide right up here

just like butter

that looks real good take a look at this

this looks mostly look like paint that's

peeling off but we'll get this sanded

down and see what's under here okay I've

got some other projects going in the

sugar scoop so we're gonna get Linn

suited up and she's gonna sand this down

for us what do you think

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[Applause]

I think is just so bad looks pretty good

you think a job it's a lot better shape

than I thought I think you did awesome

okay okay now I'll kind of go through

this and look at any damage and see if

we need to do thank you okay well get

your own okay Lin did real good on that

take I'm underutilizing her okay the

only thing is little bit of loose glass

right here I'll cut all this back and do

the repair first and then I'm gonna play

one more probably a 10 ounce cloth of

this whole thing just just to play it

safe let's check out the other side

absolutely beautiful art okay I just

flipped the rudder I did notice some

discolorations right here and it does

feel like yep you can see it

the glass is lifted just a little bit

right here except for right here at the

head

so I'm gonna excavate this out as well

do this repair and then lay another

sheet over and when I do this I'm gonna

double up this leading edge that's a

vulnerable part of the rudder so I want

to make sure I've got enough glass there

but overall happy with it okay to get

this little deal am out of here

I'm gonna cut right through the glass

and see what's going on underneath here

okay that's good look at that it's

treated and perfect just had a little

air bubble under there

so I'll cut these out and make a repair

okay dug it all out looks real good in

there I'm gonna slightly stuff this give

that epoxy something to bite you okay

since this is recess so far I'm going to

use a thick and epoxy to get it up to

this level and then like glass over the

whole thing

hey it looks good

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and just like that it's a new day

a little bit of wind on the lake put the

epoxy cured nicely overnight here's

where I dished out that air bubble

filled it with thickened epoxy and I did

this in a couple other areas remember

that little delaminated edge I carved

out any loose areas and filled that as

well so now I'll go through and sand

this up and prep it for glass cloth

I want to indid this piece as well off

fine a couple areas I had to touch up

will do this in at the same time so

let's start with this

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okay that feels nice okay work this

thing over for probably an hour just now

everything feels real good here's the

patch can it feel it anymore remember

this leading edge it was all deal aming

I carved all that out and look at that

looks real good okay

now I'll attack this piece okay here's

where I stand that's ready for glass I

have still a little bit more repairs to

do on this I'll pull this aside I'll get

epoxy on this tonight but I do want to

get some glass going on this see if the

girls are up to working on the challenge

I see easy okay

keep at it how many lockers have you

gone through everything on this side and

all of Emma's and half of yours okay

we'll see where we're at

I haven't done anything down here yet

though or Bobby I've got a ton of stuff

to go through still as well so we got a

long way to go but good job

oh okay back at it can't laying on a

piece of cloth over this

just gonna cut it

a couple inches wild on each side

that looks good

Thank You seven okay I feel good

everything's been prepped vacuum the

surface just mixed up some West system

epoxy with a 205 hardener it's a fast

hardener it's a little chilly today

start with seven pumps should be real

close to that I might need a pump or two

extra to finish this off but we'll see

it's gonna wet the surface and lay out

the clock

get this saturated

it's laid down nicely on the top here

start folding this over I want this

leading edge to wrap around

that seemed that DeLand was about right

here I want to get like a full inch over

this

it looks like I've done that so we'll

just keep working this and get it to lay

down

kind of worked my way around this corner

here

and it's getting there

this is laying down nicely what I always

do is draw a center line and pull from

each side never push cuz it'll that's

how you create the bubbles and wrinkles

if you're always pulling to the outside

edge you're creating a lot of tension in

that cloth then pulling it tight and

it's sucking it down to your substrate

so always pull to the outer edge of

whatever you're working on

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here's teal with the second redder Wow

so awkward I know I know it's not too

bad right so we finished the first part

of first redder doing some glass work

and now we're bringing that second

redder to start assessing this one this

one looks actually a little bit worse

than the first one so we'll probably

have to spend a little bit more time on

it oh come on it's nothing okay let's

take a look at this here we go starboard

rudder Assembly's right here I'll break

down the hardware strip this apart and

take a look at it looks like there's a

little bit of damage on this one a

little bit more than the other but let's

get this all sanded down see we're in

for meanwhile here's the port rudder

bacon up here in the Sun yeah look at

this the Sun

it's just blazing I hear it's not hot

but man it feels good okay it's good for

this epoxy though

oh yeah it's starting to kick already

okay

let's break this one down

there we go came off just like I'm

supposed to okay good morning Sun is

still out so that means I'm still

working these rudders I'm gonna take

advantage of this nice weather while I

can this epoxy cured nicely overnight

look it here's my patch get that Sheen

right of the Sun on there you can't see

a thing look at that this just laid down

nicely no bubbles it's ready for me to

trim it up sandy the side and we'll get

cloth on the other side of this

my other goal for today is start on this

other rudder start repairing all the

damage get this thing sanded down

prepped up and do the epoxy repairs on

this rudder I want to start getting

glass on this by tomorrow okay so let's

get to work

I just spent a little time sanding this

edge this is where I had folded it over

and lap it up about two inches onto here

so I just put a nice taper on this so

when I've get this glass down you won't

see that transition right here

so it's a good idea always when you're

working with epoxy

to wipe down the surface before you sand

it even or before you lay up another

layer of a glass cloth down just give it

a little scrub with soap and water gets

that flush off there and that blush is a

chemical reaction that occurs when it's

curing it leaves like an oily film on

the top surface you can use peel ply

that helps get rid of it but in this

case just takes a second to give it a

quick scrub and you get most of it off

okay here's the next piece of cloth got

this all laid out

let's go mix up some epoxy and get this

down so I'm taking a break from

organizing and unloading because I think

I got a good jump on it already today

and it looks like teal is finishing up

this runner layup

are you gonna move that out so that I

can stand on the next one yep in about

20 minutes 15 minutes 20 minutes I have

this thing done I'll put this out in the

Sun because I'm volunteering my services

yes please you did such a good job on

this one let's uh put the starboard

rudder up here I think I'm pretty good

at sanding not too bad

I'll have him it turned out pretty nice

okay hurry up good this laid down nicely

let's get this up in the Sun to cure

we have to cook down the stairs lift it

up high over your head okay

got Lin all set up here's her starboard

rudder all the gear she needs she could

do that while I dive back into the sugar

scoop get some work done back there

okay I'm in the sugar Scoob test-fitting

my panel here looks like it's getting

real close here got a little bit of

shaping to do yet before I get this in

permanently but it's good clothes see

how they're doing

not gonna lie I'm loving it kicking this

project into high gear really a lot done

when the weather's holding up it looks

good I like it oh that's smooth

well we got work to do but yeah this

chopper rudder is prepped look at this I

had quite a bit of bubbling in here but

it was just under the glass and never

got down to the substrate this is all

nice and clean so I'm gonna do the

repairs on these before I overlay this

with a new surface okay I got enough

epoxy going right now I've got some

material laying up in the sugar scoop

I've applied the patches to the

starboard rudder the port rudder has its

final coat on so we'll let all this bake

in the Sun for a little bit and

hopefully it fires off for night hits

okay

I think we'll call it for today so my

moms on a mission she's trying to get a

lot of stuff off the boat and so my dad

has to load some move it off

how you doing last one first day we'll

see what else she comes up with yeah

whoo high five high five go see if you

could help her okay good morning

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beautiful day again it looks like it may

be the last nice day of this series of

nice days did get cold last night though

in the 20s high 20s so late last night I

threw the rudders in this line make sure

they were nice and warm these fired off

yesterday but I just wanted to keep them

into salon overnight make sure they're

nice and warm when I put the next layer

of cloth on for today Emma how school

work okay

keep at it let's get to work

okay just put another day of work into

these things

this one's about done our port rudder

has multiple layers on it all wrapped

around the edges and blend it in got a

little more touch up on this this one

got a good jump on got one side done

we'll keep going on that in the meantime

I still have these two attack I'm gonna

save those for another time explain what

these are and what needs to happen to

these but for now I think I'll call it

catch you guys later

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my dad has so many projects going on

right now he has a rudder on the salon

table and down here he has he has the

wheel and then right here he has all the

steering stuff and then he always has

nine relying on the walls in the guest

room it's the worst he has the rudder on

the bed and then he has some more rudder

staff there anyways guys if you liked

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