In this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle Teal works hard to get as much done on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik while the girls are away for a long week...

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and good morning welcome back dusty

basic you know we had the weather to put

paint down and we've been taking

advantage of it today's a little cloudy

and there's a little bit of rain

threatening but I think it's gonna hold

off so we got to keep going

last week I was painting the holes I had

had one coat on to stop the video since

then I put additional coats on peel the

tape and I'm real happy with how

everything's looking I need to tack this

next area right here and we'll be doing

that I'll be prepping today and painting

tomorrow

but I've got a whole lot of other things

to do before we splash we need to pay

attention to the sale drives rub rails

get the solar going and just a list of

other little items but we want to get in

the water soon I would think the next

week to two we will be back in the water

pending weather so fingers crossed

let's get to work

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okay that was a big day six and a half

seven hours of sanding and fairing and

and just prepping the surface but I

think I'm in a good position to throw

some paint down tomorrow morning it's a

good thing

girls come back tomorrow and both

looking pretty good I think they'll be

impressed but we'll see okay it's about

dinnertime

I'll go whip something up relax a little

bit and hit this hard first thing in the

morning still good about though we'll

see how it turns out

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okay good morning

perfect today compass is barking at the

crow on the mast and the wind is just

died down

sun's out it's a good day to get this

white girls are coming back today and

it'd be a nice first impression when

they pull up on the boat and see all the

white surfaces with fresh paint so I'm

gonna jump on that this morning

and shouldn't take me too long then I'm

off to Seattle to pick them up

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okay my paintings all done looks good

I'm actually real happy with it got done

in the nick of time

heading out to go pick up the girls it's

quite the journey takes a couple hours

to get there going to see tak Tempest is

excited you ready for a trip buddy

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I'll take it that's a yes okay we're

gonna head out get back in the morning

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okay I'm three hours into this trip so

far I'd wait so long to get on the ferry

busy weekend traffic their flight lands

in about 45 minutes I'm gonna cut it

close to those four hours and 17 minutes

from the boat to the airport it's quite

the journey compass flip moans the way

they doing buddy you ready for a walk

but the girls just texted me they landed

about 10 minutes ago they're walking

through the terminal and the timing

looks like it's gonna be about perfect

I should just pull right in and pick

them up

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though they are

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back okay we just pulled into the boat

girls are anxious to see the paint let's

see what they think

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those looks so nice it's like a mirror

awesome

you like it yeah oh you did good

okay get a lot done I did it's uh I

think it looks pretty good this was a

big step compass is just glad to be back

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take it all in was it bad I mean it was

long days by yourself but you know what

it's good I know it's all worth it huh

yeah this is a big project coming up I

know it'll look just as nice so I'm not

worried I was all excited to get the

last coat of paint on this area I'll

prep it today but I won't be able to

paint the wind is out of the South this

direction so every time a car comes by

the dust would just fly right into the

paint so that's gonna wait till tomorrow

morning but I don't want to waste a day

so I'll get this all sanded out and I'll

be ready for that first thing tomorrow

morning but for now I'm gonna start

working on this rub rail I rip this out

of starboard lumber and it's gonna go

the full length of the boat I have quite

a bit to do to prepare this I need to

router the edges and drill a nice screw

pattern on it so I'll start prepping

this so this could go down soon now that

the paint's on the outside so it's a

good call not painting today I just

found out they'll be launching the

Michelle and the Mary Ellen here in the

next couple hours that's gonna create a

lot of dust so it's good good thing

we're switching gears and working on

another project

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got a late start today but while they

were splashing the Mary Ellen and

Michelle I've able to prep this entire

service for paint tomorrow because I'll

sand it out with 220 and wipe down so

I'll be ready to jump on that first

thing in the morning

I was also able to lay out the rub rail

there's a hundred and seventy eight

marks what's gonna drill those all by

hand but I walked around the yard here

and found something's gonna loan me

their drill press so I'll be able to use

that here

well the kicker is I have to wait a day

they're gonna be out of town tomorrow

but I could use it the following day I

think it's worth the wait I don't want

to drill those by hand but it's been a

long day but what we're gonna do is take

it easy maybe Emma and I are gonna take

a good little walk around the yard a lot

of action out there and spend a little

family time relax tonight

hit it hard tomorrow so we just watched

the Mary Ellen splashdown

and he invited us over to walk through

his boat

pretty cool boat so I'm jumping on it

never miss a chance to see such a

interesting vessel this thing's coming

up on a hundred years old should be cool

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so the schooner the cheer board is the

Mary Ellen she was built in 1922 in

Vancouver BC by Arthur Moscot she was

originally supposed to be an engine las'

halibut schooner and that was how our

keel was laid the Builder got an order

for two steam tugboats and he ended up

converting her into a tugboat and she

worked for fifty-five years as a tug

hauling limestone barges from Texas ADA

Island north of Vancouver to Los Angeles

and it was basically to build the

freeway system so in 1979 when she was

retired from her life as a tug the she

was put on the beach to rot away cuz

she's a wood boat build out a big fir

and somebody saw her and realized she

was a schooner hull looked up her

history got the original rigging plan

from the Canadian government and

rerigged her but the original pilot

house she was supposed to have on her

and she's been in this configuration as

a passenger schooner for since 1979 we

got her in 2007 did a complete rebuild

on the hull took out all the rotten wood

which was extensive repowered her with a

modern diesel engine and she's just been

a wonderful heavy boat three hundred and

twenty thousand pounds and we just got

out of the yard from fixing the rudder

and now we're sitting here with friends

talking about the history of the boat

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my vacation was really fun but it's

great to be back I gotta watch my dad

anyway he hits his head on everything

are you talking about me again yeah yep

still painting it's going good though

yeah breakfast will be ready pretty soon

okay I'll be done in about ten minutes

and I'll be up okay well I got a good

jump on today I've already painted the

final coat up here I'll let it dry for

about another hour and peel the tape

meanwhile I'm setting up my rub rail

station over here I laid them all out

yesterday 178 holes I've drilled

starting to drill off the pilot holes

peel the tape and put a quarter inch

roundover on all those

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it's quite a bit to do it's gonna take

me a couple hours I think to get all

this done but needs to be done so I'll

get at it

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here's something we don't really talk

about is the mess we have to contain all

of our debris and following seal around

is a full-time job not only to make sure

he doesn't hit his head which is Emma's

job I go along behind him and I make

sure that nothing gets into the yard you

sound like a four year old I didn't walk

around with a helmet on is that what you

want cleaned up her mess and got it all

contained it doesn't take much effort

just to keep your tarps clean and it's

gonna help keep the environment clean

and the cleaner we keep it the longer

this boatyard to be around not many boat

yards let you work on your own projects

anymore and if everybody was responsible

this boat yard could continue that so

we're doing our part okay we've been at

it for I don't know three four hours

already this morning I'm working on the

rub rails and Lynn's been scrubbing the

holes down on the lower is fresh paint

this other paint is about a year and a

half two years old but it's got real

dusty here in the yard and she's

preparing it for all our graphics that

are coming in here in a couple of days

so got to get it all polished up let's

check out how she's doing

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okay how're you doing

I know now you're in the Sun it's

getting more resonant yeah okay well

just keep at it we gotta get this done

don't we take a break you just started

four hours ago are you doing good look

at that it's starting to just shine

right back up I can't even tell the

difference between the the old pain and

the new pain is that a scuff mark or is

it a just grease

somebody must have hit us okay

well I'll work on that so I was gonna

wait to use a drill press to get nice

uniform countersinks on this but I'd

have to wait another day so I came up

with something that worked

I took my counter sink bit and took the

drill bit and turned it around that way

I could set my depth and use that as a

stopper and it worked out pretty good

I'm happy with it just have to make sure

I'm drilling on a surface that doesn't

dent in and it keeps them nice and

uniform

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okay that wasn't too bad I feel good

about that every hole is pretty

consistent so next thing I need to do is

now bore the center hole to accept my

number ten screw but it's lunchtime

I think I'll have a my help me after

lunch I think she'll get a kick out of

that

okay so you have a hundred and seventy

eight holes to drill okay so here's what

you do

see the hole yep just put it right past

this edge right here take your job put

put your hand like like on the next hole

not too close to you and then yeah I'll

do the first one you do them from it so

you put it right right here and just

really slow it like that I see that

little bit right there you could leave

it on or take it off it's up to your

choice okay so just get the next one

over

never scoot your hand to the next hole

yeah keep it straight

keep it spinning and pull it out perfect

okay 176 left keep it spinning and pull

up yeah it helps it come out yeah 175

bucks you got it

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176 177

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Wow okay we're getting our first 8 foot

length up and I'm real happy with how

it's going down we're working out the

kinks and getting our system down

we have fasteners every six inches

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and we have a blind fastener on a minor

cut at the end of each piece what I

think so far I think it looks good

makes a huge difference it does okay we

there's the first piece down we have 11

to go so we figured out that we put five

or six screws at a time I just float it

off the surface and Linde hands me a

piece of butyl I could wrap it around

the screw threads from the backside

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and then we cinch them up and leave the

last screw a little loose so we don't

have to bend it out so far for the next

series of five but so far goes pretty

quick I don't we time this one correct

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okay good morning we finished up one of

the rub rails last night it turned out

pretty good real happy with it you know

we put this rub rail on for a purpose

it's to protect the boat when you're

pulling up to a dock or against a piling

originally I cut this out of inch and a

half wide

starboard lumber but I thought it looked

too chunky too big on the side of the

boat after putting 44 feet down just

looks like a thin little strip so I'm

real happy with it let's take a look at

it

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I used a pretty stout screw

to attach it every six inches the full

length give us some strength and the

beauty of this if we do take an impact

now up against the dock or another boat

rafting up to us or whatever it may be

I could just take one of these lengths

out and replace it real easy so this

should work out nicely for us now we've

got to finish up the other side we'll

get that done this morning and on to

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