On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we start Phase II of our sail plan on our custom catamaran SV basik. We explore a bit of Westport and get makeove...

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and here we are tucked into Westport

we're gonna stay here a couple days

explore this town and just kind of get

caught up on a few things so get a

couple projects I want to do and we want

to explore this town they're dredging

the marina so you'll be hearing a little

bit of mechanical behind me occasionally

girls are just getting ready let me take

compass for a walk taking for a long

walk he hasn't seen sure a a couple

weeks we couldn't take him to shore in

the obey couldn't get him past the sea

lions and in La Push there were so many

dogs that we couldn't get him off the

boat so he's itching for a nice big long

walk so that's we're doing right now

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let's go spline

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this observation tower gives you a nice

vantage point of the entrance to grace

harbor grace harbor itself and this

massive marina here it is a big marina

you know as we were coming in the other

night this entrance though it feels much

smaller is as a Sun setting but I look

at it now it's two miles across

I recognize every single buoy and marker

now as we're coming in we were scouting

those out got a little bit surf coming

in and some surfers off in the distance

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it's really cool they have so many cool

like Jenny cats and like raccoons around

here

so this was the entrance that we came in

the other night right through here and

this dredge was camped out right here we

were gonna head that way to float 21 but

instead much easier to go over here

just another gorgeous day out here this

is crazy

gotta love it so it's just kind of nice

you know the last time teal and I were

here was about 20 years ago god it

doesn't look the same to me he says it's

the same but the smells and the sounds

are still the same it's really nice to

just kind of come back with Emma now

it's really cool here and just kind of

enjoy it the people are really friendly

and really helpful and life revolves

around fishing so big score because we

get to get as much fresh seafood as

possible

Emma you're gonna come back here

tomorrow and try their hand at fishing

from the dock so that'll be fun

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it looks like we are gonna be here in

Westport for a little bit and yesterday

teal and I were talking about some

projects that we need and that we want

to tackle while we're here I noticed

something while we were talking that the

crew was looking a little shaggy so

today before we tackle anything else I

want to have the crew work on a little

personal maintenance so we are going to

all take a trip to salon basic

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I gotta say you don't know but you guys

but I think that the crew looks pretty

sharp nice some time to do a little self

maintenance on yourself the surprising

thing was was how difficult it was to

give compass a haircut you would think a

small dog would not give you any grief

but boy did he and I even took the time

to give myself a haircut so it's just

feels nice and light it took about four

inches off I feel pretty good about it

well I'm all cleaned up and looking

pretty a little blustery out here today

it's not that it's bad it's not real

cold it's just kind of that mist a

little bit of wind and just

uncomfortable and I'm gonna be working

outside well I'm going to work as much

as I can inside but I have to get to

work while we're in Westport I want to

start phase two of our sail plan and

that's working on the main you know the

main has been the elephant in the room

our head sales working great we like the

performance we like the deck hardware

location everything's running smooth

with that sail it's time to do this with

the main and to do that we have quite a

bit to do we're start with we got to get

a new track cars and hardware all new

lines we're gonna fit replace the

topping lift the lazy jack the out haul

gotta clean up the boob then we need to

mount winches Dec hardware it's a big

project not to mention the stack pack

and new sail itself so we'll start it

here we'll see how much I get done I'm

gonna start with deck hardware first

because I want to get up to the top of

this mast and I need that winch in to

haul either myself or Lynn up there so

we'll get that going today you know this

this winch here it's a great winch

it's a harken 42 and I've tried to find

another one because I want matching

winches on this Kabataan can't find it

so I'm gonna pull this winch off and put

two matching winches on there harken 46

is a little bit bigger a little bit more

power and we'll be happy with those I'll

save this winch for something else down

the road so we'll tear that out today

start building the the riser and the

backer plates and then start with the

deck hardware we've got quite a bit of

deck hardware to go down associated with

the main we have we'll all go over that

a little bit I also want to do some line

control I don't want these sit and

buckets anymore we're gonna put nice

line bags on either side to control the

lines keep those off the deck keep them

dry and out of the elements that tucked

underneath here I've got a lot to do

let's go inside and see what I have

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starting to line things up in here I'm

gonna steam up okay here's our new line

bags this is gonna handle winch storage

and here's the new clutches going in

this one will be for the main halyard

and the traveler this will be the

topping lift and the alcohol and some

other hardware associate with that I've

already built some of the backer plates

when I was building them before and

here's our new winches

let's bust these open take a look at him

okay here they are these are our new

harken 46 to speed self tailing winches

you know the drums are a little bit

fatter than the other on the 42 and it's

got a textured rump so it helps grip the

line I think these are gonna be a great

fit for our boat so to get these mounted

I have to build my riser and backer

plates I've actually set up a cut room

down here in our guest stateroom I don't

want the rain to slow me down today so

I'll be working in here I've already

laid these out that's step 1 get these

all cut out shaped routered and smoothed

out it's gonna be raining the rest of

the day it looks like but I want to be

prepared for tomorrow I want to have all

this ready so we get those winches in

start installing all the rest at deck

hardware

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okay as you can see I just slightly over

cut my line jigsaw doesn't do a real

fine cut here so what I'll do is shape

these in now with a belt sander and then

router them up

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another day and we are cooped up inside

so lots of things going on

again this place is torn apart just

lurking inside today because training

and fight honestly I don't care I dread

it but I don't care because we're

getting some stuff done

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how's it going look at this so bad

it's not I just hate all these little

black things you know how hard it is to

clean that you how many more do you have

to do it's the last one

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so teal with Emma are on the dogs right

now because it is crab season year round

around here as long as you use the flat

traps if you look over here the whole

dock is filled with people just crabbing

it's kind of fun

this Emma's first time so she's just

been hanging out here with teal just

doing a little hand line just getting a

kick out of it all the little ones she

just to measure it up and see if anyone

is of size most of them are fat that's

still fun to do

alright what's going on oh this is bad

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still fun though

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any more than anything Emma just likes

picking them up and putting them back in

the water

you catch one okay is it a male or a

female first of all okay bring it over

the dock look look and I'm gonna teach

you how to measure it now see this gauge

right here yeah you measure from there

see this one right here it's it's only

five inch core so it's just about a half

an inch too small but real close go

ahead put it back okay we'll let Emma

continue crabbing she hasn't got a

keeper yet but she's having fun

meanwhile I gotta keep busy get this old

winch off

there goes

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all the hardware's out just got to break

this butyl tape free Oh west up grabs

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so be a little trickier

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they're girls

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so the new winch has a different bolt

pattern

so I'm filling this old bolt pattern

with thickened epoxy

it's just slightly thickened don't want

it to seep into that core gonna rain

tonight so this should fire off just in

time so while that epoxies curing emma

has caught about 20 crab on our little

dock here but they're also small we're

gonna head over where all the other

people are they seem to be catching the

big ones over there we'll see how we do

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okay we're only 100 yards from the boat

but it's about a mile walk to get over

here but this is the good spot right

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look at these cool harbor seals

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I have everything ready for these winch

installs built my riser my backer plates

I've modified the hardware and I've

actually put in the port winch already

and it went in real smooth happy with

that so I'll show you how I did that on

the starboard winch it's actually pretty

simple you have to break the winch down

to gain access breaks into a few pieces

here

now I'll be able to insert my hardware

these new park and winches are meant to

be fastened through the deck with a hex

headed socket bolt I couldn't find the

right length but I did find these but I

can't get these to fit in all I need to

do is slightly modify them and they

slide right into place I have 10 of

these to modify I'll have to get these

all done before these go down before we

install this I'm going to tell you why I

use plates on both sides of our core our

entire boats made with 90 core it's a

polypropylene honeycomb composite very

light but very strong if I were to just

bolt straight through this with a washer

on the back well like any core if you

have a balsa core foam core when you

have a skin on either side you have a

chance of crushing the core so the

bigger the plate the stronger it'll be

and you could avoid that crushing so

that's why I do it in every deck

hardware application I'm putting plates

on both sides of the core

this winch is ready for installation I

have put butyl tape around the perimeter

and this is to seal between the riser

and the deck I've gone around all the

hardware so that I'll have a nice

watertight seal I did not put any butyl

tape between the riser and the winch

there is weep holes at the bottom of

this winch and I don't want to chance

plugging those up if water does get in

it needs a path to escape so this is all

set I'll go outside now and lay out the

pattern on the deck get that drilled out

and if I measured everything correctly

this winch will just slide right into

place I'll be able to put my backer

plate on big fender washers and locking

nuts tighten it all up and this winch

will be installed as well now it's just

a matter of putting this back together

without all these pieces blowing off the

deck

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feels good doesn't it

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so we've had so we've had a lot just

noticed looking all the color were

wearing okay already so we've had a lot

so we have got we have God

so so we've had a lot of questions for

many people asking where is our mainsail

so it feels really good to start phase

two of our sail plan speaking of

questions you guys have a lot of those

for us as well

so next week we are going to be doing a

QA and if you guys have any questions

leave them down in the comment section

below and we will try to answer as many

as we can

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video see you then bye bye now that the

video is over I'm gonna go check on my

crab trap

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