This week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, we make it back to our custom catamaran SV basik and are so happy to be home! The girls get into the Christmas Spir...

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well we made it back to Westport last

night

got settled in

and we're being pummeled by the next

round of storms here blowing 30 out here

it's 35 degrees just freezing girls are

inside it's nice and toasty inside

they're getting a going for the day

cleaning organizing and getting ready

for Christmas decorations I believe

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meanwhile I'm out here just trying to

figure out what project can I get done

with these weather conditions we're

definitely not traveling on a day like

this looking at the weather we got four

or five days in a row of this before we

even look at a window for leaving here

so it's just a matter of camping out for

a little bit get some projects done get

back in the groove and try to stay warm

because it is frigid out here

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welcome back to the Pacific Northwest in

the letter

Southern California we're missing you

already

we're trying to get there okay let's get

to work

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okay even though it's freezing out here

it's not raining so I got to take

advantage of it keep putting down deck

hardware now that I have this winch in

here this is gonna handle the mainsail

so I'm gonna put some rope clutches in

some other deck hardware every chance I

get get this one in now cuz the wind has

died down a little bit not much still

feels like it's below freezing with the

wind chill out here but oh it's not

raining yeah that road trip we did was

pretty fun actually

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about 3,000 miles we took from Westport

we went highway 101 all the way down and

did I five a little bit on the way back

but then jump back to highway 101 on the

way back

it's a beautiful scenic trip it's good

to be back on the boat though we gotta

get these projects done

we're just itch and to jump to the next

port next part from here is ill wok oh

it's about a 50-mile trip but this time

of year we up to time quite a bit of

things we have to watch tides because

going in and out of these river systems

going out on the wrong tide can create a

bad bar situation so we have to time the

bars we have to time keep the swell down

we don't want a heavy swell we don't

want ten fluid plus swells so we want to

go on a day where the swells you know

five six maybe eight feet we also have

to time the wind patterns wind has been

out of the south-southeast and we don't

want to go into it for fifty miles

because we won't make it in daylight

hours that's the only thing we need the

time is daylight hours getting in Dale

Wako is a long skinny channel and it's

best to do it during the day so I'd like

to hit that during daylight hours so a

lot of things we need to time and look

for there right weather window it's not

gonna happen this week that's why we're

starting some more projects hopefully we

could

find in a window next we will see in the

meantime we'll just keep plugging along

plenty of projects to do and this is one

of them it's awful cold out here I think

I'm gonna get this one done today and

maybe move inside you know the project

down on the inside I'm glad this is a

quick project so I'm getting cold fast

got the butyl tape on here

this should just slide right into place

I've got Lynn inside she's gonna put the

backer plate on and the washers there

goes

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okay now I'll be able to cinch this up

and that's one more project a small one

but boy gotta get inside and warm up can

you reach it stand on your tippy-toes

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okay that was a quick project thankfully

that's freezing out here so this will

handle now our main halyard and the

topping lift I'm gonna head inside and

join the girls they're in there putting

up holiday decorations it sounds a lot

more fun than this clean up my mess get

inside and warm up it was so nice to go

and visit family I have a very large

family and we're scattered all over and

state but we try to get together once or

twice a year all of us which is really

hard because we all have families and

work and you know life obligations so we

really make an effort for that it was

really nice to go down this year to

Southern California why because it's

much warmer than here and - it's just so

nice to see all my sisters and brothers

and cousins of my parents so although

that is all fun and games I'm so glad to

be back that was the longest road trip

we've ever done anyways so here we are

back here and I it's really hope you

guys is so cold and windy outside

so instead of doing a Thanksgiving

dinner right now I decided to make a

fish chowder because it's just nice to

have something warm and hearty after

being outside but I did that earlier

today and simmering and now I get to

concentrate a hundred percent on

Christmas decorations because it was up

to Emma and I we would have this up

probably by October maybe November at

the latest but teal has a rule that we

cannot put Christmas decorations until

after

November or after Thanksgiving which is

like such a bummer so here we are now

and I'm gonna go gangbusters and putting

everything up it's so fun and it also

happens to be my birthday month so I

would like to just have Christmas

decorations out year round but okay so

you guys know that this is my favorite

time of year I love the holidays and it

also happens to be my birthday month so

I'm feeling really happy and really

excited so we have decided to do a

contest so stick around until the end of

the episode and we'll give you the

details so while we are putting up

decorations I want to show you how I

prepare tonight's meal so I have a big

smile on my face because we just had a

subscriber come by

who happens to run a local fishing

charter and he brought us some beautiful

ling cod which if you guys remember back

when we were near bay teal issued me a

challenge for seven dishes in seven days

using the halibut well tonight we're

going to use one of those recipes that

they really like and since it's so cold

and gloomy not really gloomy outside but

it's really blustery outside I've

decided to do the fish chowder again

using the link hot so the bass could not

be any easier start to finish on this

chowder or soup is about 30 minutes and

I always start with my vegetables and

it's not anything fancy it is your

potatoes carrots onions celery and

garlic you can use this on just about

anything because it is a chowder I'm

gonna make it a little bit bigger

because you want something hearty and

something that will stick to your ribs

so we're gonna get started on that

before I get going on the meats you know

it's kind of funny because

if I could I would be cooking all day

long because it's just fun it's you know

I get to be creative and I love watching

teal and Emma and our friends enjoy my

food some say I'm a little food obsessed

because while we're eating usually I'm

planning the next meal you guys noticed

something my eyes are not tearing up

when I'm cutting onions I'm you guys

noticed that my eyes don't tear up

I cut a lot of onions and I never have a

problem with it I think onions all day

long and it doesn't bother me and I

realized this because I have a contacts

so there's a trick you go to contacts so

everything is propped down so it's time

to get started I'm going to go ahead and

put the bacon in

and we'll render that out and then at

the root vegetable bin okay we're gonna

put the onions in first let that sweat

out a little bit this is gonna be a

chowder so it's time to thicken this up

make our roux

so I'm gonna add a little bit of time

and a little bit of obey and just let

this simmer for a little bit so we've

been simmering for about 15 minutes and

now it is time to add the cream and then

the fish let that cook for another I'd

say 10 minutes

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and that is how I make my chatter at

this point you can add fresh corn or

frozen corn and salt pepper to taste it

really is up to you I usually serve this

with my fresh bread but since we don't

have any we're gonna do croutons tonight

and I hope that you guys enjoy the

recipe I know that the crew is gonna

love it

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okay I have to admit it does look faster

you like it you like Christmas we're

gonna break you it's not that I don't

like Christmas I just don't like

Christmas in October it's not it okay

wonderful meal we're back in the groove

back on the boat I gotta say I'm liking

it

best again well it's still a little cold

outside so I decided to jump on the

inside it's nice and toasty in the cabin

so I'm gonna do a couple projects on the

interior today we're working on our

freshwater system the freshwater system

on SP basic it is pretty simple actually

we have two 35 gallon freshwater tanks

one buried midship in each amah down as

low as we can the tank on the starboard

side handles both heads and both galleys

both the interior and exterior galley

the port tank is gonna be designated

strictly for our water maker I want to

be able to dump water into that tank as

we produce it and control that and

separate it from our other tank there'll

be a transfer pump that transfers it

over to this tank so we can distribute

it throughout the boat pretty simple

system over the past month we've noticed

that our fresh water pump that handles

the starboard tank it's been acting up

kind of making a little bit of noise

getting a little louder we have a spare

pump on board so that was the first

project at it this morning I replaced it

this pumps 15 years old and I'll be able

to rebuild this I'll tear this down

break it apart and figure out what's

making that racket in there for the

meantime I threw our spare pump in here

shurflo makes it nice and easy

doesn't take hardly any tools at all

they have just hand fittings works out

pretty slick actually all I had to do is

redo the electrical connection and the

new pump is nice and quiet purrs like a

kitten I'm really liking this new pump

while I was in here I decided I was

going to also add another option to our

fresh water system so what I want to do

is add the tank sensor for the starboard

tank and connect it up through the Wemo

board when we installed this tank

initially we buried that tank below the

master head and I put the sensor in the

tank already and put a deck plate over

it so we'd have easy access so today

it's just a matter of making that

connection tying it back to the Wemo

board so we could see that tank level I

think it's gonna help us out quite a bit

we stopped running this tank dry so

let's take a look at the water closet

okay here it is

looks pretty complicated but it's

actually pretty simple here is water

coming in from dock pressure goes

through a filtration and in and I can

control the dock pressure from here this

is our tank pressure that comes from our

tanks through the pump and into the

system here this riser here goes to an

accumulator tank and that helps keep the

pump from cycling on and off so much

from here I could just select whether we

want dock pressure or tank pressure

these feed together and now they split

apart to the hot water and cold water

systems this goes to our hot water and

that is an engine driven and electric

system but we will be adding a solar

assist to that in the future that'll be

a fun one the cold system pretty

straightforward

both these tie in to a manifold that's

in the next Locker down I'll show you

that in a minute

but this system is pretty bulletproof

the one thing you need to be careful of

is when you're bouncing from dock to

dock there's different pressures we do

have a regulator that regulates water

pressure but if you eat ever had a

plumbing leak while we're tied to dock

pressure we could be flooding the boat

pretty quickly so to safeguard that we

make it a rule every time we leave the

boat nobody's on board we turn the dock

pressure off we turn it off in three

positions here on the input on the

bulkhead and at the dock itself and that

way there's going to be never a chance

for an issue here's our manifold this

handles every single fixture on board

I'm able to individually cut off the hot

and cold for each fixture so if we ever

had an issue with the galley sink

outside I can turn off either the hot or

cold

and the rest of system stays live these

are straight leads go into each fixture

they're not teed off anywhere so it

keeps this system running pretty smooth

actually okay actually to hook up this

we McGrew p-- tank level indicator was

pretty simple I'd put the sending units

in the tanks years ago when we were

doing the installation so it's just a

matter of hooking up the signal wire we

ran it from the nav station down through

chases that we had already pre

designated and fished it down under the

stairs and over to the tank itself okay

this is actually pretty simple here's

our women group panel if I open this up

I've designated this sub panel for all

the leads coming in from the different

tanks and as a hookup each sensor I'll

just keep feeding it back so the new one

I just hooked up was right here this was

lead number five and lead number three

those tie in back to the board here so

let's fire this up and see if it worked

and there we go it's on I did put a

designated power lead back to the main

board so I could turn this off and on I

didn't want this to be running all the

time and that was just uh pretty simple

to do just pulled a lead off that sub

panel and ran it over to the main board

and now I'll be able to select which

tanks I need right now one isn't hooked

up yet I just hooked up number three and

here we go the water levels coming up we

have about a third of a tank in there

fuel was I hooked up five the other day

in Port Angeles it should be full I just

capped him off and there we go there's

our fuel so now I'll be able to just

select which tank I want on board and

I'll just keep adding knees as I need

them thank you so much for sticking with

us till the very end of this video now

it's time for the fun part the contest

as a thank you to all of you guys that

have watched us and followed our journey

we wanted to give back and show our

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guys have been following how much teal

has been renovating and building our

boat now it's time to guess how many

gallons of epoxy resin do you think he

has gone through while rebuilding and

refitting this boat to date today

leave your guests in the comments

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Price is Right rules closest one to the

actual number of gallons without going

over is the winner and what do they win

we have these beautiful Yeti mugs with

our logo on it we're gonna be sending

out one to the winner whoever guesses on

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the patrons what are we gonna be giving

them we're gonna get them two mugs and

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there so for our patrons leave your

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and then we'll do a separate drawing for

that but we'll announce both winners

next week and patrons you have a much

better chance the odds are with you I

don't even know but we did keep every

receipt so we're going to start that

tabulating and figuring it out and

figure out how many gallons you know I'm

curious too I have been not wanting to

add up that number but well guess we'll

see you next week what that number is

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