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previously on onboard lifestyle

we started the process to tie the hard

top into the salon room

we made a long rip to expose fresh core

then slid our top into position

five posts were then installed with king

starboard backing plates

with the top secured we focus on lacing

the seam together with a series of bow

tie inlays

using west system epoxy and core mat

this connection feels solid but it's

just

one step in a series of laminations to

make this high stress seam

sound

well we've been busy the past few days

preparing this surface

you know with the bow tie inlays in

place

that's not enough strength i mean it is

strong

but i don't want any cracks forming

along this seam

so i've been preparing this surface so

we could put

fiberglass cloth laminations over the

top

to do that first thing i needed to do

was

grind back the existing deck i ground it

back

six inches

it's a windy day today but we're still

making it

luckily it's blowing in the right

direction away from everyone else

and we have the vacuum all hooked up so

whatever it is it teals grinding is

going straight in there so we're trying

to contain as much as we can

with the deck ground back i then

concentrated on

starting to fare this out i used

thickened epoxy

and just started skim coating and

finding low spots

smoothing it out and for the most part

just filled it in as smooth as i can

i did that because when we put the glass

cloth over this

i don't want any waves or humps or

anything uh

telegraphing through so the more i take

out now the smoother it's gonna lay down

so one project i had to complete before

we started making

laminations was to work on this rain

catch gutter here

it stopped here when i built this hard

top and i

extended it out and i did that for a few

reasons

kind of gives it a better look kind of

blends it down into the deck rather than

having this abrupt

square edge here but mostly because the

water was draining out

i didn't want it just taking this sharp

corner and then shooting right down to

the daggerboard trunk and then diving

onto this lower deck

i want to divert it so it hits this

other rain catch down here

that way we not only have this 120

square feet of rain catch up here

we'll have another couple hundred square

feet of rain catch down here

all our tankage is forward so it just

makes sense to get all this water as far

forward as we can

i still can drill a drain here

and put a ball valve on it and be

filling jerry cans here if i want to i

got options

or i could just push everything forward

put a nice filtration system in and

collect all the water

before it hits the tanks so i had to

build this a little extension

it was pretty simple to do

looks like everything is ready for glass

now

i've hand sanded this out i feel pretty

good about

the surface everything plants out nicely

so let's get some cloth down

okay i've laid this out i'm gonna mark

it 12 inches

off of this we're going to be using a 12

inch 8.37 ounce

uh tape and i'm going to run this

up and over and all the way across

so i'll wet the surface out it's a bit

windy up here

trick is laying this down without flying

all over the place

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so

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things are just flying everywhere

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i don't know what that is

on my way right about there oh my gosh

that's a little drama to this layup with

the wind blowing so hard but i want to

get this down

can't sit around and wait for a calm day

right now we got to get things done

i like that attitude i said it for you

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okay i'll need uh give me like four more

pumps

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so i got this first lamination done

really fought the wind i knew it was

gonna pick up a little bit

didn't expect 20 25 today we had this

material flying all over the place but

it all laid down feel good about it now

had to babysit it a bit

cold though heading inside

the girls just took compass for a walk

and i wanted to

say something you know

doing projects day in day out

just boy never ending sometimes it feels

like

especially on the heart on the hard we

have limited facilities

and you know i do okay with it i'm a guy

i could handle

anything it's i mean it doesn't phase me

much but i know

it's tough for the girls and boy they're

both just such

troopers especially emma it's been a

rough year for her

you know not seeing friends and family

and having

you know just kid time it's it's been

difficult

so i wanted to do something fun

i was looking for ideas to do and then a

patron of ours randy

i want to thank you he lined up

an amazing day for us off the boat

and i'm excited to share this with the

girls they don't know yet

but we're not doing any work today

now you can have a go as well if you

like

i would love to have it yeah so you're

welcome so what we're going to do today

is we're going to depart from napa

county airport

we're going to fly over san pablo bay in

san francisco bay

then we're going to go around the golden

gate bridge we'll see alcatraz san

francisco

angel island treasure island we'll fly

up the coast as we go past

the northern headlands you'll see a lot

of world war ii

fortifications that they use to

potentially defend san francisco that's

right up amazon

yeah cool we'll circle around that a

little bit if you like

and then we're going to go and we're

going to go up the coast

probably up to bodega bay it's really

pretty and we'll come back across

the um the sonoma and petaluma valleys

back into napa cool cool we might have

sells like right on the way it's going

to be a great day i mean the

weather is just so what's the aircraft

it's a chestnut 172

that will be flying it's the most

popular single engine airplane the

cessna built over 44 000 of those

airplanes we have three of them we're

about to get a fourth cessna of

basically we won a new brand new 172

from cessna

so we're going to be getting that in a

couple of weeks how long have you been

here

we've been here in napa for about um

since june 2019 but we've had a flight

school in the sacramento area for

about five years okay cool

we're a little excited we got our

headsets yeah we got our headset

and we are all set to uh take a little

tour

yeah this is gonna be really cool

finally we get to do something fun

right yeah so they're not that heavy

about 1800 pounds wow

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okay we're gonna do um

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so

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so

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that was so much fun oh my gosh it's so

nice to be able to do something that has

nothing to do with rope projects i think

we all needed it and quite honestly i

am so done with boat projects so

it was so nice yeah it was awesome it

was really cool

so i think that because it's kind of

we're kind of going with the same theme

of just

fun and relaxation i'm gonna make a

special meal for the crew tonight

and i love finger foods and i have a few

ideas

in store for them tonight well what are

we having

you'll see

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shirley temple and margaritas

nice dumb oh look at the spread

this is upset that we're having

margaritas without him obviously

once again the meal looks amazing you

know

apparently we're going to be

neanderthals and just use our fingers

of course how is that

do you like it or do i start thanks for

watching this week's episode of onboard

lifestyle

it was so nice to take a break from boat

projects to do the flying tour

over the san francisco bay area extra

special thanks to randy our patron and

mike the pilot

i will never forget that play it was so

awesome

we are back at it on the projects

because i think we're almost ready to

get back

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