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on last week's episode of onboard

lifestyle

we lifted basic with the yards brownell

hydraulic trailer

we'd spent a few months on the hard so

this was a milestone moment for the crew

all the hard work and the countless

hours all seemed to fade away as we saw

our home slowly travel the length of the

yard towards the launch ramp

it was a long 10 minute journey down a

gravel road but the yard crew of the

napa valley marina

they've done this a thousand times so

basic slid back into the murky napa

river with ease

once we were back in the water we

decided it was time to leave napa

so the next morning we left at high tide

in order to avoid grounding

the napa river channel markers are far

apart and if you wander

the river gets shallow fast as much as

we enjoy the napa

valley and all the friendly people we

were very excited to be moving again

and start exploring new places

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the morning started out pleasant enough

until we hit san pablo bay

the winds picked up and of course turned

right in our face

even though the wind was against us the

strong outside was in our favor so we

made great time

we covered 32 nautical miles in just

over four hours

it felt so good to be underway

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so it's official we are now in san

francisco bay

and actually it's uh richmond bay to be

exact

i gotta say this is just beautiful we

got here

and it just got warm it's 81 degrees

today so i am

very happy you know i'm celebrating

well you know i've observed this over

the years

lynn is like a thermometer you can tell

the temperature by what she's drinking

if it's cold red wine the warmer it gets

the lighter the color so look at 81

degrees

she has a nice rose gets in the 90s she

goes with a nice crisp

white if we get in the hundreds it's all

bubbly

and brunch enough of that

we want to do something that's very

different than our usual

well before we get into that what look

at these views

we're looking at downtown san francisco

brooks island across the bay here this

is

i i just can't get enough of this so i'm

just okay

go on sorry he's in awe anyways okay we

want to do something that's different

than our usual videos

and that is talking about cost

you know typically we're real private

about the financial end of things

but we thought this might be a little

fun to i think it's a little interesting

so that you guys can kind of get a

concept or an idea

of what it takes for a build like this

yeah and this was just one project

building the hard top and we had a

couple other things that we did while we

were on the hard

so you're gonna break it down we're

gonna break it down and look at those

hard cops

i gotta say it was very painful counting

and

adding up all those receipts but

it had to be done and it came in i mean

nothing was shocking

so let's get into it

i'm just gonna jump right in here

i've split this up into three categories

the hard top

miscellaneous projects we did while we

were on the hard

and compass see somebody on the dock no

and the yard face come here get over

here buddy

so let's talk the hard top you know

there's quite a bit of material that

went into this hard top

and the biggest expenses were

the epoxy and the fiberglass cloth yeah

the epoxy resins and fairy compounds

came up to

dollars and 1140.20 one cents coach

i know it was an ouch the fiberglass

cloth

one thousand two hundred three dollars

and four cents

ouch again

the core and the edging material wasn't

so bad

we used the carbon core which was the

polypropylene

uh honeycomb panels that we got from

carbon core

and the pvc moldings that we actually

picked up from home depot

the total there was 721.85 cents

that felt pretty good because we ordered

that first

at the beginning and i was like this is

not bad we're in good shape

it was nice to stagger these expenses

over the course of this build

but we still had a ways to go

uh paints and primers and we used

the you know all the paints we used yeah

so we used the all

interlux brands just because we're

familiar and very comfortable with it

so we use bright side paint for the top

coat

um we did the barrier coat which is the

2000

e which is great for uh epoxies

and it works great above and below water

line i mean it would probably wasn't

necessary

above the water but it was nice we just

have

learned that why not use the right

product

yeah and then so then that way the paint

won't fail and the total on the paints

and barrier coats was 614.78

the metal work that was our our shocker

we had just another ouch

yes we just had a few posts built and

this was the only thing

that we didn't do ourselves we subbed

that out to a local

uh metal fabricator and you know okay so

he quoted us or he alluded that it would

be a lot less because teal did all the

heavy work of all the templating uh but

when we got the bill

it was a lot more than what we

anticipated but you know i don't know if

there was a

i don't know if there was a

miscommunication i can't complain the

guy is a

really good job so we can't really

complain because we have to post and

they were

very everything was spot on yeah

pomp is it's a he chases flies

go get it buddy go get it oh go get him

so the metal work came in at 985

next item we had some miscellaneous

hardware to attach the metal work

compass you're never going to catch it

get over here buddy

just 15 worth of uh nuts and bolts to

attach the posts we have some

miscellaneous

items as well uh originally we built a

big wood frame

it was a a mold and it's a platform for

us

to uh build this hard top on and what

else was in there we had to

rent we rented one tool one day and

there's some other little miscellaneous

items

total two hundred eighty dollars so the

grand total

for the hard top and just the raw yeah

material yeah

in the material costs 4959.88

now i know that sounds like a lot this

is 118 square feet

of of coverage that we have here

it's 42.3 cents a square foot

that's with the helm top as well so and

yeah exactly that's

everything total and we have all the

materials to finish this

out uh and we'll be doing that here

shortly but

i guess my point is this

this wasn't out of line for us i mean we

kind of had it in our mind

you know we're not adding our labor

costs into here because i mean how do

you

it's your home and so you you can't

factor that in because you're always

going to improve on your home your boat

anything that's yours

and so it's it's hard to put a you know

a

a dollar amount on on your own labor

so it's a labor a lot i know people will

put that though but

you know what this is uh it wasn't out

of line it was right where we thought

we'd be

we thought it would be right right

around five thousand dollars in cost and

we came in within

just uh well within i mean we

saved a little bit if we bought let's

say uh

the five gallon drums of epoxy

um or something like that but you know

it's

it's also nice because we're in the yard

um and to support

the the store there as well yeah they

have a small channel right there so we

were buying a

a gallon at a time as we needed it and

it worked out real well i i

you know it it the reason

behind that also is we didn't want to

have any waste and we didn't want to

have

extra reserves kind of on board

right because of the weight factor it

wouldn't it wouldn't be nice to buy a

five gallon

jug and then have four gallons left over

we wanted to be

kind of light and lean when we left here

we have a little bit of epoxy left and

we'll

we'll use that up but that's where we

came in we felt okay about that

okay so yard fees

yes this one was a little and this is

misleading to me the yard fees because

we're going to give you a number here

that sounds outrageous but

there's a lot of factors involved here

okay so

haul out for our vote at napa valley

marina

came out to thirteen hundred sixty-four

dollars

and that includes the hauling that's

including the um

you know haul out and relaunch but also

it's different because uh there's

different rates for if you're

up on their sled i guess no well you

have the the trailer versus

uh their rail system the rail system so

um it's a little bit less on the rail

system but on the rail system

there's a time limit yeah how long you

can be on there yeah the rails are made

for

if you're going to be out of the water

for like a couple days or a couple of

weeks the rails work great

yeah but if you're going to be up the

time that we were right so what they

have to do is

so they charge you a little bit extra to

put you on the trailer

oh go get it geez so it keeps him very

busy

uh so it costs a little bit more to haul

out because they have to put you on the

trailer and then

move you to a spot and then jack you up

and they use

extra jacks jack you up

let's call it they put you on jack's

dance

i like they don't jack you up let's

strike that

anyway napa valley good people

so they use extra jack stands and that

costs a little bit more as well

so 1364 for the haul out and relaunch

and

that is in line with other places we've

hauled out

it's not outrageous that is uh we've

hauled out in other places and

i mean that's it's a reasonable price

right okay so the next thing

is is that they have a if you're there

for more than 15 days

there is a i don't know

well the first 15 days the first 15 days

they charge you

lay days and versus just being on the

hard and

at a monthly rate monthly rate yeah so

the first

15 days they charge you for our vote

75 a day which amounts to 12

25. 12 25. oh sorry 11.25

still ouch um so that is not included in

the monthly fee so the first

two weeks that were there they charge

you lay days at 75 dollars a pop

and then we get to the monthly fees

yes well after you pass those 15 days

you're on a monthly

uh a monthly charge which

is better uh because at that point we

are paying

600 a month uh to be in the yard

and then um and it's a that

so yeah yeah i mean that's pretty it's

pretty standard

and that's totally reasonable i mean 600

a month it's not bad

um so that amounted to how long we were

there

31.50 3150

yes so and then we were there a total of

well

let's get this in napa we were

we showed up there we spent one night

then we were on the hard for 161 days

we launched we spent one night and left

so we're talking total of 163 days

in napa so 30

150. we're gonna be paying fees

if we're at another marina somewhere

else but we don't want to be in marinas

obviously

but you know in the winter time it's to

do projects and do this yes and this was

just a convenience store

and this was a kind of a different

time for us regardless i mean we're

dealing with a pandemic where

we wanted to get some projects done so

it just worked out well for us

okay then the last is liveaboard fees

so they charge you uh they charge

us um a little more fee on top of having

your boat

in the yard and that is three hundred

dollars

a month so we paid for people yeah so we

paid one thousand

six hundred eighty and that is to cover

the electrical the the water

the usage basically there's showers

there's facilities there's all sorts of

things that that uh

covers right so the grand total grand

total for 163 days

of yard fees is 7

319 dollars you know that sounds so

yeah that sounds terrible but teal broke

it down as he does

per day per day 44.90

now if we were to jump into you know a

marina

downtown san francisco we could pay a

couple hundred bucks a day there

so 44.90 i am not while we're working on

the boat

yes i mean it's it's like totally

reasonable i mean it was something that

we needed to do

and so we bit the bullet and we did it

so that's the cost for our yard fees

the last subject is the miscellaneous

projects

i call it the bonus bonus these are

things that

you know we were going to get done

anytime you haul out these are the items

that you want to get done regardless

and so we're going to kind of go over a

few of those as well

we service the sale drives so we had

cell drive zinc sail drive paint uh

through holes bottom pane things like

that all sorts of things

the sail drive zincs for uh we had two

sail drives

both things 45 dollars and 90 cents

the sail drive paint uh the trilux three

three we had a can

already on board but we had to buy the

other ones we purchased one more

53 86 cents that's right one can of

paint 53

and 86 cents so you know it seems to me

that seems like it's crazy because

everybody associates a can of paint with

three to five bucks but this stuff let

this protect yourself

yes if that means that our our sale

dries are protected

i i would rather pay the fifty three

dollars or ninety six cents it's worth

it it's worth ten times that or a

hundred times

i sail drive that's right and we have

two so

it pencils out we did the the

through-hole

bypass uh the alternate intakes for our

engines

and we ordered the parts and that came

to a total of 170

dollars and 83 cents that was uh

i'm happy that we did that and i feel

much safer

knowing that we have an alternate way to

cool the engine so

uh that was a must bottom paint

was obviously we needed we used

how much two gallons

two gallons and a quart yeah two and a

half two and a half gallons

yeah roughly that's always a shocking

number

you know bottom paint is uh and we use

the what

we're still very happy with our bottom

paint the interlux

bottom coat fiberglass bottom coat aqua

after

15 months of coming down the coast the

only barnacles that we saw that had

growth

um was on our transducer and that wasn't

painted yeah was it painted with bottom

paint so

um we're going to continue with this

product until it proves us

otherwise no no um we do like the heart

scrubbable we're not fans of ablative

so yeah it's no fun you know we plan on

uh

the the further south we get the the

more we're gonna be in the water

so i'm not a real fan i know you guys

aren't either

of jumping out you know after swimming

alongside the boat and having little

black scup marks of bottom paint on you

yeah it's not that good and

you know what it just means that it

gives us extra reasons to exercise and

dive

and just scrub the boat that's right so

i see that as a win-win

so that one was and seventy dollars

so all the little extra miscellaneous

things we did while we were on the hard

we had totaled out at 740.59

that gives us a grand total over the 163

days

of 13 19

and 47 cents

grand total i don't

so yes that was um sticker shock

i guess uh but you know it i think that

it's

it's better because if we were to have

somebody do this

we would still have extra costs of being

somewhere else

um and not having the quality control

right and

obviously people are you know craftsmen

tradesmans are going to charge

a lot more for their time and i i guess

the a big point that i want to make

clear is that

could we have done this cheaper you know

everybody wants to know if we hired it

out

could have been done faster could have

been cheaper you know that

to me i mean we've spent so much time on

this boat

and we've kind of put our heart and soul

under this boat

and it i don't know it pains me almost

to sub it out i

love to work on this boat so it's going

to be something that

that well it's our pride and joy it is

it's a labor of love

and it's our it's our life it's our

hobby it's our it's everything

foreign for teal to relinquish

the the control of the the quality of

the build

to somebody else so could we have done

it cheaper maybe i think so

well maybe who knows i think so honestly

i mean i've talked to friends

they have you know obviously they have

different boats every boat is different

everything is customized on a boat and

from what

you know i've heard from other you know

other quotes they have received

obviously in other parts of the world it

was a lot more than what we were willing

to

to dole out i have to say yeah i i want

to continue cruising i don't want to

break the bank

right and i think that um we feel good

about it

you know it at the end of the day it's

it's

you know you have to feel good about

your decisions and i feel

good about our decision and you know we

built what we wanted it turned out

exactly

as we thought and we couldn't be happier

and it is now a teal when designed

that's right

with with a lot of emma and compass

influence where is emma

she's been swimming and paddle boarding

all day

where is she still out here yes what

hello

now that we have the breakdown of the

haul out taken care of

and broken down for you guys let's go to

the next question which i'm sure that a

lot of you will ask and

why did it take 161 days

to build this hard top and the quick

answer is

is it didn't take us 161 days it's just

life

and you know

we were on the hard 161 days and for us

we didn't document

when we were working when we weren't

working but it's easier to take those

161 days

and look at the other aspects of our

life that took away from us working on

the hard top

and so let's kind of work our work this

uh problem backwards let's see

how many days we actually worked on the

hard top

you know we've we know that my back went

out

yes so that it was about 10 days total

but lynn was able to do some work on the

boat so we're going to take off

seven days off of that total of seven

days of

not being able to really do much and i

mean i think that's pretty

lenient it may have been more but we're

gonna call it seven days

we had five orthodontic appointments for

emma

and those are big days for us and it's

about an

hour and a half an hour and 45 minute

drive each way we have the appointment

we'd usually

do grocery shopping and we kind of

burned the whole day for that so we're

going to back off five days

uh for orthodontics uh when we first got

to

uh now i'm going to talk about this so

when we first got to napa

teal had been feeling um kind of under

the weather and we didn't

obviously we're not going to talk about

that because who wants to hear about

that right

it was right um but really the the

biggest thing was is that he was

really lethargic and just run down

he was nauseous a lot and we were kind

of concerned about sleeping and sleep

he was sleeping a lot any time he wasn't

working

he would kind of just snap sneak

off and take a nap and so we knew

something was wrong so we had to

go and find a way to get a doctor to

diagnose him and find out what was what

was the the issue and it was a

quick easy fix well it's hard because

obviously we're traveling we don't have

our normal doctor so

and with with kovid you know it's not

like you can just

walk into an urgent care or anything

everything

is video zoom new protocols yeah new

protocols

so we were able to figure out that it

was his medication

and we found a great doctor in the napa

valley

that was able to diagnose him and switch

him and that took

a good six days to kind of straighten

out well

i would say it was probably a few weeks

of me feeling this way but i'm still

working half the day so we're going to

call it six days of loss

yeah i think that's uh appropriate and

then obviously the big thing

is filming and editing and that takes a

lot

the bulk of our time running our channel

uh

you know we were on the hard 22 weeks

three days a week

easy is what we both put together uh

and work hard to get this channel going

that's a total of

66 days of the 161 days was just

dedicated to

filming editing uh social media and

doing everything it takes to

to run our channel yeah i mean it's

you know if you were just to do a a

project

you know you don't normally figure out

the lighting and and

angles and stopping to explain what

you're doing you just do it right

i know and it's so it takes a little bit

longer for every project to get

completed

we'll be laying up a fiberglass layup

and we look back and all of a sudden the

the sound was scratchy or the camera

battery ran out so we'd have to end up

retaking it so it's all these little

hidden things

66 days we're allowing for that and that

is

again uh conservative i think you're

being very conservative on that and then

well i want to talk about this weather

was a big factor but i'm not gonna even

count weather

i had 22 days of

severe weather or cold weather or extra

windy or just

just driving rain that we couldn't work

on the hard top but those days i could

edit on so i'm not even going to count

the weather days

he's being nice uh i'd say

the second biggest thing that uh chews

up most of our day is

emma's homeschooling um

we split we're very hands-on in regards

to her education that's right we kind of

split it up but it still takes a

yeah and so what will happen is a few

hours a day a few hours

we about four hours a day total between

the two of us we

we spend with emma doing uh her

homeschooling and she's doing great by

the way

yes i'll do two hours and lynn will do

two

hours so if we just take those two hours

times those 161 days because she goes

seven days a week to homeschool

uh that's 40 40 days to take off of

off of our total then there's the

materials and travel

right not everything can be shipped in

right so we spend a total of only three

days over the whole

course uh for traveling to get materials

i'm pretty good about trying to optimize

it's like okay i get my list of things

that we have to do

if we have to get um out of the yard and

i really try to limit my time

outside of the yard so when we can

really get some work done

right but sometimes it just you know we

just have to do it

okay another one i i call this

miscellaneous because it's

things that you don't really think about

that pull you away from

uh your your daily job and that would be

running to the store uh getting

groceries doing laundry

do it i mean going on walks with compass

these are things that

chew up a big chunk of the day but we're

only going to call this over the course

of the 161 days

11 days uh and i think again that's

pretty conservative

there were five holidays that we that we

just kind of took a day off and

can you name them i counted them up once

we count

thanksgiving yep christmas eve christmas

day

new year's eve new year's day well

that's already five there but then you

have

you know our anniversary or whatever

anyways there's holidays so we only

counted five days off right because it's

nice to take five days off for a special

day

i think so so if you add up the days and

working ourselves

backwards on this we were there 161 days

we just rattled off

143 days that only leaves 18 days for

the build now obviously that's

probably not accurate but i base these

on eight hour work days

so that tells me that we were working 10

12 hour days to enable to get this

done so 18 to 24 days

if we were to do nothing else we could

have done this project i think we could

and you know i mean literally if we

could have been able to do this like

let's say in a

a warehouse or you know an enclosed

place

i think and not have anything else in

life to do but besides this

it would have went a lot faster it would

but you know if we feel okay about that

after

figuring out that you know what yes

these projects must go on

but life happens too and we're trying to

enjoy it as much as we can

given what we've been given we've always

said you know our life is not a race it

is just an experience

and we're having a lot of fun right

that's right it's only going to get

better

this is where we kiss just force

yourself

bring it in

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