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previously

on onboard lifestyle we remove our old

batteries

inverter and charger and install

battleborn's bb

112 batteries along with a victron

multi-plus

3012 and bmv 712 smart battery monitor

all as emma was a bit reluctant to help

with the guidance from battleborn's

technical support the installation

went real smooth we're exposing your

little dirty secret you're messy

the crew was anxious to test out the new

system so we buttoned up a few projects

and did just that

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okay i could sit here and test the

system all day long

sitting in the marina but that's not

what we need

you know what we need to do we need to

get out of here out to a nice anchorage

and really see how these new lithium

batteries perform

did you hear me lynn i heard you were

going today

today i want to go this morning let's go

now

you didn't tell me just let me wash my

face and then we can go

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i've been working on our lazy jack

system

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okay think we got this

i hate sewing this is kicking my ass

oh you're doing good just stay positive

because

i'm trying to but literally this stack

pack is beating me up i'm like

and like it's eating me alive i swear

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okay this is a big day for us yup emma's

getting her braces off

my braces i'm getting my braces off

today i'm so excited

i know it is a big day for us this just

means that we get to leave after this

pending weather of course but how do you

feel emma

my teeth are gonna look like normal

teeth normal teeth

as opposed to the non-normal teeth that

you have right now yeah

okay we're right on time let's get in

there

so i'm just going to squeeze on these

and come right off

any last words emma no

yeah so how does that feel great thank

you you're very welcome so what we're

going to do is we'll take impressions

and we're going to make a series of

retainers

some to wear some glues okay how's it

feel

feels awesome does it feel slimy yes

from start to finish my experience with

dr payne and his staff was amazing

dr payne understood that we were on a

tight schedule and so he worked hard to

give me the smile i could be proud of

i will always be grateful to him and his

staff at american river orthodontics

thanks guys

you see and notice that we are

in our dinghy on the dock why you ask

well it's melting

we have had this dinghy for

a good nine years and it's done well for

us

with one exception this is a pvc

dinghy and we're realizing that it is

deteriorating

a lot faster now that we are in

warmer climates and it's only going to

get worse so we're going to try to

i guess prolong the life of this dinghy

for as long as we can

until the time comes that we have to

get a better one in the meantime we have

a lot of cleaning to do

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we need to get this mini hard top up

so we went and picked up our post from

the

fabricator the other day

where we're gonna go

and then i see the uh yep you got the

two in the right orientation

and then the blank perfect yeah i think

it looks great

okay so did you do these yeah

these are a little a little difficult

but charlie said huh they were tricky

definitely we'll see we'll see i mean

they're no they look like they're dead

on i mean look at sight in each one of

these they are such a tricky one because

it was kind of a compound

right so well cool it looks great it's

time to get these in

got a little break in the wind take

every chance i can

to work outside

if you followed

all of my templates everything should

just slide into place and the first one

does

that's a good sign

so far the posts are lining right up

a little bit adjustments here and there

but it's just going pretty smooth put

the next one in

just put a little wrap of butyl tape on

here

i don't want any of these little bolts

leaking through i'm all set to install

another post here

i'm using starboard lumber backer plates

i built

backer plates a few weeks back

for all the hardware that had to be

attached to the hard top

i kept making all of my factor plates

and risers

the risers are for the solar panels

actually there's a couple of backer

plates here as well

and these larger backer plates are for

the copper over the helm top

cutting it out of king starboard lumber

i use a hole saw

to cut them out i shape them on a belt

sander

and on the backer plates i use a quarter

inch round over

works pretty slick a couple different uh

riser

thicknesses depending on where it goes

on the solar array

then we're about done

just a little bit more finish sanding to

make these look pretty

so

our helm top install has been kicking

our butts guys because this

is just dragging on forever and you know

we were able to find a welder to do our

framework fred

was he did a great job and honestly we

wanted him to do our post but

he just didn't have the right equipment

but i always have a plan

and so i called charlie who did our

original post

and he said that he could absolutely do

it for us so not only did we

drop it off on friday for him but he got

it done

over the weekend because monday morning

it was ready we were trying to

not use charlie just because we had

moved out of the area and driving to

the napa area is an additional hour and

a half

so that was a little inconvenient but he

pulled through for us guys he did an

amazing job

so this is all based on teal's

calculations

so we put the post up there and i'm

hoping

as soon as the wind dies down we're

gonna see if teal's calculations

let's put this up even in the wind i

think we can do this i'm scared it's

gonna like fly off

well let's try at least all right let's

do this

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teal has been tearing apart our boat

our lithium batteries are in okay go

ahead let's get going

looks like i have everything in

our first night at anchor after

all this time and all this hard work i

feel like

celebrating so we're going to be making

some

pastries with some puff pastry and a

lemon cream filling

i don't think i have slept so well in so

long it just is the best feeling

being out at anchor with

just the seas or the water just kind of

rocking you to sleep

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thank you

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okay first breakfast at anchor i'm

excited

i'm hungry help us you get down

dive in

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we'll see if i can do this without

losing the

the mic this anchorage

is beautiful with the exception of one

thing

first day we got here it was quiet

wind picked up a little bit in the

afternoon but ever since then

it's been blowing 25 to 35.

every day starts building in the

afternoons

peaks around seven eight i'd say six or

seven o'clock

and then starts dying off we do sleep

well here

get a nice calm evening but boy during

the days

it's howling yeah we started with

25 30 boats when we got here

they've slowly whittled away to none

left

we're the last ones

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it feels good to have the anchorage to

ourselves there was both dragging all

around us

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our rock has been holding pretty steady

got an anchor watch system going

let me hang on here and we haven't

budged one

foot

this is sustained 30 right now

gusting to 35.

it's a muddy bottom here and

we anchored in seven feet of water at

low tide

put out a hundred feet of chain

so i think we have a good scope well

obviously we do we've been holding this

steady for four days now

i'm going inside

okay so what's the consensus i know what

i feel

yeah let's talk about these batteries a

minute i

am absolutely thrilled our

last batteries the flooded batteries you

know we kind of got into a routine where

we knew how they performed and we'd have

to

kind of juggle our power consumption and

shut off the refrigeration occasionally

and kick on an engine here and there you

know

solar was not quite keeping up with it

but these new batteries holy cow

we were out there four days five days

five days four nights

and we'd wake up in the morning and the

state of charge would be at 92

to 94 which is amazing we've barely

touched this thing

and we're using them we're not shutting

off refrigeration we're running

it was blustery outside we were really

cold so we were running both of our

diesel heaters

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and they didn't even budge

i mean why i don't think we made a dent

on those batteries

well we did a small dent but but the

cool thing i thought was

even though we were at let's say we were

down to 92 one morning

or if we were by nine o'clock every

morning those solar panels

even though we only have 500 watts right

now they were

putting out anywhere from 350

360 to 375 watts which was about 25 26

amps we'd be topped off and our

batteries would show a hundred percent

by nine o'clock maybe 9 30 at the latest

it was kind of overcast here and there

so i mean that excites me

especially since we're adding another

600 watts yeah

and i think that extra 600 watts is

gonna be important because on

totally overcast days if we hit spells

of of

heavy clouds we're still gonna be able

to top these batteries off

really fast i have no doubt that it's

gonna happen so

also i'm thinking now since we have so

much power

uh we're gonna probably get an induction

cooktop

as well i love cooking with propane but

going into

other countries we're hearing that it's

gonna get more and more difficult to get

those tanks refilled so

having an induction cooktop is uh in my

future

and i'm thinking why not if we could

handle that and

our solar's keeping up and these

batteries could handle that load

boy that would not even be an option

with our flooded batteries this is a

absolute game changer because this just

means that we can be offered much longer

and being able to have the refrigeration

um you know we can do longer passages we

can do

the crossing to the south pacific you

know who knows it doesn't matter

because it's got power as it stands

right now yeah we could be off-grid

indefinitely

that is cool i mean smiles on our face

well here comes the wind again

here we go so here's to more power

to the lithium batteries loving them

for watching this week's episode of

onboard lifestyle

these past few weeks have been wild i

got my braces off

my dad installed our new lithiums and we

went awkward

i love being on anchor and it was thanks

to our changeover to battleborn

batteries

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