On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we test our new Precision mainsail in route to Catalina Island. The crew enjoys a few days of picture perfect weather before a gale warning forces us to make a tough decision. Come back next week to see what we did...see you then!

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Closed Captions (CC):
previously on onboard lifestyle emma

takes a much deserved break from her

parents

okay

have fun i will be good i will don't

miss us

don't miss us too much which gives teal

and i a chance to get down to business

we have a lot of stuff to do too so

on installing our new precision mainsail

with this major upgrade to basic

complete it's time to leave marina del

rey to shake down our new main in route

to catalina island

before we left i took compass for a long

walk through the burton chase park where

he enjoyed one of his favorite

activities terrorizing the local

squirrels campus get to squirrel

there's a lot of colors

i don't know where to go

see a lot of colors

only feeling blue

got the kid back yeah it was really nice

to see family but i mean i'm happy to be

back this is really nice it is so now

that we have her back it's time for us

to head out to catalina island

it's been so long since we've been there

and it'll be emma's first time so it

should be a pretty fun experience for

her

and look at this it's just beautiful

blue skies and hopefully we'll get some

wind

and she's trying to show you how much

taller she is to me

we get it you're tall

there's a lot of colors

lost within a haze

don't rely on others

to get you through the maze

the

dreams are not

the same for me

standing

by

the open sea

so

anymore

there are a lot of voices

drowning in the sea

there's too many voices

talking back at me

so here we are we grabbed a mooring ball

in emerald bay on catalina island

sun's just going down

it's warm out the water's

just beautiful

we're just hanging out what do you think

welcome to catalina island this

is obviously

an amazing spot

and look i can see california right

there

but this is just

a great start to our week here on the

island

it's just it doesn't get better than

this not too shabby no

i'm just enjoying it

the next morning was beautiful so the

crew decided to go ashore and take a

nice long hike around the area

the views of emerald bay were

spectacular and it felt good to get out

and stretch our legs

well that was fun

but it's getting a little warm

i think it's time for us to uh

take a little dip in the bay

this feels so nice to uh get a couple

miles in

it's been a while

the day is still young so i decided to

head over to a reef i saw on the charts

to try to catch something for dinner

meanwhile the girls take advantage of

the perfect weather and wander around

the bay enjoying each other's company

and the occasional dip in the warmest

water we have seen so far this year

uh oh put it away all with toys

emma says she's done for today on the

paddle boards

and we had a little issue right

i don't want to talk about it

you went fishing and what happened

well

i'm going to say that

outboard

would not start way out there

and what did i do i'd roll back

but about four rows in

four lock breaks so that just added

insult to injury right i was sweating i

was hot

i was cussing

were you not really

put up man

i mean here we are

in paradise right now

and outboard's not working

looks like we have to paddle everywhere

now

until we get into some place where i

could uh break bust into that thing

that's not that easy well

i don't know if it's going to be

difficult but it's just going to be a

mess i don't want to do it sitting here

so we enjoy and then look at that

there's a fishing boat right there they

catch it

because you were right around that area

there's like a little rock area right

there

man

oh well oh i think they caught something

shut up i'm just kidding

so the day started out sunny 80 degrees

clear as can be we had a great time

outside then these clouds started

pushing in i heard there was this

monsoonal moisture pushing from the

south with a potential with some energy

in it and it hit us they hit us quick

over the course of about an hour it just

clouded up

it's all pushing

actually it's just pushing east of us

we're missing most of it we're getting a

few scattered rain showers but they're

evaporating pretty quick

but so much energy in this lightning all

around us super cool

welcome home emma

it's nice i like it

this is crazy we haven't had

rain

like this and how many months since

seattle

no we had some in napa i know we had

some but this reminds us a poem doesn't

it

it's crazy it's like lightning and

thunder

i mean there's so much energy up there

it's just like

electricity all around us for the last

what eight or ten hours now

pretty cool actually

look we had to bring everything in

because we wanted to get wet

it is just

dumping out there i am pretty proud of

compass because

he's just kind of chilling he's just

relaxing

well that was an interesting night

you know we didn't think we were

supposed to get much wind out of those

uh cells that were rolling through

but we sure did about two

two o'clock this morning

25 to 30 knots sustained for about two

hours

out of the east so it just blew right

into emerald bay here

got a little bit of this fetch left but

we had

i would say two to four foot rollers

just crashing through here it was uh

it was a roller coaster for a while

i was watching uh boats

all these boats out here

anchor and re-anchor a few times last

night

nobody could get a good bite it's really

tough to anchor here off the island it

just goes to

uh 200 feet real fast

so

like this boat right here i guarantee

you he's anchored in 75 50 to 75 feet of

water so he's got a lot of chain out

oh well

the wind's died down to nothing

just waiting for uh

this bay to calm down it should uh

pretty soon

looks like it's gonna be a nice day

though

we rode real nice here on the on the

mooring and

i wasn't worried at all

okay don't

this is new for us

there's a slight current in wind

and we got to make sure that the mooring

line

clears it

so it doesn't get tangled in our props

okay borderline is sinking down

hold on

more

just got to watch out for the mooring

behind us

and clear this mooring in front of us

behind you i did

where do you want me to go out here

no

let's pivot this way it's over here

baby steps for teal

he's letting me take the helm a little

bit more than he used to

so many mooring balls around here okay

there's 800 mooring balls on this island

really

that's a lot

took up all the good anchorages they did

i know look every little coke because

it's packed with mooring balls

and no boats

it's midweek nobody's out here

well so far we are enjoying our stay on

catalina island we

spent a couple days in emerald bay and

now we want to go over to cherry cove

before we head into avalon

our

original plan was to

head after our state here to go to

oceanside pick up a couple supplies then

head into san diego but during the time

that we left marina del rey and got to

catalina island there was that big oil

spill and so i've been checking around

most of the ports are closed

no traffic in and out of the harbor

and oceanside is clear from there but

the airport is full with all of the

emergency vessels that are out to help

assist the cleanup

so that option is off the table so teal

and i were talking this morning and most

likely we're just gonna uh

head straight from avalon to san diego

and do an overnight passage uh and just

you know just deal with it it's just uh

it's really sad thinking about

all the sea life

and all the beaches and everybody that

has been affected because of this oil

spill

just sucks

in the meantime we're trying to stay

positive and just enjoy our surroundings

while we can

hopefully we get some wind i always say

that because i always want wind

but probably not a good idea when you're

picking up a mooring wall

doesn't that uh rock look like it's

glowing yeah this is so beautiful

ah

it looks nice but you know that there's

a storm brewing i know

are you just contemplating life

i'm catching dinner

yeah

we'll see

what are we having for dinner tonight i

want fish what did i catch for dinner

we have a straight bath but it's we need

more a nice little sea bass for you but

you need more that's what i'm trying to

do well you guys eat a lot

well i will do my best if only we had a

shore boat to take us

along the rocks

oh we could paddle over there

i'm not paddling

bring that thing up i'm

still

a little torqued about that

yeah that's depressing

it's okay we're gonna get down

back into port and get it fixed we'll

get it fixed i know but for now look at

this

i know everywhere we go we got a paddle

at least you have a paddle

i can't even row the thing

broke the orlock

i know it was kind of pathetic watching

you um

fish on the paddleboard yesterday what

it was actually gonna find i might do

that again today

i just vision myself catching a big one

and it serves me around the bay

that would be nice

i wouldn't complain i'll follow you with

the other paddleboard okay actually i'm

thinking i might take that out i was

thinking why don't you use the kayak

no i'll take the paddle board over it's

so easy i can just go right along these

rocks

catch you a big fatty for dinner

okay maybe i'll do that

there he goes

trying to catch some dinner

this is actually kind of nice for teal

to just kind of

go fishing and decompress

i know that things break down on boats

but sometimes it's just depressing

so this is just nice for him

so i'm thinking well teal is uh out

fishing it's a day of beauty for emma

and i it's been a long time since we've

had a trim

and i know that we're due because our

hair is just getting a little too long

if it was up to emma we i'd never cut

her hair

but i think that we need a little trim

yeah

so we left catalina about an hour ago

we had a

fun time we're there i don't know close

to a week just bouncing around to a

couple of little uh

bays

it's a beautiful island but

with we have uh we had to make a

decision

we're trying to work our way south

we've got this oil spill

that's been

mucking up

all the ports

we wanted to go into newport and

meet some family and

head south from there but it's closed

so we start calling around

pretty much everywhere is either closed

or full

lynn made 50 phone calls yesterday

trying to find a place to go

there's

nothing and we were a little concerned

because

it's getting a little blustery on the

island for the next couple of days and

it's going to build on tuesday

to uh well some of the models are

showing

a gusting

50 plus

with c's 8 to 10 feet

and we don't want to be

on catalina for that

who knows if it pans out but why risk it

so we're

searching around

we have a couple projects we want to

still do before we hit mexico so we want

to hit at least a quarter two before uh

we get into ensenada

she calls around

and uh

found a place so we left this morning

it's about 25 miles from catalina

and the winds are starting to build

already

they're not bad today

10 to 15 building to 15 plus in the

afternoon

so it's perfect sailing conditions for

us

we're clipping along at

five to six knots right now uh

seas are

not too bad two to three foot

buildings to uh probably four to five

foot later in the afternoon

it's getting chilly though this cold

front is coming from the north

so temperatures are going to be below

normal here

i think uh

we woke up

in the high 50s which is rare for this

uh part of the country

and it's only going to get colder for

the next couple of days but then

it warms right back up so we'll be in a

good spot to

get in and fix that outboard get a

couple projects done

and uh still start pushing south we got

to keep pushing south we want to be an

ensenada here in two weeks

well it's a nice sale at least

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after leaving marina del rey we were so

excited to sail to catalina island and

explore

little did we know an oil spill and yale

warnings stopped our plans not to

mention our outboard dying on us come

back next week to see how we adjust to

make it work see you then