In this episode of Onboard Lifestyle we crack open the engine compartments on our custom catamaran sv basik for the first time in eight years. This is just t...

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okay that's it crunch time boat is

getting comfortable so we need to shift

gears you know there's a lot of other

little creature comforts what we want to

do to make this boat finished but we're

running in that time we have 12 months

till we're leaving the dock so we are

going to start concentrating on systems

and life and safety and one of the

systems being the engine we have not

started these engines in eight years

I feel good we're sitting in fresh water

we did a fresh water flush on them and

pickled the engines and pickled the

tanks before we shut them down but now

it's time to get them going when we

built each of these staterooms I had to

gut out the fuel system I had to take

out all the electrical the wire

harnesses engine controls so that is the

first project get these engines going

there is no starting batteries and I

don't even play stupid the starting

battery so I will be cutting access

through the bottoms of each of the

closets and building battery boxes and

having a nice place to put those it's

important to have easy access to those

so I could check and maintain those as

well as the fuel systems so we've got a

lot to do I mean this is one project of

many after I do the engines we're gonna

tackle steering we have hydraulic

steering the rudders aren't even on at

this point we have k-cup rudders and

they've been in storage forever I need

to rebuild those we need to make sure

the dagger boards are functional and

then on to life of safety all in the

next couple of months and I don't want

to drag this to the last minute I want

to make sure that we have some of these

items done months before we leave so I

got a lot to do it's time to get busy

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okay first thing I need to do is put an

access plate into the floor of this and

figuring out where it needs to go is

going to be the fun part so I need to

peer through the engine cowling and see

what needs to happen

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just a chilly morning

look at these decks pretty cold out this

morning

okay now that I have access cut into the

engine compartment let's take a look at

these projects here's my main access

here built this earlier works pretty

slick okay so let's take a look at this

a nice yam our engine it's only about

500 hours on these but this has been

pickled for eight years just sitting

here I need to do quite a bit to get

this thing up and going well obviously

look at this here's my your they just

kind of sitting here I need to mount up

over here fuel filters I also have my

seawater strainer which will probably

mount back over here because I have

access to that of the hatch here is my

coolant reservoir I'll pry them out that

right up over here I need to get the

batteries in let's see batteries should

go let me close this out now that I have

this nice access

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I'm gonna build a battery box right

there I think it's a nice big open area

I get to it easy for service so quite a

bit to do to get this one engine going

and the good thing is I have two of

these to do so after I finish this one

I'm off to the other hole I do the same

thing over so it was good practice on

this side I better get going okay now

the fun thing I need to dive down in

here and scrub it all clean cuz I can do

quite a bit of epoxy working here and I

need it spotless so this will be fun

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okay working on the engine I've applied

an engine cleaner to get all the gunk

off there and here's how it works

ha ha very funny I'm your engine cleaner

your today look and look at shiny gosh

look at dusty everything is I know I

cannot wait to get this thing all

insulated paint water painted insulated

and up and running now running that's

what I'm excited for I know

ok keep at it and you're doing good ok

the next thing I need to do is get all

this engine linkage that has coiled up

alongside the engine here this is all

the linkage here's my transmission and

here's my throttle and then this is the

wire harness it for the engine controls

that go out at the helm all this needs

to lead to the helm so I need to get it

out of the engine compartment here and

to do that I just drilled a big hole all

the way down into the edge of our main

and I'm gonna feed some conduit right

there so that goes right there it comes

out under here

that's the first step okay now I'm gonna

have everything sweep up run along this

wall and at the back of this axis

there's a small it was a small deck

plate I took that out I'm cutting a

larger hole to get all this enough to

get through there we've got quite a bit

different here

I want enough space around it that I can

still have access so I took the deck

plate out and I'm just cutting a big

square hole for now this is in the back

corner of just a crawl space we'll see

how this goes it's cutting pretty easy

so far but we'll keep going

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okay got my access hole cut now the idea

is to run all the engine controls

through this conduit I'm gonna leave it

open-faced on this wall that I want to

put I gritted out this wall to put these

all down this wall that'll give me

something to zip tie it on and just keep

control as I'm trying to get it through

this crawlspace

so it's weekend and projects and

cleaning day is what we have to do okay

hi what do you do okay I'm gonna help do

some projects I don't know I already

started two loads of laundry and moving

things around so then we have to address

any moisture issues during the

wintertime and Till's working on the

engine and air conditioning on just

working in spacious conditions

trying to get this conduit on the wall

this is for the heating no this is for

engine wire harness and engine controls

okay

keeps it up off the ground yeah I have

to elevate it as I come through this

access hole here there we go okay I'm

backing out oh that looks like you

already built this hatch so this will

give us access in here to the battery

battery and also the sail drives sail

drive maintenance yeah

and I've ripped apart your stateroom

sorry

it's pretty good huh okay not much

longer maybe two weeks okay so here's

where I stand

now I can start shuffling some wires

through there

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got it

okay I've tied a messenger unto this

table and that'll help me pull the wire

harness you're on the next

let's go check out see what Lynn's doing

I hear a lot of commotion up here see if

she's up to she's organizing her pantry

look at this it's all done labels you

got everything labeled or anything

labeled everything is organized now I

just got to figure out how to get this

all back in the pantry well I already

did it I did the math it's gonna fit I

know it's hard to believe this is gonna

pay you know but I know it's good you

know better look at this stack it's

bigger than you I know but I gotta

figure out how I'm gonna organize

and remember where everything is okay so

obviously all the stuff that's in the

front I'm going to remember but it's all

the stuff behind the scenes so I'm kind

of thinking I have to do a list on each

shelf what are you doing oh just having

fun this is cool

you did good okay so all this has to go

back in the pantry fits in this little

Locker

I guess hard to believe it fits all well

you guys better get well I'm thinking

I'll do a list of everything on the door

so then because it's three deep and I

don't know how I'm gonna remember it or

actually grab it because it's I can't

reach it that's what it's what I'm for

you could get it yeah but at least you

have the space I know I guess deep

breaths we get lower okay I'm not

complaining

get busy

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basic he even hurts himself pretty bad

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