On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we install our ground tackle on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik and leave the dock for a nearby anchorage. At a...

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and good morning welcome back to SB

basic well the renaming ceremony went

late into the evening last night I think

everybody had a good time but it's time

to get busy we are on the dock and only

plan to be here about a week we have a

lot of things to do number one on the

list is ground tackle we have to put in

our new rakhna 25 went loom our v1

windlass 150 feet of high-strength chain

5/16 and everything associated that to

make it run smooth and so I feel

comfortable at anchor we will be putting

in a bridle system and all this is gonna

go down to the next day or two then on

to the next item but for now let's start

with that ground tackle it's a big

project and it'll give you a peace of

mind knowing that that's done so let's

get busy

ever since we got back into the water

we've been like really busy we did the

renaming ceremony and we're working on

some more projects my mom's making of

enemies pork chops which are some of my

favorites

my dad got some parts for the windless

right here

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hi go see it I'm up to come down here

check it out

so I'm drilling a couple of these holes

this is our deck I just kept this out I

have one more to cut out here to three

inch holes for our windlass I need to

get all this core filled with thick and

epoxy tonight so we can install the

windlass tomorrow

okay I'm knee-deep into installing this

windlass now I've got all my bits and

pieces I think I'm in a good position to

get this thing installed now let me get

you up to speed out here what I'm up to

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I've drilled my holes I've got all my

backer plates

I need backer plates on this because I'm

drilling through 90 core mounting this

290 core and 90 core doesn't do real

well with compression so every time I

have to put something that carries a

load I'll do a nice backer plate on

either side I drilled the holes and

filled the core with thick and epoxy

I've also been working down in the chain

Locker here let's go down here and take

a look at what I'm doing

okay there was a little bit of damage

and bubbling in the veneer here so I've

filled dug it all out filled it and now

I'm gonna lay extra glass cloth on this

wall this is where the chain will be

dropping so I want to make sure it's all

beefed up I'll be doing that today and

mounting the windless I also went around

anywhere there was little holes I fill

them I don't want any moisture or water

that's gonna be coming down this chain

Locker to enter into any of the

structure so this is getting watertight

now with three drains so I think we're

in good position

I'll get the win let's go on and get

this glass going today a lot to do but

this is fun

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okay pull the lead real slow okay it's

not working oh there goes okay it looks

good all right okay yep just trained tit

okay I'm pushing down to the wet last

step it's a little tight well just

wiggle it back and forth a bit and

they're gonna go it should go right on

it it is it is though okay okay here's

all your nuts and washers don't drop

because there's this there's the drain

right below you so make sure they don't

go down the drain okay I just don't know

try to get one on it's cuz the butyl

tape we gonna have to compress the butyl

uh-huh well I'm standing on this put

pressure on it once the butyl starts

compressing you'll have more and more

bite on there so try to get one or two

started okay okay is it gonna work yeah

they're long enough there should be

right there yeah they actually are gonna

work take it okay ready he'll trust my

strength okay hand me the motor

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jeez it's heavy I know it's a beefy one

here greased the shaft

there it goes it's like my job never

ends thank you

a big pour for such a small little space

it's not small ok this this sheet is

four and a half feet by four feet this

is packed in this corner it's like your

low pretzel go over there kept putting

on the Mantis swivel looks pretty

straightforward pretty beefy they say

it's the strongest link in your chain

it looks pretty strong we'll see how it

goes

okay feeling good about the mechanical

ends of our ground tackle ar-rahman 25

seats perfect into the bow roller look

at this does not wiggle one bit I'm

liking that we put in our Mantis swivel

followed the directions and I feel real

good about this it is one beefy swivel

put a chain stopper in and everything

just lines up the way it's supposed to

feeling good about it next thing is look

at this hooking up the stab Bridal

system these are 5/8 i nuts that are

going right through this main beam here

they're gonna be nearly 20 feet apart I

drilled the first hole here and the

other one will be way over there get

those in with Loctite and lock nuts

I felt pretty safe here's our bridle so

let's get this in

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can we finished up all the mechanical

aspects of the anchoring system had to

modify the bow roller got the windlass

installed all the backer plates are in

everything feels real strong I'm real

happy with it now I'm starting the

electrical end I'm gonna run up to

admiral real quick and borrow their lug

crimp I've got five different cables to

put lugs on and they've got a better

crimper than I do so we'll do that first

so while teal is back in the chain

Locker he's gonna have me heat shrink

all these cables I guess I like it kind

of cool

okay let's take a look at how all this

wiring turned out my battery compartment

is right here under the now station and

what I ended up doing is running

straight off the bus bar to its own 90

amp breaker the 98 breaker goes straight

to the unit itself it's only about seven

feet so I was able to calculate down 12

volt 90 amps 7 feet with my blue sees

app and it suggests 6 gauge wire I use 4

I upped it one size because there isn't

great load on that and it's better to go

over a little bit than under I ran the

wire straight to the contactor which I

actually mounted on the back side of

this bulkhead it's a nice dry location

and from there straight to the windlass

there was quite a bit of other wiring

coming off the windlass there was a reed

switch that comes off the motor itself

or a chain counter which is optional I

didn't install that there was also let

me double check a thermal cutout that

comes off the windlass motor as well

optional I did not install that but

everything else I used I did put a

remote access unit on there so we could

have a remote out on deck to operate the

windlass and everything wired up

actually pretty smoothly one thing I did

add was this roller system here as the

chain came through the deck and see how

close that comes to the motor here with

the curvature of the hole look at this I

didn't want the chain to rake across

this motor at all so I ended up putting

this roller system in to divert it

around and keeps it nice and clear

now that we have finished our

installation of our anchoring system we

decided it was time to head out of the

marina to test out our new ground tackle

even though we know it'll work

flawlessly we still wanted to test it

out before leaving this area it was

definitely time to leave the dock and be

on the hook we could still work on

projects while we're at anchor and at

the same time cut down on our marina cos

being in the marina and on the heart was

a must but we didn't anticipate the

length of our stay by getting off the

dock it was a huge morale boost for the

entire crew because this is what we've

been working towards this entire time

and it feels really good

besides the views not too bad either

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okay guys so this is it this is our

first day at anchor in a very long time

and I gotta say it feels so nice

I thought that I would forget everything

that we did before but it kind of just

it's like riding a bicycle it just kind

of comes back to you we're rocking

around and just kind of taking in the

sights Emma's really enjoying it already

the movement is so different than on the

dock and I'm kind of digging it it's so

calm right now even though we have we're

just anchored out right now a little

premature but it's just nice to get off

the dock one because it's costly it

costs us a lot to be on the dock and we

could do projects anywhere at this point

so that's what we're doing that's what

we're doing

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Taron tearing into the solar because

we're not gonna last too much without

power we have probably three days with

the batteries but we'll get this solar

in today and tomorrow it's kind of

exciting right it is I'm excited for

this we have way more solar now than we

ever had before and we're only gonna

double up on opened a year and this is

fun work this is this is fun yeah it is

we're gonna start monitoring everything

that I use aren't you know we should

have enough solar to handle it we'll see

though if we need more solar will get

more solar that's the beauty of solar

it's he is so hard on me about how much

power I use but the good news is this

time around everything for the most part

is LED so I'm not gonna consume as much

I mean I'm still gonna use but we're

more efficient we're much more efficient

now so kudos for technology

well the solar projects actually kind of

fun to do started it last night started

wiring in the panel's themselves those

will run into the crawl space over here

and I'll be mounting my victor on 15 amp

controller MPP to controller

I'll put a switch on there so I could

turn the panels off I'll be mounting a

smart dongle so I could read on my phone

and tie it all into the battery bank we

should have this whole system up and

running today and that's a good thing

because right now we're just sitting at

anchor the sun's out be nice to take

advantage of all this free energy

we are on the hook less than 24 hours

and teal tears again can't even describe

what like stay true looks like this

looks really familiar but your views

better right is it when I don't have to

put this broom back to to rights again

I'll have it done in one hour and we

will have solar maybe an hour and a half

we'll see how things go

so teal and Emma on their way back from

getting propane and I don't remember you

guys remember few months back when he

tried to prank me in the shower and I

swore I'd get him back

well it's time payback is a

you-know-what let's see if he falls for

it nobody gets me and doesn't get

payback

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someone was really upset that you guys

would have got him how is the propane

run okay so I'm gonna go check on him I

think he has probably another hour so

but let's just make sure that he's

occupied and we can do this he'll he

doesn't know anything

I had to recruit Emma because she has to

learn starting while they're young you

ready okay so what we're gonna do is

we're going to take the dinghy and move

it to the other side of the boat and

then when we go for our dinghy run it's

gonna be gun so let's do this

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this will teach your dad never to mess

with me and not get payback

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all right now all we do is lie wait

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give me the binoculars the dinghy thunk

it out here

what a nice play good thing he's gone

are y'all here he is no what do we do

funny funny

it scared the crap out of me

jerk don't mess with me I told you I get

you back okay now let's take a look at

how the wiring ended up with the solar

array and all the components it takes to

make this run efficiently soon as I show

you this

Linda's determined to get our state room

back in order so let su know the better

huh get in there and show it to you guys

okay let's take a look at this how it

turned out here is one independent lead

coming in from each solar panel this is

12 gauge duplex wire coming into this

fuse block each individual panel is

fused with an eight-and-a-half amp fuse

from there I've got the hot lead coming

into an on/off switch this way I could

turn off and on the solar array to keep

me from back charging while I'm working

on anything else on the boat so I have

that option to turn it off from there I

go in through my MPPT 50 amp control

unit the control unit has its own 50 amp

breaker right here I also have the

victor on energy smart dongle this

throws out a Bluetooth signal second

read it on my phone look at we're at 312

in the afternoon right now I'm putting

on let's load this in again it's late in

the afternoon and I'm putting out 20

amps of power right now off the 500

watts of solar way more than we is from

there it goes down to the battery bank

seems to be working just by design and

couldn't be happier with it we're making

more power than we're using at this

point I guess I can let the girls know

that they get it start running more

lights and accessories they'll enjoy

that okay so this is a much better test

for our ground tackle we're blowing 2530

right now starting to get a little white

streaks in the water

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we're in 25 feet of water we have 120

feet of chain out right now and we're

holding true I feel real good about this

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but this is what we need to build our

confidence in our ground tackle so far

I'm liking it

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