On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle Emma goes to Splicing school on our 435 catamaran SV basik while Linh makes a 5 star dinner for Teal's birthday. We gear up for big projects over the next week as we prepare to start moving once again. Come back next week to see what we accomplish...see you then!

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I have been down in my stateroom for the

past two hours now I've been hiding out

from tea on Emma

because today is splicing day and I

don't think they've noticed just yet

that I've been missing for so long

because Till's giving Emma a lesson on

it I absolutely detest splicing not that

I can't do it I just absolutely hate it

because it's it's a lot of work and it's

you got to have a lot of strength in

your hands and your fingers and I really

don't have that so for whatever reason

emma has shown and I guess an interest

in it so good for her and one less thing

off my list of things to do

I've just been you know I always try to

be supportive and helpful with tio and

his system and all his projects but

there are some things I would much

rather be doing literally I would rather

scrub the bottom of the boat then splice

and you can quote me on that because

Tila I'm sure is gonna put me to work on

one of the holes while we're scrubbing

throughout our travels and the other

good news is is Oregon has lifted some

of the restrictions to allow us to

travel a little bit more freely you know

with this whole coab we've been watching

the cases in each county and all the

counties that we are planning on sailing

in to have lower cases than the area

that we're in right now so that is

really positive news for us and even if

we go into Northern California which we

will be you know they have a lot more

cases but I feel really confident that

we can self contain a social distance

even there because we really don't have

that much of a need to go on to shore

unless we need to provision and we do

have friends in the area that said that

they can help us out in that aspect so I

feel really good about that and that is

why it's so important for us to get all

of these

how new hangars installed in the next

few days because once we get a weather

window which hopefully will be soon

we're having a system of southerly x'

and it's no fun sailing into the wind

I'm hoping that it clocks around and we

can be able to sail because that is the

main reason why we want to get all of

this done because I want to do more

sailing than motoring it's just been

it's been a little frustrating for us

just kind of having all these setbacks

in our travels when we just started but

I'm hopeful that even in light of all

these obstacles that we've had that we

will be able to push through and start

enjoying ourselves I would much rather

be down further south in warmer climates

and waters that we can actually swim in

without fearing hypothermia and just

being able to be more active outdoors so

wish us luck we have a lot to do and I

think that we can get it done in the

next week or so

okay I guess it's time for me to make a

showing don't see you they've noticed

that I've been gone

and also if they've made any progress so

we're gonna actually help much they've

gotten done because I'm kind of curious

to see hello guys hello how's it going

I'm pretty good we've got a couple

knocked out already we've look at this

we've got this is our our main halyard

right here okay

and this is our topping lift and I have

put a soft shackle on the end of this

look it everything's whipped and I've

got do you remember that this is called

a Yale stitch whip stitch a Yale whip

stitch yep got that go ahead are you

good trying to give me a lesson here no

I don't need the lesson I had no idea

does okay it's all about learning today

okay so no matter how you do it

do you like this yeah it's fun oh my dad

made me this a little cheat sheet here

so I've done the first two she's watched

him I'll probably do one more in the let

her try couple so Emma does that mean

that you're gonna take this over cuz I

really don't like it it's really hard

obviously you don't like you've been

hiding out downstairs I've been working

working I've been cleaning I saw you

bring a glass of wine down there

meditating any hydration okay well we're

gonna do one more and then Emma's gonna

try one okay cool all right well I'll go

back and clean up some more stuff don't

finish meditating yes

okay so watch on step one here

see the fit yeah so where do you think

you mark the line well nothing to see

here

okay this is how easy it is okay so hand

me the number 10 fed first

yeah that is correct

so you take one bid length and we mark

out a that's our a mark right there then

I'm gonna slide the line to whatever

size I we want and I want a small I

thought like this on here no not a

thimble on this this one's gonna be a

soft I spice so we wanted about this big

so I go straight across and Mark out be

pretty easy so far yeah amb got it yep

okay after we have those marked yeah I'm

gonna go about two meters or about six

feet yeah and tie a knot remember that

yeah okay we have to pull

the core out of mark be try to do this

without this is the gotta be real

delicate here just kind of get it

started with a smaller fit yeah you

don't want to fray it up and just kind

of work it out like this yeah okay as

soon as you get it out see how it starts

to untangle right here sort some tape on

there okay that'll stop it okay easy

yeah now that the core is exposed before

we pull on it

this was mark be we're gonna mark the

Cornell at B then we're gonna pull this

out we're gonna take that fit we're

gonna mark see that one fit and then go

roughly 3/4 of a fydd for mark t okay so

now we have a b b c and d okay okay now

we're gonna insert this into the

smallest fit that will accept it lock it

in and I'm gonna go in to my core at C

so watch this and here you got to make

sure it slips from nicely through the

center see that yeah there's D right so

we're gonna come out at D see that yeah

then you pull this through and remove

the fit we're gonna taper this

this is kind of hard I would do it with

the tape still on sometimes okay now

we're gonna do is pull this out and kind

of milk this so it's nice and tight but

we don't want to we don't want it to

slip too far out of here so I'm gonna

put a piece of tape on here to temporary

hold it okay see we have going here yeah

okay now I think this is the hardest

part we need to take the core and we're

gonna dive it in right here and then

bring it all the way through and we're

gonna pass this intersection this is

that B intersection we're gonna pass it

about four inches or about ten

centimeters and then come out okay I put

it on the smallest vid that could accept

it and I put a little extra tape on here

so it doesn't fall out

okay so then we dive it right in here

and he's kind of make sure you're going

right down the center yeah okay hold

that up well just make sure it goes

through nice and clean you could kind of

feel it as you go kind of just milk it

back yeah so right about in here okay

see that yeah you just dive it straight

out and give it a pull pull on that

really slow they're coming yeah keep

going no you're good keep going okay

just like that

now you can untape that go ahead pull a

little bit further okay

right about there yep okay

now here's what the muscle comes in

we're gonna pull this tight right here

yeah see that right there we're gonna

take this tape off now that was just

temporary okay and now we have to start

milking all this slack see all the slack

on here yeah we're gonna milk all this

back and bring this all together okay

after muscle on this for a little bit

we've got this right back to our

original mark here see that yeah then it

leaves this big long tail here

yeah but we do first is mark it see that

yeah now what people do is pull this out

I don't want to taper it on that mark

now when I milk this back in here

okay let's put some pressure on this and

we have our eye splice now we just need

to whip the ends and put more Yale

stitch in okay you want to do that or

shall I you can and just like that one

more done this is our main sheet I have

whipped to the bitter end and put a

double Yale lock stitch in the eye

splice so I feel real good about that

how do you feel I think that I won't be

able to do this yet I want to watch you

a few more times I know I think you do

the process fine it's the polling at the

end yeah hey takes a little muscle so

how about we work as a team on the next

couple ones yeah I can memorize this

pretty easy I know you like your little

cheat sheet okay I'll have to admit

though my mind has been wandering while

we were doing this thinking back to

yesterday do you remember last night's

dinner my goodness it was my birthday

and it was amazing I've been asking Lynn

for beef wellington for years and well

it's because I've never tried it

she has been intimidated try it I don't

know why because she absolutely nailed

it delicious

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you

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I am so happy

most of our parts have come in one of

the upsides of being in a marina during

this lockdown is having a physical

address to have everything shipped to

and this marina has been so

accommodating to us so if you guys are

ever in this area check out port of

Astoria they are awesome they have been

nice you know these are projects that

we're trying to get done well we're

gonna some of them done before we leave

and we wanted to order extra parts for

projects that we can do down the road

because we know that right now we've

been here for a while and we had an

address while we're traveling it's gonna

be a little bit tougher to get material

and parts in so we wanted to kind of

over order and get some material just to

kind of fill in gaps in case we get

trapped at another port down the down

south from here well we well I mean

obviously it's gonna happen but it's

just nice to know kind of getting all

your parts and all your materials in

line for future projects that you know

you're gonna have to get to oh and you

know what I'm I'm excited to get

something started so let's get these

open and see if we got

well it looks like Lin ordered most

everything I need to finish up this main

sail project actually I'm look at these

parts and then we got to be close I know

there's a few more packages that are

doing here we'll see what's in those but

for now I got plenty to do here's our

new cars for the traveler even picked up

a bunch of engine parts we got new oil

filters we'll be doing that oil change

all this in preparation to head south

here's one of our two winches came in we

have one more of this on backorder

I think that'll show up in the next

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what I get done I have a feeling it's

gonna be a good week hey happy birthday

Oh

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we birthday to you happy birthday