On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, we are finally working with a FULL crew! That's right, the Captain is BACK and we are ecstatic. We hit the gro...

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welcome back to onboard lifestyle

well first things first look at me

i'm standing i feel pretty good this

week

we're gonna have a real productive uh

week on this

hardtop project you know it's

been feeling a little bit like

groundhog's day just lamination after

lamination after lamination same

process sanding and faring in between

each coat

but we're at a good spot right now to

kind of change things up

start working on the edge treatment

shaping this in

getting the light soffit in so it's

going to be an exciting week

been thinking about it and getting down

here and working on this every day

for the past 10 days and that's about

how long it took for my back to get

to this point

but with every lamination we put down

this thing got a little more rigid

and we have a few more laminations to go

but i'm feeling pretty good about it

actually

been tracking the weight of this project

by just calculating which materials

we're using

and so far we only have 105.1 pounds

of material here that includes the core

all the cloth

the resins hardeners even the fairing

compound

so we're doing real well my goal

for this entire hardtop is 200 pounds

if we could do that we're going to come

in half the weight of

the last hardtop we do have some more

metal work

that we'll be picking up this week and

we'll see what that weighs but i'm

assuming right around 100 pounds for the

the support post so 300 pounds versus

555 pounds

i'm happy first thing we're going to do

today is uh

just start laying out the soffit and

i got to start working on this edge

treatment to maybe shape this thing in

got a lot in my mind right now so let's

get to work

first thing i want to do today is

actually start shaping this top in

i left these nice square corners just

for the ease of trimming

the laminations as we laid it up now

that we are

nice and rigid i've put a

nice radius here and we're going to

knock off

three corners anywhere

where i don't want lines coming around

and hitting a square edge it'll be

easier also

you know there will be a raised lip that

goes on here be easier to wash the boat

rather than getting into a tight corners

in some of these areas so even though

this isn't a walking area

i think it's gonna just be easier for

maintenance

later so let's do that first

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i've now knocked the corners here and i

want to do this for a reason

this is actually the staircase going

down into the cockpit and i didn't want

a sharp edge right here

and to match i did the all the other

corners throughout the hard top just

they all look similar

with the exception of these two here

this one and this one

these two actually get glassed into the

coach roof and it'll be glass

straight across here so i wanted to not

knock those out just spent the last hour

now laying out you see this pencil mark

now

this is our light soffit going down and

that's going to add a structural

element to this hard top and really give

support to the center of this you know

we have

it'll be glassed in on this end with

eight down posts

that are connected with internal backing

all the way around this but the center

i mean this spans 11 feet wide

that's where i really need the support

and that's where this structure is

really going to help so we'll get laying

that out

and uh i want to start this project and

bounce to the edge treatment

back and forth because there'll be epoxy

work on both and while once drying i can

work on the other

and vice versa so that's going to be the

next step

is uh start laying all this out and get

the materials cut

so we are back at it we are

measuring up to work on our light soffit

and also the edge treatment for our hard

top

and obviously we don't have all the

tools that are necessary to build this

and uh we are so fortunate that we are

in the same yard

as another channel sultan tar and ruth

and garrett were generous enough

to lend us a table salt so we're just

waiting on them now

and we can get going on ripping some of

this plastic lumber

and start this project deal

exciting it's gonna be much easier to

use a table saw on this one

i want a pretty precise cut so it'll be

pretty handy

just take it easy i am

not heavy lifting mister feeling much

better

going spry

right

thank you so much you guys really light

yeah we had our first one

right here

it's like a full service yard

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yeah it's super convenient yeah let me

clean it up

you're gonna have this light stuff are

you sure you don't need to hang on to it

for a little bit no i mean

no we're good

oh that's bad

yeah thanks guys after this maybe when

we have some down time we can grab

another drink

not too much i won't go out for

margaritas before coming over

and then drink a lot of that whiskey i

don't know that was kind of fun

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maybe like two less margaritas yeah

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i want to thank ruth and garrett for

bringing their tables all over thank you

guys

that was awful nice this is our edge

treatment made with pvc

uh moldings it's ultra

lightweight rot resistant and it's gonna

be perfect for

our application next thing i want to do

is take all our remnants

from laying up our our top

i've got tons of this

sitting under here i'm going to take all

this and rip it to

three inch ribs that's going to be our

light soffit

it's pretty easy to cut i've shown how

to do it before so i'm not going to go

over that

but we'll get that all ripped up and

start laying out this soffit

so after all this

honeycomb is ripped to width

i'll just tack it to my outline here

with a little hot glue this way i can

get it exactly where i want it

before i start laying up the cloth

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pretty simple the strength isn't with

the hot glue it's going to be with the

epoxy and the glass laminations that

are covering this this is a nice way to

hold it steady while i'm working

uh

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so

well look at this it's all tacked in it

is

set it's time to start the epoxy work

i'm going to use thickened epoxy and run

a bead around the

interior and exterior of this whole

perimeter

i'll use a one-inch craft stick to give

it that nice radius

and just kind of lock this in

permanently

lynn's upstairs right now she's mixing

up my thickened epoxy

so this should go pretty quick oh and

bonus check this out

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our post came in just a few minutes ago

so things are coming together yeah this

exciting project

teal is down below prepping everything

so we can

get back to the structural soffit

and i am back to being his epoxy girl so

i'm gonna be having some fun but i

brought everything up here

just because it was so windy downstairs

and the 406 as soon as i opened up the

top was flying everywhere so

it was not a good scene

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hey

thank you

okay i have my thickened epoxy

i'm just working my way around i use a

one inch craft stick i actually cut them

in half so i can get two for one out of

them

and to clean it up

just scrape an old used gift card

or credit card

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does an amazing job

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uh

well that was a nice push there

nice radius of epoxy

feel good about it that was quite a bit

of work about four hours

i'm gonna call it a night because i

could smell dinner

baking right now you know lynn's got

the most amazing meal cooking right now

it's a baked fried chicken

smells wonderful even on the hard she

always

impresses

let me just say i am so so happy that

teal is

back to his normal self and i can be

back up here

doing what i love which is cooking i

love being in my galley and i love to

cook

even though we are on the heart and it

is a little bit

tougher to cook while we're out here

because

there are limitations number one being

we have running water

but we can't drain out so we have to

contain everything that we use

so it makes things you know you really

think about your water consumption

and the amount of dishes that you use we

do not use plastic or

paper plates i hate disposables just

because it's wasteful

and it's not good for the environment so

we still use our normal dishes and our

flatware

and that means that we have to wash

every single day so

obviously i have to think about our meal

planning

because i want to have less of a mess so

for tonight we are having crispy baked

oven

or sorry crispy oven baked fried chicken

and it's gluten free because we do have

a lot of friends that have asked for

this because

i don't really think much about using

flour it's not a lot that i use

anyways but you know having that option

really

makes it easier so when we have friends

over

or we have someone with an allergy it

just it works and it doesn't taste any

different

it helps us want to eat some

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and that is it i have my dredging

mixture i have my chicken and it's all

nice and dried and

of course i have my glass of wine this

is the key

to creative juices so aside from that

you know what's funny

is that um i realized something i do

things in odd numbers and

i don't know why well maybe i do

i my favorite number seven so i always

do

pumps of epoxy for teal in increments of

seven and i notice here that the chicken

pieces are there's only 11 pieces it's

not 12

it has to be 11. and i have one glass of

wine

so that's just what i do it's a little

quirk but

i'm okay with it so all you do is you

just

dredge it and you just make sure it's

all evenly coated

and just pat it off and you let it sit

for probably about

20 to 30 minutes in the fridge

and then it's all set and ready to go

into the oven

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and that's it now that i did a second

dredging i just did a slight spray of

olive oil but that is

it and these babies are ready to be

popped in the oven

so we have it i'm gonna be

emma loves it when i make

baked crispy fried chicken this is one

of my favorite

she has a lot of favorites and as you

can tell

she has grown quite a bit in the last

couple months and she is now almost

five inches taller than me so obviously

i'm doing something right

can i just say i am so happy that we

finally after two weeks a fully

functioning crew now

because it's been brutal for emma emma

and i

have had hard hard labor

for 14 days but you really look like you

really stepped up thank you for that

i love when my mom makes my favorite

meats

yes emma is a total carnivore so

she's happy

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