On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we reach a major milestone and lift the hardtop into position. Ruth & Garrett from Salt & Tar lend a neighborly hand to assist us on a breezy day. We celebrate our 22nd wedding anniversary with another 5-star meal prepared by Linh. Come back next week to see the next step...see you then!

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on the last episode of onboard lifestyle

we took full advantage of a stretch of

nice weather to finish up the

construction of the hardtop

we were able to sand out the rain catch

fill it

and make the final laminations to tie

this project together

fairing compound was applied before the

hours of glorious glorious sanding

lawyered all that sanding was needed

to smooth out the surface for the

barrier coat

we applied three layers of interlux

2000e

and sanded between coats

we had a little bit of fun at the same

time

we will now let the hard top cure for a

few days while we prep the cockpit for

installation

mistake there's no mistake

just happy little accident

so let's get to work

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i can't believe it guys our hard top

it is ready to be installed

so because of that

we have to prep our cockpit

and get everything ready so when it's

lifted up

we can just kind of slam it in slam it

in

apparently we're just gonna slam it in

please do even know me

and the cockpit now i don't know if you

guys remember

it completely failed the paint failed on

us

it was flaking so we sanded it down

today we're going to strip all the

hardware off

in the cockpit and start sanding i'm

going to be standing the heck

out of this cockpit this is like a

hangnail that teal won't let me pull

because she's been wanting to pull this

off for a month and i said just leave it

just let it

like does that feel good feels so good

i don't care now that means that there's

there's no going back

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well after sanding on this cockpit now

for two days

i've determined that the paint did not

fail i did

and now it is all primed we use

uh the inner protect 2000 e and

we feel really good about it so this is

when

we are ready to start making the backer

plates and working on the metal work

because

i think in the next day or so the top's

going up

it's so nice guys i'm just so happy look

at this

it's just it's almost perfect

are you frustrated yet

i'll get it so we're trying to

what well we have an aluminum arch

stainless bolts 28 years old

the dissimilar metals have uh pretty

much welded themselves together

i've about stripped out every one of my

large

phillips bits so i'm cutting a massive

slot in this thing

so i could use the big dog right here

the big dog

i'm sure this will get it i've already

soaked this with

pb blaster penetrating oils all sorts of

things

this my last resort before i drill it

out let's see if it works

it's kind of handy right there okay here

we go

there's some muscle into it it's moving

there's hope

so we're gonna cut this off then after i

get these out yeah i gotta start

shaping this to receive the top if i get

these

out

you'll get it my goodness that's tight

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i just hope you don't snap it i know

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oh it's going now

never been so relieved huh

was either that or drill them out and i

didn't want to do that

i don't want to get metal fibers all

over our new paint

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which i just did just barrier coat

yeah there we go

one down one more to go

this is number three three down one to

go

there we go good job

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you guys got it

i've modified as much as the structure

as it needs to be

i left these little tails left on these

three posts they weren't long enough to

reach up to where the hard top level's

going to be

but i had an idea for that when we had

the posts made i had the fabricator

measure the diameter of this to match

the inside diameter of this

so the idea is these will sleeve right

over these

and that'll be our new hardtop base here

we'll put these three on when they came

back from the fabricator they were a

little rough

lyn's been downstairs polishing these up

boy they feel

really nice you know we're not going for

a mirror finish but

boy that feels smooth

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looks like everything's lining up by

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plan

i'm gonna leave these loose right now

we'll get the top on

this is plenty of support to hold this

top the idea is that i could still

sleep these up and down if i need to but

i'm pretty sure

i'm right on layout pretty exciting

i better go check on lan she's been

polishing all day

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hey you're not done

i am done it looks really good plus my

battery is low so

i think that's like perfect it worked

out perfect

well it's your lucky day that's what i

was bringing you it's a fresh battery

driver are you sure those feel pretty

good they

for a feel good sass me husband i know

better

things i have to do upstairs so i think

it looks good

okay i think it looks amazing you did

good

today is a very special day for teal and

i

because today marks us being married

22 years so we are going to be

celebrating tonight

i'm going to be making a couple of

teal's favorites and

we're just going to enjoy our company

kind of hard to believe that

we've been married that long because it

just seems like yesterday

i was duped into marrying a normal

person

and we all know he is not normal

i'm a very lucky girl

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today's the big day guys we

are all set to get this thing

hoisted up in just about an hour

teal has been busy all morning just

trying to get everything done

making sure that there's safety lines

and

and all the metal work is all ready

we're just gonna slam it in

we're just gonna slam it in i told you

we can do it but the thing is is we

didn't anticipate

it to be a windy day the weather called

for a calm

calm day calm morning calm afternoon

calm everything

but now the weather's flipped again and

it's going to be

blowing about 20 miles per hour which is

not a big deal

usually but with us lifting this thing

up we don't want it to

get out of hand and fly off somewhere

so we called in some reinforcements and

we're just waiting for them to show up

so that we can get this thing slammed in

so it looks like uh our reinforcements

have arrived today

you guys remember garrett and ruth

yeah you know they have that other

channel sultan tar

i'm sure you've heard of them

anyway so thank you so much guys they're

gonna come

and help us lift this thing into place

so hopefully the wind kind of dies down

i know if not it'll be like tight

yeah teal's going to go over the here's

the plan

so it's not doesn't weigh that much i'm

guessing we're going to weigh it

actually

halfway through this when we get it up

on edge we have a scale we're going to

get a weight on this thing

but it's somewhere between 150 and 200

pounds nice

and i'm hoping closer to 150. yeah

so the idea is we're going to just take

four of us on

one on each corner we're just going to

walk it straight through this opening

under the boat here

and we're just gonna stand on the ground

temporarily okay

yeah okay so the key for this the hard

part

is the dagger perfect i have this big

light soft underneath we have to kind of

lift it up like this

okay and then get it and go under like

that okay

how much under you think in here well

just so we don't

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just so we don't hit anything all right

okay it's not that heavy

oh nice that was the whole point

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just put one under each corner

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good reflection going and this isn't

even white

this is how we're gonna pan just put one

on our summer bonds right there yep okay

go straight down now

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okay so let's just tilt it up like this

on edge and we're going to set that edge

right on the towel and then we can throw

the scale right there in the center

okay and try to get a weight

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okay go ahead set it right down right

there

okay let's walk that side more in the

center of the plywood

that way i could get the scale on this

thing about once between

175 and 180 yeah now in 80 yeah 180

right 80

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okay i'm are you ready yeah okay we're

just going to go up a few feet ready

go ahead hold

that line's gonna have a lot of stretch

on it okay go ahead and pull

okay let's just rotate it in okay set it

right there for a second

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okay i think see this we'll lip it right

on the railing then we'll go up

okay yep

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and

of course we're almost there let's just

walk it this way now

about at this position

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so

okay we need to shift that way okay

okay so just slide straight back

right there okay

okay

almost looks like it's made for it

well thank you i know

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join our crew if you can i can't believe

our hard top is finally

in and that means we're almost ready to

get back in the water

we have a few more things to do to

finish our hardtop install so come back

next week to see what we're up to

see you then