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previously on onboard lifestyle

my dad worked on a project that has not

been operating smoothly

he hopes that the adjustments he made to

the system will fix our steering issue

with the helm removed my mom worked on

her own project

wrapping our 48 inch wheel with leather

thanks to my

awesome math skills we were able to

calculate the correct lengths

side note it took 1 152

shoe string stitches to complete this

project and it looks amazing

this is going to be a good day i can

feel it already

we are getting so much stuff done while

we're here

uh teal is at the store right now

getting some additional little

parts to finish some of his projects and

i got a notification from the marina

that our package came in well

my package this is something that i've

been wanting for a long time

and teal doesn't know that i place an

order

but this will mean that he doesn't have

an excuse to put it off and

procrastinate anymore

so what i'm gonna do is i'm just gonna

lay everything out

and just let the chips fall where they

may

super excited and we're feeling really

good about

all the things that we're accomplishing

while we're here

i gotta hurry though because i think

he's coming back soon and i want to get

this all set up

before because you know teal

if it's not on the schedule he's not

going to just jump on it

before i show you what's in this box i

have to say these past few days teal has

been working

so hard tying up all these loose ends

and he's done a beautiful job

seaming the hard top into our coach room

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i have to get all my glass work done in

the mornings

nice and uh calm only blowing six to

seven knots right now but it picks up to

like 15 to 20

every afternoon

so now's the time

haven't dripped yet

yet

this is the last lamination to draw this

seam together you know i didn't want to

waste the time on the hard

paying those lay days

just doing this work so while we're here

in richmond i'm buttoning it up

it's working you know an hour to each

day on this

getting excited to get paint on this so

getting tired of looking at the seam

i think i'll let this cure today sand it

and fair tomorrow

and get a barrier coat over it

make me feel better

this is raw core here this looks like a

painted surface but i've actually sanded

it back

i used a white pigment in my epoxy when

i laid that

lamination down years ago

i felt good about the the bond i'll get

on this

and this is just one more lamination on

top of many

it's looking good

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well i think i'm ready spent the last

week

every morning sanding and fairing and

laying glass

i mixed up my inner protect 2000 e

it's time to get that barrier coat down

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and he's done a beautiful job seaming

the hard top

into our coach room having said that

this is part of tying up loose ends for

our hardtop

this is something that i have wanted for

a very long time actually

six years to be exact so i've been doing

a lot of research

in the evenings to get everything and i

got teals

notes teal is really good about every

time we have a project he

kind of sketches everything down he lays

everything out

and from his schematics i was able to

get a list of all the things that we

need in order to get this project

completed so i'm gonna bust this open

and show you guys what we got

do a really good job of taping this

i'm so excited for this all right guys

without further ado it is

cockpit lighting this is so fun

um i there's a lot out there

and i've been researching to see what

works because

not only is it important uh it has to be

waterproof

and we have to buy a lot of them eleven

actually uh for according to teals

uh schematics that that is what we need

so i got all the lights

these are sealed warm white

and we like the clean look of it

i also got the wire for it and

i love the connections while i was at it

i also got courtesy lights but

that will be part two of this uh project

in the meantime this is going in

uh probably the next day or so hopefully

teo will be pleasantly surprised

when he comes back so before you guys

accuse me of being

pushy there is a reason why i said i've

been waiting for

six years and i'm gonna show it to you

right now do you see this

these are our light switches these are

switches that teal put in

six years ago so one of the things is is

half of it works and half of it doesn't

this one

goes to our entry light

and that works

this one goes to our

shelf light that works

now these two for some reason

they don't work they don't go to

anything and i'll show you why

so teal had the foresight early on years

ago

to pre-wire everything so then when we

do get to these projects

it's a quick install you see this

he did a beautiful job wiring

all of our components and you see

there's the shower

the entry the galley the sink the shelf

and the cockpit but what's wrong with

this picture you see this

the cockpit no wires coming out of it

and the reason why

is obviously we didn't have a cockpit to

install our cockpit lights

but now we do so all these years of tl

teasing me

with these switches

will finally work i'm so excited

i hope he gets back soon because i

cannot wait to help him

get this installed

okay so everything is laid out

beautifully and

heel is on his way back so i'm just

gonna hang out here

and surprise him with all this fun stuff

i'm sure he's gonna be pleasantly

surprised

hmm

surprise this is weird

why look it i was totally researching

you had a camera going look at this

i was looking up lighting i was just

thinking about this we're almost to that

stage holy cow are you sure this is

right

yeah of course it is okay

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those look nice they do hang on

i got another project

you know lynn just blows me away

i mean look at this she not only

got all the cockpit lighting she got the

courtesy the red courtesy lights

and then went through my electrical bin

and topped off all my connectors make

sure i'm set up for this project

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ah this is gonna be fun now

i'll start layout

and get this project started

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okay up my layout now it's time to drill

well there we go all the holes are

drilled

in our socket so now it's time

to start with the electrical end of this

that should go pretty quick

oh hey take a look over my shoulder

right here

look at this sailboat that pulled in

she's a beauty

the sailing yacht kaori is a 38 meter

125 foot well-proportioned aluminum

luxury yacht

she was built by palmer johnson and

officially launched in sturgeon bay

wisconsin

in 1992 with her 8.6 meter

28.2 foot beam kayori has a spacious

interior plan

in 2009 she underwent a masterful refit

where her aluminum masks were replaced

with the state-of-the-art

carbon fiber spars within boom furling

it allowed for the use of battens to

increase the sail area

and improve sail shape the way save the

loft

transformed the already stiff yacht into

a sailing powerhouse

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here is the wiring schematic for the

hardtop's light soffit

we have a fuse block dedicated for

lighting in this area

and it goes to a switch plate that has

two

switches on it so i'm going to run two

separate circuits and that was by design

this way i run one circuit that's just

going to light up

each corner of the lights off so if just

four lights on this circuit

the other one will light up the balance

so we can do a combination of one

or the other or altogether circuit one

has a run of 22 lineal feet

it'll have seven lights and draw 1.33

amps circuit two

20 lineal feet four lights 0.76 amps

total of only 2.09 amps

so this entire run can be wired with 16

gauge

well i've started pulling wires

i've worked it now from the switch

up into the socket

got a channel going through the bulkhead

here

now it's just a matter of bringing this

first circuit

over to this position here that's where

this will start

and then i'll wire the other four lights

the other circuit

will start here

got plenty of room up in there

just kind of snake it one at a time

getting it into position

i have the leads for the circuits all

routed

they're tied back into the fuse panel

here i'm not going to put this fuse

until i finish

the rest of the wiring they go up

through the soffit

i'll put a little conduit bridge right

here

and there's the two leads now i'll be

able to

fish the rest of the lines in start

wiring up these lights

so

and this is the last wire

with all these wired in it's pretty

simple

to hook up the lighting now all the

thinking is done

so i started put my first couple in

boy they look good look at these those

are nice

so let's wire in the next one right here

that right there makes me so so happy

teal has been working on the cockpit

lighting and

it's looking really nice which gets me

thinking

i want to reward him with something

really nice to

eat for dinner tonight um and it's

something that we used to

order all the time for takeout which is

mongolian beef

but i got to thinking that i should be

able to figure this out myself

and make it so that we don't have to

order out

and i finally perfected the recipe it's

super easy

and so good and just thinking about it

makes my mouth water because

it's that good

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here we go

are you ladies ready yeah this is it the

big test

okay is excited

sun's going down and i'm well i have to

put a fuse in hang on

okay it's a three amp fuse

the cover goes on

you guys ready yeah you're ready

it doesn't work don't lie

here we go ready give me give give me a

okay go countdown three two one count

down from ten at least

no do it five four

three two one

this is so nice this is so awesome

this looks so good deal okay hold it

that's with both on let's do uh

just the four corners that's even a lot

of light

it is that's that's for ambulance

emma needs to go to sleep at that point

here we go

look at this it looks good i'm so happy

with it

yay

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the link is down below it was so nice to

see the concrete lights

they turned out way better than i could

have hoped

and well we're gonna have to stay here a

few more weeks

because of my braces but i know a lot of

fun projects are coming up

so come back next week to see another

awesome new video

see you then