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previously on onboard lifestyle

teal ties up a few loose ends on our

hard top just in time for me to surprise

him with another fun project

i was so excited about the cockpit

lighting install that i made the crew

one of their favorites for dinner

this project made me so happy and i

think it turned out amazing

take two

so what's the plan teal what's the plan

for this week

i see some seriousness going on there

well it's because

we're shifting gears now okay what does

that mean

it means no more doing all the fun stuff

that we

want to get done we have to do all the

stuff that has to get done

because we're coming down to the end of

emma's ortho treatments right i know we

only have a couple weeks left and she's

done

her teeth are looking amazing okay emma

let's see those chompers

which means that while we're here in

richmond

it's nice being close to a place where

we have stores

we have an address here we could get our

amazon

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it's so cool while we're here i can't

reach that

just climb up climb up order anything

from amazon

and we happen to have a pickup

stop or a hub why they do that

we need to get everything in here to do

the next four

projects i've got it narrowed down these

are the things that have to get done

or they're going to be difficult to do

later on okay what is it

solar panels we're putting on with all

this new hardtop

we knew this was going to happen we're

putting on another 600 watts of solar up

there

which means we have to have a frame that

holds these things so we need to get on

finding a welder because i have struck

out

i've been asking around calling around i

could find

25 welders within five miles of us but i

can't find one that does aluminum

so i'm asking for help please jump on

that one

okay i will do that that's not a problem

i'm sure

that there's somebody around here that

can do it yeah and there's two projects

there's the solar panel frame

and then the post for our helm top helm

top's been built

i haven't put it up because we don't

have posts so

those two things have to happen before

we leave here

another project is the stack pack and

lazy jack we can't get our main back up

without putting the lazy jacks

up okay i can do that

well you know what i haven't done it

because i didn't have a sewing machine

that was

heavy duty enough are you intimidated

i'm a little intimidated not so much

now that i'm like reading up on it and

stuff and looking around

um but we did have a friend that lent me

her sale right so i know now i can i

don't have anything in my back picking

that thing up

i don't have an excuse anymore not to do

it so i will work on that

this week as well as finding you a

welder welder first please we

we have to get this done because if it's

going to take a week or two to make

these

it's just pushing up against deadlines i

can do two things at the same time

okay if you could work on that today i'm

gonna start prepping this top

for solar there's quite a bit i need to

do

so i'll begin diving into that uh the

biggest thing we need to do

is lithium batteries there's a lot of

components we need to get in

uh get the lithium batteries here get

all the

oh geez just everything i mean my mind

is numb thinking about what has to

happen to this

oh it's plug and play

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of course it is it'll be a piece of cake

it'll be easy no it will be easy

but with the new lithium batteries and

the solar

we button all this up we're going to be

comfortable heading south so those are

the ones i really want to do

so okay finish up your car

i made you an extra i gave you an extra

shot of espresso

i know it tastes wonderful i'm just

hoping that this kind of

rubs you up a little bit and get you

going on those projects

okay hit the phones find me a welder

five minutes five minutes please

okay i spent the last 15 minutes making

phone calls i think i got some good

leads

and i'm sure one of them will call me

back if not a few

but in the meantime i'm gonna kind of

prep this whole area so i can get

started on the stack pack

because it's crazy every day the

seagulls come in and just

feast on all of these muscles and just

leave their

the remnants of their party here so it's

just too bad we're never

invited to these parties

you want some help with that no i got it

okay

actually help your mom oh my goodness

you want some help with that need help

i can help you i am the strong one after

all right yes that's right

actually no but just follow me okay grab

one of your dad's katelyn okay

can i use this one okay

i am by no means an expert at this

actually i've never done this before

teal and i have walked around marinas

and looked at

other stack packs we've seen some online

everybody has a different method of

putting it up

so this is kind of a hybrid of

wine and teals uh what we want for our

stack pack and

i hope that it's gonna work because it's

gonna be a very expensive mistake if it

doesn't turn out

so i have emma now as my assistant and

she's gonna help me measure it out

okay

okay i played it all out girls are

working on the stack pack on the dock

i'm gonna start working on the solar

panel wire loop i need to get it through

the hard top underneath of the solar

panel so before the panels go in

i have to cut an access hole and epoxy

in

a little riser i don't want water ever

running down there

so i'll get going on that looks like

they're doing pretty good the wind's

picking up so

we'll see how long they last out there

that's where it'll drill through i've

laid it out

the idea is to keep this loom underneath

the panels

so it'll be protected from uv it'll come

down here

follow the support post and i'm going to

dive it into the structure here

i went through and filled all these

holes with aluma weld

it's all fired off i'll sand this smooth

i want to keep as much moisture out of

this as possible

with the curtain on the outside here

this loom will be

totally protected

there we go like clockwork

okay do a little bit of uh hand sanding

here

some epoxy can bite

take it a boxy

holy cow

i packed it in inserted the tube

i'm going to put this on and keep it

from moving i want it to stay in the

plane

down here while i work on it on the top

side

that'll keep it from moving

okay it's been a busy day you guys got a

call back from

a welder that says that he's willing to

look at our project so

we we hop back in and we're heading out

there so

fingers crossed it's been what do you

want to say deal it's been

it's been difficult it's been odd it's

been really odd

you would think such an industrial area

like this would have tons of welders and

there is i mean we've probably called 20

welders we've talked to

multiple people who have friends who are

welders and nobody wants to weld

aluminum

no they say they can't do it so um this

guy is

he came recommended by another welder

that does more um more industrious

and larger projects but he said this guy

is the guy to go to so

so we're gonna drop off our little

project and see if he'll uh

yeah bite on it it'll be good fingers

crossed

so this is round two we just we're just

about to get back to

the boat and we get a call from the

welder so he gave us a quote and he

wants his deposit

now so they can get started well that's

comforting isn't it i mean it's

comforting but

it has to be done but hey it's exhausted

i'm smiling because at least this guy

called back

i know it's been it's been difficult to

get anybody to call back

i don't know if it's a trend or not in

california but

never had such a hard time finding or

getting someone to call back

regarding some work but

it's we're getting closer one more

project down

fred the welder is coming through red

with a z

spreads welding

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well it's the next morning the epoxy is

fired off

i had a bit of a tough time up there it

was uh

pretty windy last night

so i was just hanging on and getting the

epoxy down

but it all turned out really nice planed

out perfectly on the bottom

and i got a nice nice clean radius

around the riser

it's a little difficult cutting this

inside the boat because

we only have a small board but you know

you gotta work with what you have right

oh no

so we'll just do it in segments and

emma's really good about helping me just

hang on to it to make sure that it

doesn't

waver hey compass

compass is just happy that we're in here

and not outside

yeah something satisfying about this

little hot knife yeah how's it going

good it's gone i think it's one more

segment

yeah they're really small that looks

nice and straight

oh kind of hey

don't look

last part

and done that's it that's all we need to

do

is the best part in here and i'll roll

it up oh no

no this does not look as glamorous as it

looks but

we had to move it in here because the

wind is

so bad out there uh that we just have to

make do

and it's more than a little frustrating

to say the least because

this is 15 and a half feet long

and i'm trying to work with

this really unforgiving material

but we're almost done i think i'm up to

the halfway point of this

at this rate and this is the last piece

for the second

uh side of this backpack after that then

i'm gonna put the zipper in and

then we'll just slap it in

but emma's a good helper thank you

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when we first got here i'm i saw that

there was a rosie the riveter museum

and not many people know this but i am a

big history buff so that museum would

have been really cool for me

but it was closed down due to the

lockdown

and everything so it recently opened

back up and so i'm really excited and

we're going there right now

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so

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machine when they gave her a production

knee

she was as proud as the girl could be

put it together again and make it first

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is

december 1941 a sudden attack on distant

u.s naval base transformed america

overnight into the home front

everything changed especially the

swelling industrial workforce

it included more minorities in

particular african americans and women

embodied by rosie the riveter richmond

california typified wartime boom towns

across the country that endured deep and

rapid change as migrants sought work

and defense industries

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of onboard lifestyle

it was super fun seeing the rosie the

riveter museum

i can't wait to learn more stuff about

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