We Almost Lost Our Dream Yacht With 2 Weeks Left!

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[00:00:07]>> [music] >> We have 2 weeks and 2 days left. If this boat isn't in the water by that time, we are totally screwed. Today we have to wire this entire yacht. That's lights, fire, action. Where do we stand right now? No lights, no power, no controls, no sound, no senada. And to make things worse than the fact that the boat's just not finished being built is we have to be out of the shop in 2 weeks and 2 days.

[00:00:39]That is our final deadline. We have to move out. This boat [music] has to be out of here and on the water in 2 weeks and 2 days. So it's time we focus on the most important things, electricity, to the the then does admittedly power some very unimportant things that are super cool. Well, let's start with the important stuff first. Today we're focusing on the 12-V power system. The 110-V power system for this entire boat is already run. So it's just 12-V stuff right now. Kyle is currently working on linking our battery bank together. Each battery goes positive, that's a negative, negative to negative to negative to negative to out.

[00:01:16]What that'll do is keep the voltage [music] at 12 V, but it does is quadruple the capacity of one of these batteries. By the way, shout out to Optima for hooking us up with all of these marine batteries for this boat. These blue tops are amazing battery. They obviously have great storage, great amp hours, but also they're built to handle the water, the vibrations, the elements. They're AGM batteries and they are amazing. So huge shout out to them. We had four.

[00:01:41]One had to go on to my other boat when it sank. They just sent [music] us out the fourth replacement one. I'm so happy to have them as a partner on this boat and keeping us powered up. We also have two on the back, one for each engine. So that puts us about 4 kW of 12-V power.

[00:01:55]Dream dream spot to have a boat. That's awesome. We've got 4 kW here and 4 kW for the 110 system through the Anchor Solix.

[00:02:03]Moving on. Like I said, Kyle's building the wiring and then the wiring goes into an inline fuse right here. Got to have an inline fuse as close as you can to the system in case we have a short. It goes down. It goes that way through the tubing that's underneath. It goes shoop across through conduit that's underneath again and then it goes up into here. My job right now is to be connecting that to this. This is what's called the Garmin boat switch.

[00:02:30]It's a power distribution module for Garmin chart plotters. Garmin provided us with this awesome chart plotter that I talked about in the last episode. They also provided us with this. There's going to be another link in the description. And what this allows us to do is manage [music] power, turn on and off circuits. They're all electronically fused as well and I can turn them on and off from the screen. You can have like dimmable switches, momentary switches, on-off switches. All sorts of awesome switches. Through the main screen I control all of the 12-V power that's going to be running through this bad boy on this boat. We've got wiring harnesses that can do this, all that good stuff.

[00:03:05]But before I jump into this, which is managed by this, I have to figure out how to turn this on. Which should turn on when I turn a key like this. Well, not like like that. Um and to Well, given that I don't always want the engines on or even in an on state, I'm going to have to So, there's some stuff I have to learn right now. There's some stuff I got to figure out. I think the one click of the key on is going to turn the ignition on to the boat and that's going to make some wire under there go hot. Like the little ignition on wire.

[00:03:34]Like when you wire a car stereo, the accessory on mode.

[00:03:38]And then I can use that to then tell the Garmin it's time to turn on. But I don't want to have to turn all the way till the engines prime. So, one second, please, while I go do some research and then I will apply that research to wires and we'll see what we get.

[00:03:52]Power!

[00:03:53]Everything running power-wise into a giant inline fuse, runs down, runs through, runs up. The Garmin boat switch is a little unpretty, a little messy right now. I've got some temporary wires running into it, and some permanent ones.

[00:04:09]Uh the most important thing is the giant power and the giant ground from our 12-V battery bank running into that, and then that runs into the NMEA 2000 bus, and that runs up into the Garmin, which we now have working. Our Garmin chart plotter is working. I would love to show you more screens, but nearly every screen on there either shows part of my personal information or our location, because it's uh very, you know, it's a chart plotter. It It helps you location. So, this is the switching, the digital switching for the power distribution. So, I've wired up one thing so far, and I picked the most annoying thing. That's the horn for the boat. Some of these switches are for dimmable lights, and the switch number correlates to the switched fuse, and not every one can be every one, which is something that's a little bit new to me with a PDM. So, up here, most of these are toggle switches, on and then you hit them again to go off. Um down here, some of these are momentary switches. So, for instance, 25, as I hold it, it goes blue, and then I let it go, and it turns off. That's a momentary switch. Uh some of them are dimmable switches that we're going to use for the lights, and we'll show you all this before the end of the episode, but this is our first test. So, I wired up the first one, which is eventually going to go to our navigation lights, but I wired it to the horn. So, I have to tap it once to turn it on, >> [laughter] >> and it's very loud. Then I'll tap it once to turn it off.

[00:05:28]Here we go.

[00:05:31]There we go. Did you see the torque on the horn? It moved itself.

[00:05:34]Yeah, great. Um they're going to be wondering why we're honking our boat inside the shop, next door neighbors.

[00:05:42]So, there we go. Now, lots of wiring coming out of here.

[00:05:45]Uh it's time to start mapping everything out. We're getting a good base here, so it's time to start mapping everything out the gauges for every single wire and start routing them around the boat. So, yeah, this does end up with like fun stuff, but it it all starts from a level of pretty high importance. The conduit that runs at the base level of the boat just a a foot above the waterline.

[00:06:04]That's what holds all of these wires.

[00:06:05]So, in the future can we route more wires? Yes.

[00:06:08]It might require going for a swim, it might not. But also a lot of these wires are just required for us to put the boat on the water. So, uh, it's double duty but then also we're going to do the fun stuff while we're here. So, time to route wires.

[00:06:22]Okay, we've got our first run of wires done. It's the shortest shot that we're going to be doing on this project. It's literally just down there forward and up through there. If that's any gauge on how hard this is going to be, uh, we're going to be here for a while. Got a lot of work to do. So, we've got a bunch of wires. I I mean, too many to list. Anyways, and then they make the run. And what I want to start doing is while Kyle's making these different runs, I'm going to try and keep up and start installing some of the different things that the wires go to. One of the things is the speaker system, so I got a speaker in there and a speaker in there, which obviously no wires going there yet. So, what needs to live under the helm for the speaker system? We've already got the head unit, but this doesn't have enough amperage to run to as many speakers as we want. So, I've got no idea where, but somewhere there is a four-channel marine amplifier that's going to get installed in there and then that speaker wire goes to there and the head unit goes to the amplifier and then the amplifier needs power. Oh, joy. So, the biggest thing for me when I'm doing this is is we've got a lot of systems. We've got many many many different sets of wires, a lot of systems.

[00:07:21]And I want to try and keep everything as organized as I can. And I think it's I feel like it's pretty quickly getting out of control. I mean, you can see this just looks like chaos down there. So, I'm going to try my best, get everything on boards and and just build it with backing plates and we'll tidy up at the end. Fingers crossed. I mean, as long as we do it right, if it's a mess, it isn't issue, but doing it right is the most important part. So, I'll start on the stereo and amp while Kyle does the next run. We might just stick with the easy stuff for now. Maybe we we could run back into the bathroom bar combo. That'd be a good run to do. We also ran out of space in our up shoot that goes into our helm. So, we're going to punch another one down to have a secondary um up shoot that goes to our helm because it's full of wires. Quick question. Have you ever landed in a new country and realized your phone does not have any internet? Or even worse, have you ever came home from a great trip and you had a wonderful time and you relaxed and then the bill comes in and you see it and your jaw drops to the floor because it is insanely high. That's happened to me and that's why every time I travel now, I use Saylite. Saylite is an affordable eSim app that gives you data plans in over 160 different countries.

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[00:09:47]So, here's what's up next. We've got speakers in here and now we've got a stereo. Well, the amplifier has a little Bluetooth connection. It's not connected to the head unit yet. I don't know when I'm going to do that cuz it's kind of a wiring nightmare. But, I could test the stereo just by Bluetooth-ing into the amplifier. I would like to do that. But, before I do that, I got to flip these babies upside down to install what we've been calling our furniture lighting. So, underneath here is this little channel.

[00:10:10]Yes, you can maybe see it even better from up here. So, right through here is a little channel and the game plan is to run LED strip lighting through there and through there and then the harder one is like through there and all the way because I saw it on really expensive boats and I got to say it looks kind of good when done tastefully.

[00:10:28]Or, if we just want to have rave on here, we could do it very untastefully and crank them to 11 and have them sync to the music. But, for right now, I would like to test the first one. Now, we've got the cabling run for it. So, I've got to solder the cabling, the four wires, onto the little LED strip, waterproof the crap out of it, and then run it.

[00:10:46]And then I'll run stereo speaker wire with it.

[00:10:51]>> [music] [music] [music] >> With this set to green, it reminds me of Fast and Furious underglow. Well, we've got furniture underglow, but I'm noticing a problem is so I got that's like green First of all, it's not very bright. Like, we we dimmed the lights in the shop and it's still not super bright. We've got red. Then we come over to blue, it really isn't doing much. When we switch to white in the app, too, put the brightness up, they literally just shut off. So, these are really hard to solder. Like, there's really not a lot of space in there to solder. I'm thinking that I soldered it incorrectly. I missed a tab or something's grounded out that's not supposed to be. So, I'm going to start over from scratch and see if I can improve this or I might also just try with another section of LED and see if is this problem with the LED or is this problem with me and my connections?

[00:11:52]Like, what's going on? Well, guys, since we last talked, new shirt, new day, yikes on the timeline, but I learned a lot of stuff about these LEDs. So, at first, I was like, "Oh, they're not going to white." Yeah, they're not supposed to go to white. They're RGB LEDs. They don't do white. They don't To to have white, you actually have to have a white diode inside your strip. I wanted white and then I saw the price tag for white and I no longer want white. I'm okay with the I'm okay with it.

[00:12:17]I've got 300 ft of LED strip lighting for this entire boat. It was going to cost four times what I spent for that strip to buy that with white.

[00:12:27]$700 or $800. So, for now, no white.

[00:12:30]It's always upgradeable later down the road as long as we plumb proper electronics first, you know. Easily upgradeable later if some buddy decides white is that important.

[00:12:40]Next issue was the brightness. I was right. The converters, they operate on 24 V for 24 V LED strips, but not if you don't put 24 V into them. Don't know what I was thinking. I thought I'd magically put 12 in there and it would just kick out 24 cuz it would know that that's what the light needed. Oh my gosh. It's not very logical, is it? So, you got to put 24 in give 24 out. Makes the light much brighter. Let me show you. So, this is basically a side-by-side comparison test of a 12-V strip plugged into 12 V and a 24-V strip on top plugged into 24. One reason that you might think that the 12-V is a little brighter is because the 24-V strip has waterproofing on it and that is a casing and that is definitely going to diffuse stuff a little bit. But, I'm happy to say that not only that, when you get it on a 24 properly, it does blue again. So, blue it just needs all the right voltage. And these are as close as makes no difference the same um color spectrums, the same brightness, the same everything.

[00:13:38]One other important thing I learned about 24 volts, it's just a basic in electronics principles that I knew at one point but just completely forgot, is as you raise the voltage, the amperage can go down meaning you need lower gauge wire. I'll try and break this down as simply as I can and sorry if I butcher this to all you electrical experts out there. Watts is amps times volts. These lights are not 5 amps, but let's say they were. At 12 volts, 12 * 5 is 60 watts. That's what you can push over the wire. To push the same 60 watts over 24 volts, you do 24 * 2.5 and that would be the 60. You don't need 5 amps anymore. You need 2.5. And so, the wire gauge goes smaller to push less amperage. So, deciding to run all the lighting that we're doing like this on 24 volts means that we really, really overdid the wiring gauge on this boat, but that's not a bad thing. That's just kind of future-proofing. And the other thing that I learned though is that, like I said, to be able to use a smaller gauge wire, you have to have more volts and that's why all long, long strips of LED run 24 volts because if you run it on 12 volts, you have a limitation of like it's going to start fading off about 20-30 ft, the ends of your LED strip will fade off. So, what I learned last night or, you know, kind of came to the realization is, of course, if you run higher voltage, you can use cuz these LED strips have one tiny wire that runs the whole length of the strip to power it.

[00:15:06]So, if we want to get 50 ft, like we do, the whole span of the boat, it's got to be 24 V. Cannot be 12 V or else we'd have to add little power adders in the middle, which then means breaking our waterproofing and a bunch of stuff I don't want to do.

[00:15:19]So, 20 V 24 V it is, 24 V it needs to stay and I do not want to spend the extra cash to get white. So, we're going to be using our strip and what we're going to be using is called a step-up converter and that just steps up from 12 to 24 volts and it cuts your amperage in half. So, if you push in 5 amps 12 volts, it's going to give you out 24 volts at 2.5 amps. Totally fine cuz our PDM kicks out 10 amps. Are you guys tired of the technical stuff yet? I am. It's totally fine. This is the crap that's been in my mind for the last 3 days and I'm so ready to be over it.

[00:15:59]This is why I forget these things after I learn them because it's like I only do this stuff once per random project, per random year.

[00:16:07]I still remember other things like injector duty cycles and crazy crap for turbochargers and Oh my gosh. We need to pick a lane. But, also we don't because this is fun and I love troubleshooting and I love learning about this stuff. So, any who, we got the LED situation figured out. Those step-up converters are going to arrive tomorrow morning and I am going to continue with our LED wiring.

[00:16:32]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> That took a little bit of a learning process, but we made it work. We've got all the LED running throughout all of the furniture, all controlled by the same controller and we now it's the next day so we've got our step up converter so that's 12 volt coming right off of the Garmin 12 volt into that jumping up to 24 volts and going off into our wonderful little loop.

[00:17:31]Controllable in a few spots so we can control it on the app here all the RGB goodness.

[00:17:40]And then also the power.

[00:17:44]Uh let's see if I can reach that button.

[00:17:47]Boop. Off. Boop.

[00:17:50]On. Boop. Off. Off. Go back on.

[00:17:53]There we go. On off through the head unit. It's what I always dreamed of.

[00:17:57]They're crazy like max brightness right now so it looks a little tacky I will say.

[00:18:03]But [snorts] let's say if we turn the brightness way down well you wouldn't be able to see it because we're under about a gazillion watts of very bright lights. But something subtle like that is probably more akin to everyday use and just it's a very nice touch. It's a very nice touch. Was it worth doing uh during mission critical time? I'm not sure. But these next ones that I'm about to do they have to be done right now during mission critical time or else I'm going to have to do them while swimming. So that's not going to happen.

[00:18:31]This next one also started with well I saw it on the internet and then I wanted it and so now we're doing it. We have power line running up here which will run into another one of these controllers that controls the LEDs.

[00:18:42]It'll go into a hop up converter to go to 24 volts into a controller which I'm about to wire. I'll put that in that box there right there that stays dry. We'll go through down there to here with LED stripping and then all the way down the side of the boat. So at night we can have cool colors shining onto the water.

[00:19:00]We have some other lights coming later in the episode to shine into the water but this is the onto the water or giving a glow down on the pontoon light. Now I will say I have heard rumors that uh in some states really don't like these lights. Like, it's a big problem. But, uh two things. First of all, the police on the water in my state have been nothing but super cool to us and the BS Built crew and supporting us. So, thank you guys. Um and secondly, we're going to follow the rules whatever they may be. I'm pretty sure though that like especially while we're parked or even if we're parked in our marina, I know they're okay. And that would be really cool. The other thing is is if we're just dying to have more lights on the water, make one side green and one side red so they follow the navigation lights laws and I'm sure you're fine. I haven't even checked my own laws. I just want to do this. I don't know because I want to do it and it's cool and it lights on the water look cool. So, it's happening. And we will we will we will be sure to follow all maritime laws.

[00:19:57]>> [music] [bell] [music] [music] >> Well, I've got a lot to catch you guys up on.

[00:20:19]Uh in the last clip I was uh I was working on this LED lighting along the bottom of the boat right here.

[00:20:25]Um while I was working on that, uh we things got a little hot in the back of the boat. We started to see some smoking. Um and uh not fun kind. Right about where Kyle is right now, um smoke and then led to fire.

[00:20:40]Here's what happened and the learning process that we get from it. Um there was a uh a pair of wires, zero gauge wire, which means it's about that thick, um running from the rear batteries where the power steering connects to the engine batteries. So, they're powered by the engine's alternators and they run the full span of the boat up to the front of the helm.

[00:21:02]Now, when I installed these two massive gauge wires, I thought I should put an inline fuse in there. So, I thought, "Oh, I will order one of those." And I didn't. Um I have one now. I have one now. What we did in the meantime, I mean, Kyle and I even talked about this. I said, "We got to put a fuse on it, but for now, take both ends, really secure them up tight with electrical tape, so they they won't bridge, and we we run the shoot."

[00:21:26]Weeks went by. Kyle had to do um something, and he was he was teasing them back down. He was like fishing them out so he could make room for other wires to run up.

[00:21:34]And they bridged. They touched each other, and that closed the circuit. And because there was no fuse in either of the lines, in the positive or the negative, it just closed the circuit.

[00:21:45]The two tips basically welded themselves together, even through all the electrical tape and insulation that we put in there.

[00:21:50]Welded themselves together, and the battery did its thing.

[00:21:55]>> [laughter] >> We're sorry, Optima. We're really sorry.

[00:21:58]Thank you for the battery. Um luckily, the battery has a bit of a a fail-safe built in that I'm sure the manufacturer doesn't think of as a fail-safe, but I do now. That lug is uh like a soldered-on, built-on lug. Well, when things get hot enough, it will de-lug itself. It'll just It'll melt off. Maybe it's a safety protocol, I don't know. But the battery survived, and the battery's in good condition. It just takes a while it because it uses almost every bit of power it has over this span of like 15 seconds to try and basically arc weld uh 80 ft of zero-gauge uh wire. We've got it on the charger, but the battery is The battery is all good. We're just not going to be able to use that terminal. Well, we are going to continue to use it on the boat.

[00:22:40]Thanks, Optima. Sorry, Optima. So, this was a learning lesson that we already knew, but I wanted to pass along to you guys. You You've got to put fuses in in Everything that we have on this boat is fused. Um we just thought that was the one where we thought, "Ah, we'll do it later." And then for some reason, I jumped in there and tightened all the battery terminals down um before putting in an inline fuse because I wanted to play with engine stuff up there with the uh chart plotter. So, that's my bad.

[00:23:07]Um I almost caused a burn the boat down situation. It is really scary when 80 ft of wire running through the bottom of your boat in the guts of it all turn red hot. Thank god there's no gasoline anywhere.

[00:23:17]Um and thank god no one got hurt. So, that happened.

[00:23:21]And then I got sick. Now, I have some upsy-downsy news, but it's an overall upsy news. Is the last time I think I talked with you guys um I was very nervous. I had my PET scan going on. I told you I'd give you the results in the next episode.

[00:23:36]I think. The PET scan came back good. It had a swollen lymph node um right by my heart. And swollen lymph nodes is the sign that like cancer's coming back.

[00:23:45]Probably going to come back in that lymph node. At least with my type of cancer, I should say. Um It was It It looked I don't know. It's very likely or whatever.

[00:23:55]And again, the medication I'm on ain't supposed to work forever. So, um we're we've just reached about a year of being on it. Getting close. I think July will be a year. So, it's like a lot of people it works for a year, maybe 2 years, maybe a year and a half, or some people unfortunately less. So, I'm really happy that I made it to a year.

[00:24:12]And um so now, you know, the doctors very we're we're keeping a close eye on everything. Seeing if has this medication stopped working.

[00:24:20]Anyways, it would really suck if it stopped working in the first place that the cancer uh presented itself was right next to my heart because obviously as a tumor grows there, it doesn't leave a lot of room for my my heart to do its job.

[00:24:32]So, we did a blood test. A follow-up blood test will tell us if cancer cells are swarming and they're doing their stuff. And I'm really happy to to tell you guys that uh 2 days ago I found out the blood test was negative. So, um doctor says I'm in the clear. That's the first scan that I've got in a long time and the first results that I've got in a long time that's like I'm in the clear for now. So, I have 2 and 1/2 more weeks till the next one.

[00:24:57]No, sorry. 2 and 1/2 more months till the next one. Uh so, I should have been able to breathe a little bit of fresh air and uh sigh of relief. It is a sigh of relief still.

[00:25:07]But, I've been going through some other stuff. Earlier in this episode, I filmed this, but I didn't include it in the edit. Um I got terrible migraine yesterday and was out for like the whole day. And we lost a day of work because I was out with a migraine. And I thought, "Oh, that's weird. I got a migraine."

[00:25:21]And maybe I'm just stressed out by the boat project and the the the move out date and all this stuff. Basically, something that's kind of unknown what's going on.

[00:25:30]It's kind of unknown to the doctors. And I guess I would say it's the simplest way to maybe explain what's going on is that my immune system's been damaged from my previous cancer treatments.

[00:25:41]And um my al- some some relatively minor allergies to to local um grass and tree pollen uh are sending my immune system into outer space uh and screwing with me. And it's it's um it sounds silly because it's just like, "Oh, allergies triggering what?"

[00:26:02]But, it's serious. Um it it renders me completely useless, like unable to work, unable to really get out of bed, and unable to ba- barely even think. Um And uh it's it's really rough. The best way I could explain it is when things get bad, it's it's like like the worst flu-like symptoms.

[00:26:22]Um and uh so, I was treating it the best I could at home until I could see doctors, but I just lost 3 days of work. And we If we were to stay on schedule, um today's Tuesday, the boat would be gone on Friday. And that ain't that ain't going to happen.

[00:26:41]So, we have to we have to massage the schedule. We got to change the game plan. Um on on the good news side, though, is there there is a bit of a light at the end of the tunnel is um for whatever reason I know pollen is down in my area over the last few days cuz it rained. So, I'm feeling better overall.

[00:27:00]Um >> [clears throat] >> I've got two doctors now working with me on this and one allergist. The allergists are all booked out cuz it's allergy season. Um but the two doctors are trying to just get me safely to a place with non-dangerous medicine that's going to get me back to work. So, that's like one great piece of the puzzle and that gets us through like this this first hurdle.

[00:27:22]Um and then the allergist's job is going to be like in the long run to hopefully um make this not happen. Make me immune to allergies. I don't know, guys. It's a this is a really tough one.

[00:27:33]Um but with everything that I've gone through with cancer and everything, I have just learned that, you know, there there's there's a lot of really smart people out there that are working really hard for you and and there's a lot of different solutions to a lot of problems if you work hard enough. So, um I'm just staying positive on it, but uh yeah, I I've had some of the hardest days uh that I can ever remember um really recently.

[00:27:55]>> [laughter] >> Uh and so, unfortunately, unable to work. So, I don't know what our like days remaining timer was at or when we started, but we're going to we're going to we're going to miss the deadline. What we're going to have to do is we're going to have to start moving out while the boat is still here and [snorts] then we're going to have to have things like overlap because I can steal time away from moving out by bringing in friends and family to help me move everything out really fast. And uh and I've stole you might see clips.

[00:28:26]My brother's here today helping us. So, I'm stealing family right now to help work even work on the boat. So, we're doing we're doing everything that we can and basically we had 2 weeks to finish the boat. I'm moving that now to like be 3 weeks to finish the boat and 1 week to move out. With that being said, I shall get my ass back to work. LED lights along the side of the boat inline fuses in the power lines.

[00:28:49]All right, 47 ft of illuminated side pontoonage. It looks a little funny if you get super low with the jumping around, but now remember we have rubber L coming in here, goes down 3 and 1/2 in going to go down to here. Should cover any of that up and then we have vinyl wrap coming over the side of this, so it'll it should look real nice, but overall I am very happy with that. I think that the water, you know, illuminating the water even a little bit at night is going to be a really nice touch and that is what the other side looks like if we left it on green.

[00:29:22]Pretty cool.

[00:29:24]I'm pretty happy with that.

[00:29:25]All right, next steps, back of the boat.

[00:29:27]We've taken the swim deck down, put the engine covers back down and we're going to focus on some lighting in the back of the boat.

[00:29:34]Step lights, they're going to go right here. So we have one step light that will go right here and one that will go there. These are wired and going to be same signal, same everything as the step lights up there. So I don't know, it'll make a mental connection maybe for people like if it's a step, watch your step and there will be a light on it at night because this will be a foot traffic-y way down. The only weird thing is is I think when we're going into the marina, the swim deck's going to be on top of this, so it might be underglow, but if the swim deck is in the low setting, this is a step light. Also, if you're just getting out of the water and maybe you're cold and you're rushing on the boat, you you you're not going to want to trip onto that cuz that doesn't look comfortable to fall up onto. So step light will go right there and like I said, yeah, it's wired into the other lights, it'll be the same color and same everything. That's like a kind of normal powered LED thing and then we have what's called a water light that goes down there. This bad mama jama is about a gazillion LEDs pumping out like the equivalent of I think two car headlights and it's blue and it It only be blue and and that's just fine. And that gets mounted down there and that is more boat under glow.

[00:30:48]Listen, we're going to do this We're going to do this tastefully. Or I might just go It's like What year did Fast & Furious come out? 2001? 2005? 2000 2001? Under glow everything and roll with it. Uh but I do think that water lights are kind of cool when you're sitting in the water and you're looking and you can kind of see some of the wildlife or the algae or the uh pollutants or the sunken boats underneath ours. So, we have We've got the wire We're starting to get, you know, the wiring towards the back of the boat and since this is something that is going to live underwater, we can't do this at a later time. I don't have a lot of underwater drills or snorkel gear.

[00:31:25]So, we're going to get it in.

[00:31:34]>> [music] [music] >> I don't know if you guys are going to be able to see the intensity through the camera, but uh those are some blue lights I don't really want to look at for too long. Very very very bright and they're under the waterline and they are meant to make the the water glow at night and we tested the swim deck going down and so when it's low, it uh will be over those and it also doesn't press right up against the back of that thing so it can't touch the lights, which is great. These things are going to be awesome. And also, yeah, I do expect that we'll be able to see the water light when the swim deck is up and we'll see it in the water after that. So, two pretty cool features. We just had to get those in there cuz like I said, I don't think we can do it once it's underwater.

[00:32:31]The wiring saga continues. It's starting to look a little messy in there. I don't know if starting to look messy is the right words, but we'll tidy that up, I promise, or we won't. But, cool stuff is happening. This is our battery display, and this is our battery bank. That's the four batteries over there, and um that's showing our voltage, our amp draw, and eventually it'll tell us our total percent and our time till we reach that total percent. And this is our starter battery. So, we ran a signal wire down all the way to the back to the starter batteries over there, and that powers our starter and our power steering. Uh so, that's a big one to know the voltage of, and I'm really happy that we have that. Now, let me pop over to a different screen, and this is our two fuel tanks, left and right, port and starboard, I mean. And I'm pretty positive they're correct, the orientation, like if you're the driver, this one's on your on your left. And right now we're emulating within the tank. We've We pushed the floats all the way up to the top, 100%, and I'll go drop them real quick, and we'll come back to the screen. And there we are.

[00:33:32]That's what it would look like if we were totally out of fuel. And these are pretty cool cuz they do automatic filtering. So, when you're on the water, the the fuel tank's going to go up and down up and down a bunch, and so it averages what the sensor is reading. Not only the sensor does some averaging and then sends it to this, which does more averaging. So, we're not going to have these things flying all over the place.

[00:33:49]It's going to take a good average and tell us whatever our fuel level is in those two tanks. That's a pretty cool thing to have. A lot of boats just run off of how much they they have an estimate. You You hit a reset button every time you fuel up, and you just tell it, you know, I added 15 gallons, and then the Garmin will track how much your injectors are using and putting into the engine and then tell you how much gas you have left. A lot of them do it that way, or they use those old analog gauges that go flying all up and down all day long. So, I'm really happy to have like the high high-tech highest tech. And the starter voltage is a big one, too. That wraps up the wiring mysteries we have upstairs.

[00:34:26]Um so, we're going to run a bunch of dead-headed wires to the upstairs. Um but that's it. So, it's time for me to start like anything that was temporarily wired needs to be permanently wired and then um everything needs to be like heat shrunk and then start getting a little bit more organized, which that's a lot. There's a lot left. We've now been working on this thing that we thought was going to be a week for like we're going up on like almost 3 weeks, which is incredible. Um, I have been working with the doctors on my health issue. We can now confirm that I'm having some sort of a auto immune inflammatory response and um my body's just generating tons and tons of inflammation like the the the high the high level is a three and I'm at a 250. So, I'm nearly a 100 times the high level.

[00:35:14]Um, and that's that's definitely the problem.

[00:35:17]The other problem though is when it comes to troubleshooting this it's really hard. The doctors all want to blame different cancer medications, but this happened last year before the cancer medication started. So, um I'm getting more doctors and we are just going to keep working at this as hard as we can. Um, but it's been rough. I've been losing a lot of sleep and because of that I can't work as many hours and you know, we're just but like I said, I'm happy to be alive. This is not a woes me situation. I just I guess I'm just venting a little bit. Um and I just want you guys to know we're doing our best. We are doing our best given what we can. So, we got one more really cool thing. Uh just another like fun fun touch. This is not mission critical at all. I am really stoked to switch gears into the mission critical stuff um in the next few hours actually, but I really wanted to show you this one last feature on the boat. We have fire.

[00:36:08]Fire on the boat is just it sounds like it shouldn't be a thing, but it's it's got to be a thing once you see this.

[00:36:16]>> [music] >> The happiest I've ever been to have fire on my boat. This bad boy is called Floating Flame and this is a fire pit for your boat. It is super super cool. I want to give a huge shout out to Floating Flame. They sent this to us last year. We were hoping to get it on the water in time and we didn't and then I came down with cancer and they were super cool with giving us time to find the right time to get it installed on the boat. And they sent us not one but two. So we have one that goes on the upstairs and one that goes on the downstairs. is pretty rad. So underneath is your standard propane tank. You can go get it any like grocery store. You can get your refills or whatever. It's a standard size which is a really really smart design. Top is fire pit right here and then if you look there's this little stainless steel cover. When you turn the fire pit off you can put that cover down and then you got your table top. And then right here you got your cup holders on both sides, little phone holder in the middle. And then what I really like too that they did with this design is you open it up and you got your choice of what you want to do with this.

[00:37:22]For us since there's kind of a shortage for garbage cans on the boat, probably would put garbage in there but also they threw drains down at the bottom. So if you want to make it ice you can fill this whole thing up with ice or you could just store booze in there like ice and booze or whatever. But since we have a fridge on board and we have a massive ice chest, those will probably end up being garbage spots which is really really ingenious. You guys know I love designing things like on the computer, have hairbrained ideas like like this boat behind me. Um and I just uh I appreciate good design. Uh and this thing is a badass design and it fits like so many things. I know a lot of you guys are going to say is it is it safe?

[00:38:00]It's been tested by thousands of boaters uh for over 8 years in development. It's made out of the right materials. What do we used to say on Beast Mode? Safer than a motorcycle. So freaking cool though. I mean so obviously links in the description. You guys want to get yours for this boating season. So if I kick this guy off um I'm supposed to let it cool a little bit more but I'll just it hasn't been on for a really long time, so you can kind of see. That's how it looks with the cover on. And then this thing lives over there, like rotated 90°. It lives over there. It fits really nicely, just a little bit longer than that end piece right there. And then we'll get rotated out here when uh people want to use it.

[00:38:36]And it can be used in a lot of different ways on in this center section. It can be used in this center section as well, but we are going to put a table there.

[00:38:42]Uh but what we decided was we were going to have a table come down from the ceiling, which I decided was a stupid idea. So, this area is actually going to end up being open for a little bit, so it could be used over here, too. It is not too heavy to just pick up and take to wherever you want it to be. Very, very cool piece of tech. I give it a 10 out of 10. Um portable fire pit. I don't think you even need to look at it for just boating. Just if you want a portable fire pit, hit them up. Link's in the description. Huge thanks to Floating Flame for hooking us up. I am so stoked to have this thing. And now that we got that installed, Kyle's uh unboxing and installing the other one. He's going to put it in that second section that I mentioned. And that's it. We have to cut this episode here. We have to move on to mission-critical stuff. Uh timeline-wise, we were hoping to get the boat in the water. Today is a Friday. We were hoping to get it in the water on Monday. That ain't going to happen. We have run into a paperwork issue, which I should have known about. I should have thought about. I'm not a boat builder, but this was kind of an obvious one. So, this is a custom-built boat. So, we don't have what's called a hull number.

[00:39:43]We don't have a VIN number. We don't have a hull number. You have to have one of those numbers to be able to get insurance. And I called the Oregon State Marine Board, and you can get temporary registration, but I'm not sure if that right away comes with the hull number I can go carve into the side of the boat or not.

[00:39:56]So, that is going to put us on a delay.

[00:39:58]My hope right now is that we can just get the boat very quickly into a dry dock yard where we're allowed to work on it. Similar to how we had the red boat in Astoria. If we can get this thing into a dry dock a DIY yard, that's going to be perfect. It will allow us to come by continuing to do the work and do the upgrades and build out the second floor and everything before we go on the water. There's plenty of work to be done. We don't need to be floating to do it. That would be phenomenal while our paperwork goes through or whatever the process needs to be. But the local ones that I've called so far are a little hesitant to take a boat without insurance, which I do understand as well. So, I'm going to personally go visit the state marine board on Monday and we'll see what we can do. We'll see uh see if they have compassion and if there's any uh flexibility.

[00:40:46]We just have to try. We have to try and do whatever we can do. And I'll probably know more in the next episode where we are going to finish every mission critical thing for this boat so that it could be plopped right in the water. Oh, yes. We also have the ultimate redneck backup, which is to put it on a flatbed trailer, 40-footer, rent one, and then ram that baby right into the river backwards so the boat goes flying off of the flatbed, and then we will boat around uh on the river without whatever. Without a without a care in the world. And that's the ultimate backup. That's the nuclear option cuz I am not paying another month's rent in the shop. The rent doubled because we expired our lease. So, anyways, mission critical stuff, next episode, power steering, engine starting, engine showing up on the on the on the on the screens uh and telling us how they're doing, you know, RPM. Yeah, that kind of stuff. A horn. That should have got done in this episode, but you know, anyways, I'll see you guys on the next one. Peace.

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