Video with details on our first year owning the 4788.

Video transcription below:

Hi, this is Steve, hey, it’s just over a year since we purchased our Bayliner 4788. And I thought I would do a quick video kind of recapping some of the stuff that we have done within the last year, either adventures with the boat, or repairs or rehab that we had to do on the boat. Buying a boat like this was a pretty big step up from us, our previous boat was a Bayliner 2802 trophy. Jumping up to a 50 foot boat is a bit of a jump from that. So what we did in January, we were really busy shopping for shopping for the boat, we went to the Seattle boat show this was pre COVID. So we could still do things like that. We tour a lot of boats, from Blaine to Anacortes and gig harbor. And we knew that we wanted about the size and the selection of boats. It was interesting because there weren’t that many boats for sale in that 50 foot range in the Pacific Northwest Puget Sound area. Well, at least within our price range, if we didn’t have a budget, of course, it would have been a lot more available.

So in February, we ended up going to San Diego, to shop for boats and to get some sun. When we’re down there, we viewed about 15 different boats with several different dealers. And we looked at boats in the range of 40 foot to 59 foot. And really what we came down to was the conclusion was that 40 foot was too small of a boat for what we’re looking for. And that the 59 foot boat that we looked at, or the 56 is we’re too big for what we’re looking for what we’re comfortable moving up to. So we kind of settled in like the 47 to 53 range.

After that trip, we came back and decided that the Bayliner 4788 that we looked at in Blaine was the one we wanted. So we made an offer on it, we ended up buying it and bringing it home in March. And when we brought it home, we started doing some repair on things, maybe we should have done a little bit better test drive. And in retrospect, maybe we should have had a mechanic look it over. Because I thought that the survey covered those kinds of things. And it turned out that it didn’t. So that’s my fault for not doing the research there. But if you’re gonna buy a boat of any size with like this, definitely have a mechanic look over the engines. We found out later that there’s about $12k to $15k worth of engine repair that we had to do, just to make the boat safe to use. There were some problems with diesel turbo air injector area where it does the cooling for it and had it not been repaired. It was at the point that it could have started sucking seawater into the air intake going into the engines, and that would have completely destroyed the engines. So that’s getting taken care of right now actually, hopefully to be done soon.

But anyway, back to our story here. March and April. April was really all about getting the boat ready. We were a little bit confused with the whole COVID lock down and what that meant for going out and going boating and it turned out it really didn’t impact boating too much other than like places we could go marinas and resorts and things like that in the San Juan’s. So we started working on getting the dinghy repaired and running. And then on changing the name and upgrading to some solar panels because where we keep the boat in the summer, we don’t have power on the dock. So we get to keep everything fully charged with solar. So anyway, the the dinghy that was one of the first challenges, we ran into a problem where first the battery was dead. And then we tracked that got a new battery and found out that that was not the only problem than the wires going from the battery to the starter solenoid, those were so corroded that the over 12 volts, roughly around 13 volts coming from the battery was only making about one volt to the starter solenoid. So we replaced that. And then it turned out there was another wire between the starter solenoid and the starter that we had to replace no big deal there we got that going. And then we were able to get the engine started. We then found out there were more problems with the shifter unit that mounts on the side where the key goes in and all that the wires going to the engines were so corroded there that they couldn’t be repaired. So what we had to do was replace the whole shifter unit. And once we got that few wires replaced and the shifter unit replaced on the side of the dinghy thingy starts and runs beautifully and lit literally when you turn the key It is like a half second before that engine is started and running. Probably the quickest starting outboard that I’ve ever owned.

We went through the renaming of the boat, we change the name at the time of purchase. The previous name was Falcon out of Seattle, and we changed the name to offleash and there’s a picture of George helping me out with doing the off leash vinyl. A few years ago when we needed a boat name for previous boat we bought a vinyl cutter. So rather than having to pay a lot for someone to do to go and make these and then Pay more if you made a mistake, we just made the vinyl ourselves through the vinyl cutter machine. George helped a lot with that. So the name sticks on the stuff you can see there. That’s kind of a grid. That’s the the layout tape. And once the vinyl sticks, you peel that off and it looks good. There’s kind of the final picture of what that looks like. And there’s a little bit when we first put it on, there’s a little bit of air bubbles in there. And those kind of work out over time. One of the things we found after putting on the name was we goofed on one of the letters, and it kind of damaged it. So we had to recut one of the letters and put it back on on one of the apps. No big deal. But had we not had the vinyl cutter there to do it ourselves would have taken some time and cost us to have someone redo it. Yeah, so we got the solar panels going as well in at that point in April, two solar panels right in front of the pilot house windows. And then we had four solar panels on the roof of the pilot house total output of about 660 watts possible on a perfect day. Generally, we’re getting about 400 to 450 watts on a nice nice day coming out of that to keep the batteries charged.

Moving on to May well, we had our first shakedown cruise as we called it to Tsushima Island in May. That was the point that we found out that Yeah, our solar panels are working great to charge the batteries. But the batteries just were not holding a charge. They looking at it, they hadn’t been wired correctly, so they had probably worn out in uneven levels. And it turned out that even after running the generator and getting the batteries fully charged, we discovered that they wouldn’t hold a charge for more than an hour or so even though we had four of these big eight D batteries. The other thing that we found out was that our generator failed on that first trip to we ended up getting it fixed but what it was is the wire between the generator and the starting battery again another corrosion point. It just wasn’t getting enough power through to the starter. So we ended up replacing the or at least cleaning off the terminals and getting into start and then later we ended up replacing the starting cables there. But here’s an example the pictures here of this black wire that should be all shiny, copper or more appropriately a newer boats, shiny, tinned copper, you just see in the middle, and that’s like four feet in on one of the starting cables that I’ve got that cut picture there, you can just see how black and corroded that copper is, and it’s just not getting power moving very well. Another thing we did in May after our first trip and realizing how super uncomfortable the beds were, we ended up buying two queen mattresses online that were these memory foam mattresses. And they weren’t exactly the right size for the bed but because of COVID at that point, we didn’t have a lot of the shops that were making custom boat mattresses were out of shutdown or not available at that point in time. So what Marcia did is she pulled out the old mattresses and you can see that one in the picture there how stained and ugly that is. And then we unrolled the Queen mattress and unzipped the edge of it. And then using a bread knife just to cut through the foam. We were able to cut the foam on the new queen mattresses the exact shape of the original mattresses on but we just ended up with two to three times the thickness so we had a super comfortable bed rather than something that felt like sleeping on a 30 year old Campion mattress was about what that was. So the mattress improvement to me that was one of the absolute best things we did on at least comfort comfort wise in the boat for the whole year. Another thing we did, you can see the pictures here the boat chain. Another thing we did that helped me sleep better on the boat was replacing the chain. You can see that picture in the center there we can see the shiny new chain compared to the old chain is probably the original chain on the boat and it was pretty corroded. And it had me pretty concerned with whether it would hold the boat or not. So then moving on to June June was a good time. We didn’t do a lot of maintenance in June fortunately, but we did get a couple of trips on the boat. One of them was Prevost harbor on steward Island, which is some of the pictures you’re seeing here with the sunset and the top. And then after that our next trip was to Roche Harbor, which was a really fun trip.

In July, we ended up doing a trip a family trip down to a cat Cove near stanwood and then another trip to Roche harbor later in July. And we also updated the batteries a bit more in the boat. So we ended up with a total of a when we replaced the those eight D batteries that were bad we ended up putting in. For each ad we put in three of the six volt starter batteries and we ended or sorry six, six volt golf cart batteries, and we ended up wiring them in sort of a parallel series. combinations. So he ended up with 12 volts. And lots of amps out of a total of 12 of the six volt batteries are supposed to work really well with discharging and recharging and all that for a longer period of time than other batteries. And they seem to be working really, really well. On August, we ended up doing a trip to Tsushima Island just for a day trip and then over to deer harbor. And then onto Roche harbor for another trip. We turned out that maybe the boat had been sitting for a little while. But we found out that the toilet in the master head was had failed. And initially it would look like we tried doing a rebuild kit. And the rebuild kit didn’t quite match the age of the toilet that was there. So we ended up having to completely replace the toilet, way more hours than I would I would have liked to have spent on it. Too much money on the rebuild kit, which ended up being a complete waste. The good news is we got it replaced. And we now have a functioning toilet and looking at the age of the toilet and the other head. Yeah, it’s newer, much newer, it looks like it probably been replaced a few years ago. So I think these things are just failed over time. We also did a bunch of lighting in the cockpit area in the back, you can see so you can see kind of the lights going up the steps, we replace them. And here’s an example of after the replacement, the light fixtures, we had had incandescent bulbs, and um, but we had some replacement LED bulbs. So you can see the top picture is what came in the fixtures we ordered. And then replacing the bulbs inside of them got it up to a much brighter scenario and using a lot less power. So here’s an example of the incandescent bulb versus the LED bulb. And just here’s two of them side by side. And this is the difference in color that we see on those lights. After that, the other thing we found is that there’s this filtration here holding tank vent filter found out we found out as we went out with a boat, we really discovered that it smelled a lot like a sewer every time we use the boat. And we tried a variety of different tank odor things and they helped a little bit but they really didn’t do the job that well. So what we found was that the odor was coming out of the holding tank vents on the side of the boat. And that’s just the little half inch hose that comes up and lets air out when you flush the toilet and water goes in. So we found this filter and ended up buying it on Amazon. And it basically mounts in line into the hose that goes to that vent filter, and it has charcoal filters in there like like you might have in a fish tank type charcoal filters, and any air moving through their gills gets filtered with that. And after installing that filter, there is no stench of sewer on the boat anywhere at all. And that that little filter was probably one of the biggest, biggest improvements. stench wise overall on the boat for the year. And the filter. It’s a filter you’re supposed to replace about once a year. As we’re coming up on the year, here, I’ve got a spare ready to replace but you’d now that it’s after it’s been installed, it’s quick and easy. You just unscrew two hose fittings on the end similar to a garden hose, screw it back together and replace it with a new one. And you’re done. Very, very big improvement on the foul smell from the sewer on the boat. Other things we did is the upstairs stereo was full of water and it had a lot of damage to it. The VHF radio up top did not work at all. So what we ended up doing was replacing them. Let’s see if we can look at the image here. Replacing the upper panel there’s an example of the fusion stereo that we put in it’s really great for connecting to your phone for streaming on and we put in some USB ports down below it there.

And then September, getting a little bit later in the season. We had another trip to Roche harbor early on, I think Labor Day and then we had another trip our way ended up going to sushi Island and then under Roche harbor later in the month, got some cool lights that we hang off the back of the boat so he put them in the water at night and they they light things up and they’re really cool for attracting fish and seeing what’s what’s around down there. We also did the simrad upgrade. Earlier we’d put in a new simrad VHF radio, but here we got a 16 inch simrad chartplotter depth finder. And this was really really a big improvement over what we had on the boat. Right here, these two screens are what we had previously. And this depth finder, it was factory installed, I’m sure this chartplotter it didn’t even work every time you turn it on it would power cycle like 30 seconds later. So both of those got ripped out. Here’s the whole on the dashboard, we had to get the whole little bit bigger to get the simrad and SS 16 in there. And then here’s the picture down at the bottom showing you what it looks like. Here we are underway on your spine in Ireland, they’re showing our chart. But yeah, that was a real big improvement, but also not just an improvement over what we had there, but a foundation for what’s coming later. Because later we’ve got radar and autopilot and things like that, that hook into that same unit. Continuing on after that. After those trips, we then retired the solar panels for the season, and moved our boat over to a different dock for the winter, where we have power that we can keep the boat warm. Yeah, the solar panels, the way they were installed, they were kind of done in a way that they wouldn’t hold up with the winter storms. So after moving into the winter storage, we ran into a problem with what bosto diesel heater, and we ended up having to replace the computer on there to get it to work. And then that brings us to our winter maintenance section. So we started out this is beginning in January. We didn’t really do much in December, but we started working on the autopilot pilot replacement. And we knew that the autopilot didn’t work when we bought the boat, but we thought it would just be some kind of electrical problem or something. But after tracking it down, we found out that this corroded thing and the top pictures here was the autopilot computer, which was mounted down in the bilge. In a point that if you got a little bit of water in the bilge, or you had water leaking through from your back deck in the cockpit area, it’s pretty likely that it got drenched with saltwater. And what somebody had done is they taken a Tupperware container and kind of mounted it upside down above there because it was obviously a problem keeping it dry. But it was just totally fried. So we pulled that out. We pulled out the autopilot devices in the pilot house and on the flybridge. And we got the simrad neck three autopilot computer and installed new rudder feedback new onboard compass, hooked up the autopilot computer and linked it into the existing the existing pump that runs the steering back and forth from the old autopilot it looks like that’s in good shape and that that’s working. So we now have autopilot that’s integrated and working through the simrad device on the screen there. Another thing in January, I ordered some crew shirts just kind of having fun. Here’s what our shirts look like for onboard or guests or anybody who comes on. We’ve got a variety of these. Just nice to have some boat shirts there with a picture of the boat on the back of it. Then we did more work on the electronics we had the end. Also during this time, we’ve had we’ve got a mechanic that’s been working on the engine and the engine has been taken apart and a number of parts have been ordered, waiting for those to arrive. While we’re doing that we’re trying out things we’re doing things like installing new radar. So we hooked up a new radar up on the flybridge on the radar arch. Here’s the old unit. And here’s what the new unit looks like. We weren’t quite done at this point. This light that’s in the back with a little antenna on it that came off after we got the light mounted up on the very top of the the new radar pole there. And very cool having an integrated radar with the chartplotter. So we can see charts and radar overlapped at the same time. See what’s going on, a lot easier to read. But combine that with our autopilot, we can now navigate and be able to see objects and obstacles in the water. Even when there’s like almost no visibility with the fog we’ll be able to see things with the radar.

Here’s what the top pictures with the radar arch look like before and afterwards. The radar arch only had one item on it this little post that pops up with the simrad on it. And then above that is it sticks up with our anchoring light. And here’s kind of a comparison of what the old radar looked like. Very hard to work with but probably really nice 25 years ago. And then later in January I started replacing some lights on board we started in the kitchen. There’s these old yellow lights which probably originally had incandescent bulbs in them and then somebody had replaced them before we bought the boat with some LED bulbs but they were still really really yellow and from the aged plastic and the plastic this kind of yellow plastic around the edges more Most of them were pretty cracked. And the new pieces that we ended up replacing them with were, the silver ring comes off, but the entire light fixture part is sealed. So there’s no way to get any dirt or any bugs or anything like that inside of the light. These were a really great improvement and they really change the look of the kitchen. So while we’re waiting for the engine work still getting done, we’re going and fixing more stuff. So the pilot house door wheel rollers, so on the side of the pilot house on the port side, this door has never ever never worked really well since we bought the boat. So one day in January, we pulled that door off George and I did. We brought it home to the garage and worked on it. And we found that this is the problem right here. There’s this roller that’s totally corroded. There’s bearings in there, they’re totally corroded, it doesn’t turn at all. So we ended up finding replacement pieces for this, here’s the exact measurements of what were needed to make it work. We replaced those two of them on that door, the door moves really, really well. Now, the one thing we ran into is a couple of the screws broke. So we had to re tap a couple of the screws that hold this in place to put it back together. So that ended up taking a little bit longer on the project than expected. We got to get it straightened out now. After that, we started putting together kind of a pre season to do list. With stuff that we needed to do new filters on all the fuel filters including the diesel furnace and the generator. The diesel furnace and the generator are done. Right now I’ve got the fuel filters for the port and starboard engines just sitting there ready to do once the engine gets fixed. I want to wait until the engines running before I try and replace those because I don’t want to add anything to complicate what’s going on there. With the engine command worked on. We replaced a lot more lights, we still have more to go. These are just kind of expensive and taking some time to get through all of them. We still need to check all the levels on the lead acid batteries to make sure the house battery bank is good. We’ve got some work to do still in the hydraulic hose replacement. Some other things we’ve done, we replaced the vent fan for the two heads. Turns out the bathroom Vander head vent, as it’s called, is just a bilge blower. builds Yeah, those blowers can be really, really loud. But I think what was happening was the bearings were going out on this. And when you turned on the fan, in either the heads it just was really loud sound throughout the whole boat. So we got that replaced, it’s still kind of the normal level of a blower, but it’s not as loud as it was before. We’ve also got a new starter battery in for the generator that was one of the three batteries on board that we hadn’t replaced. So that’s done. electric heater replacement two of the heaters. Here’s an example of one of them, we replaced that’s been done the electric heater in the pilot house and the electric heater heater in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs. We’ll see some pictures of those in a little bit. Some things we still want to do are replacing the washer and dryer, replacing the carpet throughout and then doing a new canvas. And we originally thought we could get another year out of the canvas. But with a bit of a windstorm, our canvas got destroyed. So before winter, we’re going to need new canvas on the boat. New heater in the pilot house, just able to find the exact replacement model from Amazon took it apart, put it in and it works great.

In the pilot house on the dashboard where the previous autopilot controls where we then had a hole left, so we ended up replacing that and replacing the whole world where the autopilot was with a little USB charging device shows us the battery voltage and that some USB chargers and a normal plug in for 12 volt lighter connector for other things we may need to charge. This is the heater on the stairs that we replaced, it’s kind of right there you can see the before and after. And when you look at this, you can see how much crud and lint is in there. And I don’t know why this heater wasn’t working but had it been generating any heat it would have been a complete fire hazard because of the amount of lint and crud inside of there. So after seeing this one, I went and cleaned out the other heaters the two that we did not replace to make sure that they didn’t have that same hazard new fuel filter for the generator, February we got that installed. And I like to now make mark every filter when I install it with when it was installed so that I know been more if it’s been more than a year, it’s time to go and get that replaced. Just so we don’t get to the point that we’re having to replace it as an emergency.

One of the things that we continued on lighting after doing the kitchen I went on and did the lighting upgrade in both of the bathrooms or the heads. And after doing that. Here’s the before and after with kind of the color you can see here this yellowed look with one of them falling out of the ceiling too. They’re all replaced. And solid thing we really discovered after doing the lights was how bad the mirrors looked. I hadn’t really paid much attention to until we until we got the lights in there. But we’ll jump ahead to the mirror replacement. And this is one look at how nice those mirrors look. Now, this is one where we were able to take out each of these pieces just by unscrewing a few things and sliding them out. As well as in the master head, I think it was a total of six mirror pieces, no five mirror pieces, these four plus one from the master. And we took those to local glass shop. And for a reasonable price just under $300, they were able to replace the mirrors on all of those and make that look much newer and nicer than we’d seen before. But as you can see, after doing that, there’s always one more thing that’s next, the wallpaper, there’s a bit of mildew on the wallpaper that’s showing up there. That’s one of them on our future to do lists with the boat being on the dock and wanting to make sure that it didn’t freeze.

Because I’ve heard stories from people with broken pipes. And although we put the pink antifreeze into the water system, there’s always a chance that freezing the boat can do damage, built these little Raspberry Pi based computers that we’ve got him on the boat monitoring in different places, there’s four of them shown here, we ended up with a total of five of them. Now we can monitor the temperature in the engine room, the galley, the state room and the sea to actually see who’s not on the boat that’s in my garage. But so I can monitor the temperature and know when we’re getting close to freezing, but also to know what the humidity is and to know if we’re approaching the dew point. And we’ve got to do dehumidifiers on the boat that are keeping the boat dry. And we really only need to run those enough to keep the humidity down to the point that there’s not going to be any condensation. All these computers they monitor, they send out every couple minutes what the temperature is, they report up to a computer here in my house. And then I can track it and see and monitor and get alerts on my phone to make sure the temperature is all good.

So next, we had the hole on the dashboard where the previous radar was you can see it looks that so we came back and ended up replacing it with this panel with some shrink vinyl on top of it that looks a little bit better than the old part that was there. So that’s just vinyl wrapped around a piece of starboard that had been routed around the edges. And then he tried to make it look nice. And then we got hit with a windstorm and we lost the window in the side and the window on the other side. So port side, the rear window and starboard side, the front side window come completely blown out to the point they can’t be repaired from a big windstorm. And then the back Canvas blew off. I think it’s going to be usable for the most part, but we’re just leaving it off. Now, for the winter, just we got everything covered up underneath. So we’re not too worried about water getting in there right now, sometime in the next year, we’ve got to get some canvas on it before the winter comes. And or at least before the weather, or the canvas is a little bit on hold while we wait while we’re getting our engine paperwork paid for.

In the master state room there is or there was just a hole in the wall where a stereo had been apparently at one point when the boat was new. And that was just a hole in the wall. So I ended up finding just a pretty cheap stereo more to just fill the hole. But also we’ll have some music or Bluetooth streaming down there and got that all Wired In. Just looks a little bit better than having a hole in the wall. Then I took a look at our Simrad displays have a HDMI output. So I looked at how do we get HDMI output to be able to on the TV in the salon, see what’s happening on our Simrad device on our radar or depth finder or whatever it may be. And while I’m running into a little bit of a problem with HDMI and the length of the cable, so with a 30 foot HDMI cable, it’s just long enough to run it from the back of the Simrad to this TV, kind of hanging down the hallway. But as soon as I go with a 40 or 50 foot cable that’s long enough to run through the walls and through all the appropriate wire runs the length the cable doesn’t work with the Simrad. So this is kind of an intermittent issue. I’m trying to figure out how to make that work but what I may be able to do when we get our sim wrapped up in the flybridge that’s a much shorter connection to this TV and I may be able to mirror that here as well.

Continuing on with more LED light replacements. One thing we ran into is that with the lights were getting there were some 39 lumen lights and some 45 lumen lights which is how bright they are. And we accidentally ordered some 30 nines instead of the 40 fives and they really have a yellow look To them, rather than the bright white that you have with the brighter ones. So we ended up other than a couple of those that I installed, we ended up returning a batch of those and getting replaced with the 45 lumens, which made all the difference in the world for the brightness there.

Kind of a summary of what we’ve done in the Simrad stuff. Yeah, big, full refit there on all the electronics, probably more than I want to talk about on the pricing, but we’ve got the in screen display, we’ve got radar, we’ve got the autopilot, we’ve got the VHF radio, that the radar up top, and the computer for the autopilot and just a whole big redo, they’re getting the boat to have a system that I can trust rather than something that’s kind of old and not trustable. Then I found a 23 inch monitor to kind of mount and cover up the area where the radar had previously been where we put in the sort of textured vinyl, look there. And what my plan is, is to have it so that this screen will mirror, whatever we have on the flybridge for the nmss Simrad display up there. And then the other display will be just showing its own screen right now I’ve got them hooked up just mirroring each other, but the one on the left would mirror what we have on the flybridge so that we can see both screens when we’re at the home down here. But a big difference looking at how it was before sort of that Hunt for Red October, era equipment almost compared to new bright screens with great ability to see what’s going on.

Not long after we bought the boat had a painting here with a painting a picture of print with a lighthouse and some big waves something look like from the East Coast probably. And it just really didn’t fit the style of the boat in the Pacific Northwest, what we ran into was that the is 25 years old and the frame was falling apart. So we took that out there was just a big blank spot there. And I found this picture online, I got that mounted. And then after getting it mounted, I kind of realized how bad the the stain around the edges of it from rubbing from 25 years on the wallpaper stood out down below there. So next on my list is to replace the wallpaper in this section. One one fix always leads to another fix, it seems like continuing with more interior lights all around the salon getting that looking really good.

 And then moving on to some cameras, getting some cameras mounted on the outside of the boat. And here’s kind of the view from two of them on the port side. And the idea is these are hooked up their Wi Fi connected to our onboard onboard Wi Fi. And I’ll be able to have a tablet either in the pilot house or the flybridge so that whenever we’re approaching a dock or coming in, or even just want to see what’s going on out the side, we can use these cameras kind of almost like a rearview mirror or a backup camera to see what’s going on. Little improvement they’re just trying to fill in some of the gaps of what I can and can’t see when we’re talking about

Oh, and then things got ugly. We had some power problems it turned into almost a boat fire. Yeah, the good news and bad news. The bad news is we fried our power inlet on the boat. Got some moisture in there somehow shorted out. And the way we found this is I was working on the boat and near the electrical panel smelled burnt plastic. So we tilted the electrical panel forward I’ve got a laser thermometer I shot down on the back there to figure out what was hot. And we found the inside of this power inlet port was about 150 degrees, maybe hotter even hotter on the core of it. This is something that could very easily lead to a boat fire had we not caught it when we did and I don’t know how long I’ve been there. Yeah, this Navajo connector just really wasn’t cutting it. So I went and got a smart plug. And what I really like about the smart plug is it snaps in and it has a rubber seal that seals around the connector. And this unit we were able to get a new replacement for the wall or the part that connects into the boat as well as a new cable. Here we are getting the problem resolved. We had to open up the power panel panel and tilted forward then we were able to cut it off cut it back and pull the wire out the side of the boat. Get the new connector attached. Get it screwed in nicely and then putting some 4000 sealant around the edge just to make sure that there’s going to be no leaking there. And then I went and put a new end on the cable that was fried cut off a couple feet just to be able to use that as an extension cord in the future. Looking back at the cost of the replacement pieces to put the end on its own More than half the cost of the whole cable, I think so. In the future, I think I would just probably buy a new cable rather than trying to replace the ends.

And that wraps it up summary of one year on the boat. We’re headed towards hopefully, another year of great boating wraps up my video. If you’re thinking about buying a 25 year old boat, think about some of the things we’ve had to fix and repair as we’ve gone through this. Don’t think that buying a used boat is always cheaper than buying one a little bit newer. So anyway, we’ve been able to keep get the boat fixed up and get in in really great shape over the last year. And I look at it and probably something want to hang on to for a while until we get to a point that I can get the bigger boat one day, you know the whole 10 more feet. Anyway, that wraps it up. Hope you’ve enjoyed my video and our experiences here with our 4788 Have a great day.