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DIY Puck Lights and Local Flavor Adventures | Ep 84
Aug 29, 2025
Join us on our sailboat as we upgrade the lighting with wireless, tap-to-dim LED puck lights! See the unboxing, installation tips, and the bright new results onboard. Plus, we explore a local grocery store and share a sneak peek of the fresh, flavorful boat dip recipe we’re developing. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction at Box Pack 1:20 Unboxing and features of the new LED puck lights 3:50 Bathroom light replacement and demo 6:30 Kitchen lighting overview 8:45 Exploring Ruth’s grocery store 12:15 Picking up fresh ingredients 14:30 Cooking a delicious boat dip recipe 17:00 Enjoying life aboard and local discoveries Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your sailing stories with us! Blog Post: https://www.chrisdoeswhat.com/upgrade-boat-led-lights/ Get content early by becoming our YouTube member https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMOZBmn0CZW578hpt4ImB3CRA Follow our boat on NOFOREIGNLAND: https://www.noforeignland.com/boat/5694391589011456
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0:00
Okay, me and my babe are at our favorite
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spot, Box Pack. That's where we spend
0:04
lots of money on wireless charger and
0:09
RV lights.
0:11
These are going in. But uh yeah.
0:15
Oh man, I'm waiting for it to cool down.
0:18
Got some new shorts.
0:19
They're um
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they're a different type, but they're
0:24
they still got the
0:26
Oh, I like those.
0:28
Oh, yeah.
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The only time I get
0:33
She likes pink, though.
0:36
Okay, guys. So, we picked up these
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little RV lights cuz uh lighting is a
0:41
problem here on the boat. We have these
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lights that when we bought the boat, a
0:47
lot of them don't work. So, I'm going to
0:48
give these a go around. These are uh
0:50
basically tap to turn on and also they
0:55
uh dim. So you to hold them, tap and
0:59
hold and it will dim so you can have
1:03
less light if you want or more light if
1:06
you need it.
1:08
Okay. So, when you open the box, you get
1:10
the uh instructions,
1:13
you get the the puck mount, some screws,
1:18
and uh it doesn't come with any uh wire
1:22
clamps to put on these so you can uh
1:24
connect them. But, uh I use uh wireproof
1:27
butt connectors, which I have two in
1:30
here. I use these. I'll leave a link to
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all this down below. But, uh yeah.
1:38
So, we're in my bathroom here, and this
1:39
is what the old lights look like. So,
1:41
turn that on, turn it off. And so, after
1:46
the install,
1:48
you have uh you can touch, turn on,
1:51
change color, and turn off. Now, if you
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uh have these on a switch and turn the
1:57
switch off and on, they'll start at the
1:59
default uh color. So, you can actually
2:03
wire a whole bunch of these in on a
2:05
switch and that's what they look like.
2:07
But to dim these, you just press and
2:10
hold and it gets less bright.
2:14
Pretty nice.
2:17
The nice thing about these little puck
2:18
lights is they'll easily change the puck
2:21
lights I already have in the boat. These
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are 3 in
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uh I'll leave the specs down below, but
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about 3 in. And these little Falco
2:28
lights only draw two amps of power,
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which my current lights, they draw three
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amps, so not a big savings there, but
2:36
every amp counts.
2:39
Okay, it's not completely dark, but this
2:41
is what the light looks like right now.
2:44
Now, I do have lights on in the the rest
2:46
of the boat, but that's what it looks
2:48
like. Okay, and so you just replace the
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uh this is a 12vt light. Red is
2:54
positive, black is negative, and you
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just replace it with the new one.
3:00
And like that, it's installed.
3:03
So, let's back up and see if we can see
3:06
the difference.
3:08
So,
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it looks the same on camera maybe, but
3:14
it it's a lot different. And let's turn
3:16
on the rest of the lights.
3:19
And here is the rest of the lights in
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the bathroom. And we only had one light
3:24
that worked. It was that one. So, this
3:26
is a big change.
3:28
And then check out this kitchen. These
3:30
lights. Oh, they're bright.
3:34
If I'm recording, I'd have to Oh, I'm
3:36
still seeing light rays in the the
3:39
camera.
3:42
That is way too It's probably too
3:44
bright.
3:46
Let me see. How could I get the light
3:47
rays out?
3:52
Well, normally we don't
3:55
rusties at night.
3:57
Mhm. Yeah, cuz these things are dropping
3:59
light rays straight down.
4:03
Yeah, my babe is Murphy on all the
4:06
furniture.
4:11
Yeah, I'm just chillaxing,
4:17
watching her work.
4:23
Yeah, it looks and smells a lot better.
4:30
Yeah, I need to keep up with this. It
4:32
gets dirty so quickly.
4:35
Like, you know,
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you don't do anything for like a week
4:39
and then it's back.
4:41
Mhm.
4:44
She's in her work shirt right now.
4:47
Okay. This is how dirty our walls were.
4:50
This is just from the kitchen.
4:53
And so my wife's been cleaning up and uh
4:57
yeah, a lot of wood on this boat though.
5:02
Mostly oil silk is pretty beautiful.
5:05
Mhm.
5:07
And keeping it from
5:12
Don't look at that messy table over
5:14
there. I've been doing projects.
5:17
[Laughter]
5:21
Okay, guys. We're going to go try out
5:23
Ruth's grocery store. We haven't been
5:25
there yet. We've been here for how many
5:27
months now?
5:29
Three months.
5:29
Three months. They haven't been to
5:31
Ruth's grocery store.
5:33
I don't know. I guess we just never went
5:36
down that street.
5:39
Apparently, our friends were saying,
5:40
"Yeah, it's just like right around the
5:42
corner from past."
5:44
Huh. All right. and the Big 10 the
5:46
Looper.
5:51
So, we're going to show you what's in
5:53
there. And uh you know,
5:57
need a different uh uh menu item tonight
6:00
after installing all them lights and
6:02
stuff in the boat, which those look
6:04
good.
6:04
Yeah.
6:05
Menu item.
6:07
Yeah. You're picking out a corn. You're
6:09
going to do a
6:10
I'm making like a It's called a boat
6:13
dip.
6:15
And then um I was going to do a like a
6:18
sticky chicken over rice or whatever.
6:20
Oo, yummy.
6:21
Like a pineapple chicken.
6:25
Trying out some things.
6:27
Delish. So I can't wait to have that and
6:30
uh maybe I'll film a little bit of what
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dinner looks like.
6:35
Okay, we're just passing Astrid
6:38
and it's somewhere down this road.
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Okay. My wife is saying that's probably
6:50
it. Two stories.
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Water bottles.
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Yeah.
6:56
Hopefully it's not just trash, though.
7:01
Okay, guys. We went the wrong way.
7:06
It's up past the gas station.
7:08
Luckily, we had a friend stop and be
7:09
like, "Where are you guys at?" We're
7:10
like, "Oh, Bruce." and he's like, "Let
7:12
me look it up on my phone." And we're
7:14
like, "Oh, it's back that way
7:16
somewhere."
7:16
So, yeah, you don't turn uh right at a
7:20
you keep going straight.
7:24
Okay. So, we're just passing the gas
7:25
station. They say it's right past here.
7:28
So, yeah, this is I've looked up online
7:31
a few times. I didn't know that's what
7:33
she my babe was talking about. But,
7:37
yeah. So, we're almost there.
7:41
And we think that is it.
7:44
So, it's uh next to the
7:48
central beard, whatever.
7:51
And uh yeah, it's this way.
7:55
But it looks like it's all closed up.
8:00
Yeah.
8:01
Yeah. They're open till 11.
8:03
Yeah. Well, that's not it. And it's
8:07
quite warm out here.
8:08
That's the reason why we haven't gotten
8:10
this. Oh, there's all the water bottles,
8:11
babe.
8:12
Oh, okay. That's it.
8:14
So, right there.
8:17
Okay, we're here.
8:22
Oh, good.
8:23
[Music]
8:25
Okay. They don't have the big bottle
8:28
that's at the other roots. They do have
8:30
AC in here.
8:32
Oh, there it is. Right there.
8:34
And there's all the liquor selection
8:36
right here.
8:39
for sweet corn with it or just now
8:42
regular
8:43
regular corn.
8:45
But look, shelves look stacked perfectly
8:48
in here.
8:52
And the sh and the owls are wider in
8:54
this one.
8:58
But here's the the meat selection, the
9:01
veggies casparing.
9:07
And then come down here and you have all
9:10
this jazz.
9:13
So we got all our food here and uh
9:15
that's it. Some mellos to go. But my
9:19
babe, she's she's somewhere in here.
9:22
There she is.
9:26
Okay, we're back from the grocery store
9:28
and my wife is making that boat dip.
9:31
My version.
9:33
My wife's version, of course.
9:35
Yes. not gonna have bacon.
9:39
So hard to come by on that one. And
9:44
it's gonna have um
9:47
this actually going to be our recipe
9:49
here soon. So me and my husband are
9:50
trying it out.
9:51
Mhm.
9:53
But
9:54
yeah, look at those lights.
9:56
Oh yeah,
9:59
we got illumination, baby. that.
10:03
Okay, my babe finished up her dip.
10:07
Oh, yeah.
10:07
I'm not telling what everything's in
10:09
there. This is a recipe coming out soon.
10:12
But it's good. We We have already tested
10:14
it.
10:15
Oh yeah, we have already tested it.
10:17
And I'm going to put it in the fridge to
10:19
marinate the flavors
10:22
for a little bit
10:24
before we can dig into it.
10:26
Mhm.
10:28
Okay. My bab's trying another dip now.
10:34
I don't eat on camera.
10:36
I know. How's it taste, though?
10:42
Good.
10:43
It's coming to a recipe blog near you.
10:46
We're using um this is a staple here in
10:49
uh the DR. It's made out of yuka.
10:54
I'm assuming it's a root of some sort.
10:57
And they they make it into like this
10:59
kind of stuff.
11:01
And you kind of break it up. You can put
11:03
they say you can serve it with you can
11:05
toast it. You can put cheese on it.
11:08
Make pizza of it.
11:09
It'd be really hard to make pizza when
11:11
it's like broken like that.
11:13
And you dip it. You could put peanut
11:16
butter on it. I mean, it's like an all
11:18
four thing, whatever.
11:20
So,
11:21
we're using as a dip.
11:22
Yep.
11:24
Okay, guys. We haven't showed y'all us
11:27
being an Astrid, but here we are.
11:30
And uh
11:32
Oh, we are. We haven't uh we have
11:34
another video here,
11:38
but uh
11:39
I know we did the other day.
11:40
We did. No, we didn't. I did a short,
11:46
but yeah. So, chilling. We're going to
11:48
play uh
11:50
this game where you just sink one
11:52
through 15.
11:54
Are you playing a game or are we going
11:55
to the chili thing?
11:56
I They told me I'm playing the game, but
11:58
we're going to the chili thing, too.
12:01
No, I'm just wondering what you're doing
12:02
cuz I'm about to order.
12:05
Yeah, drink. And there's Cy and uh
12:08
what's up, man?
12:08
Obviously Lisa, but Oh, there's Lisa.
12:14
This right here is true love. His wife
12:16
set him up. He has to hit the two.
12:20
Oh, he touched it. He touched it.
12:25
Okay. Late night in Looperon. This is
12:27
what it sounds like out here.
12:30
[Applause]
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I know.
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Heat. Heat.
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[Music]
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