[alberg30] Re: Props >> AWLGRIP

[FINNUS505 at aol.com]

From: FINNUS505 at aol.com

Hi Jack,
  I read with great interest your problem with blisters on the boot top from
submersion.  Stargazer had sat unattended for a while before I bought her, and
the scum line was above the boot top, and the boot top had blisters.  When we
hauled her, much to my dismay, I found the white awlgrip of the boot top just
peeled away nearly effortlessly, down to what looked like the epoxy sealing
coat.  the navy blue topside paint was solid, (though it is so scratched in
places we are going to have to redo it someday.)  I thought the peeling of the
boot top just indicated that the painter just hadn't done a good enough job of
removing the wax from the epoxy after curing, and so it never had good
adhesion, but have you heard of a different phenomenon?
  My temporary solution was to raise the bottom paint to the top of the boot
top. Our Harbor, Hempstead Harbor, on Long Island Sound, is so filthy, that
white boot tops have to be scrubbed weekly, or they turn green black from oil
and a very tenacious algae that grows in while you watch.  Dangling from the
dinghy once a week and scrubbing has lost its appeal!!
  What is your solution,
   Lee Trachtenberg
   Stargazer #255

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