[Public-List] Paint over epoxy or wood glue?

dan walker dsailormon at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 27 08:55:22 PDT 2009


maybe they were specilaty fenders!

--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> From: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Paint over epoxy or wood glue?
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 8:48 AM
> Good morning friends -
> 
> The grips of oars are left bare for grip... And the
> double-boiled linseed
> oil is the stuff that treats wood and dries.
> 
> I wouldn't put it on the grips though - those should just
> be left bare wood.
> If they go silver that's OK.
> 
> On the subject of wood - I got TOUCH WOOD's starboard
> garboard strake off
> yesterday, and mostly intact too.  I was afraid to
> look at the keel but much
> to my surprised delight - it is sound and hard as
> rock.  As I was wire
> brushing the decades of crud off it, among the debris that
> came out was the
> 1947 Danish coin I used to keep in the mast step.  It
> was not in its
> position when I got her back and assumed that it was lost.
> 
> I could have wept at the well-meaning but misguided
> 'repairs' she had been
> subjected to... Among them a sort of doubler over the third
> strake up on
> both sides.  The doublers were wide and thin planks of
> red cedar that
> bridged one an a half lapstrakes...leaving a void behind
> and slathered with
> that elixor of the devil - 3M5200.  I got the doublers
> off sliver by sliver
> and found a sound plank beneath.  I will never know
> why they were put on.
> 
> Onwards...
> 
> Gord #426 SURPRISE (and F 16 TOUCH WOOD)
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/27/09 6:17 AM, "Michael" <dickdurk at atlanticbb.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Linseed oil is the trad. treatment for oar grips- the
> non hardening kind
> > (I can't remember if that's boiled or raw).
> > The blister prevention thing is overrated, though. I
> participated in
> > lifeboat races years ago and my hands blistered up
> just fine with bare
> > wood handles, thankyouverymuch.
> > 
> > MichaelGrosh
> > #220
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