FinesseChris
Active member
So the boat (24 ft trad clinker, iroko on oak) has been out of the water for 16 months.... and the sailing club are threatening to launch her at the end of March, come what may.
Leaving aside my views of their plans, what's the consensus on dampening, nay wetting, the bilges to aid take-up?
Then there's adding salt: is it an old wive's tale that adding rock salt helps, or is water just water? And does adding salt lead to it staying in the bilges when she's taken up, attracting more damp from the atmosphere? Advice conflicts (as it does tend to with wooden boats).
In past years she's taken up in a tide or three – but never in 20 years has she been ashore so long.
Grateful for thoughts.
Leaving aside my views of their plans, what's the consensus on dampening, nay wetting, the bilges to aid take-up?
Then there's adding salt: is it an old wive's tale that adding rock salt helps, or is water just water? And does adding salt lead to it staying in the bilges when she's taken up, attracting more damp from the atmosphere? Advice conflicts (as it does tend to with wooden boats).
In past years she's taken up in a tide or three – but never in 20 years has she been ashore so long.
Grateful for thoughts.