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rivonia

rivonia

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Today I decided to do a little varnishing. Well the planning/preparation as usual took ages. especialy the masking. Anyway did the first coat and left the plastic tub of varnish/light oak stain with the stirrer in on the edge of the coach roof. After half an hour thought I would check the varnish to see if it was dry-ARRGH ARRGH.... the tub had blown off varnish all over the window covers (white) and all over the non slip/gelcoat F*** and Dam and other words!!. I managed with the brush to get it all back into the tub BUT the stain was every where. SHMBO was off the boat at the time -phew.

Any way I found the jiff/ciff with bleach in it and wonders - it worked a lot of elbow grease and it moved it. Just as SHMBO came back on board.

lesson learnt, make sure all cans and tubs containing liquids are always secure.

Peter
 
Well done! Boss was sorting things out a few months ago, knocked a fire extinguisher over which went off filling the port hull with blue dust, I was onboard. Still finding dust in cupboards.. Wonder what the smeggin' smeg he's going to smeggin' do next!
 
I had been doing some varnish work with Coelan. The thinner for the coelan is a polyurethane thinner. I had a glass of the stuff standing on the cockpit seats.
A Greek mobo passed. I was anchored just 300 yards from a town quay, but a Greek mobo owner likes to impress. 54 feet doing 30 + knots passing just yards away. His bow wave rolled our boat, just as Mr Smalldi** wanted it. The glass of polyurethane thinner fell off, broke and spilled the thinner in the cockpit. We have a wooden boat but the floor of the cockpit is glass fibre under the teak grating.
I rinsed the cockpit with some buckets of seawater, then went to work to clean the mess.
It turned out that the thinner dissolved the plastic of a storage box for shoes standing under the after deck. The thinner had bonded the box to the glass fibre floor. Took some work to clean the mess. Then I realised the thinner had left the cockpit true the cockpit drains. These are connected to the tru hulls with reinforced plastic hose. Thinner is lighter than water so rinsing does not help to remove the thinner from the hose. The hose will eventually dissolve.
Just imagine the hose dissolving and me not been on board.
 
well I tackled the next job and only a small mishap. I cleaned the starboard side fenders. First with very fine wet and dry (works a treat-wet) and then scrubbed with CIf containing bleach. Now all shiney. The mishap-one blew into the water and shmbo went dashing off round to the other pontoon to retrieve it

Job done

Peter
 
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