Favourite boat yard smells.

[burgundyben]

International Pre-kote under coat, good that stuff smells glorious!

Given the time of year, I have some hatches in undercoat in the conservatory, I love the smell of pre-kote in the mornings!

 

[KINGFISHER 9]

Mine is the smell of the chippy up the road! ... :encouragement:

(P.S. actually it used to be ... now there isn't a decent chippy within about 800 miles!)

 

[MikeBz]

Wood being worked, and the liveaboards frying their bacon...

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Stockholm tar!

 

[tidclacy]

Varnish

 

[Greenheart]

Lucky devils. I'm a slave to the deadly cocktails of glassfibre and epoxy hardeners, acetone, gelcoat and Duralac.

I'm not even sure I've ever smelled Stockholm tar. It's like the vague memory of a near-forgotten story...why was it the first thing I thought of when I read this thread's title?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Lucky devils. I'm a slave to the deadly cocktails of glassfibre and epoxy hardeners, acetone, gelcoat and Duralac.

I'm not even sure I've ever smelled Stockholm tar. It's like the vague memory of a near-forgotten story...why was it the first thing I thought of when I read this thread's title?

Brown gardening twine often smells of it! It used to be the prevalent smell in chandlers and fishermen's stores, back when I was a boy.

 

[Greenheart]

There always is a good hardware smell in chandleries.

Rope and brooms and a twang of some solvent, and something rubbery but not unwholesome, like a new inflatable dinghy.

 

[VicS]

Varnol.

NLA but was based on turpentine.

 

[burgundyben]

Varnol.

NLA but was based on turpentine.

Oh yes, proper turpentine is lovely stuff.

You get a similar smell from pitch pine, I guess that makes sense as turps is distilled from pine resin.

 

[Firefly625]

varnish does it for me, but even a nice waft of epoxy hits the spot.

 

[wombat88]

Try steaming oak. I think the smell is tannin, wonderful stuff.

 

[Greenheart]

Funny how odours which mayn't necessarily be good, can awaken a pleasing familiarity to which the mind allocates a very welcome association.

Decades smelling low tide at Chichester...saltings and seaweed and all the lowland agriculture close by...

...and, if I'm honest, a certain sewage element, probably from Apuldram.

But now, the same smell in the same sort of environment, is to my mind bracing and agreeable, at least until I realise what it is.

 

[pyrojames]

Rubbing down varnish and freshly sanded teak. Hot, cut/drilled/sawn acacia is fantastic I’d never come across it until I had the current boat.

 

[matthewriches]

Has to be freshly sawn or milled teak. Yummy!! Need a car air freshener that smells of teak

 

[Tradewinds]

I'm with you on that. Wonderful aroma.

Has to be freshly sawn or milled teak.

 

[Firefly625]

Has to be freshly sawn or milled teak. Yummy!! Need a car air freshener that smells of teak

I have an old Honda CRV mk1 as my boat prep car so save any other car getting covered with antifoul, I loaded it up with a few sheets of ply and a whole load of off cuts of 2x4 from some building work we are doing in our business, left it in their for a week and it is the best pine air freshener I have ever had...

 

[matthewriches]

Been making up a few signs today for the yard.... mmmmmm..... mahogany being milled....... yummy

The paint soon took the smell away though

 

[cnancekievill]

Fertan. We have a steel boat so I'm very familiar with this stuff. Smells like lovely thick treacle to me.

 

[DownWest]

Sawing decent ply. I was bought up with boats being built from ply and it sparkes the nostrils. Still get it cutting panels for the current boat. Heap of nostalgia.