Perfect day yesterday for vanish

Hydrozoan said:
My varnishing is indeed nigh vanishing since I had a tiller cover made: a great invention.
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Now, now now. No, no, no. 3 and a half feet of wood doesn't constitute a subject for varnish, let alone enough to be regarded as a 'Tiller'. But I am sure your work has been better than it was necessary to hide away..... :p:p:p

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tillergirl said:
Now, now now. No, no, no. 3 and a half feet of wood doesn't constitute a subject for varnish, let alone enough to be regarded as a 'Tiller'. But I am sure your work has been better than it was necessary to hide away..... :p:p:p

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I do also have a wooden ensign staff which some evidently regard as exhausting work to varnish; I’m surprised, as I find it’s mainly the button at the top that catches the sun and needs attention. Perhaps I should get a cover for that? After all, Mrs H is always reminding me to cover my personal equivalent, especially now that nature does not do it very well. :D
 
CCJ said:
What is the prep work for am Ali telescopic boathook
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Oh for goodness sake. An ali boathook is for use. The point of it being telescopic is so it can be hidden away until used. A wooden vanished boathook is to adorn. Rather like your spinnaker pole chocks.
 
tillergirl said:
Oh for goodness sake. An ali boathook is for use. The point of it being telescopic is so it can be hidden away until used. A wooden vanished boathook is to adorn. Rather like your spinnaker pole chocks.
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What like an "older lady" with 1/2 a pair of curtains draped over one shoulder
 
Hydrozoan said:
I do also have a wooden ensign staff which some evidently regard as exhausting work to varnish; I’m surprised, as I find it’s mainly the button at the top that catches the sun and needs attention. Perhaps I should get a cover for that? After all, Mrs H is always reminding me to cover my personal equivalent, especially now that nature does not do it very well. :D
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Normally I don't touch my ensign staff, which is a replacement for an older one which had been taken out in a big way by an idiot in Eastbourne who was forced to pay up. Last year I looked at it and the varnish had faded completely, although intact, so I stripped it. It now looks very handsome. It's funny how one can put up with small blemishes for quite a while, but how much better things look when they are remedied.
 
johnalison said:
Normally I don't touch my ensign staff, which is a replacement for an older one which had been taken out in a big way by an idiot in Eastbourne who was forced to pay up. Last year I looked at it and the varnish had faded completely, although intact, so I stripped it. It now looks very handsome. It's funny how one can put up with small blemishes for quite a while, but how much better things look when they are remedied.
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I recall your account of your bailiff frogmarching the miscreant to the cashpoint. I trust you realized that I was just continuing the jocularity of your own ‘Exhausting work’ and others’ banter. I used to have to strip the laminated tiller and re-varnish every year or two to deal with the grey and broken patches which were not large, but unsightly and irritating in the way you mention. Quite why it took me so long to get around to a tiller cover is now beyond my ken.

As to others' remarks on boathooks, I did not realize that one has to have ‘one for show and one for blow’.
 
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Perfick weather start. Tin warmed gently dans le soleil avec pas du vent. Les substrakes warmed both sides. 320 grit and then brush, brush, brush, tack cloth, tack cloth. Taking advantage of the tide I vanished both sides facing the west. A perfick coating.

Now about those little touches:

P1040172 by Roger Gaspar, on Flickr
 
johnalison said:
Normally I don't touch my ensign staff, which is a replacement for an older one which had been taken out in a big way by an idiot in Eastbourne who was forced to pay up. Last year I looked at it and the varnish had faded completely, although intact, so I stripped it. It now looks very handsome. It's funny how one can put up with small blemishes for quite a while, but how much better things look when they are remedied.
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It's OK because my bantometer had registered a positive. I thought that I needed to excuse my enthusiasm in doing the whole lot rather than just the button. I have never had much varnishing to do since I used to have a Firefly aka fiffle. I can usually get reasonable results but now find it a bit of a chore.
 
tillergirl said:
Report 3 or is it 4. I've lost track...

Perfick weather start. Tin warmed gently dans le soleil avec pas du vent. Les substrakes warmed both sides. 320 grit and then brush, brush, brush, tack cloth, tack cloth. Taking advantage of the tide I vanished both sides facing the west. A perfick coating.

Now about those little touches:

P1040172 by Roger Gaspar, on Flickr
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WOW, Beautiful :)
 
And now for another coat of vanish - true is I am waiting for the yard to pick me off the mooring and bring TG ashore to do the topsides and bottom. The yard is a week behind on account of the earlier weather. So it's a chance for another coat. 400 grit today. And I think a new impeller and fuel filters.

I admit the seacock hook thingy isn't v grand albeit tis vanished. You all have one of those assume but it's ali?
 
tillergirl said:
And now for another coat of vanish - true is I am waiting for the yard to pick me off the mooring and bring TG ashore to do the topsides and bottom. The yard is a week behind on account of the earlier weather. So it's a chance for another coat. 400 grit today. And I think a new impeller and fuel filters.

I admit the seacock hook thingy isn't v grand albeit tis vanished. You all have one of those assume but it's ali?
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I was surprised to see the sunglasses on the chart table – I need to put mine on to view your varnish work in safety. What is a ‘seacock hook thingy’? I have to lift out my companionway steps to reach the engine seacock, so perhaps I need one?
 
tillergirl said:
And now for another coat of vanish - true is I am waiting for the yard to pick me off the mooring and bring TG ashore to do the topsides and bottom. The yard is a week behind on account of the earlier weather. So it's a chance for another coat. 400 grit today. And I think a new impeller and fuel filters.

I admit the seacock hook thingy isn't v grand albeit tis vanished. You all have one of those assume but it's ali?
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It's on the top row, next to the T.
 
It was a bit of a wild day today to varnish:

P1040186 by Roger Gaspar, on Flickr

P1040187 by Roger Gaspar, on Flickr

But I braved it.

I have one of those Southend Engineering Company joint seacock and strainers (I'm sure everyone knows those) which resides 'au bilge' some 5' 6" below top of the bridgedeck. I could remove the cold store (part of the companion steps) but it is (a) too sodding heavy unless I drink all the beer first, and (b) too heavy cos the cold store is stainless lined, and (c) quite large, and then I would need to kneel down sur la cabin floor (highly varnish 1" iroko, of course). Lifting the bridgedeck hatch permits me to lift out the seacock hook thingy and open and shut the sea cock. Actually now I think of that after 26 years, I could use the wooden boathook - doh! The seacock handle has an eye to facilitate opening and closing.

Anyway 4 or is 5 coats of vanish today. At 12.45pm an Easterly seabreeze came up and by 2pm a brisk 15 knots and bl**dy chilly. But job done for the day.

Now tomorrow......

(PS I didn't show the boom to benefit, sorry - 10 coats of vanish)
 
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