Kukri
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There is no object in the whole of sailing more diabolically difficult to strip, sand and re-varnish than the sliding seat and carriage of an International Canoe.
Please excuse a very small rant
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Greenheart
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You have my sympathy. Any chance of pictures? One or two ICs at my club, I love to watch them though I'm not terribly keen to try one.
Kukri
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It's my elder son's boat; he was part way through a refit when he was ordered to join a ship and its blocking the drive...
Iain C
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Oh yes there is...the aft deck on my '65 Flying Fifteen. Big flat thing, easy right? Well it goes something like this...
Decide that in the interests of originality it's probably saveable
Spend 2 days stripping all old varnish and treadmaster off
Decide that actually, no, it's rubbish
Buy new WBP plywood and re-deck, ensuring the bottom is epoxy coated, epoxied to the stringers underneath and will NEVER come off
Come home after 2 weeks and find the whole thing has chronically delaminated and needs to come off and be replaced
Attack the last weeks work with a variety of hammery and choppy things and lots of power tools
Re-deck is BS1088 marine ply, epoxying as before
Apply 6 coats of varnish
Wait until boat is almost ready for launch, remove cover and Ta-Dah! Black bits!
Decide offending areas will need stripping back to bare wood, oxalic acid, and revarnish
Mentally prepare to do this and Ta-Dah...some of the black seems to have gone...
Repeat ad nauseum...
Decide that in the interests of originality it's probably saveable
Spend 2 days stripping all old varnish and treadmaster off
Decide that actually, no, it's rubbish
Buy new WBP plywood and re-deck, ensuring the bottom is epoxy coated, epoxied to the stringers underneath and will NEVER come off
Come home after 2 weeks and find the whole thing has chronically delaminated and needs to come off and be replaced
Attack the last weeks work with a variety of hammery and choppy things and lots of power tools
Re-deck is BS1088 marine ply, epoxying as before
Apply 6 coats of varnish
Wait until boat is almost ready for launch, remove cover and Ta-Dah! Black bits!
Decide offending areas will need stripping back to bare wood, oxalic acid, and revarnish
Mentally prepare to do this and Ta-Dah...some of the black seems to have gone...
Repeat ad nauseum...
Greenheart
Well-known member
Good grief Iain, what was wrong with the WBP ply? I hope you took the supplier to task.
Isn't there a really tough, dependable-quality marine ply for high-visibility decking jobs like that?
I'll be epoxying and fitting my 5mm ply cockpit bulkhead soon...if that goes flaky and delaminates, I may give up sailing!
Isn't there a really tough, dependable-quality marine ply for high-visibility decking jobs like that?
I'll be epoxying and fitting my 5mm ply cockpit bulkhead soon...if that goes flaky and delaminates, I may give up sailing!
Kukri
Well-known member
A well known timber merchant's Really Expensive Stuff, maybe?
Whatever happened to Bruynzeel?
