Why would you do this to your boat?

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Here is a perfectly nice Fleming 55 to which the owner has done this. Yes, that's varnish

 

[Philiz]

It'll probably look okay when it's dried.
You wouldn't dare walk on it would you!

 

[duncan]

I'm guessing that he own's a varnish manufacturing, or distribution. business - or got talked into it by someone who does........

 

[benjenbav]

Well, I did something similar a couple of years ago:

It actually got used by Le Tonkinois in their promo-literature and it really wasn't slippery.

But it wasn't very hard wearing so I did this, which I prefer and is less work:

 

[mjf]

Americian??

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Americian??

German apparently

 

[ChrisE]

Here is a perfectly nice Fleming 55 to which the owner has done this. Yes, that's varnish

The owner is an ice-skater?

 

[Poignard]

Reminds me of the managing Director of a firm I once worked for in Hong Kong. He had a new Rolls Royce shipped out from England and when it arrived he complained to the manufacturers that the walnut dashboard looked 'vulgar' because it was so highly polished that it resembled plastic.

 

[jfm]

Blimey Mike, that's terrible. He's even managed to seal in some quite different shades of brown, so it looks like some planks were wet and some dry when he did it. Just amazingly awful on a boat of that size.

Capping rails are fine; I'm only gasping at the decks

 

[MapisM]

Short answer, no - of course.

But I'm not surprised to see that, considering the mooring lines arrangement.
What would you expect by someone who ties the dock to the boat rather than do the opposite?

 

[Zagato]

What a plonker, he must wear slippers on board

 

[Warpa]

Blimey Mike, that's terrible. He's even managed to seal in some quite different shades of brown, so it looks like some planks were wet and some dry when he did it. Just amazingly awful on a boat of that size.

Capping rails are fine; I'm only gasping at the decks

Thats timber for you, you cant match grain to get it all the same colour its nothing to do with the varnish which i think looks fine, but i am a carpenter

 

[KieranW]

once it is not to slippy I think it looks fine

 

[AndieMac]

But it wasn't very hard wearing so I did this, which I prefer and is less work:

I bet it was hard work to get the old varnish off though?

 

[benjenbav]

Well, I couldn't stand up straight for a few days afterwards! But a very satisfying process.

 

[AndieMac]

Well, I couldn't stand up straight for a few days afterwards! But a very satisfying process.

said the Bishop to the Barmaid.........




sorry, I'll get me coat

 

[PaulGooch]

But I'm not surprised to see that, considering the mooring lines arrangement.
What would you expect by someone who ties the dock to the boat rather than do the opposite?

You lost me there ?

 

[petem]

Oil yes, varnish no (PM makes a hasty retreat).

Pete

 

[mjf]

German apparently

Well , nuff said then.

Taste is in the mouth.........Actually I really like fine varnish on wood vertical surfaces like say deck houses as the contrast to the natural bare teak deck is fab. J Class boats are a fine example.

 

[jimg]

You lost me there ?

Look at the cleats again......