RE: catalina27-talk: bottom paint question

[windabout]

2 years in a a freswater lake = 1.7 days in local brackish salt water

 

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From: "Tom Monroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Can't find where this thread started ... I've been staying warm in
> Arizona, away from a computer. 120 days without measurable rain out
> there. Sure is dry.
>
> Anyway, re: moving jackstands around and dropping pads, etc ...
>
> Two years ago when I bought Different Drummer, she had a good barrier
> coat and ablative paint on her, worn down in the usual places. She was
> on a cradle. I sanded her down WITHOUT MOVING THE PADS, put on a new
> coat of ablative paint, and an additional coat in high wear areas. Then,
> when she was in the sling ready to go in, I quickly scuffed the areas
> where the pads were, and hit it with a coat of paint. She sat for an
> hour before going in. She was then in the! water for two years.
>
> When I pulled her last fall, I could not tell any difference where I
> did the quicky job on the area hidden by the pads. So I'm just not going
> to fool around with all the tricks for trying to carefully prep and work
> under the pads.
>
> Probably doesn't work for you racers (I've decided I'm not going to
> race her, I'm going to crew for a guy on a J24), and wouldn't work for a
> barrier coat job, but for routine maintenance of a cruiser, my
> experience is you don't need to get so dogmatic with your prep.
>
> Oh, one other observation ... I'm on a warm freshwater lake, and I used
> the West Maine paint with the new slime chemical in it. Really worked
> well. Two years in the water, no grass, and no slime at all for the
> first year, minimal when I pulled her the end of the second.
>
> Tom Monroe
> 6219 Different Drummer !
>
>
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] st.net 0 2/12/06 7:37 PM >>>
> Art - For what it's worth -
>
> When we did the total bottom job on "Slightly Askew", we cut a "V"
> notch in
> a 4X4, placed it on a bottle jack atop a few solid cinder blocks, and
> jacked
> the hull up enough to raise the keel off the cradle to insert another
> 2X6
> directly under the keel.
>
> This was done in conjunction with placing automotive transmission jacks
> next
> to, AND chained to, the cradle pads. Then we raised the transmission
> jacks
> up incrementally (they were the spiral twist type) & lowered the
> cradle
> jacks all the way down to get access to the entire pad area. Did the
> front
> in one day, let everything totally dry over the weekend, and put the
> cradle
> pads back up and switched the tranny jack setup to the rear after
> removing
> the bottle jack. >
> In retrospect, we probably didn't need to be so overly-cautious, but
> everyone survived unscathed, and we felt secure scrambling around
> underneath!
>
> You can check out a picture at
> http://www.slightlyaskewstudio.com/SAS_SAILING_page3.html
>
> Best of luck with your project!
>
> Cheri B
> Slightly Askew
> '74 C27 #1327
>
> >
> >> I have been considering putting a barrier coat on the bottom this
> year
> >> while still on the hard. The boat rests in a cradle on a
> stabilized
> >> gravel surface. Has anyone successfully used a jackstand(s) to
> allow
> >> access under the pads that are attached to the cradle? It is too
> long a
> >> process to just paint those areas while in the hoist before launch.
> That
> >> is how I did the VC-17.
> >&g! t;
> >> Art Snapper
> >> Sabbatical ! #6610 > >
>
>
> Dixie Chicken is FOR SALE: You can view the boat at:
> http://www.taborek.net/Dixie_Chicken/For_Sale/For_Sale.shtml
>
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