I've been varnishing adjacent to my job for decades. I’m a practical traditionalist when it comes to vanishing. When I stripped and refinished the sole on Peregrine, my 40, I built up using a few coats of Pettit clear sealer applied over a day. This I let cure for a few days, then after a light sanding with 150, I started with Epiphanes Wood finish Gloss, which allows you to redcoat without sanding for up to three coats. After the first three coats cured for a few days I sanded flat to fill up the grain. Another round or two of three coats of Wood Finish Gloss and sanding with 180 to rough up the surface I applied a “final coat” (with varnish, there's no such thing as a final coat) of regular Epiphanes Gloss varnish. They had lasted looking good for six years when I sold the boat to David. I gave Masquerade's sole a similar treatment and it still looks good after two seasons in New England and one in the Caribbean and a few races. Gloss varnish is the only way to go for the sole as satin varnish is much softer and won’t wear nearly as well. Yes, gloss is slipperier when wet, but only marginally. A traditional yacht finish holds the sole finished with gloss if its teak and holly. Andy Currently stuck in Bermuda wait for a nasty low to blow by.
Andrew Burton 139 Tuckerman Ave Middletown, RI USA 02842 www.burtonsailing.com http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ +401 965-5260 > On Nov 9, 2019, at 10:14, Nathan Post via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > I managed to salvage the teak and holly floor on my boat with a bunch of > sanding and then revarnishing. I glued the plywood back together where it was > delaminating near the edge and ended up sanding through the the holly stops > near a few edges where it was in rough shape but it still looks pretty good > and has been very functional. Depending on how bad it is you might want to > try just salvaging what is there. > > - - > Nathan Post > S/V Wisper > 1981 C&C 34 > Lynn, MA > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and > every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray
