----- Original Message ----- From: "Flying Pig" <[email protected]> > > There are also some small areas of rust, as seen in the pictures as very > dark spots. Those didn't stain our deck, in the case of the arm, nor our > anchor system, in the case of the joint, so they're pretty minor. > However, > they do exist. > > I could easily have wire-brushed it and painted it, but I wanted you to > see > it in a fully-disclosed condition. You, of course, could do that yourself, > if you wanted it "prettier" :) We WILL be doing that (painting it) to our > rusty but entirely functional Delta when we move it over to the secondary > position. >
Update as of November 27... Since we were going to do our Delta, anyway, I thought, "What the heck. It won't take long, and it will let us practice, first." So, we sanded down every single rust spot to bare metal, lightly sanded the entire thing, and used Rustoleum's Cold Galvanizing spray on it for many coats. They claim up to 3 years' protection in any weather. I stand by my original statements about the anchor - but you get a prettier, regalvanized one in the same price, and you know the history. The photo link in the original still works, and picks up where the original left off, showing you, up close and personal, all the places which used to have rust spots, as well as overall views. Enjoy!! L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in boats-or *with* boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not." _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
