Re: M_Boats: Project just about finished
Tom -- Thanks for sharing about your renovation. Do you have any tips for controlling BoatLife caulk for someone who has never used it before, but who is contemplating using it for the first time to rebed all his deck fittings? -- Steve McClellan M15 #152 Chicago Area
This past weekend I finished most of my winter project to put new bronze hardware on my M17. For the reefing rudder I placed a deck strap on the starboard side of the transom and a jamb cleat on the port side. This should make it easier and faster to raise the rudder. I also placed two turning blocks, a Lewmar 6 winch and cam cleat on the cabin top to get the jib halyard to the cockpit. I would have the project completed if I could just get the Skene chocks delivered. Boy, that Boatlife caulk is messy stuff. Tom M17 Obsessus
Here's what I've used for a few years when caulking with most versions of goop, especially the polysulfide-based stuff like 3M 101 and BoatLife's Life Caulk. Works well. The guys at my local rig shop taught me this. Use denatured alcohol (available at your local hardware store) and a roll of toilet paper to clean up excess caulking. Use each TP sheet once and throw it away. Keep a large brown paper bag nearby to throw each sheet of TP away after one wipe. Wear cheap latex gloves and change them when you get gook on them, or else you'll find you smeared it everywhere on the boat. Use blue 3M masking tape around hardware to keep the mess off the gelcoat, especially near non-skid. Remove the masking tape before the goop sets. Hope this works as well for you as it has for me! There's nothing like working with gook and putty -- and getting it everywhere on yourself and the boat!!!! Fair winds, Judy B Buying "Touche", a 1977-8 C27, hull #3621 Commodore, Potter Yachters of Northern California 1985 West Wight Potter 19 #266 "Redwing" Danville/SF Bay, CA Potter Yachters website at http://potter-yachters.org/ TSBB Potter Forum at http://trailersailor.com/forums/potter/ Judy B's Potter Website at http://www.blumhorst.com/potterpages -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Wilkinson Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 4:18 PM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Project just about finished I don't have any idea how to use that Boatlife stuff without it making a mess. I kept acetone available to clean the excess and mess off the hardware, tools and fingers. Tom M17 Obsessus
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Judy, best of luck with the c27,are you going to stay with the Potters for a while longer? You would be missed. Russ in Reno , P14 &19 "Judith Franklin Bumhorst, DC" <DrJudyB@blumhorst.com> wrote: Here's what I've used for a few years when caulking with most versions of goop, especially the polysulfide-based stuff like 3M 101 and BoatLife's Life Caulk. Works well. The guys at my local rig shop taught me this. Use denatured alcohol (available at your local hardware store) and a roll of toilet paper to clean up excess caulking. Use each TP sheet once and throw it away. Keep a large brown paper bag nearby to throw each sheet of TP away after one wipe. Wear cheap latex gloves and change them when you get gook on them, or else you'll find you smeared it everywhere on the boat. Use blue 3M masking tape around hardware to keep the mess off the gelcoat, especially near non-skid. Remove the masking tape before the goop sets. Hope this works as well for you as it has for me! There's nothing like working with gook and putty -- and getting it everywhere on yourself and the boat!!!! Fair winds, Judy B Buying "Touche", a 1977-8 C27, hull #3621 Commodore, Potter Yachters of Northern California 1985 West Wight Potter 19 #266 "Redwing" Danville/SF Bay, CA Potter Yachters website at http://potter-yachters.org/ TSBB Potter Forum at http://trailersailor.com/forums/potter/ Judy B's Potter Website at http://www.blumhorst.com/potterpages -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Wilkinson Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 4:18 PM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Project just about finished I don't have any idea how to use that Boatlife stuff without it making a mess. I kept acetone available to clean the excess and mess off the hardware, tools and fingers. Tom M17 Obsessus
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Greets, The technique I used was to lay masking tape down, seat the hardware on top, then trace an outline. Remove the hardware and cutout the tape that sits under the hardware. Remember not to fully tighten the hardware down until it has had a day to cure, or you could drive all of the BL out from under. My boat has teak toe rails, and that proved to be a problem. Even though I covered the lower edges of the teak with tape, the BL found its way under. Messy to clean. I don't know if the secret is better tape or perhaps some type of a goo to keep the BL from adhering. Good luck, Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Wilkinson" <ttwilki@mindspring.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 4:17 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Project just about finished
I don't have any idea how to use that Boatlife stuff without it making a mess. I kept acetone available to clean the excess and mess off the hardware, tools and fingers. Tom M17 Obsessus
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Judith Franklin Blumhorst, DC -
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Thomas Wilkinson