Hi Monty sailors, I have some questions about wood care:
1) I am refinishing my original M-17 rudder. I removed the thick orange coating on it; it still seems to have some old orangey coat on it which is not peeling, so I was not going to remove it (it seems to be too much work), but rather sand it down to a rough state. The rudder has a couple of cracks in it, but which do not go through. I was going to fiberglass over the leading edge, the bottom edge, and over the cracks. Is this a good idea? What fiberglass system should I use? (E.g., West system, stuff from Home depot, etc.) Then I was going to coat everything in either Cetol or marine varnish. Which one is better? I'd rather not have to take care of it for a while from now. The boat is not kept in the water, although it will be making some week-long trips when it will stay for a week at a time in the water. 2) I am also working on an old 11 ft wood sailboat whose hull I got to bare wood. I would like to get a nice wood look, but not need to worry about rot in the future. I was thinking of putting one layer of fiberglass on top of it, and then using a marine varnish on top. What kind of fiberglass do you recommend? How thick? Where to buy it? What kind of varnish? How many coats? Where to buy it? Thanks, Andrei. _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
