IMHO Cetol is better and is probably what the orangey stuff is. If you are going to fiberglass, you might want to test the resin on the orangey stuff to see if they are compatible. --Gary On Nov 5, 2008, at 5:11 AM, Andrei Caldararu wrote:
> 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 _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
