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thanks Noah, et al.  Do I hand sand, with a block, or can I use a random orbital sander?  thanks

like the 150 epoxy, Ken?

i think i'm going to sand , with a much higher grit than i thought, and use a bleach mix.  and put poly on both sides.  thanks all

wow!  they look great!  Stu, what kind of stripper did you use?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10826951@N04/15630825311/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10826951@N04/15634336642/


that is how they look.  i will try spraying with bleach and water, drying in the sun and then sanding, sealing all sides.  and no heat gun!

my floor boards are in bad shape and i took them off the boat.  can I sand them to get out these weird black footprints (PO somehow did that) as well as other nastiess and then revarnished.  on the advice of someone, i bought Rustoleum Spar vanish, only to read the can just now to read that it was exterior only (opps).  also, there is black mold on the bottom of the board that was by the head, what do i use, besides just sanding, to kill that off and is there any reason not to put the polyurathane on the underside of the boards as well?

thanks!  i had no idea, obviously!

i'm not following, sorry

sorry, i have beckson's everywhere.  6 in the main salon, 2 in the vberth and 2 in the after berth.  they are the rain drain opening port.

i read http://c34.org/bbs/index.php/topic,7280.0.html and the faq and I have rebed all my beckson ports but as everyone here knows, even if they don't leak (and mine don't now), because of the angle they are installed in, when you open the ports, water comes in.  Has anyone seen covers for these, that would snap on from the outside?  Beckson does not sell anything like that. 

thanks in advance

becki kain
detroit, hull 99 1986

omg, I really thought my captain made up the "only canadians keep fenders on while sailing" story.  wow. 

what do people use to install shock cords, or anything else, in the aft lazerette?  i'd like to hang my fenders there, when sailing. 

thanks

becki kain
hull 99 , 1986

I did the water system but I was buying the WM stuff on sale, that's all

thanks

so for a Michigan winter, is -60 for engine good enough?  if not, I'll get the -100.

uh, no idea.  i just ran it for 15, stopped, ran again for 15, etc...  wasn't a big deal.  next year, i'm filling the tanks once, with water and bleach, draining, then only filling the smaller one.  no reason to fill both if i don't do overnights

really?  i thought you had to worry about it!