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Posted By: Skipper Adams
Date: 10/18/07 11:37a.m.

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In Response To: I've never rebedded (Adam Plourde - Seafarer 24 "Godot" - Chesepeake Bay)

I am in the same situation (boat...lol) as you are. I need to rebed Lights and such just because the boat has been out of the water for about five years and you never know.

I have learned to use the proper silicon and use it properly so I am not afraid of it. I am old enough to remember when "plastic boats" came out back in the late '50's and all the old sailors would say, " you will never catch me out on one of those plastic things. Hell, they'll fall apart in the first rough seas you hit. Damn fools."

It is strange how slowly we change with the onslought of new technologies. I remember when I first used silicon way back when...I hated the stuff and stayed with polysulfides cause that was what was in vogue at the time. I went back to silicon a few years back when this guy showed me a way to use it where it didn't get on everything around it and how to make it so you didn't have it showing. If I need to have an adhesive quality to my bedding compound I don't use it.

I'll be in touch. Do you have a trailer for your boat?

Skipper on s/v Catch 22

Messages In This Thread

Hey Adam -- Skipper Adams -- 9/22/07 6:42p.m.
Hmmm. That would explain some things... -- Adam Plourde - Seafarer 24 "Godot" - Chesepeake Bay -- 9/22/07 7:37p.m.
partly because the leech droops as the sail is rolled up -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/23/07 6:45a.m.
HAVE MERCY -- Skipper Adams -- 9/23/07 9:13a.m.
Port Lavaca is where we keep the boat- it's about 125 miles from Houston -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/23/07 11:37a.m.
What, you're telling me Laura didn't get that done on her cruise? -- Rachel -- 9/23/07 2:33p.m.
lol- nope- she got the eyebrows done, the starboard toe rail -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/23/07 5:40p.m.
Ugh, I'm not a big stainless fan anyway, as you know... -- Rachel -- 9/24/07 6:33p.m.
seem to be ok. We have a very few bronze clevis pins which I hoard -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/24/07 8:23p.m.
It seems impossible, but I've seen split rings come off "by themselves"... -- Rachel -- 9/24/07 9:09p.m.
Jamestown distributors . . . -- Lee -- 9/25/07 4:43a.m.
Try Shaw and Tenney- but stand by for the prices -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/25/07 5:38a.m.
Jamestown shows Silicone Bronze COTTER pins, but only stainless Clevis pins -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/25/07 6:36a.m.
Yep- one of the reasons I dislike them- saw a flailing jib sheet -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/25/07 5:41a.m.
Bronze Blocks -- Eden Cowart -- 1/29/08 9:19a.m.
re:Above waterline leak -- Adam Plourde - Seafarer 24 "Godot" - Chesepeake Bay -- 9/26/07 5:37p.m.
Okay Adam -- Skipper Adams -- 9/27/07 9:17a.m.
The portlights are not completely sealed... -- Adam Plourde - Seafarer 24 "Godot" - Chesepeake Bay -- 9/27/07 11:36a.m.
Gotcha -- Skipper Adams -- 9/27/07 1:22p.m.
Sealing the base of the mast -- Adam Plourde - Seafarer 24 "Godot" - Chesepeake Bay -- 9/27/07 3:37p.m.
Of course there are differing opinions on this, but I consider silicone... -- Rachel -- 9/27/07 7:26p.m.
I was refraining, hoping you'd chime in. I won't allow silicone aboard. -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/27/07 7:44p.m.
Hee hee, the "two-man" anti-silicone band (not that we're the only ones) -- Rachel -- 9/28/07 3:55p.m.
ROFL - now Rachel- from someone who is "womanizing" a booth at Trawlerfest, I'm -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/28/07 6:12p.m.
I know, but "two-person band" just doesn't have a ring to it -- Rachel -- 9/29/07 5:26a.m.
How's the show going? Tiring I'll bet. Will we see you chatting tonight? -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/29/07 5:37a.m.
Leaks revisited -- Adam Plourde - Seafarer 24 "Godot" - Chesepeake Bay -- 10/15/07 11:27a.m.
Sounds like you are onto something -- Skipper Adams -- 10/15/07 2:00p.m.
I've never rebedded -- Adam Plourde - Seafarer 24 "Godot" - Chesepeake Bay -- 10/15/07 5:03p.m.
 Same here  -- Skipper Adams -- 10/18/07 11:37a.m.
Towels -- Joe McCary -- 9/23/07 5:50p.m.
Yep- I think jiffy reefing is the way to go -- Charlie Jones, Meridian 25 Tehani, Magnolia Beach, Texas -- 9/23/07 7:30p.m.


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