a beautiful boat should sail forever.
So Nice today
Took a few pictures from the dock today. I've been painting the rubrails a nice tan color instead of varnish. The taffrails and such are staying with their beautiful glossy varnish, but with a total of around 200 feet of rubrails, they *never* looked great. I just couldn't keep up with them and *really* don't want to deal with them when we go cruising.
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Comment by Clyde A. Phillips on March 16, 2014 at 9:57pm
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Eddie,
We painted the bright work on one NP to the owner's desire--all of it. The paint was a specie of brown, deeper than what you have used. Even standing on the dock looking at it, it looked varnished (just a little strange for varnish) but a hundred feet more or less away it looked varnished. Not being a lover of varnish, actually more of a lover of the workboat look, I decided that's what I would do. Paint isn't (or wasn't then) a high maintenance situation like varnish so it looked much better than varnish. Sheriff Riggins (cheese it, the cops!) who was one of our old time oystermen and who had three of our most recent schooners (built in the '20's), always said that to varnish properly you lay on 6 coats of varnish on first application, and varnished it once a month for a year, then you had a proper job and then twice a year would do it. Now, that's high maintenance. Anyhow, all this to say that what I see in you picture looks good, and I enjoy hearing what you are doing to your boat. And what you are doing to her is why she's So Nice. Peace, Capt. Clyde
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