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by Peter H
Tue May 18, 2010 11:52 pm
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Wood stain options?
Replies: 62
Views: 15491

Re: Wood stain options?

With regards to David's stain on Unit 7 I have to report that both side decks at the stern have lost varnish in a thin film, leaving bare wood. This may not be the perfect answer, although there may be more to it than meets the eye. It may be that the decorative coving to the side decks, of two diff...
by Peter H
Thu May 13, 2010 3:44 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Hunts Meeting
Replies: 95
Views: 30126

Re: Hunts Meeting

Be sure your sins will find you out, ....the whole truth etc.... This was just the last straw...slow puncture in the tyre, can't shift the wheel nuts at all, shear the stud, not enough time to get another stud, fit it and still not shifted the remaining nut, and I have to repair the keel band that f...
by Peter H
Thu May 13, 2010 10:07 am
Forum: Events
Topic: Hunts Meeting
Replies: 95
Views: 30126

Re: Hunts Meeting

To my great disappointment, I've just sheared a wheel stud on the trailer for Unit 7, and my recently aquired double stacker is about 1/2" too narrow, so I won't be at Hunts this weekend.

A better prepared boat should make it to Bewl

Peter H
by Peter H
Sat May 08, 2010 2:43 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Hunts Meeting
Replies: 95
Views: 30126

Re: Hunts Meeting

Having failed to get a satisfacory bid for Unit on Ebay, I'm furiuosly trying to finish the odds and sods found in my first and only sail last autumn. There is every chance that Unit 7 will rock up at Hunts to creep round. I don't think things falling off will be a problem (cf David H's other boat) ...