Re: Help! I've become a slave to my gelcoat!

Ted Duke (tduke@cfw.com)
Thu, 03 Sep 1998 22:30:56 -0400


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
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Greg,

I'll give it a try at the end of the season.

Ted

greg wrote:

> I have a Montgomery 17 built in 1985. The hull is green and faded. While
> at the Oakland boat show I ran across some stuff called Metal Clean which
> can be used on fiberglass and metal. If I remember right it cost $18 for a
> 32 oz. can. This stuff really works. It goes on like a paste and you wipe
> it off with paper towels. It restored my hull color to original. You must
> put a wax coat on afterwards to hold the color, but it is well worth it. I
> don't own any stock in the company. The number to order this stuff is
> 1-800-714-6063. On the can I have it says "Original Mr Douglas Formula".
>
> Greg Moore
> M-17 #385
> The Full Monty
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Duke <tduke@cfw.com>
> To: 'WWP List-Serve' <wwpotter@tscnet.com>
> Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 10:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Help! I've become a slave to my gelcoat!
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> > West Wight Potter Website at URL
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> >James,
> >
> >Haven't had any spider problems YET, but sure can sympathize with you. I
> had my
> >P19 in the barn with a tarp draped low over it and the pigeons "had a
> party"
> >this winter. The doo covered the left rear quarter and was particularly
> heavy
> >on the OWL statue I had placed there to deter them. The stains were hard to
> get
> >off. They also built a nest in my chain locker. Then I parked it out in
> the
> >field for a week and the birds took turns dropping on it from above. So I
> >figured when I took it to the lake and tied it up at a slip it would be
> okay.
> >Didn't have any bird problems last summer. Wrong, Purple stains galore
> after 1
> >week. Don't know any answer other than to scrub and swear.
> >
> >Ted
> >
> >Fauver, James wrote:
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> >> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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> >> Webgang,
> >>
> >> I know that very few of you keep your boat in the water full time, but
> >> maybe someone has experience with this problem anyway.
> >>
> >> Every time I go to my boat, there are a whole bunch of new brown stains
> >> on the deck. These stains, as far as I can tell, are from spiders
> >> catching, consuming, and then "expelling" bugs. Each time I sail or
> >> visit the boat, I painstakingly remove all the webs, kill as many as I
> >> can find, then scrub the heck out of the deck. The problem is, each
> >> time there are a few "new" stains that do NOT come out. At this rate,
> >> in a few years, I will have one of those fancy tan (brown) decks that
> >> some people pay extra for ;->
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any suggestions on:
> >> 1. Keeping the spiders off MY boat (I cannot rid my neighbors boats of
> >> their spiders)?
> >> 2. Cleaning those brown spots they have already left behind?
> >>
> >> I searched the web, and alt.cruising, and the best suggestion found
> >> there was to keep a tree frog on the boat! They did not say HOW they
> >> kept their frogs, but I am pretty sure they didn't like being on a leash
> >> <G>.
> >>
> >> Any and all suggestions welcome.
> >>
> >> James Fauver
> >> P19 Southern Star
> >> Lake Conroe, Texas
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> >
> >