Cleaning P-15 Rub Rails

Bruce Hood (bhood@sunset.net)
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:50:34 -0800


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Fellow P-15 sailors..

Cleaning the white vinyl "Baby Buggy Bumper" rails on our 15 year old
Potter Mk.II has always been kind of an annoyingly hard job for such a
relatively small part of the boat.. for a long time steel wool and bon
ami
was the method (or with Ajax powder) and required lots of elbow grease
as well.. Finally seem to have found some really good stuff to make
the
job a lot easier.. it is West Marine Fender Cleaner, available through
their
catalog, which worked very quickly and easily along with the use of a
green
Scotch-Brite teflon and sponge pad. Much easier than anything ever
before..
scrubbed the bluish cream cleaner onto the rail with the pad, let it set
for a half
minute or so over a two foot section of the rail, then wet the sponge
pad in a
bucket of water, wrung it out and scrubbed the same section a bit more
with
the wet pad, and eureka! Clean white rub rail, better than its looked
in quite
some time. The whole job only took about twenty minutes to do the
entire
rail. The rail which had been appearing yellow with age looks
infinitely better.

Bruce

Bruce Hood, P-15 Aillte, Sail no. 1246, since 1985
Chico, California