Re: Using the jib for tacking

TillyLucy@aol.com
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:54:04 EDT


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Why you don't want to pull up the family room carpet to use on your trailer
bunks:

Trailer bunk carpet needs to be color-fast, even when saturated with salt
water.

Bunk carpet should have a thin, flexible, waterproof backing so it will
conform to the shape of the bunk boards.

Though you see it a lot on bunks, I don't think using loop-pile is a good
idea. It seem to me that the loop can hold sand, dirt and crystals of salt
against the hull as it slides on and off

The commercial bunk carpet I've seen comes on rolls pre-cut to the correct
width for wrapping around a standard 2 x 4

Dave Kautz
P-15 #1632 Tilly Lucy
Palo Alto, CA

In a message dated 10/25/99 5:35:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tims@spof.org
writes:

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> What are the characteristics of trailer bunk carpet that make it trailer
> bunk carpet and not something else?
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