[Rhodes22-list] winter projects

Steve Alm salm@mn.rr.com
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:55:22 -0600


I'll be doing my tiller this winter too.  There are some areas where the
wood is pitted and rotten.  To sand all the rot out would take it down too
far.  I've heard of something called "Get Rot" or something that you can put
on rotting wood to stabilize it.  Anybody know what that is?

Slim

On 1/29/03 7:41 AM, "Ben Schultz" <BenS@ApproSystems.com> wrote:

> I stripped, sanded, and re-varnished my tiller over the last couple of
> weekends, and I have to say, I didn't know it could look that good.  If
> anyone has a tiller that is less than gleaming, I would highly recommend
> this as an easy and satisfying project that can kill some weekend hours
> until sailing starts again.
> 
> If the weather holds this weekend (sunny and high 60's both days), I am
> going to install the tiller auto-pilot that Santa brought me, and start
> sailing.  I went to do my install once, but got carried away with other
> maintenance and never got to it.  Any gotchas on installing the ST1000+ ?
> 
> Anyone else doing interesting things with their boats during the off season?
> 
> Ben
> R22 Velvet Elvis
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