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In for a paint up
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Brian Ward TT24
, Feb 05 2010 09:19 PM
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Golden View in Tarbert's drying out berth.
is she as nice below deck as she is from the outside.
Work in slow progress Andy. Engine room original and clean, focsle original clean and tidy. Fish hold undergoing fitting out with seating and mahogany floor, on with rewiring mains and 24 volt. Fitting new homemade, by wife, upholstery to seating...hopefully will look ok and be comfortable. Can easily be reverted to fish hold with original pound boards etc.
Just spent nearly a week scraping the years of deck paint off and Fairlie(Phil) has sanded port side to reveal a good looking original deck. HELP NEEDED!!!! I have had numerous suggestions for treating/maintaining the deck, but I could do with some more. It has to be a compromise on cost, function and appearance. I dont want to paint the deck again.
Deks Olje sounds good but toooooooooooooo expensive. Any feed back on 50/50 linseed oil and paraffin?
Deks Olje sounds good but toooooooooooooo expensive. Any feed back on 50/50 linseed oil and paraffin?
deks is good but will cost a fortune, 15-20 coats initially then 3 or 4 every year
boat soup - in a big bucket mix light creosote/linseed oil/naptha (white spirit or paraffin) mixed in equal measures for the couple of coats, then less paraffin till its just the oil/creosote
each year, just linseed oil/paraffin mixed 70/30
the creosote absolutely wipes out and nasties that might be lurking or fancy their chances. to make it absolutely bug and rot spore proof, chuck a tub of stockholm tar in with the first mix. buy from farm suppliers or horsey places rather than a 'swindelry' it'll be a quarter of the price (£5 -£10 tops for a 1kg tub)
stand the tub in a bucket of boiling water for a bit to loosen it up other wise its a bitch to mix
cost me about £30 for all the ingredients to put 3 heavy coats on
nice colour too:http://bf494.co.uk/blog1.php/2009/11/23/caulking-a-wooden-deck
boat soup - in a big bucket mix light creosote/linseed oil/naptha (white spirit or paraffin) mixed in equal measures for the couple of coats, then less paraffin till its just the oil/creosote
each year, just linseed oil/paraffin mixed 70/30
the creosote absolutely wipes out and nasties that might be lurking or fancy their chances. to make it absolutely bug and rot spore proof, chuck a tub of stockholm tar in with the first mix. buy from farm suppliers or horsey places rather than a 'swindelry' it'll be a quarter of the price (£5 -£10 tops for a 1kg tub)
stand the tub in a bucket of boiling water for a bit to loosen it up other wise its a bitch to mix
cost me about £30 for all the ingredients to put 3 heavy coats on
nice colour too:http://bf494.co.uk/blog1.php/2009/11/23/caulking-a-wooden-deck
Try Linseed Oil ,Thinners with a drop varnish mixed in. 4 or 5 coats with a drop more varnish in the last coat was how we always did it . The deck will not be long in sucking it in.
THAT IS A BEAUTIFUL BOAT.... 
Thanks Mark and Syvestor for the welcome advice and Debra for the nice comment! Good fun, these old boats.
hi , i used boiled linssed oil diluted and undiluted seems to soak in both ways , my deck was leaking badly due to the deck seams opening up in the warm dry early summer , it not leaking now
nice boat but we all know the meaning of boat break oot anither thoosand!!!
good old linseed heated up and a good lump of OCRE powdered up and added to the heating oil
