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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 04/08/2008 :  10:05:26  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Voyager</i>
<br />...I plan to wait about 2 weeks to cut off the excess material that squeezed out from underneath. Should I clean the area afterward with acetone...?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Just use a blade around the edges of the bedded piece and then zip off the excess--it doesn't stick very hard (which is one reason you want to use polysulfide). You can do it after a few days.
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 04/08/2008 :  18:38:07  Show Profile
Before you bed, make a mask with blue masking tape. Use a razor cut out the foot print of the piece you are bedding and wrap the piece with tape right up to the edge of the bedding surface. After you assemble it and it partially cures, wipe the excess, peel the tape off the piece, then peel the mask off the deck. I learned the hard way to do a side to side overlap when making the mask to facilitate a clean removal
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cat1951
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Response Posted - 05/02/2008 :  10:11:27  Show Profile
I have bumped this up in preparation of adding pics. I have completed the refinishing and will add a pic of that. And will get to the boat in a week or two to add pics of them installed. (Sorry it took so long, vacation, work, health problems, and spring yard prep got in the way... well not the vacation, but the rest did.

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Deric
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Response Posted - 05/04/2008 :  19:25:33  Show Profile
Speaking of hand rails: I redid mine over the winter and now am close to screwing the rails back on the boat.

I was thinking it may be sensible to start from the middle of the handrail and working my way toward the edges when attaching the rails back on the boat. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

The tape idea that Dave mentions is a good idea; one that I shall try.

Thanks
Deric
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cat1951
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Response Posted - 05/18/2008 :  18:15:10  Show Profile
Well we finally did it! Over the last 2 weekends, we finished refinishing and installing our handrails. It took two weeks to install basically because I planned it that way. Last weekend, we spent 3 hours scrubbing off the old caulk and varnish with a product called "goof off." Then I took each handrail and using blue painters tape, covered the base of each rail so the oozing sealant would not get on the wood. After we finished, we put the tarp over the cabin top as usual and headed home.

This weekend, we revisited the marina and put the final touches on the handrails. In the four pictures, you can see one with only 2 rails missing the tape, then the one in the shade that really shows the oozed sealant against the blue tape. Then the other two that show the finished product. We have already had compliments from our marina mates, and have been asked if I do contract work. My answer?... I am too expensive!. I really don't want to do this again for a looong time. I can now add a couple of coats every other year, or when it needs it.

It took us a long time to get this done, but we had other projects we are working on for the boat. (I will add pictures in another thread.) And there were also times that the weather did not cooperated. But now we are finished, and it was worth the wait.
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 05/18/2008 :  22:55:38  Show Profile
Beautiful! It may be enough to make me take the plunge in Cetol. I haven't minded the oil ritual in the past, but that looks pretty darn good.
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cat1951
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Response Posted - 05/19/2008 :  07:32:47  Show Profile
Thanks Dave, just an FYI, the other teak that you can see around the hatch was done over 2 yrs. ago. I do need to sand a little and reapply the Cetol, but it won't be much of a chore. Also, this is the Cetol lite from Sikkens..
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Justin
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Response Posted - 05/19/2008 :  07:40:18  Show Profile  Visit Justin's Homepage
Looks great! Refinished teak really makes the boats look sharp.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 05/19/2008 :  08:05:20  Show Profile
Beautiful, Mike!

With your boat looking so good, people aren't going to want to park next to you because it'll make their boats look like a heap.

Good job...
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cat1951
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Response Posted - 05/19/2008 :  08:17:11  Show Profile
Don..funny you said that. As my update indicated I have already had 2 fellow boaters ask me if I could do theirs. One was the the boat in the next slip.
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 05/19/2008 :  08:33:04  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
I bet Antares is proud.
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cat1951
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Response Posted - 05/19/2008 :  09:34:26  Show Profile
I know the owner sure is. We also refinished the rudder, added a new tiller, and I am finishing redoing the dining table so it can be swung on hinges up to the bulkhead. I am tired of trying to lift that thing in place...
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