Quite - when I was a kid, I was disappointed because the store -bought
paddles for the home-built kayak did not have a copper end sheath on
the blades. They had a glass wrap. But this is an exceptionally
helpful way of keeping water out of the end grain, and improving wear
resistance. I can commend the approach for oars - the boot need only
stretch 3/4 inch from the end. Then it was polyester resin - now,
epoxy bonded fine cloth or tape would be the cat's whiskers.

Brian Whatcott Altus OK

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:52:40 GMT, steveJ wrote:

You are asking an awful lot from paint

Tom wrote:
What's a thick tough 1 or 2 part paint for wooden oars - have 2 sets
of avon 2 piece oars and 1 set hard dingy oars that I don't want to
have to repaint ever again.

I stripped them to bare wood, coated with West epoxy and have sprayed
on 2 coats of 2 part epoxy primer - what's the last coat - I have some
Sterling 2 part LP I could use but oars tend to live in the wet
bottoms of dinks and LP doesn't like to be immersed in water. Besides
it's not abrasion resistant - oars get used for testing bottom depths,
pushing off rocks, etc Needs to be UV proof, abrasion & water proof.

How about a good quality exterior latex semigloss - would that stand
up to the torture?