"Glenn Ashmore" ) writes:

Please pardon a short rant:
I have been participating in this news group for 7 years and in that time
have seen people espousing everything from antifreeze to aspirin to cure rot
and curtain liner to wheat flour to save a few pennies on GRP lay-ups. It
irritates me no end to hear people insisting on short cuts and off the wall
ways to save a few bucks and screw up a job.

Could you please elaborate on the use of asprin for boat repair, assuming
it is being applied to the boat and not the boatbuilder? That's a new one
on me.

By curtain liner do you mean the polyester fabric? I've tried the
ployester drapery moulding, the stuff they use to stiffen the top where
they put in the hooks. It's okay for some places but not as flexible to
apply as fibreglass tape. There is a mix of the drapery tape and
fibreglass cloth imbedded in the polyester resin on my 12 foot, 25 pound
plywood Delta boat. Neither fibre has given any trouble so far.

I've never actually built a carboard boat but if you could somehow get
hold of waterproof cardboard I bet it would make a great boatbuilding
material for lightweight canoes and kayaks.

By way of a reminder, we are not all building 50 foot offshore cruisers
costing more than the average family residence to pass on to our
granchildren as artifacts of consicuous consumption. Or making our living
off people who do.


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