In article ,
Steve Christensen wrote:

Someone wrote:

-Padding Cabin Top
-securing boom out of the way

To which silver tongued BinaryBill replied:

Padding what? Securing what?

Well Bill, on my two sailboats, if I didn’t put down padding on the deck or
cabin house I would leave black marks everywhere from the black tubes. You
don’t have to do this, but it helps, and it adds an extra step.

Those black marks can be eliminated. (Those tubes ARE a PITA, but they
do their job.)

Bronze wool the tubes to get the top layer of gunk off, then lay on a
couple of coats of Armor-All or something similar.

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Oops, snipped too much. We assemble the PortaBote across the bow and
over the lifelines as they dive to the deck. Obviously, I have to slide
the PortaBote around as I move from center seat to transom, but I prefer
that to doing it on our side deck -- the advantage of a flush deck, --
but it's just a little tight.

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Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
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