acoolway2sayit wrote:
This was a real lesson in Humanity for me tonight. Look at JimH's
postings and the sensless entertainment he seems to feel of okay. I
felt assaulted and hit him with a stern message and you see where the
real man took it. It's pretty sad to see this. I was and am not
SPAMMING. I have two boats and purchased some product in SC about 6
months ago. Finally, I got around to using it and put a post on the
boating sites in which I am a silent member. I see idiots on these
sites all the time, sharing recipies, for God's sake. But I never
attach them. He started it and I lashed out and see where it landed.
HOW SICK!

You might be interested to know how your miracle product likely works.
It's what some of my unscrupulous competitiors used to call "cheating"
the finish, back in the days when I was in the used car business. When
I got a pretty decent old car that was
mostly suffering from a case of the faded-paing uglies, I'd send it out
to Maaco and for $400 or so get a medium quality paint job. Other guys
would take a mixture of carnuba and kerosene, (lots of kerosene), and
"cheat the finish". When they were done, their cars would look almost
as good as the cars I sent out for paint, and if they sold them quickly
enough they would continue looking pretty good until about halfway to
the point where the first monthly payment was due............

You put some temporary shine on a wasted old finish by covering it with
a petroleum based product. It worked. It won't last. Maintaining that
psudeo "finish" would soon be more work and eventually cost more money
than just simply painting the boat.

Word to the wise: rec.boats is a tough neighborhood where a lot of
psychological bullies and misfit nerds hang out. Should you ever dare
express an opinion on any subject here, expect to be treated badly by
one group or another. Expect to be flamed for posting "off-topic" by a
group that includes members reduced to copying paragraphs from
Steinbeck or Hemmingway books in order to have anything remotely
related to boating to post here, and spends many hours a day immersed
in flame wars and trying to start even more.
Some members of this group will scorch you for posting "off topic", in
a week where they have launched 15-30 off-topic threads of their own
design. Yes it sounds ridiculous, but stick around- seeing is
believing.

It would be good idea to hang out here a while and learn the various
"personalities" if you think you want to post to rec boats. (For
instance, swearing at JimH was just about as politically wrong a move
as you could have made.) Odds are, if you do hang out here for a while
and learn the various personalities, you won't bother to post and
you'll move on to a less ridiculous, less explosive venue.

Good luck with rec.boats, and let us know when the shine starts to get
sticky, faded, and blotchy on that old boat. :-)