Subject: RE: baidarka finish on a paddle
From: Chuck Holst (CHUCK@MULTITECH.COM)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 19:18:24 EDT
>>
Chuck Holst:
> I have never noticed any weight gain on a long trip. Though I have read
that
> tung oil is somewhat permeable to water, I suspect that may be to water in
> the gaseous state rather than the liquid state. For that matter, I doubt
> that even an unfinished paddle would absorb enough water to noticeably
> increase the weight, unless you weighted it with a rock and submerged it
for
> a week or two.
I didn't quite understand the last part. Applied tung oil will protect the
wood from water (in liquid state) to enter it. Why do you draw the
conclusion that unfinished wood will show the same behaviour?
Thank you all for your great help,
Marian
(leaving tomorrow for the Aland islands ...)
>>
What I meant is that I doubt that unfinished wood will absorb more than a
superficial amount of water in normal use, probably not enough to cause a
noticeable gain in weight. My first Greenland paddle was unfinished during
its first trip, and I never noticed a weight gain in two days of paddling on
salt water. Bear in mind that the paddle will not be continuously immersed,
and will dry at least partly when not being used. The only reason I applied
a finish to the paddle after the trip was because the sanded surface of the
paddle absorbed enough water to swell and become slightly rough, which
caused blisters on my hands. A finished surface remains smooth.
Chuck Holst
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