Subject: Re: [baidarka] Just maybe off topic........
From: Bill (me@billmercer.com)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 23:19:16 EST
The stuff has a good reputation as a wooden boat prevervative, but I
think it's usually dissolved in turnpentine so as to make a liquid. In
this form (or as Hubberd's shoe grease, which I put on my frame) it
penetrates the wood, but has to be renew periodically (it soaks in,
leaving less near the surface). Possibly not the best thing for a kayak
frame, which is mostly inaccessible once covered.
But it looks nice. You can also mix the stuff with boiled linseed oil
and japan dryer to make a woodfinish that dries on the surface to a dark
sheen.
Bill
David E. Sherman/King Con wrote:
> Hi all from snow bound Greensboro Vermont, tucked into what is known as
> the NE Kingdom. The fellow who coined the term, the late Senator George
> Aiken, whom I had the privilege of meeting while a student at UVM in the
> late seventies, was a true gentleman and a dyed in the wool Vermonter.
>
> Vermont is full of contrasts; those with and those without...I guess
> that's pretty typical all over. There's this movement up here, perhaps
> spearheaded by a minority of vocal persons, to "Take Back Vermont", a
> way of registering their disapproval over the Civil Union statute, and
> all that such legislation might or could stand for. Landowners post hug
> signs on their fields or barns stating simply the we must "Take Back
> Vermont". Which brings me to the question...did someone give Vermont
> away? From the real estate prices, it does not look like it. I imagine
> that some of the supporters of the "Take Back" movement have realized
> huge land gains. You can sell your land, but you cannot give away your
> State.
>
> Snowshoeing or skiing around you come upon these signs. You also glide
> through beautiful hardwoods. There are windstorms occasionally and a
> maple or ash will topple...then, if you are fortunate, you might land
> the mother lode. There's butternut up here too, and carving that stuff
> with a crooked knife rates as one of life's great simple pleasures. All
> of this prancing around the woods has me reading David Gidmark's stuff
> on bark canoes. Somehow it's logical that I will move from SOF directly
> to bark sailing canoe. Then, lord willing I'll finally tackle a
> lapstrake boat. At the rate of my production, I have seen glaciers move
> faster. I'm savoring it all.
>
> I have finished my frame (finally) and have been toying around with
> ideas on sealing it. Yesterday, nordic skiing I saw pine tar being
> applied to hickory skis. The ski center owner was dabbing the stuff
> on, heating it with a torch and then smoothing it out with a rag. About
> an hour later, the ski bases were dry, I mean DRY, to the touch. Once
> the base is prepared in this fashion, kick wax is "crayoned" the base
> and then corked. The explanation given was that the pine tar, once it
> permeates the ski base, prevents water from saturating the ski. This got
> me thinking whether the pine tar also prevents water from leaving the
> ski once it gets inside somehow.
>
> At my basement ski bench I found a container of the stuff I bought a
> while back. The smell of the pine tar being torched is wonderful. Has
> anyone used it on a boat frame? Figured I should throw this out there
> before taking the plunge.
> By the way: snowy, "coldish" and dry up here and nothing (maybe except
> paddling, sailing or cycling) beats a 3 hour ski through the woods with
> dinner in the crockpot waiting.
>
> David
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