On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:06:19PM -0600, Mark Z wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, James W. Durkin wrote: >> All gel-coat scratches white. It's the nature of the beast. How >> noticeable or not it will be is partly a function of the color of the >> material. The darker a color is, the easier it is to see white marks >> against it. But even with light colors, scratches can be quite >> visible as well, particularly in bright light. > i have 2 white fglass boats, well, white gel coat, and you can see the > white scratches pretty well. wax the hull, and they're far less visable!! I would imagine that would depend somewhat on the wax. There are some "pure" auto waxes you wouldn't want to use, as they have a yellow tint. Thinned down to the typical thickness they occupy on a smooth surface, they just look shiny. Filling in a scratch, however, they might not look so good. But I've yet to see a boat wax that isn't basically white, so you're advice is pretty well spot on. Except that for deep scratches, I have my doubts that the wax in the deepest part of the scratch would ever cure hard enough to provide something that wouldn't come right off without a little rubbing or other abrasion. That's been my personal experience with good quality (i.e., non-abrasive) boat waxes. When it comes right down to it, what you need is a golden yellow hull, just about the color of kevlar cloth. Any scratches to that would fill in perfectly with pure beeswax. And that stuff will stick to just about anything, through just about anything, and (buffed up) looks good too. By the way, toss your Loctite (red or blue) -- beeswax works better. Random tip, that's all. Obviously, it's getting late, and my coherence is dropping, so I'll shut up now. Almost ... If anyone has the URL for the picture of the British Racing Green Valley Pintail that the owner of Great River Outfitters has (the one where it's busting a wave in some heavy Lake Superior surf), please post it. It's about the best picture of a monotone dark hull/deck boat I've ever seen. And I cna't seem to find it now that I want to look at it again. Of course, it could be scratched to bloody hell, and you would never know it, as it's a) shot at a distance and b) being eaten alive by nasty wave. Great pic though. -.- jwd *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Sep 30 2002 - 05:55:13 PDT
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