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Date Posted: - Friday - 07/24/09 - 1:06am
Author: Randall, M31, Murre
Subject: I leave mine bare
In reply to: Gene Trentham 's message, "Cabin Sole Finish" on - Thursday - 07/23/09 - 7:51pm

I think my teak sole was stained and oiled originally, but I've taken to scrubbing it with a scouring pad and a wet rag after each visit, and I may reduce it to bare wood next haul out.

I find it slick in a seaway otherwise and so think it best to treat it like one would treat a teak deck.

This does mean it soils more easily and thus needs frequent scrubbing.

But then that's very sailorly too, a deep and bowing knee bend to the ships of old that holystoned their decks with each sunrise.

Or, as the catechism says,

"Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,
And on the seventh--holystone the decks and scrape the cable"

RR

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[> [> Cabin Sole Finishing -- Gene Trentham, - Friday - 07/24/09 - 10:55am

Thanks for the prompt reply from both.


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