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Page B4, August 19, 1979 - Sunday News _

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By KARL BEGRICH

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There is very little on
earth as appealing as a

What is mildew in a glass
boat becomes rot in a wood

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wooden sailboat, especially boat.
one of traditional character.
fore-I_shall_make sure —
this year to make it over to I do not write this so much

Port Townsend where all
traditional wooden boats

will gather in September.

The emotional appeal of

_ wood being. what it is, I have:

watched innocent people”
over the years become

to discourage anyone from
owning a wood boat, but
rather as one friend might

counsel another on the brink

of marriage. There are
simply many more factors
involved in owning wood

,-—than-there. are in any other

material

“embroiled in affairs “with ~

‘on wood ©

i

re

io .
> the-’“protective — ~parriers

. against fresh water require
that virtually everything on
the exterior of the boat be
painted or varnished every

year.

The greatest: mistake most~-

‘The most important
aspect of painting is care in
preparation of the surface;
and if you don’t have the

time or skill, it may become —

__sostly. a

Now, there are other ways

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to start with the wood ata
much lower moisture
content and then construct
the boat in a way that would
first_ke

ep water away from d or held together with
the wood or allow it to run epoxy f manner, Weather ——

off if it did penetrate into the
interior of the boat.

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The great danger is the
build-up of fresh water of
high humidity _insi
boat. Salt water isi

ical to
the growth of the

and

you will rarely find rot in the"

some of these sirens. Mostly,
things turn out all right and
the people involved emerge
a little poorer, somewhat
saddened: and _ thoroughly
inoculated against another
bout of wood boat fever.

They go on to a stock
fibreglass boat and = are
uld-have-been-

_ To begin with, there is the
factor of the wood itself,
‘specifically with
seasoning. To be really
suitable for use in a boat,
wood needs to be allowed to

season, or rést, after being |

cut into timbers and plariks
until its water content is
about 15 per cent.

~ underbody of a boat used in ~*

its”

salt water.

From “the above con-
siderations come most of the
additional costs of owning a
wood boat. Maintenance of

in the first ‘Place.

” Sadly, a woad boat is often
not so fortunate. It is|
possible to really damage a
wood boat through simple
innocent ignorance. To take
just one factor as an
‘example, good ventilation is
very important to the health
of a steel boat — but it is
absolutely critical to a wood
boat._

You can leave a glass boat
shut up tight and untended
for months while, say, you
take a vacation in Europe.
You will probably come
back to find the inside of the
boat black with mildew, but
structurally it will be
unaffected. Do this to a
wood boat and you may very
well destroy her.

pase fifteen veurs.

This used to be. ac-
complished by builders by
carefully stacking wood in
roofed but sideless sheds.

open to the free play of air

yet protected from rain and -

snow. The rule of thumb was
that boat-building wood —

should be allowed to season: -

one year per inch of
thickness. You can easily see
what this meant in terms of
time and capital tied up.

The reason for this great
care is that the seasoning is a
large factor in the
prevention of rot after the
boat is built. In order to
grow, the fungus that rots
wood needs a warm,
stagnant, moist environment
and wood with a moisture
content of about 25 per cent.
So the name of the game was

now with a tull 9° dead air space and special

heat reMlegting ghiss. Besides reducing summer
heat in your home yout also reduce nome and
fading of drapes and furniture Convert now tor
summer comfort and winter fuel sas (NBA.
In most Gases Gur patented: Comversion svstem
tows To Censert aw rehaait mess. alten tens
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Matha Vherma Glass Ltd. We
407 Mountinn Highway North Vane Ae, “ESE

the.

to constrict a boat out of
wood, and one.of the best is
called “cold molding.”

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In this process, thin strips
of wood are laid over a mold
of the.boat, criss-cross. on
top of each other, and are

the wood i is sealed: from the
penetration of water vapor
and rot does not occur. Any
desired thickness can be
achieved and structurally it
is excellent for a boat —
strong and rigid and very

~ Tlove the sight of a wood
boat, but the cost of building
one is phenomenal. Anyway,

Pm. not sure about the an-.
swer of a lumber salesman,

when I ask for a ‘seasoned’

__piece of spruce!

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not fishing an area, “edge, placing each cast
thoroughly; and not looking» approximately 10 degrees to

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ment.

They call it * fishing the ;
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its edges, and. drop the
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