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iitick ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 09 Sep 13 Location: Tunstead Milton Online Status: Offline Posts: 392 |
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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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I think it has to be specially textured for the job, rather than just be put on with a trowel in the absence of a paintbrush!
Now, depending upon what you drink, weeing down the centreboard case could be seen as releasing a substance to improve laminer flow. |
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iitick ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 09 Sep 13 Location: Tunstead Milton Online Status: Offline Posts: 392 |
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Still very difficult to prove what is a finish to improve performance or a finish to improve appearance.
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sandgrounder ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 01 Apr 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 220 |
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Haha, certainly a difficult rule to enforce / police.
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sargesail ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 14 Jan 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1459 |
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More to the point it is spefically not aimed at Teflon type polishes.
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JimC ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6662 |
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Knickers severely in a twist here over nothing people.
The rule prohibits two separate treatments. As I said before, if my memory serves me right RRS 53 was originally written to prohibit a polymer based material that you gunged on before the day's sailing, and which slowly dissolved/melted/something or another into the water over the day. I'm certain any kind of normal wax or teflon polish is just fine. The textured surface bit was added later to ban the riblets stuff Dougal mentioned on page 1. It would be easy enough to spot and distinguish from a 60 grit sandpaper finish because it has to be specially aligned with water flow etc. These are both expensive complicated and time consuming treatments, and in the case of the gunge polluting as well. Its a good thing that they are banned, but the rule has absolutely no relevance to ordinary club sailors like me, and probably most of you. Edited by JimC - 13 Dec 13 at 4:28am |
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yellowwelly ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 24 May 13 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2003 |
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I know once I couldn't be arsed to put my undercover on to tow a boat to an event- big mistake, I went a lot slower as a result. Why is that? Just dirt from the road or is it the exhaust from the car?
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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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Or maybe just in your head? Not yours specifically, but I think most of us feel good about having a nicely finished, clean hull, and "feel fast". Not to be underestimated, that feeling.
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iitick ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 09 Sep 13 Location: Tunstead Milton Online Status: Offline Posts: 392 |
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I believe diesel is the main culprit, nasty sticky stuff. A friend of mine wraps polythene round his hull under the undercover because he thinks it gets through the fabric. Mind you he is a bit like that. Our undercovers are pretty filthy though. better on the cover than the boat.
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yellowwelly ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 24 May 13 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2003 |
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It was a petrol car, but maybe I'd tailgated a truck or something.... but definitely a noticeable effect.
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