The 1982 CD 33' I have has lovely original brass portholes. Does anyone have experience with polishing them and/or keeping them polished? Is this even recommended?
Frank
vernetf@afwtf.navy.mil
Polishing Brass Portholes
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Ryan Turner
Re: Polishing Brass Portholes
Unless you want to spend all your time working on the boat vs. sailing her you should simply learn to love that beautiful green patina. Several people have tried to keep them polished and simply given up on the effort. After all, there will be plenty of other things to work on if your boat is anything like every other boat I've seen.
Ryan Turner
s/v Zenobia
CD33 hull no. 100
Oriental, NC
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Ryan Turner
s/v Zenobia
CD33 hull no. 100
Oriental, NC
rturnertec@aol.com
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Tom
Re: Polishing Brass Portholes
If you do want to polish them, however, there is a recent thread about this in the archives. In the search window at the top just type in "portholes". As with most CD owners and boat owners in general I don't polish mine.Frank Vernet wrote: The 1982 CD 33' I have has lovely original brass portholes. Does anyone have experience with polishing them and/or keeping them polished? Is this even recommended?
Frank
TomCambria@mindspring.com
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Catherine Monaghan
Re: Polishing Brass Portholes
Frank,
Cape Dory used two different types of bronze (not brass) ports -- polished bronze or burnished bronze, depending on the choice of the original owner.
If your ports are the polished bronze type, they can be polished but they'll only oxidize again. If they are burnished bronze, they are not meant to be polished but I suppose you could if you really wanted to.
Once the surface has oxidized it won't oxidize much further. It actually provides a protective finish. If you decide to polish the bronze, you'll be removing that protective finish which will eventually re-oxidize. So you're probably better off just leaving them be.
You'll have to choose.
catherine_monaghan@merck.com
CD32 <a href="http://www.hometown.aol.com/bcomet/real ... ization</a>, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay
catherine_monaghan@merck.com
Cape Dory used two different types of bronze (not brass) ports -- polished bronze or burnished bronze, depending on the choice of the original owner.
If your ports are the polished bronze type, they can be polished but they'll only oxidize again. If they are burnished bronze, they are not meant to be polished but I suppose you could if you really wanted to.
Once the surface has oxidized it won't oxidize much further. It actually provides a protective finish. If you decide to polish the bronze, you'll be removing that protective finish which will eventually re-oxidize. So you're probably better off just leaving them be.
You'll have to choose.
catherine_monaghan@merck.com
CD32 <a href="http://www.hometown.aol.com/bcomet/real ... ization</a>, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay
Frank Vernet wrote: The 1982 CD 33' I have has lovely original brass portholes. Does anyone have experience with polishing them and/or keeping them polished? Is this even recommended?
Frank
catherine_monaghan@merck.com