Newglass II Results

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Clay Stalker

Newglass II Results

Post by Clay Stalker »

I dislike spammers as much as the next guy, but I wanted to share my recent experience with this stuff for the benefit of others on the board who may use it. I put six coats on my CD27 yesterday, took about 4 hours, and can be a pain to apply. You really have to make sure the applicator is rolled up, otherwise you get some dripping and this looks bad. Also, you cannot go over an area twice until it dries (about 1 minute or you mess it up). Also, I found you have to change gloves frequently because the stuff hardens on your gloves and chips off, produce little "scummies" that will find their way onto your hull. The secret is multiple, THIN coats. However, I have to say that the boat looks like brand new, and it's 20 years old. Several people in the boatyard came by to admire it (of course, part of that is because she is a Cape Dory, we all know how that works) but it truly looks great (so far). A guy next to me was in the process of spending $300 to have the hull on his Nonsuch 30 compounded, polished, and waxed, which also took four hours. When done, it did not look as good as mine, and he was bummed....Anyway, Just some babble on this, hope I didn't offend anyone who is sensitive about spammers....

Clay Stalker
CD27 SALSA #247
Apponaug Harbor, Rhode Island



cstalker@cheshire.net
Ken Coit

Re: Newglass II Results

Post by Ken Coit »

Last week, we washed, compounded, and waxed Parfait with OPine(?) and 3M restorer and paste wax products. It took a lot longer than 4 hours just to do the hull above the water line using a buffer on the restorer and hand application and polishing on two coats of wax. She looks very good even after 18 years. One could consider it good exercise, but it was a lot of work.

Splashing tomorrow.

Ken
Clay Stalker wrote: I dislike spammers as much as the next guy, but I wanted to share my recent experience with this stuff for the benefit of others on the board who may use it. I put six coats on my CD27 yesterday, took about 4 hours, and can be a pain to apply. You really have to make sure the applicator is rolled up, otherwise you get some dripping and this looks bad. Also, you cannot go over an area twice until it dries (about 1 minute or you mess it up). Also, I found you have to change gloves frequently because the stuff hardens on your gloves and chips off, produce little "scummies" that will find their way onto your hull. The secret is multiple, THIN coats. However, I have to say that the boat looks like brand new, and it's 20 years old. Several people in the boatyard came by to admire it (of course, part of that is because she is a Cape Dory, we all know how that works) but it truly looks great (so far). A guy next to me was in the process of spending $300 to have the hull on his Nonsuch 30 compounded, polished, and waxed, which also took four hours. When done, it did not look as good as mine, and he was bummed....Anyway, Just some babble on this, hope I didn't offend anyone who is sensitive about spammers....

Clay Stalker
CD27 SALSA #247
Apponaug Harbor, Rhode Island


parfait@nc.rr.com
Catherine Monaghan

Re: Newglass II Results

Post by Catherine Monaghan »

Clay,

This is the second year that we've used Newglass II on our CD32. We were very happy with the results last year so we did it again this year. After getting the boat good and clean it also took us about 4 hours to apply 6 coats. We weren't quite as neat as we were last year, but she still looks better than anything she's sitting next to in the yard.

catherine_monaghan@merck.com
CD32 <a href="http://www.hometown.aol.com/bcomet/real ... ization</a>, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay

Clay Stalker wrote: I dislike spammers as much as the next guy, but I wanted to share my recent experience with this stuff for the benefit of others on the board who may use it. I put six coats on my CD27 yesterday, took about 4 hours, and can be a pain to apply. You really have to make sure the applicator is rolled up, otherwise you get some dripping and this looks bad. Also, you cannot go over an area twice until it dries (about 1 minute or you mess it up). Also, I found you have to change gloves frequently because the stuff hardens on your gloves and chips off, produce little "scummies" that will find their way onto your hull. The secret is multiple, THIN coats. However, I have to say that the boat looks like brand new, and it's 20 years old. Several people in the boatyard came by to admire it (of course, part of that is because she is a Cape Dory, we all know how that works) but it truly looks great (so far). A guy next to me was in the process of spending $300 to have the hull on his Nonsuch 30 compounded, polished, and waxed, which also took four hours. When done, it did not look as good as mine, and he was bummed....Anyway, Just some babble on this, hope I didn't offend anyone who is sensitive about spammers....

Clay Stalker
CD27 SALSA #247
Apponaug Harbor, Rhode Island


catherine_monaghan@merck.com
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