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Spiffy wood & happy holidays (Patreon)

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2023-12-22 19:16:39
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Hi guys! 

Happy holidays! I fly out tomorrow to spend Christmas and New Year with Ava and her/our family in Michigan. I'm excited to see Ava again after having been apart for a couple of months, and I'm also very eager not to be sweating constantly. I keep waiting for this "acclimating" everyone talks about. I just don't know if it's going to happen for me. My blood remains the consistency of thick gravy - it has not thinned the slightest after getting to the Caribbean ;)

In this week's video, I varnish a big part of the trim aboard Athena. I wasn't able to get my favorite products down here in Trinidad. What I could get was okay but a bit slow to work with - more details in the video. For easy and quick varnishing of interior trim, I highly recommend you try Clear wood sealer (the two-part product!) and then finish it with a few (2-3) coats of GoldSpar. Below are a couple of product links. I can get a mirror-smooth finish on wood sanded with 220 grit in 3 days with those products. If you have a better system/process, I'd love to hear about it :) 

https://www.interlux.com/en/us/boat-paint/primer/clear-wood-sealer

https://www.interlux.com/en/us/boat-paint/varnish/goldspar-satin

Happy Holidays guys, and thank you so much for your support :)



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Sail Life - Oh glorious varnish-palooza & freezer lid

Who doesn't love a good bit of varnishing? :) In this video I try some next products for spiffy-fying wood. Spoiler alert: I still haven't found better products or processes than the one I used back in Denmark. For easy varnishing of interior trim, I highly recommend you try Clear wood sealer (the two-part product!) and then finish it with a few coats of GoldSpar. https://www.interlux.com/en/us/boat-paint/primer/clear-wood-sealer https://www.interlux.com/en/us/boat-paint/varnish/goldspar-satin

Comments

Joseph Orr

Merry Christmas to you and Ava, Mads. Great video. I like the way you always temper your "reviews" with respect for personal preferences. You are a perfectionist which is likely the reason many of us appreciate your fine work. On that, how do the sealer / varnish products you used stand up to SALT WATER and SUN. UV can be very harsh, and I suspect on the water, it is magnified.

Jesse Falsone

I use cetol for the teak boards that go over the cockpit settees because we're always walking on them. Does it look as good as varnish? No, but way more durable. One to two maintenance coats per year go on easy. No point in painstaking varnish on these boards because I'd get bummed when they inevitably get scuffed up.