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WOW!  Inside Looks Like a Home Again...

11/19/2012

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You know there's light at the end of the tunnel when you can actually sit in more than one spot on a settee and don't have drills/drivers/dremels charging in every electrical outlet, a variety of socket sets open everywhere ... plus sandpaper, varnish, brushes and stuff cluttering the cockpit! 
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LOOK!   We picked up our newly powder coated solar stanchion brackets today.   And they look GREAT!  Now if we can just remember how to reassemble them to reattach the solar panels - 2 55 watters on each and then attach the brackets to the boat stanchions.  Luckily David had me take photos before we took them apart so hopefully re-assembly will go easily. 
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But before we can reattach the brackets to the stanchions, I needed to clean the stainless... no use putting brand new gleaming powder coating over rusty old yucky stainless.  So I started my stainless "POX on Boat Pox" experiment.  Over the next few months, I'll be trying a variety of products for stainless and report back on ease of use and long lasting.  Watch for the complete report on CommuterCRUISER.com! 

This cleat has half Iosso Metal Cleaner & Polish and half Mary Kate Metal Mate Cleaner & Polish.  The starboard side solar stainless was done with Mary Kate and the port side with Iosso.  Mary Kate might have a negligible edge on ease of getting rust off, but we'll see how they both hold up!  Game on!!!  BTW, I can also report that someone told me SheilaShine, a stainless spray product made for kitchen appliances in Australia doesn't even begin to get pox off boat stainless, so don't try it!  I did put a bit of it over a couple different spots cleaned with Iosso and Mary Kate to see if maybe it affects longevity...   In other news.....
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As a boat galley cookbook co-author, I'm happy to report that a bottle of rum makes a fine rolling pin for things like crushing vanilla wafers to make no bake holiday booze balls!    :)  Yet another tidbit of maybe someday useful trivia.  

Until tomorrow, it's almost time for happy hour and then dinner!  YUM!  Pasta Primavera - a new twist, we'll see if it's scrumptious or awful - new recipes aboard Winterlude are rarely in the middle!    :)
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