crew w ith m e in a blow .Even in calm s her length and w eight w illnot Iet her stop completely. The wavelength in this part of the Med.is exactly the one that m akes Tikiwork hardest w hen going to w indward.That is only im portant if you use her as a daysailer,w hen cruising you can usuaIly choose a course that suits her better. lkept Tikion a mooring buoy.Best attachm ent point w as on the first cross-beam , If Itied heron the bow big w aves buried them , if on the 2nd she had a tendency to broach. Inexperienced surfers did a 1ot of damage. She is,aIthough Istuck meticulously to the plans 10 cm Iongerthan she should be.Ei ther I
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m isread a figure ornobody else checked this. W hen building anew Iw ould use Epoxy only for glueing not for sealing. Forthis, ldiscovered halfway through building, an one-pot Polyurethane called Ebadur Streichbeschichtung 02 m ade by Bayer, Leverkusen and obtained from Eberhard Chem ie, Olpenerstr. 405 in D-50OO Kรถln 91.It soaks betterinto the w ood than Epoxy,absorbs any m oisture there it needs m oisture to harden
chem ically - can be sanded easily.(1 sanded the rest of m y sheets for Iittle m ore than the cost of abrasives w hen doing it m yself on a big m echanical sander,w hich w ould notdo it w ith Epoxy because it clogs the bands
w hen itgets w arm .)Epoxy sticks very wellto this sealer and it can be used
Ron Garrettof M assachusetts,U.S.A.sentus this series ofphoto's ofIaunching his TIKI21, 'La Gata de Colorado' ,on a beach near Boston Harbour. A ssem bling the CoastalTtekker has its ow n m agic.A The Sea People/sailorm an No.6 June 1986
to ''unstick'' sticky Epoxy surfaces.It costs,depending on the quantity bought betw een 10 and 13 DM /kg. In Spain Im et an oId adquaintance, an expert surferw bo builds his ow n boards.He cl aim s to get a very good finish on Iam inates by rolling household A lum inium -foilonto the w et surface.It can easily be rem oved and
even the joints are so small,thatthey disappear underthe first coat of paint. PS from the translator: Itried foil on Epoxv butit was very hard to get itoff.I tried Ebadur as well:It soaks very w ellinto Plvw ood even better than the true W est-Epoxv and gives a hard and nonstickv surface that appears to be m oistureproof. - , .
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collection ofshapes, bits and pieces suddenlv becom es - a BOAT Note Ron's trailer,it is m ade of w ood,on the original'colour'photos it Iooks w onderful.
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