T&T: Trawler vs Motoryacht

[Pascal Gademer]

"winter cold" ?

don't have this problem!! :-)

pascal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Brueckner" <rebrueckner405 at hotmail.com>
To: "aT&T" <trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 11:53 AM
Subject: T&T: Trawler vs Motoryacht


> As a matter of fact my '72 has the plastic portholes from Fuller Brush, 
> who
> still carries parts,  and I would not trade them for bronze. The bronze 
> sweat
> in winter cold, the plastic with plexiglass require no maintenance and are
> excellent insulators.
> On my old Matthews, the bronze ports had to be repainted about every five 
> or
> seven years....sweating caused the paint to lose adhesion....
>
> My only porthole complaint is that Hatteras unnecessarily screwed trim 
> rings
> outside to the hull instead of just using caulk to hold the trim rings. 
> They
> all crack and the screw heads flake paint...I replaced my trim rings and 
> just
> used caulk to hold them in place...smoth, clean,no cracks after eight
> years...In fact a sistership from May '72, mine is Oct 72, also had 
> plastic
> ports... Rob
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