Actually, a true spar varnish is actually not the best
choice for your wood dash. While it does an outstanding job
of protecting from UV damage, it is quite soft and easily
marred, and as was mentioned, yellows with time. It is
formulated for wood pieces that have joints that may work
where the varnish surface would fail at the joint interface.
A good example is a laminated wood sailboat mast. The soft
nature of a spar vanish does makes it more easy to repair
blemishes without extensive refinishing, but at 30 feet
above the deck of a boat, the repair will be hardly
noticable anyway. A more appropriate finish for a dash would
be another marine varnish like Interlux Schooner, or Clipper
(brand name) varnish. They are much more durable, higher
gloss and would hold up just as well to the rather limited
UV exposure. My .02 cents!
Scott Donnelly
Steve Laifman wrote:
>
> W John Gardiner wrote:
>
> > I now have 15
> > coats of spar varnish on the dash and it looks like new.
> >
> > Goof luck
> >
> > John in Ontario
>
> Aye, Mate
>
> And in high seas, remember to furl your jib and batten the hatches, and reef
> the mains'l, or ye'll be swimming for shore. {9->
>
> Spar Varnish is very good stuff. Used to be used on boats all the time. Of
> course they really didn't mind if it turned yellow, cause they like that
>color,
> and re-coating it every 6 months, and replacing it every 5 years was no big
> deal.
>
> The lazy sailing guys today, they want the material to be tough, clear,
> impervious to the elements, and last forever. I guess that's why they
>invented
> linear polyurethane (All Drip makes a 'wood coating system' package at West
> Marine or any good ships chandlery).
>
> But we Tiger fans don't mind a bit of pain and labor, or why would we have
> bought them in the first place?
>
> Was that "goof luck" a typo?
>
> {9->
>
> Steve
>
> --
> Steve Laifman < One first kiss, >
> B9472289 < one first love, and >
> < one first win, is all >
> < you get in this life. >
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