[C320-list] Black stains from ports

[sailorlew at aol.com]

I took some vinyl weatherstripping & siliconed it to the bottom of the rub rail at the scupper openings which eliminates all the black stripes.
Lew



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hare <catalina at thehares.com>
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Sent: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 8:46 am
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Black stains from ports


Warren,  
Our boat #809 does the same thing prettymuch anywhere water channels so I 
uspect it might just be the dirt from the rain clinging to the wax. 
Catalina Direct was advertising somthing I think that would channel the water to 
rip off rather than run down the hull.   This probably doesn't help for the 
abin-top ports however.
Some clever member years back, used some plastic (like that clear clamshell 
lastic crap everything's sold in these days) to make small deflectors so the 
ain would drip off away from the hull and not leave streaks. 
-Jeff 

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I guess because of the age of our hull #62, now 16 years, the gaskets are
reaking down and a black streak stains the hull under the ports. None leak
o I'm not considering re-bedding yet. Has anyone a good way to treat the
askets so they don't produce this ugly stain?
 
Warren & Pattie Updike
Catalina 320, #62, "Warr De Mar"
Middle River, Chesapeake Bay