TOLEDO to SILVER BAY!  Hope she's got a heated dry suit!  Or wain a few 
months and you can probably walk most of it.

-jc
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 05:13  PM, Met History wrote:

> I need to replace the teak rubrails for my deteriorating 10' dory. 
>  The rails will be 3x4" X 1" or so, through-fastened to the (vintage!) 
> fiberglass.   
>
> You can't read even half an issue of Wooden Boat without some 
> digression about how you have to boil or steam teak stock to get it to 
> adopt the desired curve.  But the teak stock I intend to use bends 
> adequately (if not freely) to the desired radius.   
>
> So I know I can install the teak without steaming.  But if I don't 
> steam it, is it more likely to break, or snap off and do something 
> nasty like smack Heidi on the backside as I serve as the chase boat 
> for her Toledo-to-Silver Bay swim?   
>
> And, if I do have to steam it, where do I find a 10' long teakettle? 
>     
>
> Christopher on pdi    (plain damn island = Manhattan)
>
>
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