Moon Tiki

George Turner in reply to George Turner says:

Around here most of the “marine” equipment that’s sold isn’t okay with salt water because we’re so inland (Kentucky). I stripped apart the fishing reel my house mate took to Florida last year and it was too far gone to fix. I stripped the deck out of his 1973 Thundercraft and found that all of the original screws were galvanized instead of stainless (and resembled nails that had rusted all the way to tacks instead of actual threaded fasteners), and that boat hadn’t even been in salt water.

As an aside, he first had me trying to fix a leak in his hull, which he thought came from a crack near the bow. I crawled under the hull and hollered “Well, I can’t see something pretty obvious.” He asked “What do you see?” I said, “Lot’s of daylight. That’s not supposed to be there.” Some prior owner had actually drilled all the way through the hull to mount a seat pedestal, and for a while I suppose the rusting bolt was plugging the hole it made in the fiberglass. Yes, we’re awash with nautical geniuses around here.Report