Give your stainless / aluminium parts longer lifecycle – Data channel for you

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S/y Nauta – maintaining new Atlantic Navigator in Tenerife in very harshe and salty conditions

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Give your stainless / aluminium parts longer lifecycle – Data channel for you
S/y Nauta Taking care of s/s parts in your yacht
Mast foot and how to prevent corrosion
Old aluminium rubbing lists renewed with plastic lists to prevent corrosion entering aluminium toe rails
Epoxy putty and epoxy aluminium primer for the aluminium parts
Old and new without the risk of electrolysis in these two aluminium lists that are over lapping with salt water in beteen them
Quite simple tools needed and it can be made while berthed
Rinse with a lot of fresh water all your roller reefing systems
Check your head sail roller reefing system and rinse your anchor box frequently with fresh water
Check the mainsail boom vang and the slides, again rinse with fresh water
A lot of red sand and later on rust particles form on your s/s fittings. This is a big problem on Atlantic coasts

GOOD HINT FOR YOU

This little tool helps you to clean rust and sand off the shrouds

One effective tool that you can easily make out of thin stainless steel plate. The garden hose brings sweet water exactly on the right spot and rinse your shrouds
You just hoist the washing tool with your halyard and you can clean your lower shrouds, that are most problematic. On the upper shrouds you must change the tool over the spreaders

This little helper is effective on coasts with winds that bring sand and salt to your yacht. You can avoid the trouble of using your bosun’s chair and spraying water to your neighbors tea party.

Send me proposals of a good detergent to get rust out of Stainless steel surface, it must also be gentle to Gelcoat surfaces and good for your health.

Also good methods of how to clean aluminium and retushing aluminium with anodized coating.

I would be very pleased and thankful to hear of these methods

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