First Post

[Meskel]

Hi all_
Name is Matthew and am in the beginning stages of restoring an 46 year old, 18ft, wooden Day Cruiser. Looking forward to gleaning some good info from this sight.
Sorry there is little info to give on the craft. All I know is she was custom built in New Mexico.

First question......
I have a little dry rot underneath the spray skirt. Not on the transom itself but on a couple adjoining pieces of wood. How would I best treat the transom wood that came in contact with the affected wood?

[2MeterTroll]

welcome and i am pretty sure you will get an answer soon. IMO i would brine it but i am from the work boat crowd so i cant speak to it damaging some shiny bit you might want.

[Thorne]

Welcome to the Forum!

First, update your location in the USER CP link in the upper left -- that saves you having to tell everyone where you live, which matters regarding purchasing stuff and/or local resources.

Second, post photos of the damage if at all possible -- "picture > 1k words" and all that...

Here’s how to post photos on this forum:

First - don’t attach photos. Most web forums don’t allow it, and space limitations are the main reason why.

Second - Instead of attaching them to a thread, post the pics on the web somewhere. You have a free website area with any paid ISP’s email account, or use www.picturetrail.com, flickr, photobucket or other free image hosting service.

Once posted on the web, right-click the image to copy the URL (web address). Always test first by pasting the image URL into the window of a web browser and see if the image displays.

Remember, the IMAGE URL will end in .jpg, not .htm or html. URLs ending in .htm are the page that the image is at, not the image location itself. If the image URL ends in other code, try deleting everything after the “xxxxxx.jpg” part of the URL to get it to display on web forums.

Third - once posted on the web, try this procedure while logged in to this Forum:

1. Click the “User CP” link in the browser window in the top left of the menu bar.

2. Click the “Edit Options” link about 1/4 of the way down the left column.

3. In the “Misc Options” at the bottom of the next page, select “Enhanced Interface” from the pulldown list.

4. Once this interface has been selected, in any “Reply” window you can click the “insert photo” icon --> a little yellow square icon with the stamp in the upper right corner, the mountains in the lower center.

5. Once the little dialog box titled “Please enter the URL of your image” comes up, paste the URL of the photo in the field.

If unsure of the procedure, test first by pasting the image URL into the window of a web browser.

[Todd D]

Posting pictures is easier than that.

1. Once you have the picture on the web some place, copy the picture URL (web address). For reasons of example, lets say the picture's address is: http://www.picturelocation.com/picture.jpg

2. Type a square open bracket "[" without the quote marks, the letters "img" and a square close bracket "]" then put in the pictures web address "http://www.picturelocation.com/picture.jpg", Type a square open bracket "[" without the quote marks, the letters "/img" and a square close bracket "]" Leave out all the quote marks and you are done.

[Meskel]

thx, Todd, Thorne and 2mtr. I started a new post w/pics.

Mathew_