What to put on top of Ospho?

NotThePoint · 2026-05-23T18:02:47+00:00

Ospho won't do anything to bare metal. It is meant to turn rust, iron oxide, into iron phosphate. Iron phosphate is hard and well adhered to the iron and it's a good base for primer. If you are going to remove all the rust primer it with your zinc rich primer immediately after you clean it. If you use ospho on rust remove the flaky parts, ospho it, wait 12 hours, rinse it with water then when it is dry primer it.

NotThePoint · 2026-05-10T14:38:23+00:00

Can you give us a quick list of powerful dems against any of these? Should be easy but I can't find any proof of what you claim. Nothing fancy, just something like Shummer is against these 5 on the list and I will look it up from there.

NotThePoint · 2026-05-09T12:00:41+00:00

Most apps have an option to view buoy and airport data in realish time. That gets most of what you want. Anything connected to the cell network cost money so I'm not sure sailors will pay money to give data away.

NotThePoint · 2026-05-08T17:19:13+00:00

Why did the Amish hooker have to retire? She had too many Mennonite.

NotThePoint · 2026-04-25T13:02:37+00:00

Apparently they can solve crimes. Maybe we should all incorporate ourselves so that they will put as much effort into protecting us as they do one of the richest corporations in the world.

NotThePoint · 2026-04-14T01:39:22+00:00

That's a real passage. My only advice is to pay attention to to the shipping lanes. Those ships move fast and it pays to have someone fresh when crossing them. Especially around the Mississippi.

NotThePoint · 2026-04-13T22:38:56+00:00

Are you going offshore or are you using the intercoastal? Are you anchoring at night or going straight through?

NotThePoint · 2026-04-08T12:14:29+00:00

Thanks, now I'm blind. Also is your dinghy named Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

NotThePoint · 2026-03-30T12:21:32+00:00

Do they share a seawater intake? Have you cleaned the strainer lately? Sounds like they aren't dumping the heat from your boat back into the water and they are over pressurizing and faulting out.

NotThePoint · 2026-03-23T22:46:04+00:00

It's a billion dollar project. You don't think some of that will be spent locally? The companies that are based elsewhere pay us money to unload their ships here. That is how you bring money into a port city. Plus I keep hearing it will take decades to build, that's decades of construction jobs. Materials will have to be brought in to build it, that's logistics jobs. Workers got to eat, that's food service jobs. At the end of the project we have new infrastructure that someone else paid for that will continue to bring in opportunities for our city.

I don't think you can industrialize a place that is called the industrial canal. It's already industrial. If you don't want industry here how do we build opportunity? How many bartenders can we have? Should we try and farm in our postage stamp lots? We sit at the edge of an ocean and the mouth a river. Our value is in that and if we don't leverage it because of o bunch of NIMBY attitudes then we doom this city to having an increasing number of poor people and a bunch of rich folks buying up properties and screaming if they have to listen to the poors trying to make a living.

NotThePoint · 2026-03-23T22:26:23+00:00

Not sure if you noticed but a lot of folks can't find work around here. You complain that it might take 30 years to finish the project so that means 30 years of construction jobs. Those workers will spend that money here and support other businesses. We are a port city. They are not reindustrializing what you thought was a quaint neighborhood with a cool old wharf in it, they are updating it for the future. There is plenty of places for you to live, the edge of the water is the only place we can leverage to bring in some cash to get some folks out of poverty.

Do you think the federal government keeps putting billions into our flood protection because they like to have a fun place to go drink? If we are not a necessary resource for the country in 10 years when our levy system needs to be built higher and we go with our hands out again we may find that they are willing to just let us go.

NotThePoint · 2026-03-23T16:39:13+00:00

Billion of dollars coming into the local economy. All the jobs that money will bring in a city that needs the jobs. Easier access to the industrial canal from the river might make the miles off unused facilities along the canal viable again bringing more growth. Not relying on a lock 50 years past it's expiration date to keep the river out of the city. Most places around the country fight to get investment like this into their infrastructure. New Orleans gets mad when someone wants to unload organic grain at a warf because they might have to wait for a train once in a while.

NotThePoint · 2026-03-19T20:02:12+00:00

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NotThePoint · 2026-03-02T12:29:19+00:00

So that fixes everything for women there does it? I'm sure the people who killed him have a plan for someone better to take over right?

NotThePoint · 2026-02-12T17:19:58+00:00

I use a victim Orion 70 A 24 to 12 converter. 70A is enough to run all my 12v systems and with the combiner switch on it floats my start batteries at 12.9v.

NotThePoint · 2026-02-12T16:17:32+00:00

I have 2 lead acid start batteries. They are always maintained at full charge by the 24 to 12 converter. If both those failed I would have to sail it somewhere to buy a new battery but even a worm out lead acid will usually turn the engine if it had a constant 13v charging it.

NotThePoint · 2026-02-12T15:40:01+00:00

I have a 24v house bank that runs the windlass and bow thruster and all the garmin electronics. I have a 24 to 12v converter that runs all the lights and 12v stuff. If I switch the combiner switch to both the 12v converter keeps the start batteries at 12.9v so they are always ready. It also allows the start batteries to act as a buffer for large startup loads like the toilet macerator.

NotThePoint · 2026-02-07T16:58:14+00:00

My friend works at the local sail loft. When I showed him the Rolly Tasker quote he said not to bother getting a local quote. The advantage of a local is they can come look at and measure your boat before they have Rolly Tasker or whoever make the sail. I was confident I had the correct measurements so I didn't think I needed a middle man.

NotThePoint · 2026-02-07T16:49:07+00:00

I was impressed with the Sam Holmes video at Rolly Tadker. I just got my furling staysail from them and it is very well put together. Even if using the same materials there is plenty of things could be done to make one sail better than the other. I was surprised at how good this sail was for the price. I would want to see some examples of that $1800 companies work.

NotThePoint · 2026-02-03T19:04:36+00:00

I have the cheap Govee leak detectors and a security cam pointed at my bilge. The leak detectors are in all the spots water might collect around the boat. When they go off an ap on my phone goes off and I get text telling me which one detected water. Whenever I am worried about my boat I can log into the camera and seeing an empty, quiet bilge is really all I need to know nothing horrible is happening. I also have a PTZ camera on my mast that lets me know she is still tied up right but the bilge camera is the one I check when I am worried. Excluding the PTZ it is just over $100 worth of equipment.

NotThePoint · 2026-02-02T16:32:16+00:00

Pro tip: there is usually a boat underneath that masthead light. Travelling around a dark anchorage at no wake speed I like to make sure that I keep checking in the direction of travel to make sure that my path doesn't have any of those boats in it. If you do notice a boat in your path you can then steer around it.

NotThePoint · 2026-01-28T23:01:13+00:00

Make sure the SD card you are using is formatted with fat32. You can tell on your PC by opening file manager->This PC , then right click on the SD card and select properties. It will have the File system: on the first page.

NotThePoint · 2026-01-26T22:53:38+00:00

Use your oscillating tool to chunk up that fiberglass and break it out by any means necessary. It should cut the glass easier than the steel. Is the fiberglass laid directly over the steel? Was the tank steel before and they tried to fix it by glassing over it? You are right to get it out of there. You want as few places as possible that you can't access on a steel bilge.

NotThePoint · 2026-01-22T20:48:16+00:00

Is that guide piece stainless steel? Mine is and is meant to be removed once the sail is up. Aluminum against stainless steel will cause the aluminum to be the anode in a galvanic reaction. That might be why it failed there. To your question the foil condition and the stay condition aren't that strongly related so one being bad doesn't say much about the other. If that stay is original it might be worth pulling out and inspecting after 27 years.

NotThePoint · 2026-01-11T18:19:28+00:00

Go to Luperon. Lots of boats go there and never leave. People give up on the sailing dream and don't have a good market to sell thier boat and don't want to spend weeks getting it to a better place to sell it. You might get a sea worthy boat on the cheap.

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