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I have good experience with foamed PVC sheets. No glue or fumes involved. It's a slick material however, so if you like the soft headliner-type, you won't like it. I like it better than the soft headliner for severaL reasons: - no glue, no fume, no mess; you use a few staples to keep it in place and...

Geoff, I have a few suggestions for improvements. Have a look at the BB at www.aspireoneuser.com. It's also a phpBB. It has a few things I like very much: I stay logged in (in the FOG board the checkbox remember me doesn't seem to work. And could you perhaps check if there are upload limits? Both Al...

Geoff, When I had to take off the masts of my F44 to ship it to Europe, I had to cut the PU mast wedges with a hacksaw too. They weren't set with Spartite, but a much harder Shore A 90 PU rubber that would not budge because it was cast without vaseline on the mast or deck opening. If your Spartite w...

Alain, I used PMC-790, a Shore A 90 two part PU rubber. Indeed they use it to make molds to cast concrete garden statues and things like that. I used it in exact the same way as you have to use Spartite. So I made a bottom of plasticine, wood and tape and I smeared the deck edge with vaseline. I mad...

I used two part PU resin to cast both mast wedges and a watertight collar. If you want to prevent the resin from sticking to the mast or deck partners, cover it in vaseline. I chose to let the resin stick to the mast but not to the deck partners. If I have to take out the masts, the resin collar rem...

George, can we have a library of documentation here?