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03-03-2018, 07:03
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#31
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Port Aransas, Texas
Boat: 2019 Seawind 1160 Lite
Posts: 2,126
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Re: There Will Be Blood
Hmmm, maybe catamarans are different. Blood letting does not seem to be a requirement for a successful repair. Expensive or favorite tools dropped overboard, well, that seems to be effective!
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03-03-2018, 09:09
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#32
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 216
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Re: There Will Be Blood
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Originally Posted by Robert Tilbury
Its the price we pay ,
working in tight areas with minimun light and help ,,
We do what we have to to keep traveling ,
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I fully understand this issue. As I have become older and my skin has thinned I have learned that blood letting is not actually essential.
Foot ware gloves and the right tool resolve so many accidents.
I'm not anti life jackets but i consider the basics of work place health and safety more important.
It's very difficult to sail a boat with even simple injuries. Look after yourself.
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03-03-2018, 19:21
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#33
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: North of San Francisco, Bodega Bay
Boat: 44' Custom Aluminum Cutter, & Pearson 30
Posts: 939
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Re: There Will Be Blood
A wound a day is all I ask. Do it early and your good.
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04-03-2018, 06:03
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Louisville, KY
Boat: Globe, cutter/ketch,38
Posts: 727
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Re: There Will Be Blood
James247,
Funny or perhaps not so funny you mentioning as you get older... With or without gloves I seem to abrade my skin often in the area between the wrist and elbow. All I need do is try to put my arm between something with a wrench and...where did that blood come from?!! I keep plenty of tissues on the boat.
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04-03-2018, 10:16
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#35
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Everywhere
Boat: Colegate 26
Posts: 1,154
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Re: There Will Be Blood
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Originally Posted by Idylles15.5
The number one & two blood thirsty bits. 1) Cut off end off a zip tie 2) tail end of a hose clamp. Vampires both
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I have SCARS from those things!
It really takes a good pair of flush cuts to make sure there is no edge left on the tail.
Cheap pair
PROPER pair
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07-03-2018, 19:00
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#36
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 17
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Re: There Will Be Blood
I was trimming a piece of thin ply to size to replace some that had rotted around a leaky port light and slipped with the razor knife(wrong tool for the job, I know... I was being impatient) when I called the admiral to tell her I was going to the ER for some sutures she shrieked “You’re not bleeding all over the sole, are you?!” Needless to say the repair looked wonderful when I was finally done
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07-03-2018, 22:26
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#37
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: nowra nsw australia
Boat: 32 contessa
Posts: 207
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Re: There Will Be Blood
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Originally Posted by jmcaleer
I was trimming a piece of thin ply to size to replace some that had rotted around a leaky port light and slipped with the razor knife(wrong tool for the job, I know... I was being impatient) when I called the admiral to tell her I was going to the ER for some sutures she shrieked “You’re not bleeding all over the sole, are you?!” Needless to say the repair looked wonderful when I was finally done
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Not funny hey , when i hurt my self my wife sad
"what finger this time ??"
was the pinky left hand ,,,, they just seem to know ?
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07-03-2018, 22:31
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#38
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Grand Rivers, KY
Boat: Hunter 2003 356 - Persistence
Posts: 609
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Re: There Will Be Blood
It’s even worse when you are thin skinned and take Plaxix like I do. I’ll look down and see big drops of blood on the floor, then have to find where it came from! I don’t see how that happens and you not feel something.
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08-03-2018, 04:37
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#39
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Louisville, KY
Boat: Globe, cutter/ketch,38
Posts: 727
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Re: There Will Be Blood
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Originally Posted by LoudMusic
I have SCARS from those things!
It really takes a good pair of flush cuts to make sure there is no edge left on the tail.
Cheap pair
PROPER pair 
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I use a tie wrap cutter gun. Knives and diagonal cutters don't always work the way we want. You can find good used ones on fleabay. New quality ones cost a small fortune. Proper tool for the job! Yea we all do that, right?!
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