Broken promises..............!!

I'm a sucker...and melt....and drool.....and pant....and  lust .....and will do just about anything for a fabuloso varnish job..............Oh! why do we do it? put ourselves through this agony of varnishing? This ritual of pain...and frustration ....and and and  COMMITMENT...yes that COMMITMENT....to the varnish...once you start, you can't stop without severe penalty!!!  We all know this....Our teak would do perfectly well if we just let it alone in it's grey dead-meat looking unattended state.....!  OH! how I envy these guys on my docks that hire those little bikini clad vixens who cater to the varnishing needs of their boats  .....waitaminute!! scratch that...if a man or woman can't varnish their own boat...they shouldn't .....never mind.      I'm a sucker for three things......traditional sailboats , traditional sailboats with lots of wood and little dogs. This is a sailing blog so forget the little canine bundles of love. Looking back 25 or 30 years at my various sailboats....one thing is indelibly etched in my memory....WOOD!!  the beautiful Honduran Mahogany on my Lyle Hess designed Falmouth Cutter, the exquisite Burmese Teak on my Phil Rhodes Offshore 27, the creamy, aromatic teak cap rails ,eyebrows, boomkins, handrails, sea hoods, bow sprits, and boom gallows of my Westsail 32 and now my Westsail 28. But I'm getting ahead of myself here.....lets, for the moment disregard, ZOSHA, my new boat.  A few years ago when I sold my W32, Cupid, and vowed, and promised myself, and took an oath to myself.......that my next boat will have NO WOOD!!  Give me a plastic clorox bottle vessel ....you know, the clean, modern, 21st century rocket ship look....just hit it with some bleach water and rinse her down and go home..............YEAH buddy!! no more washing, bleaching, brushing, sanding, filling, thinning, re-sanding, re coating, re, re, re, .....you got the idea here.....my boat wood caretaker days are OVER ....NOW....stick me with a fork as they say!!
Well.....here it is today and that promise lay broken on the dock....that vow failed ....that oath rejected ............Zosha has got more wood on her than than an Oregon lumber truck and it all needs attention. Have you ever tried that Ephifanes Belgian Varnish?
Take care my friends....................