Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Cal 28 Layout

Chris, I was trying to figure out how deck fittings would affect the hull liner, and was just about to post virtually the same thing that you did. Glad I'm not the only "Old" Salt here! Rod Johnson, "SUNBIRD" 1979 O'DAY DS II former co-owner of "NODROG" 1970 CAL 21 #285 PS: Neither SUNBIRD not NODROG have ceiling, the DS II is "gel-coated inside", CAL 21 was painted. (Not sure that the DS II isn't coated with a similar "paint" to what Jensen Marine used, you know, that substance that can't be sanded or scraped....but flakes off on it's own!) On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:33:14 -0400 Chris Campbell <cl… [at] charterinternet.com> writes: We The People wrote: I do love my mahogany ceiling, though. I imagine many were lost over the years when any kind of hardware anchoring on the deck above happened. Ahem. It's time for the terminology police to swoop in and right a wrong. "Ceiling" is the stuff that lines the hull, originally applied on the inside of the frames of a wooden boat. It kept the cargo from lying along the inner side of the hull planking. The part of the boat that lies over your head, where a ceiling in a house would be, is the "overhead." I grump about this because we're participants in an activity where the special terminology is important. Geez, "sheets" aren't the pieces of cloth, they're the lines that control them. And we don't say "rope" for rope that's in use, we say "line." Then there's the subject of right and left. And so on. End of lecture. Chris Campbell whose Cal 20 has no ceiling. Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210