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Trevor,
Peanut butter (smooth not chunky) works for the lead and anhydrous lanolin
might work for the gaff jaws. I use it for other things on the boat and its
pretty good stuff.
All the best,
Robert Gainer
>From: "Trevor J. Kenchington" <>
>Reply-To: Navigation Mailing List <>
>To:
>Subject: Re: Voyaging the traditional way
>Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:44:47 +0000
>
>Fine old tales aside, does anyone know how to make or where to buy
>tallow? It is available as a commercial product but my searching of the
>Web has only yielded manufacturer's pages and they only sell in
>wholesale quantities. It ought to be possible to make small quantities,
>maybe of low quality, at home from beef fat but I am not sure of what
>treatment is required. Boiling the beef in water and scooping off
>whatever floats to the surface, perhaps? (Tallow is not simply fat,
>which will go rancid and stink. It is a chemically-inert product -- a
>"steroid", I think. The right application of heat to fat should convert
>it into tallow but I don't know what treatment is "right".)
>
>It would be nice to arm the lead (strictly a "bronze" in my case) with
>the real thing but I need it more to lubricate the leather-covered jaws
>of my boat's gunter spar so that they slide on the mast with a bit less
>noise.
>
>
>Trevor Kenchington
>
>
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