Years ago I was working for Kalmar Nyckel during a winter maintenance period where we were scheduled to make a pile of new stays and shrouds. We had a few huge spools of white polyester cable and hawsers that eventually needed to be turned black for good looks and extra ultra violet light protection. "We could paint them by hand." was one suggestion.
Eventually we decided on running the cables through a half latex paint, half water solution, which works very well absorbing into the cable giving a nice coating. There was one problem. How do we effectively dry such an amount of cable without taking up too much space, getting paint everywhere, or dirt on the new cable?
And thus the SpoolMaster5000TM was born.
*images, drwing, of the painting process coming soon
Today I work with the Swedish East India Trading Company ship replica Götheborg. Here we also have our own unique problems. We make all of our own rope for rigging the ship. The material we use to make the rope is hemp, and the material we use to preserve it is pine tar. One thing is the same, the rope must be coiled.
Please welcome SpoolMaster5000TM-OldschoolEdition to the club.
No glue was harmed during the creation of this SpoolMasterTM.
I promise you, all of the joints didn't fit this neatly.
