tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208406.post6989360889196933558..comments2024-03-28T08:26:58.108-04:00Comments on Our Odyssey: Cats KillLouisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06306854459459257368noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208406.post-20551430340225580332014-08-07T12:28:14.542-04:002014-08-07T12:28:14.542-04:00Thanks for your comment and I am glad you are enjo...Thanks for your comment and I am glad you are enjoying the posts. We've gotten much positive feedback on this Hudson cruise.<br /><br />If your BIL is concerned about ever putting his boat in salt water, that's legitimate. Salt water is a much more corrosive environment than fresh, and there is also a more insidious marine growth problem.<br /><br />If his concern is, instead, merely moving back and forth between them, I think he is missing some great cruising for poor reasons. Changing from fresh to salt and back again will not, by itself, create a bigger corrosion problem than salt water alone. There is one caveat: Zinc anodes tend to become "passivated" in fresh water, developing a calciferous coating that renders them inert in salt water.<br /><br />One way to address this is to brush the zincs with a stiff (non-metallic) bristle brush to abrade the coating, thus exposing fresh zinc and re-activating the anodes. This is what we do, for now.<br /><br />A different strategy, if the boat will frequently move between fresh and salt water, is to replace all the zinc anodes with aluminum ones (assuming the hull itself is not aluminum). They are just as effective and do not have the passivation problem. We might do this the next time we need to replace the zincs.<br />Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17930398671280529448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208406.post-17628147813651891822014-08-04T21:24:03.564-04:002014-08-04T21:24:03.564-04:00Sean
Thanks for clearing up the "Kill / Kille...Sean<br />Thanks for clearing up the "Kill / Kille" thing.<br />I live in the area and always wondered.<br />Before I retired I worked one of the USA divisions of a large Dutch company, but none of the information I got could define "Kill" for me. Franknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208406.post-88262211633056288582014-08-04T10:01:26.042-04:002014-08-04T10:01:26.042-04:00Your trip to NY city and up the Hudson looks fabul...Your trip to NY city and up the Hudson looks fabulous. I am enjoying the read very much. <br /><br />What is your opinion on resulting damage to metal parts, moving a boat between salt and fresh water repeatedly. My brother-in-law insists it will destroy his sailboats metal parts if he were to put his always freshwaterized boat into a saltwater environment for a time and back again to fresh etc. My intuition says its bunk but I've been wrong before, twice I think.<br /><br />Also I read somewhere that they are replacing the Tapan Zee bridge with a monstrous replacement of dual suspension bridges.<br />Did you see any construction beginning on that. I thought it would have been newsworthy if you had.<br />Caron and Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08863923332715954975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208406.post-37335812560218471162014-08-03T23:23:28.934-04:002014-08-03T23:23:28.934-04:00There is no word "kill" in modern Dutch....There is no word "kill" in <b>modern</b> Dutch. But in Middle Dutch, "kille" meant "riverbed" or "channel." I did not specify what era of Dutch, because it was not important to the story (nor did I find the need to point out that the "e" was dropped somewhere along the line here in the new world), but it would stand to reason that it would be the Dutch of the time. Place names in New York and New Jersey that can be traced back to Dutch, including many things named "Kill" (Arthur Kill, Fresh Kills, Peekskill, Fishkill, Catskill, "The Kills," Kill van Kull, etc. etc. etc.) were generally so named at the beginning of the 17th century, which would coincide with the end of Middle Dutch and the very beginning of modern Dutch.<br /><br />FWIW, lots of place names of the period are also based on English and French words or roots that no longer exist in those languages' modern forms (or are simply considered obsolete).<br /><br />To make things more clear, I will change "is" to "was" (and I will fix the typo wherein Dutch did not get properly capitalized -- no offense meant there).<br />Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17930398671280529448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208406.post-26377811056389058402014-08-03T19:29:09.775-04:002014-08-03T19:29:09.775-04:00There is no Dutch word 'Kill'. Sorry.There is no Dutch word 'Kill'. Sorry.Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16413278717291483567noreply@blogger.com