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Page 8. MAINE COASTAL NEWS November 2016 Waterfront News


New Products: Wood Treatment, Performance Additive & Sebago Cyphons EZ-Poxy Performance Enhancer is


Pettit Announces All New Easy-to-Use Wood Treatment and Performance Additive


Coating Manufacturer Releases Quick-Drying SeaGold Satin Wood


Treatment and High-Strength EZ-Poxy Performance Enhancer


Rockaway, NJ – Pettit Marine Paint, leading manufacturer of high performance marine coatings, announced today the release of two game changing products – the award-winning SeaGold Satin Wood Treatment and EZ-Poxy Performance Enhancer. Bringing marine wood fi nishes into


the 21st century, SeaGold off ers the beauty and durability of varnish, and the ease of use of synthetic wood treatments, all while


being low-odor and low VOC (the amount of solvent released into the atmosphere). Designed with the user and the environ- ment in mind, SeaGold is VOC compliant in all areas, and clean up is simple with soap and water. Unlike many other wood treatments, SeaGold can be applied over existing varnishes. Its satin fi nish enhances the beauty of the wood, while its trans- lucent amber color does not hide or blur wood’s natural grain. UV-stable resins have been combined with UV inhibitors as well as transparent pigments to provide a long lasting fi nish that will not turn brown or orange with exposure to the elements. Its fast-drying formula also allows three to four coats to be applied in one day. Recently, at the 2016 International


BoatBuilders’ Exhibition & Conference (IBEX), SeaGold Satin Wood Treatment was awarded the National Marine Manu- facturers Association (NMMA) Innovation Award in the Boat Care and Maintenance category. The product was recognized for its ease of use and water-based application technology.


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when you look down inside the tubes there they were.” One main job on the island was to man


the radio 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Many radio messages meant for the Alaskan mainland did not make their destination or only parts of them were received. However, at Sentinel Island they always got a good signal so they would relay messages to and from Alaska. Getting the 25-foot rowboat into the


water was a chore. Bradford said, “The mail boat came every week about three o’clock in the morning. I did all of the rowing because the other seaman didn’t know how to row and he didn’t seem to want to learn. Off we went to catch the mail boat and once we got the mail they would pull us way up wind and let us go. The only way we could get on that island if there was a sea running or a lot of wind you had to come up to the big platform, which was 20 feet over your head. Truman would bring out the boom and lower down a big hook. We had lines to the four corners and we hooked them up and Truman pulled


it tight as quick as he could. Then he would pick us up and put us on the platform in its cradle. There was a ladder there, but nobody ever use it.” There was an island close by and


Bradford always wanted to visit. “One time Truman asked me if I wanted to go over, said Bradford. …he said ‘You are looking at that island over there. You want to go over and see who is there?’ I said, ‘Yeah I am so curious.’ He said, ‘Can you take four days and row over there and come back?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I would like to. I went over there and that was an experience. There was a man, a good hunter, and a good trapper. He had a nice set up there and he did it all himself. His house was a log cabin on the outside, but when you got inside the walls were all varnished because he had a sawmill and he had cut those logs on three sides and left the bark on the outside. The mill was run by the water coming out of the small volcano. It would also charge his batteries. I took a lot of pictures on that trip and I get back to the island, they saw me coming, so they came down to help me. I am in the boat trying to get that hook in and somehow I knocked


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an additive that can be used in all Pettit high-gloss solvent- based topside paints, such as EZ-Poxy, EZ-Decks, EZ-Bilge and varnishes. Its advanced formulation reacts with the paint it’s mixed with to ‘cross-link’ polymers within the paint fi lm – providing exceptional gloss-retention, durability, hardness, scratch resistance and longevity. Unlike other two-part urethanes, paints catalyzed with this hardener can be applied over well- adhered, one-part fi nishes. EZ-Poxy Performance Enhancer makes achieving a high-quality, long-last- ing yacht fi nish easy. “DIY boat projects can range from


small repairs to major restorations,” said Don Zabransky, vice president sales & marketing, Pettit Marine Paint. “We tailor our products to give boat owners high performance solutions that are ideal for the exact projects they are tackling. Sea- Gold is the most user-friendly wood fi nish available and is perfect for protecting any top-side britework. EZ- Poxy Performance Enhancer adds to the longevity and dura-


the camera overboard. I thought I would go swimming for it, but I couldn’t fi nd it.” “I remember one time,” said Bradford,


“they sent a message up to Alaska to be on the lookout for the Japanese that are unwill- ing to conform to the surrender as they are pestering the lighthouses. I sent that up and posted ours on the bulletin board. One night I had just fi nishing cleaning a 44, as we were always told you never know if a dangerous animal had swam to the island. I had just put the 44 down when the door opened up and I looked around and there was this Japanese man standing there. Actually it was an Eski- mo and he said, ‘I need the Coast Guard to send the doctor to my place because my wife is sick.’ I buzzed Truman and he came out and we call the Coast Guard and a half hour later a PBY was there. I went down to the dock to sit with the Eskimo while the PBY was coming and he said, ‘No, I am going to go up to the cove up north of the glacier. He got in and paddled off into the fog. When I got to the radio shack they said the plane had set down in the cove and I asked did they see him on the way and they said he’s here. He must have paddled something wicked.” “One day I looked into the radio shack


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and the seaman wasn’t in there and they are calling,” said Bradford. “I sat down and got the messages and when I got up I said ‘Where the hell is he, where did he go?’ I went to the shack house and he wasn’t there and then I got Truman up. We looked all around the small buildings and then we went down to the end where the rocks went out more than a half a mile. They have had a lot of shipwrecks on that particular reef. Way out on the end sitting on one of those fl at rocks was the seaman. I thought he went out there looking for something and the tide came in and he got caught. So we went back and got the boat. Truman lowered it in for me and held on while he came down the ladder. We came up alongside and the seaman is sitting there. Truman says, ‘What seems to be wrong with you Junior?’ Not a word out of him. So I grabbed him and said, ‘Come on get in the boat.’ Wherever you put his arm it stayed there. My heart went right down to my toes. I said. ‘This guy is gone and he had.’ We got him back to the base, took him into the main house and tried to feed him some- thing. He just stared, he didn’t even blink. Truman told me to go over and get all of his stuff together and put it in his sea bag. They took him off in a PBY. Two days later these two men in uniform climbed up the ramp and


bility of any top-side fi nishes. Together, both products are easy on the user and the environment and will give you a beautiful wood fi nish that you can be proud of for years to come.” Pricing and Availability


SeaGold is available in quart cans for


$44.99. EZ-Poxy Performance Enhancer is available in 8- ounce cans (enough catalyst for one gallon of paint) for $27.99. Both Pettit Marine Paint products are available from fi ne marine supply stores and boat- yards throughout the United States. For more information on SeaGold,


EZ-Poxy Performance Enhancer or Pettit’s complete line of marine coatings, please visit www.pettitpaint.com.


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ROCKFORD, MI—Sebago is excited to Continued on Page 9.


Lighthouse Keeper on Sentinel Island, Alaska


they hollered ‘Are you Luther?’ and I said ‘yeah.’ ‘Hurry up you’ve got a half-hour to get everything that you want and then you are going back on the buoy tender.’ ‘I got all of my stuff together. I had a beautiful model ship that I was putting together that I had to give to Truman because I didn’t take with me because it would get smashed up. That was the end of my tour on Sentinel Island.” Even though he had agreed to do anoth-


er tour of duty on Sentinel Island, Bradford never got to be keeper at another lighthouse. He came back to his home in Fairhaven as he had 150 days of R&R. He got to know the crew of one of the cutters station at New Bedford and he was asked by the command- er if he would like to serve with on board their vessel, which did air and sea rescue. He readily agreed and joined them the next morning. Many of their missions consisted of


towing in fi shing vessels in distress. He said one time they got an emergency call that a plane with an admiral on board had gone down off of Nantucket. He said he was up on the bow when the skipper yelled to cut the hawser with the axe. He said when he did it shot both ways due to the immense strain on it. They speed out of the harbor. They were pushing the engines so hard that the engineer thought that they were going to explode. Off of Martha’s Vineyard they slowed as a commercial tug had already arrived on scene and that there was no loss of life. After about eight months on board this


cutter he was called to the captain’s cabin and informed that he needed to go to school. Bradford wanted to stay, but the captain’s hands were tied and off to school he went. The Captain told him to take the hardest one he could fi nd and if he did not do well he could probably come back on board. He chose telephone linesman as the Coast Guard manned all the telephones lines that ran the entire coastline of the United States. He passed the test and was sent to Chatham on Cape Cod where he fi nished out his tour of duty.


When asked why he did not re-enlist,


he said that following World War I they had discharged everyone that was about to retire and get a pension. He added, “I got a little leery and of course the school I went to a lot of them ended up in New England Telephone, but of course my father wanted me to go into the bank so there went my telephone career, but that didn’t bother me.”


Photo: Maine Sardine Council Collection


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