Refrigerator Glue

Every year at the boat show we—or I should say I—make one or two impulse buys. This year’s impulse buy was Max 1 glue. It has become know as refrigerator glue on Breeze On because they recommend it be kept in the refrigerator. I had been in the market for glue that would work on the foam in the dinghy when we walked by the Max 1 booth. The sales pitch was reminiscent of something you would see on TV—As Seen on TV!—and it worked, on me at least. Max 1 is a two-step process of super glue with an accelerator. We have been using it as the glue of last resort and, I have to say, it has worked fairly well. Yesterday we used it to glue areas of Velcro that we placed around hatches and port lights to hold screens that I made. We had already tried two types of double stick tape and 3m 4200, none of which worked. Stay tuned to see if the refrigerator glue does the trick. 

The night before last was a bit bouncy here at Hog Cay. The wind was from the NNE so not great protection here. The wind shifted more to the NE during the day but was still quite strong. We stayed on the boat until we saw someone else go ashore for happy hour, then we decided to join them. This morning five of us did some exercises in the water off of the beach. In a few minutes we will be going back to shore for happy hour. We plan to stay here at least another week until the wind eases a bit. 

Refrigerator Glue, AKA Max 1

Five of the nine boats at Hog Cay. We are the third boat from the left, the farthest from shore.