{"id":1039,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:12:07","slug":"walnut-shells-for-teak-floors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/walnut-shells-for-teak-floors\/","title":{"rendered":"Walnut Shells for Teak Floors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p>Greetings from the Florida Keys. Of all the great values one can find, your Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia is the best. We have used your book as a wonderful resource to guide our steps and now are the proud, and deliriously happy owners of a 45&#8242; Columbia. An older boat, she is quite sound, needing only a lot of &#8220;elbow grease&#8221; and some electronics. We were fascinated by the application of ground walnut shells to teak saloon floors for a non-skid, good looking flooring (page 1034). Is there a supply source for the shells, or did you render them yourself? Thanks, Janine M. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p> Hi Janine: We get our walnut shells through Port Supply, the wholesale division of West Marine. I&#8217;ll bet they are in the West Marine Catalog. We use the medium grade. &#8211; Steve <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from the Florida Keys. Of all the great values one can find, your Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia is the best. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/walnut-shells-for-teak-floors\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-yacht-interior-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36324,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/36324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}