> If you paddled in salt water, it could be salt residue. Did you try
> washing it off. My unvarnished stitch & glue always has a white
> residue on it until I rinse it with fresh water.

> Mike

I paddled in fresh water, so it cannot be salty residues.

By the way: I live on the eastern side of Sweden. The Baltic at Stockholm has got a very low salt concentration, around 0.6 %.

Bo