By the responses, I guess I was the only one in the fog.

Two years a go I got a free can of Epifanes varnish and I'm sold on it. It's a little pricy, but I think the shine way outlast other varnishes I have tried and it lays down real nice too. This Epifanes Varnish not polyurethane varnish. Poly varnish is synthetic where as real varnish is made from supposed natural ingredients. Varnish is more flexible than poly varnishes. Not quite as brittle hard but if you scrape your boat on a rock, no varnish is going to prevent that anyhow. Check this sale price.

http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/show_product.do?pid=92