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redeye
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Initially Posted - 03/17/2009 : 13:36:54

So... anyway I took the old companionway boards off and made some new ones from pine as a temp until I could make some new ones. I took the old boards to a wood supply store and they looked at them and just really thought the wood was beautiful, and advised me to use Super Glue in the joints and sand them down and keep using them. I did, using superglue they recommended from a woodworking shop, that comes in a bigger bottle and is a little thicker. The sanding was unusual in that the wood is oily and gums up the sandpaper, ya gotta keep changing out the sandpaper.

I made some new "slide guides" or the vertical pieces of wood on each side of the boards, anarobia or some such type of wood. It worked out pretty good.

Ray in Atlanta, Ga.
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/17/2009 : 13:52:53

Looks beautiful, a very pretty colored wood. Did you use an oil finish?

Is it just the camera angle, or does it sit high like that on the port side?

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 03/17/2009 : 13:59:44

Did you reverse the boards or something? The grain isn't at all the same, and you went from holes for venting to slits... Oh wait is the upper pic the temporary pine boards?

I am so confused...

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redeye
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Response Posted - 03/17/2009 : 14:22:13

It sits level. It just looks high to port in the picture.

The top picture is of boards I put in, made of pine, while I worked on the teak boards.

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redeye
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Response Posted - 03/17/2009 : 14:24:28

Teak Oil to finish. The original boards, in the lower image, were always teak oiled. never varnished.

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 03/17/2009 : 14:48:24

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by redeye
 It sits level. It just looks high to port in the picture.

The top picture is of boards I put in, made of pine, while I worked on the teak boards.
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Ok Now I get it. Thought it was April fools for a second there. I guess it was March fools.

Good work, they look nice!

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Response Posted - 03/20/2009 : 09:33:45

They look great!

I refinished mine a few years ago (varnished) and swear I will never do that again. 8 coats and still water got in there and ruined the finish!

Again, yours look great!

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Response Posted - 03/20/2009 : 22:41:59

I did my exterior wood last winter and used a slightly different technique, quite by accident.

I thought about all the woodworking projects I had done at home, where I took raw wood, cut, nailed and glued it into something like a shelf or a cabinet. Then I'd stain it with Minwax or something, and coat it with polyuethane at the end. Pretty much basic home woodworking 101.

So when I got Passage and planned to redo the brightwork, I thought about it the same way . . . . clean it, stain it and coat it.

Going through some of the cans of stuff that came with Passage, I found some Deks Oljies and a small amount of Sikkens Cetol. I had used Cetol on my cedar deck out back, and it came out with a nice hardened shell after applying four coats. So, in my mind, I thought the Deks was sorta like stain and the Cetol was kinda like poly - but for boats!

This was my first experience with Teak, I'd made a bookshelf out of mahogany once, but I really did not know teak.

The original wood was orangy, crusted and peeling when I got it, so I really didn't know what to expect. So, I scraped, and rubbed, and sanded, and cleaned the teak and I got some mighty beautiful chunks of wood when I was done.

I did the crib boards, the companionway runners and threshold, the cabintop handholds, the cabintop sliders and the cockpit bulkhead "eyebrows". I also did the scupper rims behind the port and starboard cockpit seats. All the exterior wood.

So I took my brush and the Deks, and coated it with five coats, on both sides of each piece. I let each coat dry thoroughly before the next. It all started looking mighty nice.

So the "staining" was done, now it's time to "seal" it with the Cetol. I noticed the Cetol also has a dark honey color. I wondered whether I would have preferred the clear, but I was committed already and the show must go on! So I did about 4-5 coats of Cetol.

The color just came alive! Several people warned my NOT to put Cetol over the Deks, because the one will interact with the other and I'd just get a mess. But LO! No mess at all, and the finish came out wonderfully.

Anybody else make that same mistake?

I just went through my pictures, and I found a "before", but I plan to be on the boat this weekend, and I have to take an "after". It's remarkable how well the wood cleans up....

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Response Posted - 03/21/2009 : 12:26:28

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by John P
 ...I refinished mine a few years ago (varnished) and swear I will never do that again. 8 coats and still water got in there and ruined the finish!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">...a familiar old song!

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 03/21/2009 : 22:38:53

As promised, my BEFORE

and AFTER

Deks & Cetol - year 2

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redeye
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Response Posted - 03/22/2009 : 19:50:40

Sweet!!!

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Merrick
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Response Posted - 03/22/2009 : 20:20:19

Really nice, both of them. Wasn't goingto do woodwork this year but may have to give it a try now.

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 03/22/2009 : 21:28:18

Great job !

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