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There is much discussion of teak oils and varnishing in Notes 652, 658,
and 1497 in the SAILING notesconference (UNIFIX::SAILING). I've never
heard of any teak oil that lasts for more than a very few months.
Varnished teak is gorgeous, but both the initial doing and the
maintaining are much work and quite time consuming, which is why most of
our teak has been gray for years.
Alan
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'Nudder piece of information -- I've read the notes on teak and
continued my search -- Last summer at a Regatta, I got into a
conversation with someone about the care of teak.
The person told me that I should get in touch with someone with a
Trawler since they have boodles ot teak on their boat.
As the conversation continued, the person volunteered to have a person
with a trawler who always had nice teak call me.
Nice enough -- The person actually did. He bought a boat from the NE
area to float on Lake Erie. It did have lots of teak.
As he was going through the boats inventory, he came across a bottle of
Cape ANN Teak Fix.
Hmmm --- He put it on his boat and according to him, it has lasted
three years with minor touch-up on rub spots.
I was impressed, but then again, peddlers are always an easy touch!
As the conversation continued, he told me that he was so impressed with
the stuff that he became a distributor -- He only sells it to his
friends (he's retired)
I figured that it was good enough for me, so I bought a gallon of the
stuff with the cleaner.
He sent me about $120.00 of Teak fix, cleaners, and tools for $70.00.
He also sent me the technical information on the product.
Enclosed was a study by a magazine on 5 different brands of Teak fix.
Two of the names were known brands, Cape Ann was the third. I didn't
recognize the last product.
In any case, the net of the test was that Cape Ann products came in
first in all categories - Looks, wear, etc.
The author of the article was so impressed with the product, he
purchased it for his boat.
One nice feature of it is that is Earth friendly and DOES NOT goof up
painted surfaces.
If you are interested in the product,
CAPE ANN Marine Industries
Rear 1044 Washington St
Glouster, MA 01930
(508) 2832-9276
Dennis
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I know this will probably make "true" wood people cringe, but the
teak in my boat gets treated to a brass brush once a year with plain
old water for cleanup/removal of old oil, then a coat of teak oil
or two.
The protected teak inside the boat remains nice, fresh and new looking
all season long and then some.... The teak swim platform might remain
good looking for 1/2 a season using this treatment.
Rick
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I'm titling the In Search Of
why, because i have been looking for a teak resolution forever.
in the past several seasons i have been using Perma-Teak.
Actually its performed very well. cost is about $20/qt.
It has stood up to traffic reasonably well, and the swim platform
whcih always for some reason takes a beating, has done well.
I have been down the snake oil road, and that has not worked out
at all.
Clean up is with warm water and soap. If some gets on the glass
use alcohol to remove it. So far its been pretty good.
It all boils down to, if you really care???????????????
JIm
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