It's been a while since I've posted. Oh well, I've been busy sailing. I finally stopped long enough to do the maintenance coat on the varnish. My wife got home from work and I made a B-line for the door. I spent a warm warm summer evening scuffing and coating the varnish. I thought I'd done a pretty decent job with the exception of one location where I knew I had a run but couldn't get it to work out. I figured I'd scuff it out in a few days and touch up the area.
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| Cape Dory Typhoon at sun set. |
Now the problem. I ended up with a heavy dew setting in that night. The result was a a glazed effect on all of the teak I'd done the night before.
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Glazed teak from early dew.
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I was less than thrilled. After a couple of days of grousing about it, I headed down again. This time on a warm/hot morning. I ended up scuffing up all the teak with some 220 sand paper and then going over it again with a fine 3M scuff pad. It was at this point I was thinking "letting the teak go gray sounds pretty good." Turns out second time is the charm. The teak came out great.
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| Shinned up for the season. |
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| port outer |
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| starboard inner |
Teak: it's a lot of work. Next season, I'm doing it while it is on the trailer, without boats going by rocking me up and down.
Chris I agree with your surmise, doing that pre-season while in a stable environment is best. Had same dilemma on a related deck problem this year using Messmers on Brazilian Ipe wood, after proper application it rained the following day and then southern sun baked rain on deck and created a sticky mess. When I did Baggy Wrinkles, I removed all teak and performed my applications in the garage with temp at plus 50degrees and humidity around 60%. Anyway, nice recovery! Glad you're back.
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