[C38] Teak

[Max Soto]

Larry,

 If you remember Estancia's before/after pics, the  interior came varnished with an awful dark oil based varnish. I stripped the whole interior and applied 10 coats of polyurethane satin varnish, just like every contemporary sailboat.   The result was awesome. I sanded every three coats, and the tenth was the finish coAt. Eight years, and so far, so good, but why shouldn't?  We use the same varnish on my fathers Bertram 54, and 15 years later it looks as good as when it was applied. 
My previous boat, a spirit 28 came with the oiled teak, and I do prefer the  looks and ease of maintenance of the varnished interior. No cracks anywhere, except for the teak on the deck. I'll rather spend time sailing than working on the boat, so I'm replacing all the exterior teak with starboard.   
My opinion, varnish is the way to go.... 
Regards, max
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On Dec 5, 2011, at 7:04, "Dick Kilroy" <dickkilroy at comcast.net> wrote:

> Larry: I would use a satin varnish. I used this on "Vixen" my  1978 Morgan 38-2. Its heald up fine for 34 years, needs a little touching up now. I also stripped my Cat 38 with acetone 12 years ago and varnished it with satin as well, its heald up fine as well. This is below not on deck in both cases. I've had a couple of boat yard people who varnish tell me satin polyurethane is much  harder than gloss.
> 
> Good luck whatever you do.
> 
> Dick
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Malmberg" <Larrypi at roadrunner.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 9:11 AM
> Subject: [C38] Teak
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>> Thanks to all that have provided advice on this "project".  Now I'm not
>> certain what I'm going to do.  LOL  My objective is/was to try and eliminate
>> some odors in the head.  I already took the shower sump cover out, stripped
>> it, washed it with bleach, dried it and then coated it with several coats of
>> varnish then added some non skid strips.  That took care of about 75% of the
>> bad odors in the head but there still is the remaining 25.  I suspect the
>> remaining 25 come from the paneling and "misses" into the bowl.  LOL Well,
>> I have time to ponder this.
>> 
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>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Larry Malmberg
>> Team Hassle
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