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With regular maintenance teak can give your boat a rich warm appearance. Then the real work began.
Apply one-part cleaner dispersing and gently scrubbing with a soft brush.
How to refinish teak on a boat. Wet down the teak. Apply one-part cleaner dispersing and gently scrubbing with a soft brush. When the surface of the teak is a muddy brown uniform wet apply Two-part cleaner dispersing with clean stiffed brush.
Wet the teak down. Apply part one the caustic spreading and lightly scrubbing with a bristle brush. When the surface is a uniform wet muddy brown apply the second part the acid spreading with a clean bristle brush.
Apply and spread enough of the acid to turn the teak a uniform tan. Rinse thoroughly and allow to dry completely. Varnish for Teak.
If a high-gloss hard surface is the goal then UV-resistant varnish is the way to go with teak. Like many woods teak can be varnished until its smooth and glossy. The woods natural oil is removed using a cleaner sandpaper and acetone and then several coats of UV-protective varnish are applied.
New freshly oiled teak on a boat is a classic look. With regular maintenance teak can give your boat a rich warm appearance. We still manufacture some teak accessories including drink holders swim platforms even some tackle boxes.
If you are a traditionalist who considers oiling teak as a time-honored tradition I apologize but for many boaters teak is huge. Right up front what most experts suggest is disarmingly simpleclean the interior wood you want to upgrade with cotton rags and a spray bottle the 32-ounce size works well filled with water and a couple of tablespoons of Murphys Oil Soap. Here are the basic steps that I follow to refinish interior teak.
If the wood has never been refinished or if the existing finish is in poor condition remove it all from the sailboat so that you can work on it easier and apply the finish to all the surfaces. Next brush on teak oil with the grain of the wood making sure to apply it evenly and to the sides and ends of the wood. Let the teak oil sit for a few minutes then wipe it down with a lint-free cloth to remove the excess oil.
Allow the teak oil dry overnight then come back and check out the results. On your coveringboards go ahead and remove the rodholders completely and tape off or remove any hause pipes that are in the way. Dont forget to tape off any tower legs that come down on your coveringboard.
Once youre ready go ahead and slap on a respirator or paper filter mask as things are about to get very messy. Wet one of the brushes and scrub teak. Brown gunk will start coming off and collecting in the brush keep rinsing it out by swishing in the bucket of water.
That brown gunk is the old teak oil and dirt. Use a wet rag to rinse off the teak. Keep scrubbing and rinsing until rinse rag isnt picking much up.
Teak is a wood with a lot of oil in it already and is supposed to be used unfinished and allowed to age only requiring regular scrubbing. That means it will eventually turn gray if exposed to the sun as on a deck. So I scraped it and worked to refinish it.
After a lot of scraping the teak looked so much better already. Then the real work began. Sanding at least three times I probably should have done it four times with 60 grit sand paper 120 grit sand paper and finally 220 grit sand paper.
Each time I had to prep the hull with blue painters. A mixture of powdered borax and hot water will do it. Just wash the area with a mixture of three ounces of borax powder to a gallon of hot water and rinse thoroughly.
Next it is time to repair any major dings or cracks with some clear epoxy. Just fill the problem areas and sand smooth after the epoxy dries. Heres the basics to varnishing wood on a boat.
Remove old varnish by sanding rinse down your boat and tape off your area. Use a badger-hair brush when varnishing. Apply a thin first coat and keep a wet edge.
Keep your strokes long and light brushing from dry back to the wet edge. Restoring your weathered teak wood is an easy 3 step process using the JustTeak Teak Restoration Kits. Learn how to clean brighten and seal your teak or other wood.
This simple teak restoration process can be used on an teak wood including teak furniture and teak decking. Step one in our boat interior renovation was to clean and refinish all the interior teak. There were several problems that needed to be addressed.
It was very dark there were light places where previous owners had pictures there were screw holes and there was what can only be called a gunky buildup where hands had rubbed daily.