Catalina 30 interior wood

[George Da Porge]

Have a 1990 Catalina 30. I do some woodworking and know what your "standard" woods look like (e.g. oak, pine, maple, cherry, etc). But I wouldn't be able to pull a pice of teak out of a mixed pile of scrap. Would/could our interior be all teak?

 

[centerline]

Have a 1990 Catalina 30. I do some woodworking and know what your "standard" woods look like (e.g. oak, pine, maple, cherry, etc). But I wouldn't be able to pull a pice of teak out of a mixed pile of scrap. Would/could our interior be all teak?

Very doubtful that its all teak..... probably mahogany.

Teak is a waxy, dense and heavy wood so its fairly easy to tell once you have ever seen a piece of raw teak.
Mahogany is much lighter in weight and not nearly as dense. Usually a rich bronzy brown color and teak being brown wihout any bronze hue to it...
And with teak, you usually have to drill a pilot hole whenever you want to put a screw in it, whereas mahogany will easily take a screw without drilling a pilot...

 

[Guts1236]

My 1978 is all teak/and teak veneered plywood. The hatch covers under the seats and V birth and so on are MDO.

I have made a new sink cabinet and chart table cabinet using MDO. I just took apart the cabinets and use them as a template, and cut the MDO with a router using a plunge a bit with a bearing on top to ride against the template of the old cabinet piece. Then I reassembled the cabinet and covered it with new vertical grade Formica/for the countertop and tabletop I used post forming Formica (just a thicker grade at the same color) I cleaned the old teak up and reuse it on the new cabinets.

 

[Calif. Ted]

The solid parts are teak, panels and doors are teak veneer, wood flooring is teak and holly veneer. It's easy to sand thru the veneer it's very thin so go lightly.

 

[Doug4bass]

Ditto.....my 1990 C22 and 1997 C270 was solid teak and teak veneer.