Is bright work for dim wits?

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Kevin Johnson

Teak sets my boat apart.

I am not done putting teak on my boat. I have built a companion way hatch but am soon adding a real working butterfly hatch and brows to the cabin above the portlights. I pride myself in having a boat that others on the lake take pictures of. Esperanza was even used on a television commercial. The work it takes to keep up the teak is theropy. A day or two on the lake every year, sanding and varnishing, keeps my brightwork bright.
 

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RICHH

Teak! ....no problem.

Give me Teak! ..... Honey Teak! I have a traditional "Teakey" ... with teak eyestripes, toestripes, cockpit strakes, dorade boxes, bowsprit, carved trail boards, samson post, butterfly hatch (and teak decks besides!). Only bright work maintenance is a once every two year coat of Honey Teak clear. I converted to Honey Teak 5 years ago and have only minor repairs since. So I get to sail and enjoy the coated teak at the same time. "Modern" teak coatings take out all the bother (sorry, Cetol NOT included with 'modern' coatings). However, on my ultra ugly chlorox bottle 'race' boat no teak whatever - too heavy.
 
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David Davenport

Classy Dame-Milk Maid?

Why do they name boats after women? Because they are high maintenance! Do you want to be seen with a women in an evening gown or a flour sack dress? Personally, I don't mind the work it take to maintain the teak on my Bill Luder's designed "Offshore" Cheoy Lee, because it keeps her the prettiest girl on the lake.
 
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Tim Welsh

Teak on the brain

I deal with a lot of teak in my business and love the stuff. the look teak gives a boat inside and out just adds to it. If you use cetol on the outside teak it will last a long time. I Just keep adding teak on just about any project and teak will last forever down below and along time up top. The grain of teak and the appearance of it looks so much better than stainless......Tim Welsh H34 AKA Cabo Wabo
 
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Miles

I love to sail

I previously owned a beautiful Island Packet, for six years, but after spending about 40 hours annualy maintaining her teak, I moved to my Hunter, as I love to sail, not working on teak
 
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Paul Michaelis

bathtubs vs boats

A sailboat without teak or wood trim is merely a bathtub with another purpose. I began my boating career when wooden boats were the only boats and really beholden owners hired young lads like myself to tend to the brightwork. As a hired hand, I learned to maintain brightwork which included arising before the owner and drying the dew from the brightwork before he was awake. The reward for due diligence led to the right to lay courses, conn the vessel and choose anchorages. All great things for a 14 year old farm boy. I am indebted to wood for starting my nautical career and I will always have wood around, not too much mind you. ;)
 
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Paul Zetlmaier

Esperanza

A fine looking craft, send more pictures when you get the brows made! (reduce the size of your pictures so they will fit on a page)
 
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Pops

Teak? the coolist wood?

I just found a whole bunch of 2"-3" teak in my basement. Who wants it?
 
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tom

original definition of bright work

for historical interest bright work on tall ships was not varnished wood - it was the brass fittings which were kept polished. wood was never finished "bright" with varnish etc. it was left raw
 
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Mary Steffen

Answer "D" none of the above

I really do not think the two materials are compatible at all - either aesthetically or dimensionally. Those little pieces of wood stuck on the plastic appear to be a shallow attempt at enhancing the looks of the boat. To take a preformed and poured core and screw holes into it makes little sense to me. Just another eventual repair issue, i.e when the clue dries out and the screw holes expand and those "gorgeous" little adornments become loose and thus obsolete. One more item on that "I gotta fix list" I think stainless would look better on the fiberglass. but still an eventual fix it deal/ Something molded would look much better and probably would adhere better to the deck. Just an opinion!!! Mary
 
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Brian Blevins s/v Sindarin

paper or plastic

wooden boats have fastenated me all my life.I only wish i had time to keep a wood boat up and be able to sail it as well.But a sterile plastic boat just doesnt have that same "appeal"to it.I gotta have wood!I have a fair amount of exterior wood on my 28 ft coronado and a great deal of teak and mahogany in the cabin.I just get that warm fuzzy feeling around all that wood that i just cant get from a clorox bottle (hard to get the wife going durring laundry aint it?).keeping the teak and mahogany up is NOT all that hard.besides that i have a great view of the swimming pool from my slip,making it easy to recruit help.Besides that i seem to have many boat days that we just dont leave the slip for one reason or another,and if im there,well,migh as well tidy up,'cause nothing,absolute nothing,beats messing about in boats.........
 
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Pops

teak?

Most is 2" - 3", and two to three inches wide. One is 2x4x4. Who wants it?.
 
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Hank Park

Minimum Teak

I am looking to replace the teak 'eyebrows' on the cabin and the grab rails with aluminum or preferably stainless. Those eye brows can be a pain (pia). It got to the point that the plugs are popping out and I regularly clean & treat. I had cousioned covers made for the teak stantion seats in the lifeline railing fore and aft. No more fading, no work at all! If anyone can point me in the direction of stanless brows and grabrails I would be most appreciative! Sincerly, Hank HBP3rd@aol.com
 
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Sam C.

Wood is great inside

I prefer the wood on the inside where it doesn't need so much attention. I have very little outside and a lot of wood inside that is my preferance, however if someone else likes to take care of the wood decks ect. more power to them wood is beautiful. I don't want to take the time to maintain them. I could be sailing or doing another project on the boat instead.
 
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dave

cetol

i worked for years on my teak asnd learned recently about cetol and am sooo happy with it as i never have to work on the teak again!!! ever
 
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Richard Rogers

"Accent" Is the Right Word

"Or would you rather ... admiring the beauty of the wood?" Wood can be beautiful and I admire that which is in my dining room table. TMT is like fender skirts and continental kits on cars, an amusing and anachronistic quirk of taste. A little teak is fine for accent. What I do have, I like to have look its best. Cetol, you may as well paint the wood with brown paint.
 
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Charlie Griffith

Anti Teak

No teak to maintain is just about the right amount. My 386 has just a little and that's too much. Time on the water is too precious to spend it sanding and varnishing.
 
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L. Fox

A New Beginning

i have owned the same sailboat for 20 years, it has a fair amount of teak trim. I varnished and varnished and then some; no more. I found, accidently, 'PENOFIN'! I applied it with a rag as directed, & 6 months later it still looked the same. Try and find it in one of those marine supply houses. You won't!
 
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