We first washed it
with bio friendly cleanser (Bon Ami) to clean off all the dirt and grime.
Then it was time to do some sanding.
We first used 180 grit then 220 grit.
Then we washed it off with the hose and waited for it to dry
(best part).
Then Debbie prepped the area with blue tape and brown paper.
This is much more time consuming than you would think, all the taping.
Now I must say we chose this teak. We chose a Islander
Freeport built in either 1978 or 1979.
These are to us the best years. We also chose a boat that
had good bones to start our refit on. That meant no rot. Now there are boats in
this age group that have rot on the eye brows and they need to be removed and a strip painted on, to
expensive now adays to repair them. There is a lot of nice journey work that
goes into the eyebrows and they look real nice along the bow and stern. They act
as visors for rain and also add an aesthetic look to the boat and the coach roof. They
are part of Bob Perry’s design. In later years they for cost savings
dis-continued putting on the eye brows on the forward and aft sections of the
houses. You can see why as they are labor intensive. They also reduced the diameter
of the teak hand rails but that’s another story.
Any way these are great pieces of work and make the boat a
bit special in my old school opinion.
Just look at this nice piece of teak curved journey work going over the windows!
So Debbie finished off all the prep work and we started with the Sikkens Cetol Marine
“Natural Teak”. We used a sponge brush (from Downwind Marine) and a pudding cup to apply it.
The Sikkens Cetol Marine “Natural Teak” went on real well and came out nice.
We did a lot of deciding on what product to use and it is described in earlier posts. We did not want the teak to come out dark or yellow.
We let this dry for 24 hours.
Next will be four coats of Sikkens Cetol Marine “Gloss”.
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