My experience with AwlWood so far has been good, as well. I have some small repairs to do to the forward handrails this spring, so will be able to report back on that process; but after a couple of seasons, the handrails and Dorade boxes look like they did when they left my garage after refinishing.
— Fred Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( > On Feb 9, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Dave Godwin via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > Consider me the unwanted guest at the party on this thread but I won’t use > Cetol. A few reasons. Years ago I redid all the teak trim on my Mako 261. > Fortunately the teak was just aged out. No prior coating that I could > determine. I sanded to bright, applied base coats of light Cetol and then > several coats of their Gloss. It looked okay, but not nearly as nice as a > good varnish job. I figured I could live with that if the maintenance was > substantially less than varnish. > > It didn’t turn out that way. Yes, the Cetol lasted a bit longer than varnish > but not enough to overcome the “look” that IMHO was not as smooth and deep as > varnish. > > Although I haven’t subjected my exterior teak trim on “Ronin” to the outdoors > yet, everything that I have re-varnished, cabin sole included, has been done > with AwlWood. Just from an ease of application (5/6 coats versus 8-10 for > regular varnish) and the deep, clear look it is worth it. > > As an aside, I have a friend with a Tartan 37 who ponied up $4,000 last year > to have a professional crew redo all his exterior teak with Cetol. I watched > the process being done in the yard near my boat. It took every bit as much > time as a varnish job. Yesterday I was on his boat checking it out for him > and I was noting the quality of the finish. Very good but nowhere near as > nice as a well done varnish job. > > And being the contrarian that I can be, next time I have to apply AwlWood, > I’ll spray. > > Best, > Dave Godwin > 1982 C&C 37 - Ronin > Reedville - Chesapeake Bay > Ronin’s Overdue Refit <http://roninrebuild.blogspot.com/>
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