I seem to recall reading several years ago about using a mild solution of oxalic acid to help partially bleach teak to get a more even color. The teak ceilings in the forepeak on my boat are a mess and will require stripping the remaining varnish and then attempting to even out the color prior to varnishing or using spar polyurethane. Have heard poly is easier to put on multiple coats as it does not need light sanding between coats – the bane of varnishing IMO.
Charlie – please let the list know what you end up doing and how it turns out. Being 600+ miles north of you I would guess you will get into this earlier than I this spring. Brian From: CnC-List <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> On Behalf Of Charlie Nelson via CnC-List Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:09 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: cenel...@aol.com Subject: Stus-List Interior teak water stains My interior teak has never been varnished or polyurethaned (?)--It was originally oiled and I re-oiled it once or twice many years ago. I would like to apply some Epiphanes to all of it--and there is a lot of it inside my 1995 C&C! However, much of it has 'water stains' from various leaks over the years--most of which are now sealed. My question for the list is how or whether to remove these stains--they are not like water marks left by a glass on a wooden table. They are mostly on vertical surfaces and run vertically. There are enough of them to make sanding them a formidable job so I want to be sure that sanding would be necessary. Some web videos show using heat (iron, blow dryers, etc.) to drive the remaining water out and make the stain disappear which is easy enough to try. Anyone on the list have suggestions to reduce the scale of this job--putting several coats of varnish on all of it would be a formidable job in itself--adding sanding to the surface prep, which I realize is probably the most important part of the job, could make it virtually impossible! Charlie Nelson Water Phantom 1995 C&C XL/kcb
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