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We’ve been back onboard Polar Seal in over a week now, and completed way more boat project than we thought we would. This pre-season is our most efficient ever, and should leave us with an almost brand new boat by the time we set sail again!
Yesterday, in an effort to revive our tarnished, tired and stained teak deck, I tackled a teak revival project. The process sounded simple:
1: clean the teak with a teak cleaner. Scrub, scrub, and scrub again the surface, with and against the wood to ensure optimal absorption of the product. Leave it on for a couple of minutes, then rinse until virtually no foam comes out. For this phase, I used:
2: brighten: apply the brightening agent on the teak, and scrub, scrub, scrub for the agent to reach all fibers of the wood. Leave on for 5 minutes, then rinse until virtually no foam comes out. For this phase, I used:
3: let dry without walking on the teak
Some people like to oil their teak, which gives it a nice redwood color. But once you start oiling your teak, there is no way back to not oiling your deck again. So out of pure laziness, I opted out of oiling Polar Seal’s teak 🙂
Overall, that process required 1 gallon of each of the product (which as you can see from the links above, totaled around 130€ to acquire), 5 full hours of non-stop scrubbing and way more elbow grease than I will ever possess.
But oh does the girl look good!!! So good in fact, that I feel she deserves a few before/after photos. So here we are:
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Now that’s a good looking boat!!!
(PS: If you buy a boat, don’t buy a boat with teak. Just…. don’t 
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