geem
Well-Known Member
Our boat used to have teak decks. Any aluminium such as windlass, genoa tracks and aluminium toerail had corrosion on the underside as a result of sitting in wet teak.My boat has had few different brands of anchor winch’s poorly fitted over the years and I’m just fitting a new different one , I’ve had to re fiberglass the existing holes and drill new ones , the deck does t look to good in this area now , so I was thinking about setting the winch on teak base that will hide the old holes , tje boat does have a lot wood on it so it won’t be out of place ,the boat will be mostly kept on the inland water ways, with a few trips out each year onto the salty stuff , is this a bad idea for an anodised aluminium winch to be sat upon a teak pad ? I don’t want to set up any corrosion, as I said I’m going to be in fresh water most of the will I be ok ? , at some point I might fit synthetic teak deck and that will hide it but for now I was hoping this might be acceptable ?? Here Is picture of what I was thinking that’s just scrap plywood but would use teak or similar View attachment 153531
We replaced the pad under our windlass with a teak pad but we glassed over it and filled and faired. The whole,deck was then painted with Awlgrip