Cheapskates guide to Teak Cleaning.

johnalison

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I’ve found a few weeks non treatment with sunshine and seawater removes all teak stains without removing any of the wood.

But I do like like the weathered silver look .
We were told when our boat was new that the teak only needed the occasional dowsing with salt water. This simply didn’t work and within a couple of years black mould patches and even lichen were growing.
 

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We were told when our boat was new that the teak only needed the occasional dowsing with salt water. This simply didn’t work and within a couple of years black mould patches and even lichen were growing.
Ours too. Just saltwater might work in the Mediterranean Sea perhaps, where the sun shines, but in the UK the teak becomes a garden in short order. Boracol once per annum does the job for us.
 

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We were told when our boat was new that the teak only needed the occasional dowsing with salt water. This simply didn’t work and within a couple of years black mould patches and even lichen were growing.
Trick is to use clean flood water and do it out at sea. I daren't slosh down on the ebb where Iam as weve got two sewage farms nearby...
 

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Trick is to use clean flood water and do it out at sea. I daren't slosh down on the ebb where Iam as weve got two sewage farms nearby...

Seawater only works as a cleaner and mould preventer if the boat is regularly sailed and often gets a good seawater soaking. If a yacht is only occasionally sailed mould gets a foothold and seawater is ineffective. My experience comes from Scottish climates, comparing regular sail training v leisure sailing boat usage.
 

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Sailing in sewage. Yuck, thats not good is it.
I know and its an ongoing problem known by all. Superb rural idyll, beautiful area, vies etc but you just have to grin and bare it...Have to wash everything after every sailing and even then the car still smells like a pumping station.
 

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Seawater only works as a cleaner and mould preventer if the boat is regularly sailed and often gets a good seawater soaking. If a yacht is only occasionally sailed mould gets a foothold and seawater is ineffective. My experience comes from Scottish climates, comparing regular sail training v leisure sailing boat usage.
I’m sure that seawater works in the right conditions, but maybe it also requires use of a holy stone.
 
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