Fake teak

[Gallant Spirit]

Permateek good product

 

[blueglass]

I "get it" very well, and "its a no brainer" to not chose teak for a deck. I have learned my lesson the hard way to never again to own a yacht with a teak deck.
Probably acceptable for those who sell on before it becomes the inevitable problem.

too much is made of the maintenance issues. Twice a year scrub down with washing up liquid is all mine get and 8 years in the med still looks great. Silver - yes but I like that.
as regards the limited resources issue - plastic manufacturing isn't exactly "green" either.

 

[Tranona]

too much is made of the maintenance issues. Twice a year scrub down with washing up liquid is all mine get and 8 years in the med still looks great. Silver - yes but I like that.
as regards the limited resources issue - plastic manufacturing isn't exactly "green" either.

Agree about maintenance if you don't have leaky bungs and seams to deal with. Regarding being "green" you may well be right, although there is a lot of petrochemicals in the adhesive for either type. The comments about the quality of the plantation teak is correct if the samples that I looked at were representative, compared with the old forest teak I bought. so, although plantation teak is arguably more eco, it is unlikely to be as durable.

 

[Woodlouse]

Mechanical clock.........excellent expression of the luddite attitude of some forumites.

Oi. There's nothing wrong with a mechanical clock. Mine still ticks merrily away despite being on board for nearly 70 years. I'd like to see a plastimo battery job last that long.

 

[nimbusgb]

Sorry. But fake is fake and I can't ever imagine being happy with it.
So either go for real wood, or real GRP.

Neither are trying to pretend to be something they are not.

LOL 8 tonnes or so of plastic boat and you call plastic decking 'fake'.

 

[Elessar]

Oi. There's nothing wrong with a mechanical clock. Mine still ticks merrily away despite being on board for nearly 70 years. I'd like to see a plastimo battery job last that long.

It is a thing of beauty no doubt.
But i bet you check its accuracy against something electric.

 

[Elessar]

I had my cockpit seats and sole done with Dek-King a few months ago and I am very pleased with the result. However, it does mark to a degree when fenders are dragged across it and I find a Scotch Brite scourer is the best way of removing these marks. As far as choice is concerned, I think it's very much a personal issue as to which looks best to you and appearances do vary; some, to my mind, are very orange in appearance.

However, my main reason for posting is to share with you a remark my surveyor made when I bought my boat. He said there were two things people only did once; one was to buy a boat with a teak deck, and the other was to buy a boat with a dark blue hull. I now know what he means, I don't have teak decks but still spend hours trying to keep my dark blue hull looking good!

Top tip on the sscotchbrite pad. Thanks.

Best chemical for it ImO is starbrite non skid deck cleaner.

 

[BrianH]

too much is made of the maintenance issues. Twice a year scrub down with washing up liquid is all mine get and 8 years in the med still looks great. Silver - yes but I like that.

You clearly have never owned an older boat with a teak deck well past its use-by-date. I sometimes think that the meaning of life is to spend time when I should be out sailing instead being on my knees trying to extend another year out of the sweeping curves of timber that should, by rights, be stacked up for a bonfire.

as regards the limited resources issue - plastic manufacturing isn't exactly "green" either.

No comparison. If you want good teak there is a high chance that it is likely to be from illegal logging. A recent study, issued by the London think-tank Chatham House, estimates that nearly half the tropical logs, sawn timber, and plywood traded worldwide was illegal. In Indonesia, one of the world’s largest timber producers, more than 80% of logs are cut illegally and that 100m cubic metres of illicit timber are still stripped from forests each year. Regulators struggle to catch companies that over harvest within the boundaries of legally granted lands or deliberately misidentify prohibited tree species as legal ones. In addition government corruption is a perennial problem, with murky licensing procedures often masking illegal timber concessions.

As we write, Singapore is again smothered by the smoke from forest burning in Indonesia. I personally have witnessed the illegal clearing of mature trees in Indonesia, with the associated burning of the discarded brushwood, for the dual profit of hardwood timber together with land clearance for the serried ranks of palm oil plantations. It is not just the planet's lungs we are tearing out, entire animal species are losing their only possible natural habitats.

Enjoy your "no brainer" wooden deck.

 

[Woodlouse]

It is a thing of beauty no doubt.
But i bet you check its accuracy against something electric.

If its stopped before I wind it (the mechanism lasts about 10 days) then yes, I will set the time that my phone gives. Once it's running however it keeps time well enough. It certainly doesn't lose enough time to warrant changing the time if its still ticking when it's wound.