Replacing teak decks

[purplerobbie]

I need to replace or at least do something with them.
My choices are
Replace with either fake teak either tek-dek or dek king or flexi teak.
Replace with something like treadmaster.
Or varnish over the existing teak with colean (sp)

Has anyone replaced teak with the fake stuff? Does it look any good. It will cost the best part of £7k to replace with that.

What about treadmaster? Seen some nice jobs done with it and it's not pretending to be anything else

Not to sure about sealing mine with colean. I feel I would just be storing up work for later.

Any other ideas?

 

[sailorman]

Remove the teak, fill & fair then deck paint

 

[pvb]

Painting it with Coelan is just papering over the cracks, waste of time. Deciding what to replace it with rather depends on the make of boat. If it's a HR/Malo/Najad/etc then putting Treadmaster on might make it less attractive when the time comes to sell; putting fake teak on wouldn't be such a problem for resale. On AWBs, Treadmaster is a great solution, as is fake teak. Plain deck paint is a bit reminiscent of 70s Westerly/Moody boats.

 

[purplerobbie]

It's a kalik 40.

 

[Stork_III]

It's a kalik 40.

Have you read the blog http://www.guapa.pn/ another Kalik owner, who found horrors under his teak deck? Hope you have better luck.

 

[Koeketiene]

It's a kalik 40.

Have you read the blog http://www.guapa.pn/ another Kalik owner, who found horrors under his teak deck? Hope you have better luck.

The Kalik 40 is a Korean built boat, so things may well have been done differently.
It all comes down to what's underneath the teak.
If it's a teak on GRP construction, I would get rid of the teak, fill the holes and then decidede on whatever you like/can afford. If you like the 'look' of teak you may want to take a closer look at Marindeck2000 - a cork based fake teak.
If it's teak on ply on GRP (like in our case)... my commiserations.
Feel free to drop me a PM for details.

 

[purplerobbie]

It's fibreglass decks with teak over.
I have seen one without the teak and wasn't impressed. So would like the teak but don't want the strange orange colour fake teak you can end up with.
not sure about the treadmaster.

 

[salar]

I decided on Permateek for my deck (cockpit) and have not regretted it. You can buy many different shades from traditional to light, weathered etc. You can buy DIY panels, have panels made up from templates to fit yourself, or have someone do the whole job. I went for the middle option as it was a reasonable price and looked like the real thing. Here is a relevant blog post, giving an idea of the colour too.

http://harley25refit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/new-decking-in-cockpit.html