teak decks (sorry!)

[doca]

The black gasket type infill between the solid teak strips (cosmetic burmese) on my "new" 24 year old boat is uniformly proud of the teak by about 2 or 3 mm. Does this indicate the teak is worn or is it a slip resistance feature of the original installation?

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[Neraida]

If your caulking (black stuff) is abit proud, it could be either. However, if you have a close look (very close) you will be able to see flat sides to the rubber if the teak has receeded. If its a "feature" it would have a nice "bump" profile...

Hope this helps rather than hinders.

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[tillergirl]

It would be very odd for the teak to wear uniformly everywhere. Wear either comes from our feet or from cleaning. Wear from feet will be quite irregular - think about where you normally walk when going forward/docking etc. And I reckon would also wear the caulking. Wear from cleaning is most likely but if you think again about how you would use a brush at various edges and corners the wear from a brush would not be as extensive there as on the main run where you can over brush quite easily. You should be able to sand down the caulking but at the risk of taking more off the timber!

Hope this helps

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[penfold]

please don't use a brush on teak(even with soft bristles), it wears away the softer sapwood and leaves the grain proud which traps dirt something awful and doesn't look nice.

cheers,
David

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