Teak vs Synthetic Teak?

[Hurricane]

Apologies for some slight Fred Drift, but @Hurricane I am intrigued by your bow navigation light - does it have the full range of visibility on each side of 112.5 degrees from the centreline? It looks like it is obscured long before you reach 90 degrees.

Probably not.
I do have the usual "all round white" on a pole though.
JFM has the same tender which had the same forward light but I believe his corroded and he replaced it with something better.
I'm expecting the same to happen to mine sometime.

 

[Hurricane]

Speak to Vince who owns Permateak. He's a great guy, proper boat owner and the product looks better than the real thing in my opinion.

I have to say, Pete, all the examples that I've been using from the internet on how NOT to do the work have come from the Permateek website.
Probably not so much a Permateek failure - more an issue of the contractors who have installed the jobs.
I really didn't like the way that they had designed the Permateek for the V65 and the P67 on their website.
They really shouldn't use those photos as an example of their product.
I'm sure that Permateek is much better than that.

 

[TonyR123]

Am pretty sure next boat I will go with a light coloured (weathered, bleached, scrubbed) flexiteek. Surely the lighter colours will not heat up as much as darker colours so then the issue of the flexiteek being hotter than std teak will be less of an issue. Intend to get some samples at some point and leave them in the med sun to compare to std teak.

 

[Hurricane]

Am pretty sure next boat I will go with a light coloured (weathered, bleached, scrubbed) flexiteek. Surely the lighter colours will not heat up as much as darker colours so then the issue of the flexiteek being hotter than std teak will be less of an issue. Intend to get some samples at some point and leave them in the med sun to compare to std teak.

I don't think that a light colour would make enough difference.
I think it is probably that wood has a thicker grain, especially as it gets older which allows air to circulate easier.
Synthetic teak is flatter.
Before we had our bathing platform done, I did exactly what you are saying.
I managed to ger a piece of synthetic teak about 400mm square and left it on the bathing platform.
It didn't really get much hotter than the surrounding real wood.
As I say, real teak gets very hot as well.
I remember being is Santa Ponsa a few years ago when we still had the real wood bathing platform and having to throw water over the teak, then.

And IMO, changing the colour would be changing the effect that you get with a new boat with new teak.

That said, I have seen some of the grey material made up but not fitted.
And it looks quite nice - again nothing like wood but maybe thats OK.