Tek-dek = boat lino

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bla, bla, bla - I love you guys - UV Stable according to Swedish test labs - 10 year accelerated UV light (caribbean, apparently the worst kind of UV) which means it should last, bearing in mind that s 10 years constant sun, around about, alot longer than Teak!! 35-40 years with no varnish - Cause it looks just like plastic - you've no idea, have you??

If its that bad why do people ask me for quotes? Everyday! Have fun arguing the point, but I have said what I needed to say so I shall talk about someting else for a while.

PS - the flight time to Spain, is actually less than an hour, so I wasn't completely wrong? If I had to, I would drive down to Spain - Commitment for you!
 
Stop TCM's what? I haven't seen the post where he sells anything!

-Keith
 
Spain in under an hour for Nick DCG

Hm. I am almost impresssed with your tenacity and ability to exaggerate.

The flight time to all parts of spain from all parts of the uk is more than 60 minutes, not less.

The *return* trip from Spain to the UK, however, involves changing back from spanish local time to UK local time.

So the time on a Spanish airport clock might show (say) 3:30pm and another in the UK might show only (say) 4pm on arrival However, this doesn't mean that the flight took only 30 minutes.

To get an idea of how this works, think back to your time at school. You may remember going into a mathematics lesson, or a physics lesson and - whooosh - in only about two minutes the lesson was over, wasn't it? But that *didn't* mean the lesson only lasted two minutes. It meant you'd been asleep yet again, which is a bit the same, sort of, or at least it explains why you think Spain is under a one hour flight away. Also, being in Set 5 didn't mean you were 5 times cleverer than those in Set 1.
 
To think anybody is really daft enough to put that plastic stuff on their decks thinking it looks like real teak! Suppose you could then say - yes but it won't need varnishing for 30 odd years, so am prepared to put up with the naff look and everyone taking the p**s

Ho ho ho
 
Re: Superman

Nah, what you need is a REAL plane. Tek-Planes are OK for naff charter flights & EasyJet, but you'll never get experienced business travellers using one.

It's all about perceived quality, innit /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Actually you have got the wrong end of the stick. People use Tek-Dek to 'lift' a dull white GRP boat. Just like Sealine now have a blue dash and White Grp cockpit tables have been phased out for wood ones. It does look like wood to the untrained eye and is pleasing to look at. If you want teak then I would not consider it because the looks will always be 'fake' to you. However if you want something to add to the environment of the cockpit, well laid Tek-Dek works well. It is not a Teak Vs Teak debate for most people, although because of the comparisons it often becomes this. For me it is a GRP to Tek Dek debate. If I want real teak I will pay for it. But Plastic stuff is better at the moment.

Paul
 
I fitted tek dek to my previous boat and have teak on my current boat. Tek dek is a lot less hassle. I prefer teak but wouldn't knock tek dek and would fit it again if I ever bought a boat with only carpet in the cockpit.
Tek Dek is a good product, better than carpet, cheaper than teak, easier to look after but not the real thing.

Here's a pic of my old boat.

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It also seems that a lot more people on here haven't got a snobbery issue with regards to having it on a boat compared to those who think it's not good enough for them. I wonder how we ever moved away from wooden boats to grp?
 
It's not snobbery issue, where did you glean that snippet from? I just think it's rubbish, not rubbish in itself, but to try and make it look like teak, is the rubbish part, why not have it blue or something else, why try and fail miserably, to attempt to make it look like teak???
If it were Black say or any other colour, to match the newer designs etc, then OK.

By the way, the use Fibreglass, was to mass produce boats, cheaply, efficiently, using un-skilled labour not as a move forward in technology, it was sold as the cheap way forward, not now as the price of the raw materials is going through the roof, as they are petro chemicals. So is Tek-dek.

Wood is still a sustainable method of building boats and will continue to be so. Technology caught up with timber a long toime ago, or hadnt you noticed?
 
Hi kev. I take the point from others that it's better than GRP - but took issue with another that it was in some way as good or even much better than teak.

It's a but of a lazy or sneaky argument to say that others are being "snobbish" as though their failure to appreciate it points up some defect in them rather than in the product. You like it, that's fine. Others don't like it, that's fine too. Everyone has different boats and jobs and holidays and cars and so on.

But I took issue with someone with commercial interest who was banging on about it endlessly, which is different.

In fact, i specifically started this somewhat satirical thread to highlight the siliness of his unwavering one-sided attitude. This may have slightly backfired in that he found a potential customer! But fun all the same and achieved the objective of evening up the general balance.

It looks quite good.
 
I think the use of genuine, high quality materials to fit out our boats is one of the things that distinguishes them from caravans. For me a boat is a luxury item and I want it to feel like one, unless we're talking about red diesel of course, in which case boats are owned by poor people and the kids will starve if I have to pay any more.
 
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