Stemar
Well-Known Member
Another vote for Le Tonkinois.
It gives a hardwearing finish - the stairs I treated with it in my last house really needed redoing, but that was after 10 years of teenagers living there and it'd pretty weather resistant - my tiller and cockpit seats lasted several years and still looked good when I sold the boat. Last and not least, if it does get damaged and water sneaks underneath, you don't have to strip it all off to start again - it doesn't lift off like most varnishes. Is it the perfect solution? No, but in my experience, it's better than most.
In any case, there are only two perfect solutions, 1. Be rich enough to just tell the man that looks after your boat to redo that bit of varnish, and 2. Don't have any exterior wood.
It gives a hardwearing finish - the stairs I treated with it in my last house really needed redoing, but that was after 10 years of teenagers living there and it'd pretty weather resistant - my tiller and cockpit seats lasted several years and still looked good when I sold the boat. Last and not least, if it does get damaged and water sneaks underneath, you don't have to strip it all off to start again - it doesn't lift off like most varnishes. Is it the perfect solution? No, but in my experience, it's better than most.
In any case, there are only two perfect solutions, 1. Be rich enough to just tell the man that looks after your boat to redo that bit of varnish, and 2. Don't have any exterior wood.
