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Old 01-20-2020, 12:25 PM   #21
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If we had that much exterior teak I would also be tempted to paint - agree it may make the boat look more modern. But the only exterior teak we have are our handrails. Under the covered sundeck we have teak floor, teak wet bar, teak wing doors and teak cabin door. I have sanded and varnished all of that (except floor) with Pettit Flagship and it looks great - have to confess I do love the look of shiny varnished teak.
I very much do like the look of the varnished teak, but I have so much exterior teak that it has become just too much to take care of to the level I want. I will still keep the handrails, caprails and flybridge rails and trim varnished, but I think its time to reduce and modernize the look a bit.

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Old 01-20-2020, 01:30 PM   #22
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If we only had a little of it we would leave it varnished but we have too much. Once we started painting it we found that we love the look of the ppainted much more than the varnish.
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Old 01-20-2020, 02:29 PM   #23
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I have never decided what I want to do on my boat based on what some future owner may or may not want. It is my boat, I do what I want with it. As to selling it someday, maybe, probably but every boat I have sold has sold to the first person that looked at it. And they all loved the condition of the boat, not telling me that I should not have done something. If the boat is in really good condition it will sell whether the teak is varnished or painted.
Prepping with a sealing coat or two of varnish is a good idea and not just because it may be easier to go back to bright. It is highly unlikely that a new buyer would want to go backwards except in maybe small areas. Anyway, roughing up the varnished surface will be fine for readying the surface for paint, probably without further priming. I had a friend who did this on the underside of his teak rails which were oddly shaped with crescent crown and flat from side to side on the bottom. He didn't mind caring for the tops of his rails, but the flat undersides were of no interest to him. He said a lot of people he knew who went a'cruisin' painted over all the varnished teak before departure and later after the cruising would revert to bright.

The teak trim was an eye-catching feature of the GB42 back in the day when I bought it, and there was no way I was going to let its market value sag by changing that look. Had I suspected a future buyer would not object, I still would not have painted over it because I liked the look, regardless of the labor.

I have to say that after decades of keeping every bit of the exterior teak of the GB42 in excellent shape, I am a happy camper with ZERO exterior wood.
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Old 01-24-2020, 01:10 PM   #24
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I have Pettit Grand Banks beige (Looks gray though) on my 84 Albin 27. The Previous owner did a fabulous job of it removing it around all the window frames and doing each piece and then putting new s/s screws in. To me it modernizes the Look of the boat boat and we just put Another coat on about every two years.
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Old 01-24-2020, 04:28 PM   #25
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I'm having my 1970 Willard 36 painted in AlexSeal. I hate exterior wood, especially in tropics. Was surprisingly affordable to have the caprails encapsulated in fiberglass and painted a contrasting color - somewhere around $1700 (Mexico) for caprails around flybridge and hull.

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This was the old trick done on yachts kept in the tropics were used little . The captains would paint over the varnish out of season and then sand off and redcoat the varnish for the short season of usage. I’ll be doing it perminitly the Same way on my boat I hate the look of teak and the maintainance!
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I'm having my 1970 Willard 36 painted in AlexSeal. I hate exterior wood, especially in tropics. Was surprisingly affordable to have the caprails encapsulated in fiberglass and painted a contrasting color - somewhere around $1700 (Mexico) for caprails around flybridge and hull.

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What's the point to encapsulate the rails in fiberglass?

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Be careful of using epoxy primer without a good UV protection paint. Epoxy primers I have used need serious UV protection paint. Epoxy primer can cause the paint to fail due to UV exposure. Good news is, they have great UV protection paints. Even clears can have good UV protection.
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Old 01-26-2020, 05:39 AM   #29
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What's the point to encapsulate the rails in fiberglass?

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Caprails have 4 layers of glass that have been feathered into the hull, then several coats of high build primer, then AlexSeal (alternative to Awl Grip) - just like a proper hull repaint. Maintenance is identical to a painted hull. No more recaulking of caprail to hull joint, no more possibility of leaking hull-deck joints. And no more varnish. Once my refit is complete in Ensenada, we will slowly make our way to Florida, so Weebles will spend much of her future in the tropics where a professionally painted surface is by far the best defense against the elements.

My delivery career (mid 90s - mid 2000s) coincided with the end of the N46 production run, of which I delivered several from Dana Point to PNW. The last handful of N46s built had encapsulated caprails. Not only were there practical advantages listed above, but I thought it looked really sharp. I have lusted for them ever since.
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See my post, #31 in this thread.

http://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s...k-47060-2.html
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